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Relative humidity (RH) is the ratio between the vapour pressure (loosely, the mass of water in the air per cubic metre) and the saturation vapour pressure (the amount that the air can hold without precipitation forming). VP(sat) increases roughly exponentially...
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Another data-point on the "small number of host generations" side: when myxomatosis was introduced to the Australian rabbit population, it attenuated within 2 years enough that the rabbits lasted long enough to transmit it. A generation of scientists spent their...
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"being left or right handed in baseball is more important than in most sports..." (Field) hockey. The stick is asymmetrical (J-shaped), it has a flat side and a rounded side. All hockey sticks are made so that a right-handed stance...
Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
OK, I'll bite: Republic of Ireland: 3 year war of independence a century ago, a full democracy* today (cf the USA, a flawed democracy) South Africa: long-running insurgency leading to a semi-peaceful transfer of power in 1994; the one generation...
Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
Returning to the OP: "Lockdown can't be sustained more than 1-2 weeks after peak ICU occupancy passes" This isn't really supported by the Australian experience. Peak ICU was on about 4 April. Today we had the very first moves toward...
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Have you considered Qatar? They go Edinburgh-Doha then Doha-Auckland. Not the ideal owners, I realize......

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Robert Prior commented on Starship bloopers
I've actually seen people spinning thread with a drop spindle I can do that. I can also use a Navaho spindle. Can't walk and spin at the same time, though — I'm not that practiced :-) I can also use a slide rule. I'm better at spinning, though....
Scott Sanford commented on Starship bloopers
I'm completely the opposite; I can use a slide rule but never got the hang of a drop spindle. glances down at novelty slide rule tie clasp, chuckles...
She of many names under yet another pseudonym commented on Starship bloopers
Well, yes. You also have to check if Gythanki appeared in Warhammer Magazine or Dragon magazine first and check the dates. We fuzz things a bit. Host probably submitted it to a UK source first (it's a tribute: it's probably his first professional publishment as an Author). Apparently this type of instant knowledge freaks people out and there's enough nasty level "get people fired" in the UK to ram an over-worked and unlicensed HGV driver into.[0] It's just ironic since a) we're sure he doesn't have any IP residuals on them and b) they're the major splash race for the...
She of many names under yet another pseudonym commented on Starship bloopers
For the record: What we warned about has occurred. And we attempted to make enough < noise > to allow some to escape. You're beautiful creatures. The distances invoked must have happened to prevent your engagment with things beyond your ken. Double Pinky-Finger Wiggle Q.E.D. 2021: "We did not understand quite what you were doing..." CHILDREN OF MEN....
She of many names under yet another pseudonym commented on Starship bloopers
There are always things that you cannot hear / see / feel. We're writing complex strategic and ideological anti-toxins in "grunt" language that make nice people like Ms Lieb etc recoil in horror. Why? No-one else was, and tbh: we probably gave them the game-plan by accident. What we have learned, quite succinctly, is that your entire Western system is... well. Broken. And you do not like knowing you're also murderous psychopaths, or at least, sociopaths employing said Minds, kinda run the show. Not in the "DISCIPLINED" way where you at least leash the fuckers, nope: running the show. ~...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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