Captainmarino

Plotting... plotting... plotting...

Alright, I'll join in. I taught high school physics for 10 years and during my first year, they had just "renovated" my classroom. They put in a bunch of computers and caged off the lathe, drill press, and whatnot but put just a bunch of random stuff in there too. Included in that list was a glass Hoffman electrolysis apparatus and a bunch of 12V lantern batteries. You shouldn't leave stuff like that just lying around for me to find. Not that it had anything to do with what I was teaching at the time (kinematics or something, but I decided to hook up two of the batteries in series and ran it for a while. It produced quite a few bubbles and filled up the hydrogen side pretty quickly. I then showed my class what happens when you put a burning splint at each of the two valves (O2, H2). They thought the 12" tall flame on the hydrogen side was pretty impressive. What I DIDN'T show them was when I hooked up eight batteries in series (96V DC) during my off period, switched the polarities halfway through the process (producing O2 and H2 in the same container), and then held the splint to the valve and opened it. Luckily the electrodes were attached to rubber stoppers because they absolutely blew out the bottom like a gunshot rather than the glass exploding into my face. There was water all over the batteries (but didn't short them out somehow) and the aluminum electrodes that had been in the glass chambers had completely vaporized. When I told my students the story, they asked why I hadn't waited for their class period to do that

That question is like an ogre...

Congrats, buddy!

And only 35 minutes north and we got 98%. What a difference a little latitude makes.

Oh come on! Chances are half the people in here have phones in their pocket that look worse than that. It's just a flesh wound... waiting to happen.

That's because they were meant for horse and buggy. You... have... made it past those at this point, right? Right?

We have SO many streets like that here in Upstate NY. I actually like cobbled streets as well, but... see... there's a problem when you pave over them in an area like that which we have up here. It's called "Spring", I believe? The freeze-thaw cycles up here turn even a freshly repaved section of cobblestone street to total and utter garbage in a season or two. But somehow, it's "cheaper" to pave, pave, and pave some more rather than to rip up the old subsurface cobbles. It's horrendous.

And definitely not 1GB! How's that for advertising?

For reference, I will be driving from NY to Nebraska in July to visit my in-laws. That drive (with kids mind you) will take about 24h... and that's only halfway across the country.

Ahhhhh... snark. The beauty of a simple statement to be literally true, technically true, actually true, and inciteful at the same time

The ground.

I think you all do a bang-up job. The best in the business. **I'll take my payment offline. Thank you.**

Of course it is. The Ruble = $0.01 USD

For better or worse. LOL. It really is pretty impressive though. Have you seen pictures from the interior of the capsule though? Yikes!

I've seen a Falcon 9 launch from 3 miles away and that was impressive. I can't even imagine any kind of heavy lift vehicle... but would LOVE to see them!