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nivek
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Late 19th century scientists experimented with optography, a speculative science aimed to produce pictures from the retina of the eyes of dead people. The only notable result was a negative created from the eye of a dead bunny, depicting the barred window it was staring at before it was killed.
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Dejan Corovic
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nivek
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This 18th century sculpture called Disillusion, which includes an intricate net carved from a single block of marble, was created by Francesco Queirolo without assistance, since no apprentice would touch it for fear of the delicate net crumbling in their hands. It took him seven years.
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nivek
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pigfarmer
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This has become cliched to even say, but when I grew up milk came in glass bottles that were washed when empty and put in a bin on the front porch for the regular diary service. Soda came in glass one gallon jugs and those old tall glass bottles that were all returned for the deposit. Canned beverages were in steel cans you needed a church key for - not even pull tabs left over to make a mess.
I can guarantee you that none of that stuff ever choked a dolphin or is in a huge morass in the northern Pacific.
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pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
For all the geekery I never heard of that and had to look it up. As suspected it's pretty weak, but waaaaay cool. Reminds me of the Lassiter from Firefly. Found these to go along with it - never heard of the space cannon either.
The Soviet Space Laser Revealed
Remembering That Time the Soviet Union Shot a Top-Secret Space Cannon While in Orbit
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
of course, at the time I lived in a house where chain smoking was required and nobody ever heard of cholesterol. Everything was lathered in lead paint and swaddled in asbestos, wood was preserved with good old heavy metals and arsenic, early plastics had formaldehyde in them, we were tuning cars up and throwing away spark plugs every 15K because of all the lead and inefficiency and rivers caught fire for all the **** dumped into them, not to mention a certain Love(ly) Canal.
We had some good ideas but they were in the mix with a lot of questionable ones.
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pigfarmer
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Forgot I had this. Found it in an old tool box and stuck it to the fridge. Still works, no batteries required.
nivek
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Dejan Corovic
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Nyakim Gatwech, darkest woman in the world, enjoys reading papers:
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pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
Cool. Grace Jones was the original Queen of Darkness I thinkNyakim Gatwech, darkest woman in the world, enjoys reading papers:
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Dejan Corovic
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Taylor Swift Seattle concert generates seismic activity
The activity equivalent to a 2.3 magnitude quake beats a previous record set by fans celebrating a touchdown.
www.bbc.co.uk
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
This is a random fact I am not offering, I'm wondering about.
How often do you get an actually important, useful piece of snail mail? Rarely for me - they could hold it and deliver it once a month for all it's worth. Every day it's a box full of garbage. How much gasoline does the USPS burn on an annual basis to do that and what are the implications for material waste, landfill space, emissions? If I were that worried I'd get a PO box but I'm not really.
Also, we sit on our asses and order stuff online as I did this morning. Several times a week I have FedEx and UPS down the driveway bringing something and sometimes the USPS even pinch hits for them on Sundays. So while we're wringing our hands over EVs and carbon emissions we are also burning literal oceans of fuel with all the attendant problems. Amazon and UPS have brand new vehicles all over the place, some are quite high end and look alien - obviously major investments in their fleets. They all seem to have tailpipes - you'd think they'd be ones to jump on the EV/hybrid bandwagon and that we might wonder why they haven't, but our politics and conveniences are two different things. Let's throw in Door Dash and Uber Eats and all that stuff because we no longer can bestir ourselves to go get food or groceries. .
Global climate change isn't driven by human carbon emission, it's driven by hypocrisy.
How often do you get an actually important, useful piece of snail mail? Rarely for me - they could hold it and deliver it once a month for all it's worth. Every day it's a box full of garbage. How much gasoline does the USPS burn on an annual basis to do that and what are the implications for material waste, landfill space, emissions? If I were that worried I'd get a PO box but I'm not really.
Also, we sit on our asses and order stuff online as I did this morning. Several times a week I have FedEx and UPS down the driveway bringing something and sometimes the USPS even pinch hits for them on Sundays. So while we're wringing our hands over EVs and carbon emissions we are also burning literal oceans of fuel with all the attendant problems. Amazon and UPS have brand new vehicles all over the place, some are quite high end and look alien - obviously major investments in their fleets. They all seem to have tailpipes - you'd think they'd be ones to jump on the EV/hybrid bandwagon and that we might wonder why they haven't, but our politics and conveniences are two different things. Let's throw in Door Dash and Uber Eats and all that stuff because we no longer can bestir ourselves to go get food or groceries. .
Global climate change isn't driven by human carbon emission, it's driven by hypocrisy.
wwkirk
Divine
I get important snail mail routinely at certain times of the year from official entities. But I do appreciate the USPS for package deliveries.
The most amazing snail mail I sometimes get is that addressed to my father who died in the late 1980s!
nivek
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I get my utility bills through the USPS snail mail and also my monthly car insurance bill comes through the postal service...I pay all those bills online now but still get a paper bill in the mail...
Also my bank statements and medical bills (if any) come via USPS...A couple years ago when I was in a car accident the insurance company sent me a settlement check through the postal service snail mail...Took a week to get that check...
At every turn, it's astonishing the heaping piles of shyte this climate change movement has created along with the fact they are escalating the very outcome they claim they're trying to prevent...So-called green technology has a worse impact on the earth than our tried and true fossil fuel tech...Green technology development has a long road ahead of it...
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