Serious Speed

Voyager 1 (the space vehicle) is travelling/leaving our solar system at about 60800 km per hour, that is 16 888 meters per second or almost 17 km per second and that is… incredibly, unbelievably fast and yet it is still just 0,0056 % – a fraction of the speed of light, that clocks in at:… Continue reading Serious Speed

My Crystal Ball

Is quite small Ø 15,70 mm in diameter – measured with a calliper and that is to the 10th of a millimetre. It is mine and it whispers things about the future. It’s my crystal ball… there’s an Raw Iron sphere one as well.

Petri Or Don’t Panic Too [II]?

Julius Richard Petri (May 31, 1852 – December 20, 1921) was a German microbiologist who is generally credited with inventing the device known as the Petri dish, after him, while working as assistant to bacteriologist Robert Koch. Source: Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE, 13/02/2020 13:23:05.

Darwin

This is low-level programming, energy efficiency, geometry and Darwin. People (humans) always seem take the shortest route. The gain in this particular location? It must be less than 2 metric meters (I probably could, if I remembered it correctly – use Pythagoras to calculate the distance more precisely)? – What on Earth are you talking… Continue reading Darwin

1052 °C

1052 Centigrade? Using mirrors, computers and solar energy only? That’s impressive and that’s enough to melt most things we use and know of in the table (periodic): Aluminium (Al)13 melts at 660,33 °C and Copper (Cu)29 at 1085,00 °C. Lead (Pb)82 melts at: 327.5°C and in between them you’ve got; Tin (Sn)50, Magnesium (Mg)12 and… Continue reading 1052 °C

A Thing Of Bruty

Discarded, found, collected and in perfect working order. I’ll drill my way trough your wall/door and then I’ll saw my way into your home… time? It is not really a factor, power-supply, however? It might be an issue, but a stand-alone-petrol/gasoline/mixed generator would sort that out. Using nothing but power tools. Then again: oxygen and… Continue reading A Thing Of Bruty