fdavison
Joined 13 years ago
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Comment · 2 years ago
Now I want Apple Crisp
Comment · 6 years ago
"While in theory there is no difference between theory and practice, in practice there is."
Comment · 6 years ago
"While in theory there is no difference between theory and practice, in practice there is."
Comment · 6 years ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted, sharecropper is exactly the right metaphor.
Comment · 6 years ago
Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine. Changed my eight year old life in 1962. I wanted to work with computers and electronics from that moment.
Oh, and all the Tom Swift Jr series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Dunn_and_the_Homework_Ma...
Comment · 6 years ago
I think "I, Pencil" would blow Odell's mind.
Comment · 7 years ago
That reminded me of this video of NDT describing the size of the electron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6kjY6ppJRE&t=71
Comment · 7 years ago
DoctorOetker's most recent theorem?
Comment · 7 years ago
Because we are near full employment and they now have jobs to lose? From this morning's Washington Post: "For the first time, most new working-age hires in the U.S. are people of color"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/for-the-firs...
Comment · 7 years ago
Yes! That was the first thing I thought of: "I don't understand how it subtracts"
Comment · 7 years ago
Johnny Armstrong, the Hypersonics Combined Test Force Chief Engineer for Air Force, until his retirement in 2012, passed away just last week. He worked in hypersonics from the X-15 to the X-51 Waverider.
https://www.edwards.af.mil/News/Article/1922993/team-edwards...
Comment · 7 years ago
The EPA has a website that displays a network of radiation sensors in the US:
Hope you never need that information.
Comment · 7 years ago
None of what I've read today on his passing have mentioned this interesting story of the rescue of his employees from Iran during the revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Wings_of_Eagles
A mini-series was produced about it starring Burt Lancaster
Comment · 7 years ago
I really enjoyed the whole Giant series by Hogan.
Star Trek Voyager had an episode with the idea of an ancient saurian species that left earth many millions of years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Origin
Comment · 7 years ago
Literally true