Does Seattle have enough sunshine to get the paint to show? I remember being at Ft. Lewis and seeing an awful lot of rain and fog.Originally Posted by Justgeo1
That could be very helpful in foggy conditions or anytime it's hard to see the road. Might be nice to have in the Seattle area... if it doesn't wash off too fast...
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All I can think of is TRON!
And this would be my ride....
A rideAll I can think of is TRON!
And this would be my ride....
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A ride
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Technology Changing So Quickly, The Old Is Forgotten
This made me feel old, the current generation of preteens don't even know about Walkmans.
Too true, unless the paint saves all the energy from our short summers, it might not work up here in the Pacific Northwet!Does Seattle have enough sunshine to get the paint to show? I remember being at Ft. Lewis and seeing an awful lot of rain and fog.
Twin Earth May Be Better Than Earth for Life
By Michael Moyer | April 17, 2014
Pseudo-Earths are out there. That’s the message of today’s exciting announcement that a planet about the same size as Earth lives in its star’s habitable zone—the temperate region around a star where liquid water might flow. “For me, the impact is to prove that such planets really do exist,” said David Charbonneau, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Nature.
It’s an article of faith that the planets most likely to harbor life are ... More on: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...bitable-world/
Artist's vision of Kepler-186f
Image courtesy NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech
Friends are like diamonds and diamonds are forever
Realistically, the universe is too vast and it's probably not too far off in our distant future that we find out there are many Earth-Twins, and not too far off from that time, we may find they are booming with life.
"Humans have been enjoying alcohol for thousands of years in a variety of forms, but one aspect has always remained constant: it was liquid. Inventor Mark Phillips has created a product that could revolutionize what we think about cocktails and gives a whole new meaning to ‘dry martini’: powdered alcohol. The product, called Palcohol, has just gained approval from the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).
To turn Palcohol into your favorite adult beverage, you just add the powdered alcohol (which comes in a package sort of like a sugar packet) to five ounces of water. It currently comes in six varieties: rum, vodka, cosmopolitan, mojito, margarita, and lemon drop. Swapping out the water for a different mixer (such as soda or juice) can personalize the drink to suit an individual’s taste preference.
Many are excited because Palcohol could be discretely brought in to places where liquor is not available or exorbitantly priced, such as sporting events, concerts, movie theaters, airplanes, cruise ships, and the like. However, it is for this precise reason that many are opposing its availability.
One of the first questions to be brought up regarding the product was if it could be snorted. The short answer is yes, but it’s a terrible idea. The Palcohol website says this about snorting: “We have seen comments about goofballs wanting to snort it. Don't do it! It is not a responsible or smart way to use the product. To take precautions against this action, we've added volume to the powder so it would take more than a half of a cup of powder to get the equivalent of one drink up your nose. You would feel a lot of pain for very little gain. Just use it the right way."
Read more and see the update at http://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/...9rCrpG1DSLY.99
I am glad they made so it couldn't be abused by adding extra powder otherwise I could see all kinds of things going bad.
Some people are just plain crazy.
Short Story:
My very 1st full time job was in a machine shop. We made lots of different parts using 20~40 ton punch presses, multi-spindle indexing bar stock milling machines, etc...
Anyhoot, I worked in the "Deburring & Degreasing" dept. with another guy fresh out of the army, I'll call him Fred (as I don't remember names well). The shops small parts immersion/vapor degreaser used Trichloroethylene. One day Fred says he wants to get high but he doesn't have any weed. Soooo, Fred walks over to the degreaser's vapor chamber, the section of the machine that heats the trichlor to vaporize it, opens it and starts inhaling the trichlor!!!
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