Today I Learned...

[2020BRZtS]

Originally Posted by 2020BRZtS

It was for driving at unsafe speed for conditions but don't give them any ideas... that one could be next. The funny thing is there are no less than five deer on the side of the road any given day of the week.

It's all good though the deer got a ticket for jaywalking.

Follow-up: The car was totaled out by the insurance company. Pics in link.

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[Kaotic Lazagna]

TIL Square Trade is a garbage warranty company that will deny you things they say they cover on their brochure and on their website. DON'T bother getting their warranties for anything. Waste of money.

[MuseChaser]

Originally Posted by Kaotic Lazagna

TIL Square Trade is a garbage warranty company that will deny you things they say they cover on their brochure and on their website. DON'T bother getting their warranties for anything. Waste of money.

You needn't have specified "Square Trade." Any extended warranty, almost without exception, is rarely worth it.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Spuds

No ice hockey either? That was my primary sport.

No, I think there is one ice rink in all of the Atlanta metro area, and it's not near us.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Originally Posted by MuseChaser

You needn't have specified "Square Trade." Any extended warranty, almost without exception, is rarely worth it.

The warranty we got from Best Buy for a CD player/speaker worked in our favor when it crapped out on us. But yeah, I normally don't get any kind of warranties. The Square Trade one just happened to be included with the LG OLED TV for free.

[Ultramaroon]

That a stamped steel beam is meant to twist in this application. Not exactly earth-shattering but still interesting.

[NoHaveMSG]

At 160km away the sound from Krakatoa’s 1883 eruption was estimated at 172db. At 5000km away it sounded like a nearby gunshot.


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[Dadhawk]

TIL Dr. Michio Kaku at 15 years old was already smarter than I'll ever be. (For a high school science fair, Dr. Kaku built a 2.3 eV particle accelerator in his garage. Using scrap metal and 22 miles of wire, he created a magnetic field 20,000 times stronger than Earth’s, as well collisions powerful enough to produce antimatter).

I also learned that while both hand phasers and DeathStars are theoretically possible it is likely we would have a Deathstar first because it could be built using xray lasers powered by Hydrogen bombs but we don't have a good power source for a hand phaser.

(Reading "Physics of the Impossible". Great read (OK, listen) if you want to Geek out on some physics.)

[MuseChaser]

Kaku's books are great. "Hyperspace" and "Parallel Worlds" are both fascinating, thought-provoking works written in a very approachable style, and one needn't have a strong physics background to enjoy them. Thanks for the reminder... I'll have to revisit them. Read them for the first time shortly after they were published... 1998 for "Hyperspace" and 2005 for "Parallel Worlds." Of course, the book that first really popularized cosmological thought/theory was Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" published in 1988; that's the one that sucked me in, at least. That book is an even easier read than Kaku's books, and a great jumping off point for constant wonderment.

[JD001]

Originally Posted by MuseChaser

Kaku's books are great. "Hyperspace" and "Parallel Worlds" are both fascinating, thought-provoking works written in a very approachable style, and one needn't have a strong physics background to enjoy them. Thanks for the reminder... I'll have to revisit them. Read them for the first time shortly after they were published... 1998 for "Hyperspace" and 2005 for "Parallel Worlds." Of course, the book that first really popularized cosmological thought/theory was Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" published in 1988; that's the one that sucked me in, at least. That book is an even easier read than Kaku's books, and a great jumping off point for constant wonderment.

My claim to fame, work duties took me to Cambridge, saw Stephen Hawking's SUV, walked through his department, full of breakout spaces with lots of blackboards with various furiously scrawled mathematic formulae. Looked very geeky, nerdy and beyond my understanding..

[ScoobsMcGee]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

TIL Dr. Michio Kaku at 15 years old was already smarter than I'll ever be. (For a high school science fair, Dr. Kaku built a 2.3 eV particle accelerator in his garage. Using scrap metal and 22 miles of wire, he created a magnetic field 20,000 times stronger than Earth’s, as well collisions powerful enough to produce antimatter).

I also learned that while both hand phasers and DeathStars are theoretically possible it is likely we would have a Deathstar first because it could be built using xray lasers powered by Hydrogen bombs but we don't have a good power source for a hand phaser.

(Reading "Physics of the Impossible". Great read (OK, listen) if you want to Geek out on some physics.)

Eesh. Pretty sure I spent most of the summer when I was 15 playing the original release of Final Fantasy Tactics. I regret nothing. It was probably friggen hot outside.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by ScoobsMcGee

Eesh. Pretty sure I spent most of the summer when I was 15 playing the original release of Final Fantasy Tactics. I regret nothing. It was probably friggen hot outside.

I know where I was. My Father owned a small roofing company. I was sweating my ass off on top of somebody's house for room and board.

[ScoobsMcGee]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

I know where I was. My Father owned a small roofing company. I was sweating my ass off on top of somebody's house for room and board.

Now that I think about it, it was that fall when I got my first job working in the dish room of a local retirement home. Had to apply for a special work permit because I wasn't 16 yet, but all of my friends were a year older than me and already worked there. Pretty sure the terms of employment were a wee bit different.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

I know where I was. My Father owned a small roofing company. I was sweating my ass off on top of somebody's house for room and board.

i remember that. i was furiously applying everywhere, and getting nowhere. because after 2000, insurance and liabilities of hiring a 15-18 year old was too great for most places unless "you knew someone(wink)", or "had previous work experience", which is ironic considering that no one would hire me...

so at 16 i convinced my 14 year old brother to buy a pair of heavily used lawn mowers, put an ad in the paper, and started mowing lawns for just about anyone that called about the ad...