It still amazes me they went from 'first thing from earth to crash into the moon' in 1959, to a soft landing in 1966, or soft landings with transmissions from venus in 1970.

The fact that anything could land on venus and transmit home for an hour is pretty amazing, really. Atmospheric pressure is something like 92 atm, temperature is 450C, it's all CO2 with clouds of sulphuric acid... incredible anything survives that, and radios home!

Some of them had 5 cylinders, you insensitive clod.

Unless people want to turn bitcoins into actual money, of course.

If they don't want to go back to Russia, they don't have to accept the grants.

I'm not really seeing a problem here?

Smallpox has been absent since the 70's, and hasn't show up yet... So if the premise is the same with polio, yes we can say that it is extinct... I think.

I think it only exists in one CDC facility and one research / germ warfare facility in siberia, now.

So when industry shut off for christmas, prices went through the floor.

I suppose same would happen with a fossil plant they couldn't spool down either.

Heh, yup. There was a time when Nokia was the world's largest "camera" producer. Not competition with DSLRs, but they replaced the instamatic for sure.

Which is kinda... not really true. Kodak had long lost consumer camera market anyway. Instamatic was the last popular consumer camera they made, as near as I can remember, and they're older than me.

I'm sure they still made good coin on film and industrial/scientific stuff, though.

You can if the internet of things feeds the dog and sends it outside to pee, of course... ;-)

I've often wondered why they haven't gone to square / rectangular cells. (if they don't like li-poly bags). They do exist (most cellphones with a metal can instead of a bag are / were li-ion).

Even square-ish 18650s should add some capacity (+25% volume, how effectively it can be used I'm unsure), and take little volume that isn't being wasted already.

She still has a sceptre, but the magic has been lost and it now has no effect.

Rays and skates are shark's closest relatives. Which is why some rays kinda look like flattened weird sharks.. i guess...

The oil isn't boiling though, is it? Doesn't oil smoke before it boils... at least at 1 atm? Since it is hotter than 100C, anything with water in it (say food) added to the fryer 'boils' instantly though.

Since the oil is already much hotter than water's boiling point, I don't see any advantage to increasing the pressure? Except keeping the boiling water in the food item a tad longer, I guess...?

Sanders' isn't a deep fryer though, or at least it wasn't. The whole point is he didn't want the chicken to be deep fried, but pan fried (which was too bloody slow)... Hence the compromise of pressure-pan frying.

Never worked at a KFC, so I'm googling it, and it sure looks like a deep fryer, though...

Yeah, longer straight chain stuff should be pretty much harmless, but aromatics tend to be carcinogenic, irritant, stink, etc. (though it depends on the chemical in question, it's not a rule.)

Short alkanes aren't very good either, being very flammable and toxic, but aren't carcinogenic afaik. As the carbon chains get longer they become benign (with the greatest risk being that of getting them in your lungs - hard to get out, causing some sort of pneumonia like illness).

Normal kerosene (in north america, at least), is about 15-20% aromatics IIRC, which is why it has an odor. More refined variants for lanterns don't. Same deal with (pharmaceutical) mineral oil, or vaseline. harmless, but they come from the same stock as kerosene, and they are all 'petroleum distillates'.

There are some open CNC routers out there, but they will have trouble with things much harder than wood or lucite or nylon. Which is still pretty useful, I've been meaning to rig something eventually, myself.

To cut steel it really needs to be big and cast iron/steel, just too much flex otherwise. (not to mention you want a slow, heavy spindle, not a dremel..) So for that, you usually buy a ready-made ($500-1000) milling machine, and add stepper motors to make it CNC-able. Which still only gets you three axes, but...

I imagine there are some open CNC water/laser/plasma cutting designs out there too. Or at least writeups by people that DIY'd it.