HootinNHollerin

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There’s a restaurant on the outskirts of bangkok that launches a whole rotisserie chicken from a slingshot over the guests tables and impales on a spike on the helmet of a guy on a unicycle next to your table

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Just looked it up, correct. I assumed you were joking

[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

As a mechanical design engineer in America having dual systems creates unnecessary complexity and frustration and cost for me all day every day. I full force embrace switching to metric

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I’ve always wondered what the peppers are called that are used in Chicago dogs

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)

I was being recruited to design and develop a machine that sorted bull semen into male and female and I half jokingly said I’d consider it if i could have the title of Sr Semen Sorter and manager said ok. COVID stopped the project though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’ve got a tree in my yard that pumps out hundreds a few times a year. I have to give them away. SoCal

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Green curry should have Thai eggplant yet I can only get it with that from one Thai restaurant I know

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Bill Gates has invested a lot in Terra Power for new types of nuclear reactors. I presume they’re related to the needs of ai

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

True, the materials science just wasn’t good enough. The money was then diverted to hypersonic and laser weapons

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The nazi ww2 one is more similar to coil guns as the projectile is propelled by synchronized pulses. Rail gun is more similar to typical gun which has basically a single time pulse at the beginning (but magnetic field instead). There’s also light gas guns which have a gun power charge to move a plug that compressed a light gas like hydrogen Ina second chamber, which then bursts a membrane to then propel the projectile. Iirc sadam was doing light gas guns

 
 
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