Deconceptualist

What were some of the things that nibbled away at ya?

Probably Grontar: The Frutang, circa 2003.

Wood Science must be a rather strange field.

1 mL of pure water weighs exactly 1 g at 20 °C and 1 atm pressure :) It’s a defined standard, useful for calibrating other things.

1 mL. Studying chemistry has made that extremely useful and now other units seem ridiculous.

If we’re talking about geology or oceanography though, cubic meters are fine.

Also the phone app icon still resembles one of those old banana units, even though phones haven’t looked that way in 25+ years.

NAND and NOR are swapped. Pretty good otherwise 😄

This is how I feel a lot of times. But I did at least have the sense to go for Endeavour rather than straight to Arch (and prior to that, Manjaro and Ubuntu).

No; I died.

https://www.getbatsout.com/how-dangerous-is-bat-urine/

A: None; it was Devon.

Ohh. I use a separate phone for work so I didn’t notice that. Yeah search bar would’ve been a better spot for sure.

Um, the profile icon is just slightly to the left now. Or did you mean something else?

“Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not.”

“Kid, I’ve flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I’ve seen a lot of strange stuff”

When the walls slouched

Well yes assuming your reactor creates heat, you need to convert that to mechanical energy to run a pump. A steam turbine is very efficient for that lol

Also, water is an amazing coolant. At the molecular level its hydrogen bonding contributes to a bulk property called heat capacity that ends up much higher than most other substances, meaning it can soak up a ton of energy per unit volume (and later release that energy, e.g. into a turbine). And there’s even more of that heat capacity in the phase transition from liquid to steam and back. It’s crazy good.

It’s also super cheap and abundant. The main reason water isn’t the coolant for nearly everything is that it can be corrosive. Also steam can be quite dangerous due to all that energy it carries.

It doesn’t have to be steam. You can also use the generated energy to pump water up to a location of higher gravitational potential, then use that to spin turbines as it comes back down.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity

Yeah but the spelling ‘normally’ would have been updated to match English pronunciation. That’s what happens in most languages. As I understand there were two issues:

• Some dictionary writers (ca. late 1400s IIRC) wanted spellings that seemed fancier like French and Latin, which is why e.g. the silent B in debt was added ‘artificially’.
• The printing press was invented right in the middle of the Great Vowel Shift so old spellings got “locked in” even though spoken English continued to change significantly for a long time afterward.