StillLrning123

So are they trying to find particles in the fluid with a flow of 0?

Most paper contain acid. The acid breaks down the paper. Pages become very fragile after some time(100 to 200 years?). Paperback uses cheap paper that contain acid. Paperback books will not last forever. More expensive acid free paper is often used by artists. Acid free paper is made plant fibers, but often not wood. It could be cotton. This will have a much longer life span. This paper is too expensive for most books

Distribution of knowledge is the only way forward. There where probably only a few people that had key knowledge to these technologies. Once they disappeared, so did the technology.

"That's a broader theme. Watching TV is considered more childish than reading a book, even though TV content requires a lot more kinds of creative work in order to exist." While TV shows are more involved and complex to make, that does not automatically give the TV show depth, reflection, nuance etc. A TV show is often quite the opposite; a banal story full of platitudes.

Funny thing about steam engines is that we think about them as a thing of the past. But in reality steam engines just scaled up and turned into steam turbines, which are a backbone of society

Microsoft Excel is very similar to this kind of deployment and is used _extensively_.

Wouldn't a tower have thicker walls? Medieval towers have walls that are several meters thick

It's kind of sad how greedy corporations destroys how I enjoy and want to use technology (TV, telephone calls, printers, web search...).

I used to have a printers, but they all turned out to be unreliable and frustrating to use, so I just stopped buying them. Luckily my work and local library has a printer, so I can print documents the couple of times a year I really need one.

I look up words all the time. Etymology is fun. I use several languages though, so I often get confused about nuances and subtleties.

Bach didn't like the piano when it was first introduced. He was used to organs and harpsichord, where keys are kind of on or off. A piano is velocity sensitive and play style is quite different. He went on to work with piano developers to make the piano a better instrument.

the synth outputs sound. Synths are complex beasts. Modular synth are a both "sound" and control voltages. The control voltage turn on or off a filter or oscillator etc. But you can also reverse the order so you "listen" to the control voltage that is controlled by the "sound". It basically an analog computer