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    • ARNCA
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      @weftyarn almost enough for an IH party 😃

      Also reminded me of this at Champagne Pommery (a memorable feature of my first tour of champagne houses when I was about 7). This one holds 75,000hl (equivalent to 100,000 bottles).
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      “Every day that you survive you get a free sunset“

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      • WhiskeySandwichW
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        Crazy....

        https://www.space.com/nuclear-fusion-reactor-south-korea-runs-48-seconds

        "The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
        -Seneca

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        • MizmazzleM
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          @WhiskeySandwich freaking nuts that it gets “many times hotter then the sun!!”

          In the easy chair with my boots on, melted whiskey in my hand. Could'na been asleep for more than three hours...time to go to work again...

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          • mclaincauseyM
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            They’ve gone at least 250,000 x the temperature of the core of the sun in particle accelerators: 4 trillion degrees Celsius, enough to decompose subatomic particles. For context, a type 2 supernova (when a huge star runs out of hydrogen and collapses / explodes with unimaginable violence) is (only) 2 billion degrees and that’s enough to create the heavy elements that we and our world are made of.

            We really are made out of the remains of stars. Pretty cool.

            Think it, be it.

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            • SKTS
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              I’d like to wander into one of these testing facilities and say “wonder what this button does?”

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              • goosehdG
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                @mclaincausey …I do believe that some of us are more gaseous than others, especially after a night of drinking…

                "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                • mclaincauseyM
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                  @goosehd 🤣beer and cider man. I don’t understand the biology but I can feel the impact when I know it must still be in my stomach.

                  Think it, be it.

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                  • WhiskeySandwichW
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                    @mclaincausey at temps like that, i cant help but wonder why anything that hot wouldn't just laserbeam itself into the center of the nearest/strongest source of gravity. How is something like that kept from burning through the floor like Alien drool?

                    "The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
                    -Seneca

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                    • mclaincauseyM
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                      @WhiskeySandwich if you mean in the particle accelerator I think that the heat is so small and brief that it can’t do anything like that.

                      The quark-gluon plasma formed is said to be superfluid, which means it has no viscosity. Imagine stirring something and it just keeps stirring forever. This is what they think constituted the early universe after the Big Bang before it cooled into the matter we know and love. There is some theorizing that certain stars (neutron and quark stars) have this state of matter in them.

                      One more mind blower. There is a pulsar that is spinning 716 times per second. That means its equator is moving at 25% of the speed of light. It is 50 trillion times the density of lead with 1 trillion times the magnetism of the sun. 🤯

                      Think it, be it.

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                      • WhiskeySandwichW
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                        @mclaincausey either of those things, or anything hotter than the sun. If they're sustaining temps for near a minute or as it gets longer.... it seems like any kind of force like gravity would be attempting to overcome whatever is containing the heat source.... These things are just hard to wrap my head around. lol It's hard to imagine something that massive spinning that fast.

                        "The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
                        -Seneca

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                        • mclaincauseyM
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                          Gravity isn’t an actual force; it’s just the topology of space time. I think the collisions happen in man made vacuums but these are not total vacuums, so the minuscule weight of the colliding particles is probably not super incline to fall down the earth’s gravity well.

                          Not a particle or any other kind of physicist so this is just conjecture.

                          Think it, be it.

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                          • RobeOfTheMagiR
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                            Honey Badgers blow my mind. Seriously. Look them up!

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                            • GilesG
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                              Did not exactly blow my mind, but I love how obvious the solution was with the benefit of hindsight.....

                              https://amazing.caphemoingay.com/abraham-wald-and-the-missing-bullet-holes/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3zHAlULS8EDZGRvh2RL9GENtTwE5hq3BeQHlIqR4cMSZokPQdEl8sSWpE_aem_ARUTXEh8InNUzlaRwVTnfIuBR45ZmptxM4T7DyWhn3pttOAenp-jxEBObnTlMFD9wYfIcDSXGLTaO_3NzqXgdYaf

                              "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                              • WhiskeySandwichW
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                                Dunno where to put this. Never seen it. But awesome
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                                "The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
                                -Seneca

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                                • seawolfS
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                                  @pechelman Oh, yes. Same idea. Shoot. And yeah, I like my thread title too.

                                  “Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible” - Don Norman

                                  @zeebeeleather

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                                  • MattM
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                                    I’m sure we don’t have a thread about duck facts so maybe it just needs to be repurposed.

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                                    • seawolfS
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                                      I merged "Interesting as Duck" and this thread. We don't need both. And if @EdH wants to change the thread title, I'm happy to do that, but it's not my place to change his title on my own.

                                      “Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible” - Don Norman

                                      @zeebeeleather

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                                      • popvultureP
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                                        FWIW I was all about the duck thread, and I am here to keep the cause alive.

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                                        WTB
                                        IHSH-IHG-BLK XXL
                                        Sugar Cane Coke Stripe SS L charcoal

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                                        • Sir_Cuffs-a-LotS
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                                          🤣😂

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                                          • goosehdG
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                                            @popvulture Awesome!!!

                                            "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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