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If you think this is gross, you should hear about the older Berber tradition of fermenting clarified butter—smen—upon the birth of their daughter until her wedding day.

This picture is on the Wikipedia "petrified wood" page, saying it's from the Petrified Forest National Park.

In which case it's certainly not White Oak. Of the 9 identified species present in fossil form in the park, all are extinct. The fossils were formed some 225 million years ago, while oaks don't exist in the fossil record until the Paleogene, ~50 million years ago. Angiosperms won't even exist for another 75 million years.

Also the bark morphology looks much more like a conifer - something cedar-esque.

It is indeed called Band of Brothers as well.

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501179403/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_QuB6DbK98R3EV

There is also a book by Richard Winters that is very good as well.

Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters https://www.amazon.com/dp/0425213757/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_yxB6DbE27HR4A

Back in the day, there was a cartoon about an automated factory and one of the things the factory did was apply whole logs to a lathe to make a toothpick. It would apply the log to the lathe with cartoon gloved hands on robotic arms, then gently place the finished toothpick in a box. I had forgotten all about that cartoon until just now.

Edit: it seems my memory was slightly inaccurate. It's robotic claws that apply the log to a giant pencil sharpener

It's an episode of Looney Tunes Goofy Gophers called Lumber Jerks:. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x54lk99
(The lumber mill scene starts at about 3 minutes in.)

When you want the additional features on fancy power strips: Surge protection, built-in circuit breaker, ground indicator light, outlets that swivel or are turned sideways to allow room for large plugs and wall-wart transformers, USB outlets, and additional protected connections for phone, ethernet, cable TV, etc.

That url is missing some words, here is the correct link.

The research is supposed to be in this book.

There's some fun games created on this theme as part of the recent Fermi Paradox Jam, I would recommend trying Epitaph if you only try one.

Be prepared to lose quite a lot of time.

No. that is not even remotely true. The entire philosophy of the western allies was one of “Steel, not flesh” and to minimise the numbers of infantry required to establish a viable beach head on continental Europe.

Although there were certainly sectors that turned into killing zones (Particularly Dog Green sector on which Saving Private Ryan’s opening sequence was based) and at WN62, alongside the site of the present day American cemetary, most of the Omaha Beach sector was a relative walkover.

Great books to read include:

WN 62: A German Soldier’s Memories of the Defence of Omaha Beach, Normandy, June 6, 1944 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/3932922239/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_83viFb35GRD2J

Which is an account from a German Machine gunner’s point of view of that sector at Omaha

and

Normandy ‘44: D-Day and the Battle for France https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787631273/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_i5viFbXXQ96E6

Which discusses, extensively, the western allies philosophy of “Steel not flesh” for Operation Overlord and compares that to the horrific alternative employed on the Eastern Front which saw casualty figures from single actions vastly exceed those of the whole Normandy Campaign.

Enjoy!

It's the complete cross section. I remember asking for it for my birthday as a kid from my parents. They got it for me and I read it several times, and it's still on my bookshelf! It's truly an outstanding book the details and thought put into it are amazing. I highly recommend it.

ISBN 10: 0756627044

ISBN 13: 978-0756627041

https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Complete-Cross-Sections-Spacecraft/dp/0756627044

A guy did escape last week doing that, but on his own and not being grabbed...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/22/566088508/video-shows-north-korean-soldiers-dramatic-sprint-across-border

So Japan was basically beaten before we dropped the bomb. Their Navy was decimated, most of their trained pilots were dead and their ground troops were whittled away through the island hopping campaign. The problem was it was total war and Japan was going to fight until the last man. They were training civilians, old men women and children how to fight. The Allies would have won but it would have been a long, brutal campaign involving a huge army. The casualties would have been extremely high. Hitler had been losing the war since 1943 and the battle over Berlin was vicious. The choices were either to A) put Americans, Russians and Japanese civilians through a meat grinder or B) Drop the bomb and force them to surrender. Honor and the Emperor being a living god had a lot to do with their refusal to surrender.

There are a million books about WWII but I'd recommend this one, it gives a good overview. Wikipedia is also a good starting place.

https://www.amazon.com/War-Pacific-Pearl-Harbor-Tokyo/dp/0891416161

A great book that follows the history of the physics and developments from discovery of the atom to the Manhatten project The Making Of The Atomic Bomb.

The book also delves in the horrendous death and destruction reaped on the civilian populations of Europe and Japan with just conventional bombing. The civilian death toll is hard to fathom looking back from 2020.

This gentleman states that there might be an in-flight oil-replenishment capability on the Airforce One. Aside from the oil-replenishment and food details, and assuming regular in-flight refueling, it would seem that the Airforce One is theoretically capable of two-week-continuous flight-times. If his credentials are to be believed, I would think he might be correct.

Well I did write the only book of its type on them https://www.amazon.com/Narco-Submarines-Covert-Shores-Recognition/dp/B086G11WMM/

I write about submarines mostly, and narco-subs are a side specialty because not enough other people record this stuff. I see it as a service to future historians

Nope, took the pic myself in Hamburg :).

edit: here is a picture from museum's own facebook page.

