Falling and burning satellite release particles of aluminum oxide cause chemical reactions that destroy stratospheric ozone. And the nanoparticles continue to do so while they drift down, which takes about 30 years. A typical satellite contains 30% aluminum.
I hear they replaced aluminum with aluminium. Problem solved.
While moderating, I accidentally marked this "redundant" but meant to choose "insightful." Wish there was a way to correct this.
Post a non-anon comment and the redundant mod will be reverted. You won't be able to choose insightful, but half the correction will be done.
Maybe it gets it confused with Yo Yo Ma jokes.
I hear he's like the cellist dude. Never gets angry when people call his mother fat.
it may be evidence of an innate perceptual bias that goes back way farther in our evolutionary history than previously believed. "We parted with birds on the evolutionary line 300 million years ago," says Aleksandra Cwiek, a linguist at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru, Poland, who was not involved in the study. "It's just mind-blowing."
What if bouba and kiki just sound similar to things in reality? bouba sounds like flowing water, which happens to have round curvy portions, including bubbles (named in English with a similar sound). kiki sounds close to crystalline structures breaking; glass, ice, etc. This results in sharp angles. Instinctively knowing that "bouba" type sounds might indicate water is useful to all life with ears. Knowing that "kiki" means "sharp" seems more useful for staying away from things though.
I'll record everything in 15-60 second clips and host it on TikTok. That or build it in Minecraft. Make them dig to locate the information!
"The service hung when Mojang updated a redstone bug that we were using to implement direct RAM interactions. Downgrading to Minecraft 1.21.10 solved the issue."
Years ago I founded a company and was raising capital. The bus scenario would always come up and we would describe our well thought out plan for replacing me. The response was unenthusiastic.
One day I flippantly replied "I won't care about your money, because I'll be dead." Then would go on to describe the plan. That bit of frank honesty combined with a thoughtful plan made raising money much easier.
Fascists forgot they mandated contact tracing and vaccine passports requiring ID presentation in several blue jurisdictions not that long ago.
Can your party PLEASE stop?
All well and good, but I was thinking about field trips from schools outside NYC. But as other posts note, it's possible to buy an Oyster card in London. I assume NYC will have a similar scheme.
I took my son to London and had a great time using the Underground and the bus system. Paying with contactless credit card was very convenient. And the payment cap per day was nice. But I was left wondering about one potential issue.
What do you do if one of you doesn't have a credit card or smart device/phone with payment system? Fortunately, I had two credit cards (we didn't have a data plan in London). So no real problem for us. It still left me wondering what would people do if they a payment method for each person? i.e what if you are riding more than a few times and hit the payment cap due to swiping multiple times per ride. Seems like either a chance to be accused of fraud. Or actual fraud.
What would happen to, say, a class field trip visiting NYC? I'm genuinely curious what people do in those edge cases.
Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
