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Thomas Edison tried hundreds of different ways of making an electric light bulb before he came up with one that worked. He allegedly said that he didn't fail hundreds of times, he succeeded hundreds of times in finding ways to NOT make a light bulb. Or, as David-Bowie-as-Tesla says in The...

The problem with Mallett's theory (the one in the videos) is that it depends on the existence of a 'line source', a 2-dimensional singularity, basically a linear black hole. This places his theory roughly in the realm of fairy dust and flying monkeys, unless John Titor shows up again. Hydro...

You can get caught up here... season 12, episode 4.

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Re: OMFG Long Open Can GB#2!!!!!! STILL OPEN That was confusing... I read that and thought "is that an acronym? Or is GEWD is making TECs now?" (GEWD is a solar cell company.) Had to connect the 'tech' and 'l33t' sections of my brain before it made sense.

Beautiful, too, though. Well, the bits I saw: Toronto and Algonquin Highlands. Compared to some places, the kind of 'boring' you've got going on up there is preferable.

First word that came to me when I saw that picture was 'undermined'. I undermined a wall digging for topaz in Utah. I'd found a particularly rich area and just kept digging in. When the wall fell I jumped backwards, but was still buried from the chest down. I remember being surprised at just...

I hadn't watched the video, but now that I have, I was thinking something more along the lines of sending him some dental floss and some books to read. Just think about it - Bubba there was many news-watchers first exposure to laser culture. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go sit on my...

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Perspective is interesting - people often don't seem to realize that if they are sending out a perfectly straight beam from their position, then from every other position that beam is a bright straight line pointing directly at the person with the laser. I use a green pointer on nights when I...

Interesting theory. So you've traveled the world, tested it all out, and objectively decided that your patch of mud is hands down the best place on the planet? And that anyone who disagrees with you is just jealous? ... My dog feels the same way about my front yard. Of course, if he had been...

True... often the content is the exact opposite of the headline, or the headline magnifies some tiny insignificant thing while ignoring the big picture. I took a university class in symbolic (predicate) logic. The prof would bring in newspapers and meticulously convert articles into a series of...