DahGangalang
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Normally I'd recommend the audio books to hit it during commutes and such, but TBH, I don't really care for the narrators.
I do think they have Bill Nye as Death. He's credited as one of the narrators, but I couldn't quite pick out which character he "plays".
Just finished Color of Magic (from Discworld series).
Def some strong The Luggage vibes here.
So that says to me there was a worse economic downturn for farmers in mid 70's.
I know there was a bunch of junk with oil at the time. Is that what the downturn was about or was there something else happening at that time to beat on farmers specifically? Any history buffs with the inside scoop care to share?
I was ~8 years old when the search engine wars were going on. Even as close to the "pre-google" age as I was, I literally cannot conceive of existence without it nor fathom how difficult some (relatively basic) things must've been.
Not sure your specific configuration (and thus limitations for tools and such), but I've had a good experience taking a tiny punch and hammering a small river in the middle (to give the drill bit some amount of purchase to start), then drilling out the rivet.
Hope that's helpful!
I hate how well this identifies me
To be fair, the 3/4 fit elves account for 2/4 middle age dads.
Aren't 3 of the 4 "Elf Princes" still known to be incredibly fit?
I'm out of practice with my physics so apologies if this is a n00b question, but:
I'm unclear what (rho V) is and how you converted to that from mass (m). Further unclear what (rho A d) refers to.
Can you explain / link to an explainer on this?
I have a chip on my shoulder about the metric system as it appears in sci-fi writing.
It drives me nuts that in books like The Expanse (and I think the Bobiverse and Andy Wier's works) that the writer will call distances in "thousands/millions of kilometers".
Really feels more reasonable to just go full send and call them megameters and gigameters, but maybe that's just my American non-metric mind trying to force full use of a system in a way those born to it don't actually do.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
So Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series explores an invasion of Earth by small ish reptilian aliens.
My head canon for the aliens and they're differences in culture from humans is that they basically came from pre-meteor Earth and evolved from real velociraptors (which as I understand, were actually only about 3 ft/1 m tall, and were considered the most intelligent/pack forming dinos of their time).
Its an interesting series (if something of a bizarre premise).