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The latest science project from the dude without a functioning amygdala. "Honestly, the feeling that I'm not supposed to own these really adds to the appeal."

I have a Bosch dishwasher. One thing to watch out for is that in some models the door springs have plastic attachment inserts that tend to shatter. I replaced mine with a $15 knockoff part with a stamped steel insert that seems fine. Easy job, but requires disconnecting and pulling out the...

I went to a capybara cafe in Japan with my kids. Capybaras are neat animals, sort of like a stoned dog. They just wanted pets and snacks. Unrelated:

It's based off The Clone Wars series.

Door is installed on the wrong side of the fame. How the fuck are you supposed to safely open that from the stair side?

Similar scooter trend here as @Falstaff. I though about it for a bit and decided not to because I live in a hilly area. With the tiny wheel diameters the brakes on scooters just aren't up to the job, and if they could stop quickly that just pitches you off. The only problem is my daughter is 11...

Ignoring the logistics, the first thing they'll realize is that this is a giant clusterfuck because now they have to keep track of the floating dollar <> gold exchange rate.

I don't think this makes your ship any weaker, but it does make the propagation of causality slower. The fundamental forces being limited to c is part of the perception of time slowing. Information flow between particles has a speed limit, so time underclocks (relative to everything else) the...

Practically speaking, physically transporting large masses over light years just seems like something the universe is hostile towards. Long before that problem is solved, if it can be, a civilization would expand by sending Von Neumann probes and printing copies at a new location. That doesn't...

Up there with, "Wow, I've never seen that before!". Fortunately for me it was just my knee, not a critical organ.

The good news is this was stillborn enough that most mainstream gamers haven't heard of it. The proportion of the gaming public that pays attention to streamers/game news media is small. For people like me where the original Marathon was literally my first 3d game, I'll be discerning enough that...

Yes, I'm intending to agree with that. The closer you approach c your subjective time stretches out infinitely compared to observers outside your reference frame, so your observed acceleration appears to slow. From your perspective distance shrinks, so you get where you're going at 1G and find...

That is how it works, though, at least assuming you had a propulsion system that could provide velocity-invariant thrust. It's the same amount of energy, not that you could ever expend it. The trick is that as you approach c for you space compresses to zero distance and for everything else your...

This is like implying the plumbers cause your pipes to leak. People tend not to go to doctors unless they have health problems. Small problems cause small symptoms. Then they grow in to big problems with big symptoms. Cancer is definitionally out of control growth. My mom had a biliary tumor...

This explanation was popular for a while but I think it was a shortcut to get around having to explain the weirder parts of relativity. "Increasing mass" sort of applies an intuitively palatable reason why you couldn't accelerate to c from the perspective of an outside observer, but it's not...

This is correct. Relativity is such a mindfuck and overturns the most basic heuristics used by our brains. Reality is deeply, deeply weird. Distance, time, and mass-energy all trade off against each other. From the perspective of the accelerating observer you experience 1G (or whatever)...

Yeah, my FitBit does a pretty good job, including adjusting for my exercise.

Second this. Counting calories is a huge pain in the ass but works like clockwork if you're honest. Track for a few weeks, and if your metabolism is such that the weight isn't coming off at the expected rate adjust your calories until it is. Don't forget to adjust downward for your mass change...

30-40% of all people have some level of fructose intolerance.

Eh, you have to eat most of a full watermelon in one sitting. Normal portions are fine. Ask me how I know...

Watermelon has lots of indigestible carbs in it that will give some people explosive shits if they eat too much.

Meh. Earth's magnetic field inducing very low-frequency current resonances through the entire facility and its equipment (paper even mentions metal buildings) is not the same thing as the primary detection mechanism (laser distance measurement) intentionally picking up general EM waves. They're...

Newtonian equations are good enough for a lot of work. That equation is useful and convenient, but does not describe our most accurate understanding of physics. LIGO and VIRGO are laser interferometers can don't detect magnetic waves at all. They're just really, really, really, REALLY...

This statement is nonsense. The universe is nothing but change. Gravity is constantly changing as everything changes mass/energy and moves relative to each other. No, you. You're the one with the crazy talk. Show us the supposed requirement that gravity propagates instantly, against what...

Objects experience gravity as propagated a the the speed of light. This has been a recognized prediction of the math for the last hundred years, and we saw it with the LIGO experiment. That's the entire point of the "relative" part of relativity. There exists only what each observer experiences...

Something like the would be plenty sturdy (unless you need the bench to have mass for stability/dampening), with the bonus of having wheels and not being stuck to your garage wall.