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He is the king of fairies!1oldman2 said:TIL, That all this time I thought my dog was named after a moon of Uranus (Oberon), today I saw the spelling is Oberyn and the name comes from Game of thrones.![]()
Oh no! His other designation is Uranus IV, a china company a brewery etc. etc. according to Wiki, I'm laughing in my mind.Pepper Mint said:
Hopefully this isn't you cleaning the magnets buss bars.mfb said:That reminds me of this story.
Expected "repair" costs: $4500 to replace the battery pack in a hybrid car.
Actual repair costs at home: $10 for chemicals and a few hours of work
Needs experience with high voltage, however, and certainly kills any warranty for any parts.
I take it they were afraid Heisenberg was working on a bomb?1oldman2 said:TIL, That in December of 1944 the US army dispatched OSS agent (and former baseball star) Moe Burg to Switzerland to assassinate W. Heisenberg. After a period of time the hit was called off due to lack of opportunity, W. H. was much more fortunate than many physicists in Stalin's purges, makes me wonder how many in science have died over politics...
Exactly, I came across this while reading "American Prometheus" a great bio of J. R. Oppenheimer. I highly recommend the book.zoobyshoe said:I take it they were afraid Heisenberg was working on a bomb?
Are you certain?1oldman2 said:TIL, That in December of 1944 the US army dispatched OSS agent (and former baseball star) Moe Burg to Switzerland to assassinate W. Heisenberg. After a period of time the hit was called off due to lack of opportunity, W. H. was much more fortunate than many physicists in Stalin's purges, makes me wonder how many in science have died over politics...
Since this deals with Heisenberg there is an uncertainty principal involved.Stephanus said:Are you certain?
i think there was an episode about that in the series "Heavy Water Wars", which we stumbled across on Netflix.zoobyshoe said:I take it they were afraid Heisenberg was working on a bomb?
It certainly looks that way...Stephanus said:Are you certain?
Wikipedia® said:From 24 January to 4 February 1944, Heisenberg traveled to occupied Copenhagen, after the German army confiscated Bohr's Institute of Theoretical Physics. He made a short return trip in April. In December, Heisenberg lectured in neutral Switzerland. The United States Office of Strategic Services sent former major league baseball catcher and OSS agent Moe Berg to attend the lecture carrying a pistol, with orders to shoot Heisenberg if his lecture indicated that Germany was close to completing an atomic bomb.
Stephanus said:Are you certain?
Seems like overkill unless the U.S. thinks that North Korea is using iPhones to guide their missles.TheBlackAdder said:Smartphone GPS does not work on the ISS.
"Commercial GPS equipment is hardcoded to not work at great altitude or at great speed to prevent GPS being used to guide weapons." –Robert Frost
Using commercial devices would certainly be more convenient than writing the software on your own. But yeah, if you can make a nuclear weapon and an intercontinental missile you can probably write code to determine your location and speed based on GPS signals.Borg said:Seems like overkill unless the U.S. thinks that North Korea is using iPhones to guide their missles.![]()
But at least they won't have sleek, stylish nukes...Borg said:Seems like overkill unless the U.S. thinks that North Korea is using iPhones to guide their missles.![]()
Their "PR" department is hard at work on that problem.Ibix said:But at least they won't have sleek, stylish nukes...
1oldman2 said:TIL, while browsing http://isslive.com/operations.html I learned that I have the training to perform at least one aspect of "contingency maintenance" aboard the ISS(This is a useful site for space geeks)
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OmCheeto said:...
I told him to stop, turn off his lights, and give me his lug wrench.
He was somewhat perplexed, as changing his tire didn't seem to be the right option for fixing a "starter" problem.
Anyways, I rapped the top of both of his battery connectors, and said "try now".
The car started.
Borg said:Seems like overkill unless the U.S. thinks that North Korea is using iPhones to guide their missles.![]()
@mfb beats me. That's what I'm going to say. I concur.mfb said:Using commercial devices would certainly be more convenient than writing the software on your own. But yeah, if you can make a nuclear weapon and an intercontinental missile you can probably write code to determine your location and speed based on GPS signals.
Hammers? But I think ISS is mostly United States', (although the "I" stands for International) not Russian's.1oldman2 said:TIL, while browsing http://isslive.com/operations.html I learned that I have the training to perform at least one aspect of "contingency maintenance" aboard the ISS(This is a useful site for space geeks)
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Interesting, I've never thought of it that way.mfb said:But can you bang with a hammer transferring an impulse of 0.6 kg m/s within 10% tolerance?
That would be a good start.OmCheeto said:First, we have to define; "hammer".
And then one day I got one of these...OmCheeto said:TIL, that, IMHO, hammers, in all their incarnations, are most awesome tools.
Is that for the 4/4 model ? I think the length might easily vary by 1/8 of an inch depending on the ambient temperature, Its possible both lengths may be correct. How come no one has done a study on this yet? (as an unrelated comment, one of my favorite electric fiddle artists was Papa John Creech)jim hardy said:TIL a violin string is thirteen inches long.
Well, some folks say 12##\frac{7}{8}## inches .