Oh this is so cool! I love those things. They revamped the lagoon where that ride was into Ariel's Grotto, and I was sad when I learned that. I was 12, at Disney World, on my birthday, when I learned.

and apparently now that attraction has been dismantled and is "Pooh's Playful Spot"

So I haven't even taken fluid dynamics yet, but I hang out with some aero majors, and this is what I suspect is going on:

In order to reduce drag and prevent lift, airflow needs to remain smooth and 'attached' to the car. If the air is redirected with enough force by, say, a windshield or wing, it'll fly off in its own direction and the space underneath will be filled with dirty, swirling air at low pressure, which sucks the car back. Often, just a tiny bit of encouragement is needed to attach the air.

I suspect that this bit of extra air from the plastic vent on the aston does one of two things... It either 'fills in' the low-pressure area, reducing the amount of vacuum present, or it blows on the gurney flap (more likely), encouraging a clean vortex to form where a dirty vacuum would have appeared otherwise. In fact, it looks like the gurney flap has another gurney flap on it to help this little bit of extra air! Neat.

Interestingly, gurney flaps were the first motorsports aero discovery to transfer over to aerospace!

Some explanation pics: https://www.slideshare.net/heeltoer/motorsport-aerodynamics-presentation http://fluidsengineering.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/data/journals/jfega4/27451/015012jfg1.jpeg

It's is a colloquialism, I make no apologies for using it. For serious audiences I use "LPV" but gets in the way of reaching a broader audience, getting more people interested etc. Which is my goal.

Also, I'd argue that semi-sub should have some form of controlling depth. These mostly just use cargo and fuel to ballast.

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PS. This is discussed so many places, such as my book which lays out a taxonomy https://www.amazon.com/Narco-Submarines-Covert-Shores-Recognition/dp/B086G11WMM/

I've replaced about 3 of these since buying them a year ago. .. ehh at a dollar per bulb I guess I shouldn't be that surprised.

Bizarrely enough, I just bought this book for my son today:

Star Wars: Complete Vehicles: Incredible Cross-Sections of the Spaceships and Craft from the Star Wars Galaxy https://www.amazon.com/dp/1465408746/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_kcfuFbF5XMY72

From 30 seconds of Google: as of 2009 they said they wanted to switch.

I also found a list of cameras with OLEDs but it looks like I was off by a bit, they are mostly SLR-body-style cameras but with only a digital viewfinder, as well as camcorders (including from Canon).

I guess the one I was looking at is only rated for wood or aluminum, but aluminum would probably work. Otherwise you might have to go closer to $500.

No I wasn't. I took my wife's car and 3 hours off work, and came back with this album.

Nikon cameras (all manufacturers that I know of, really) use battery pack.

the D3 uses this one https://www.amazon.com/Nikon-EN-EL4a-Rechargeable-Battery-Digital/dp/B000GBERAM

inside a typical battery pack you have multiple generic cells of different technologies, sizes and capacities depending on the load profile. Li-ion is used on this one, and specifically 3x18650 cells. These cells are built like you say, a fine spiral of layers wrapped around themselves. You can see them unravel here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KAHiCb_8-s

This is obviously a marketing prop, hence why the batteries look the way they do, combined with safety and stability considerations.

In searching for pictures, I found a book on the subject!

http://www.bookdepository.com/Grand-Complication-Stacy-Perman/9781476726793?utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=usbooko&a_aid=booko&utm_term=9781476726793&utm_source=book_link&utm_content=A-Grand-Complication

Thanks for identifying him. It's very hard to find anything about the illustrator. Even Wikipedia isn't very helpful. The German version has an article but it's about Bruno's brother Giulio Betti. English translation

Do you already use the [tool](If you already use the tool? If not, look into one. It's great for the std pieces, but you still have to do the goofy ones (end caps, tees, etc) by hand sometimes.

If you do, I can't be of much help.

Other apps can "override" the Google Assistant, I think you could set up Tasker to listen for the button presses and then do nothing instead of popping anything up.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm

If you think this is cool or would like to learn more about the time period while being highly entertained...

*Check out Aztec, by Gary Jennings. (Amazon) * Don't be put off by the high page count this thing is a page turner.

Funny enough, my dad just handed me my copy back during those teen years when fathers are pricks. After reading it I thought maybe he wac actually sorta cool for a prick.

The book Federation lays out it's invention a decade or so after the Phoenix. I know it isn't cannon, but it informed my early years. :) Incredible book if you like Trek.

https://www.amazon.com/SYLVANIA-Equivalent-Replacement-Dimmable-Daylight/dp/B07DPZ8DZC/ref=asc_df_B07DPZ8DZC/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=242023504538&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8735597896837357262&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9026839&hvtargid=pla-510007338874&psc=1

Here's one They are little pocket books of schematics, diagrams and plans of various labour's. They are just pocket sized but packed with detail. I think the series was agnostic and had a, different show each edition.

Not sure about your answer, but I own the books that a lot of these prints came from.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Encyclopedia-World-Air-Power/dp/0600351653

http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Aircraft-Specifications-Performance-Warplanes/dp/0760722080/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1429883516&sr=1-1&keywords=encyclopedia+of+world+military+aircraft

I had this book when I was a kid, that had the same Concord cutaway.

This brings back all sorts of memories. I think I might have to go ahead and buy a copy for nostalgia's sake.

I believe the drawings were done with the help of Lucasfilms as advisers, in books such as this.