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  • 'I' used to be used as both a vowel and a consonant, similar to how we use C for both the 's' sound and the 'k' sound. So probably it would have been Iesus with an I. Probably sounded out the same as the guy who did my drywall.

  • You could theoretically stand on the core of a gas giant if you were superman. For a regular human, entering a gas giant would be like falling into an ever increasing atmosphere, even if you decended slowly, the pressure and turbulence would basically crush you and tear you apart into you constituent atoms long before you reached any core. The atmoshpere on earth is like the skin of an apple, just a thin lil coating on there. The atmoshphere of a gas giant is like the meat of a peach, big, thick and juicy. Reaching the core of a gas giant would be akin to trying to reach the core of our planet, except you don't have a cold hard crust to stand on, it's just atmo, thicker atmo with pressures exceeding the marianas trench and crazy winds and chemicals, then it gets hot af and even more pressure atmo, etc. depending on the planet there's winds in excess of 1000mph, maybe electrified, maybe containing molten metals, etc. there's usually a liquid bit in there on the core too. This dude does simulations of different gas giants. Here's Uranus

    https://youtu.be/rHLifi-VzSQ?si=RWUAtzACnpQfR6-s

  • I think they meant where, as in are they visiting mountains, desert, rainforest, plains, or certain city or state. There's a huge range of cultures across the very different regions in the country.

  • Yes but concrete is required. It is literally the foundation of modern civilization. It is the second most used substance on the planet after water. Without it we would have to do away with things like roads, power plants (green and carbon emitting), housing, water treatment and waste treatment plants, erosion control and seawalls, and most production facilities for all of our day to day goods and essentials.

    The industry is making steps to reduce its up front carbon cost and inrease captured carbon in the concrete, but it is slow moving as big changes can cause major problems with infrastructure. Noone wants their hospital falling down because they used a new mix design that hasn't been thoroughly tested and tried.

    We dont work without concrete, but i'm pretty sure we do work without bitcoin.

    If your just looking at fun carbon emitting facts though, then aluminum smelting is another huge number like 4% globally. Concrete is like 7% globally, and HVAC is like 12%.

    https://sustainability.mit.edu/article/cleaning-one-worlds-most-commonly-used-substances#:~:text=Concrete%20is%20the%20second%20most,it's%20used%20to%20make%20concrete.

  • Yeah. I have a small pocket knife i carry everywhere, it is stainless. I've had it for years, and frequently bring it in the water with me clipped to my swim suit (incase i need to cut a tangled rope). I wash it like a dish with soap and water, i use it hard and put it away wet, and it has been fine for years and years.

    After all this, i took it on a single trip in salt water, it spotted with rust that night.

    I also have a Sig P938 SAS which has a stainless slide. I keep that dry and oil it on occasion, and yet that one spotted with rust within a year despite me taking good care of it. Luckily sig replaced the slide but this taught me one good lesson.

    Different grades of stainless make it different grades of rust resistant. Kind of like calling IP67 electronics, like the iPhone 7, "waterproof" when they can only really withstand splashing. Some can get dunked, some can't.

  • Costco @lemmy.world
    DanglingFury @lemmy.world

    Samples

    What days do the warehouses run samples? I've seen it on Friday sometimes but not on Sunday.

    Wheel of Time @lemmy.world
    DanglingFury @lemmy.world

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