Re: Surprising
The participants were paid less than half of what the researchers would have to pay had they used slave labor students from Lausanne.
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At uni we had in the basement a box with pens. Students and staff alike took one as needed. If the box was as good as empty a few dozen new ones were provided by our institute's secretary - no questions asked.
I once plotted the number of pens in the box as a function of time and got a perfect exponential fit.
The west had it easy. Have pity with the Ottoman Empire: Tax revenues were linked to the harvest, so the solar calendar. The soldiers and the bureaucrats were paid according to the Islamitic calendar linked to the phases of the Moon.
From time to time this discrepancy led to an empty treasury.
Not to be confused with the Warthog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II.
Try this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyXSGbTAqOk. It is definitely cheaper than the fancy batmobile and faster too.
As you can see in https://www.astronomie.nl/mobiel-planetarium-20 Dutch inflatable planetariums are well defended by the kids. Moreover the van of the NOVA planetarium is clearly marked as such.
In the Netherlands several of these inflatable planetariums are crossing the country. Do not mention Brexit.
"First and foremost, we must acknowledge that accidents will continue to happen. If more and more plants come online, more and more accidents are inevitable. The danger of new accidents emanates more from the economics of the industry and the broadly defined 'human factor' than from technology itself. As the pressure to cut costs increases, safety will suffer. The workforce will shrink, leaving fewer people available to identify problems. The maintenance of existing equipment will become more sporadic as activities are deferred to save money."
Gregory Jaczko, Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator (2019), as cited in Serhii Plokhy, Atoms and Ashes.
I prefer the ZIL-2906
Enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afJ18eJeNgU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvFKzgF5t94
The AP-900 Apollo pagers use standard AAA alkaline batteries (https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/ap-900-this-what-we-know-about-one-of-the-pagers-that-exploded-in-lebanon-18209359). So all posts about li-ion batteries go out of the window.
May be the explosives where hidden in a 'special' batch of AAA batteries. Leaves the question how the explosion was triggered.
See the animation on https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Where_is_Juice_now.
The acceleration is not due to the gravitation of the Moon, Earth and Venus, but due to their orbital velocity.
The saying goes that you can observe the Sun through a telescope twice, once with your left eye and once with your right eye.
The safe way is to project the image of the Sun on a white surface held some distance behind a small (20 mm diameter) binocular. At the moment the Sun is quite active and you will see several sunspots and be able to observe the Sun's rotation.
Seymour M. Hersch, Chemical and biological warfare, The Hidden Arsenal (© 1968).
A recent research article by Martin Paul Eve shows that of a sample of 7438037 DOI-links 2056492 works could not be found.
The journal Nature (14 March 2024) cites Eve: "After you have been dead for 100 years, are people going to be able to get access to the things you've worked on?"
Reuters documented at least 600 previously unreported workplace injuries at Musk's rocket company: crushed limbs, amputations, electrocutions, head and eye wounds and one death. SpaceX employees say they're paying the price for the billionaire's push to colonize space at breakneck speed.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spacex-musk-safety/
@Headley_Grange, OK old data, but data any way: Inside Cyber Warfare by Jeffrey Carr, page 193.
Windows: 501515 Backdoors, Hacktools, Exploits & Rootkits; 40188 Viruses and Worms; 1232798 Trojans.
FreeBSD: 33 Backdoors, Hacktools, Exploits & Rootkits; 10 Viruses and Worms; 0 Trojans.
In 1947 the UK SOLD Rolls-Royce Derwent and Nene engines to the Soviets. Soon afterwards MiG-15 and La-15 jet fighters with similar engines rolled from their assembly lines.
Stalin reportedly said "What kind of fool would be willing to sell his secrets!". Stalin and the Bomb, page 235.
A meteorite knocking at your door, does that count?
As Paul Odgren once said (AAAS Member Community Digest February 12, 2020):
"Well, you have to mine and purify highly carcinogenic material, transport it over the highway and rail systems, refine it to the point where it can be condensed to nearly unstable concentrations, again transport it in its new, more dangerous form, constantly keep it from a catastrophic overheating disaster, protect it from enemies, then run the movie backwards to unload and decommission, then store everything perfectly safely for over twice as long as the pyramids have been in Egypt."
That has been tried before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLK9hYXWZw4.
The event was so long and intense that it caused sudden Earth global ionospheric disturbances (both day and night) - a result of the increased ionization by X- and gamma-ray emission (Hayes and Gallagher, 2022; Pal et al., 2023) from the VLF/LF sub-ionospheric signals dynamics in the D-region of Earth's ionosphere (~60-100 km).