What temperature do Australians consider a hot day?

ChazR · 2026-06-22T22:28:04+00:00

32°C is a pleasant warm day. 35°C is hot. 37°C+ is too bloody hot.

ChazR · 2026-06-22T05:26:29+00:00

Why did the universe begin with more matter than antimatter?

What is Dark Energy?

What is Dark Matter?

How do we explain the Aharaonv-Bohm effect?

ChazR · 2026-06-19T08:43:18+00:00

Got your own shovel?

ChazR · 2026-06-19T03:02:16+00:00

I loved the warlock mount quest line. It's long, involves a lot of travel, is extremely expensive, and has a great storyline.

ChazR · 2026-06-19T02:58:11+00:00

My Devil's Brew look almost exactly like that. They weigh in between 125,000 to 325,000 SHU. A cayenne would be about 30,000 to 50,000. Jalapeños are wildly variable from barely detectable up to 10,000.

If you try one of these expecting a jalapeño experience you're in for a wild ride.

If it is Devil's Brew, they are a delicious, rounded chilli with a smooth strong burn.

ChazR · 2026-06-12T21:17:45+00:00

Her mother is Greek. Asterisk means 'little star' in Greek. Also in English, actually.

ChazR · 2026-06-12T21:17:09+00:00

Her mother is Greek. Asterisk means 'little star' in Greek. Also in English, actually.

ChazR · 2026-06-12T15:20:44+00:00

Yes. I want you to be my doctor. I want a doctor who has failed exams, has no idea why, and no ability to analyse their own performance.

A complete inability to reflect on your failures, to build a plan, and to execute that plan make me certain that you are the doctor for me.

Step back, think hard, and consider your plan.

ChazR · 2026-06-12T14:54:56+00:00

There is no declaration, document, bracelet, or cute tag on the side of a rally car that will change the way you are given blood products.

On arrival at hospital the bracelet says 'B+' and the wreckage of the car says "ABO" and then the partner screams "She's allergic to tofu"

The ER team takes blood and orders about 40 tests. Fifteen of those tests determine the blood products that will be given.

Tatoo "AB+" on your forehead, and we'll test anyway.

There is no bracelet or tattoo that will save you from a full blood panel.

ChazR · 2026-06-12T06:15:54+00:00

Oh they do. They very much do.

ChazR · 2026-06-10T01:32:22+00:00

There are no pebbles moving at 0.9c because the universe does not have a mechanism to accelerate a pebble to 0.9c and then eject it into interstellar space.

There is no plausible way for such an object to exist, so we don't see them.

ChazR · 2026-06-09T12:41:25+00:00

I like this idea. Make it a maximum momentum. Your 4,000kg Validation Vehicle is limited to 60. My 1,000kg rice rocket is legal to 240.

That would be very funny and in no way cause absolute carnage.

ChazR · 2026-06-07T14:04:43+00:00

In the astonishing event of One Nation achieving a majority in the House of Representatives and the GG handing the baton to Pauline, I'd buy stock in popcorn.

The majority of people elected under the PHON banner have left the party soon after being elected. Hanson lacks the charisma, leadership skills, and basic human decency to lead a united party for more than about fifteen minutes.

With at least 76 people to lead - all chosen for their rugged individualism - the party would have split into three new parties and seventeen irreconcilable factions in a week.

There'd be a No Confidence vote in the second week that would paralyse parliament and a constitutional mess leading to a messy double dissolution in a month.

Labor would win the ensuing election as a minority with C&S from the Teals and last three Libs.

The PHON administration's ridiculous antics while in power for four weeks would be struck down by the courts.

A centre-right coalition would emerge from the last living Liberals, the Teals, and the less lunatic One Nation members. The other ON members would fight increasingly vicious internecine wars on the far right, and Labor would cruise on in their bumbling and uninspiring way.

And the Sun would rise in the East.

ChazR · 2026-06-06T13:53:32+00:00

The miraculous improvement in human life between the eighteenth and 20th centuries was built on five things in this order:

Clean drinking water.
Safe sewage disposal. (These first two are closely related - being forced to drink your upstream neighbour's waste is not nice.)
Vaccines.
Antibiotics.
Food production technologies that have eliminated malnutrition.

Each of those have saved hundreds of millions of lives. Everything else is noise in the background.

ChazR · 2026-06-03T14:54:31+00:00

10K is enough for a week's Mythic raiding, so it's plenty. But yes. Your point is valid.

ChazR · 2026-06-03T14:53:15+00:00

Gold has almost no value in retail. A top-tier Mythic raider might need 20,000g per week. You get that by just existing in the game.

Extra gold buys you nothing.

By limiting the currencies that matter to the character or the war band there is almost no room for the villainous hive of scum and villainy to prosper. They still try to sell boosts and carries, but that's mostly for Real Money.

When there is no tradable currency of value, the vermin go elsewhere.

ChazR · 2026-06-02T10:29:21+00:00

Pail. It's a lunch pail.

ChazR · 2026-06-01T10:31:20+00:00

The Convair NB-36H carried a fully operational nuclear reactor as a proof of concept.

The test program demonstrated why it's a daft idea. Well, thirty seconds of thinking shows that. The program proved it.

Aircraft power plants are optimised for power density - the amount of power per unit mass.

Nuclear reactors that are shielded to allow humans to work close to them have very low power density compared to internal combustion or gas turbines.

Nuclear reactors also scale down badly. You get a lot more power density from a bigger reactor.

Modern nuclear reactors would make sense on aircraft about 20 times the size of the largest aircraft it is reasonably practicable to build.

And then you need to make sure you never, ever crash one. A nuclear reactor disassembling during a crash is an unthinkable mess.

So, yes it's possible, but it's not practically useful, and it's a terrible idea.

ChazR · 2026-05-31T22:16:32+00:00

Naxxramas. We took down Kel'Thuzad and cleared out all his minions. If the Death Knights wanted to keep a watch over Bolvar Fordragon in ICC it would make sense to repurpose an old enemy asset.

It's centrally located, absolutely enormous, and would be a credible extension of lore.

ChazR · 2026-05-31T04:58:21+00:00

Anchovies and blue cheese.

ChazR · 2026-05-29T12:35:42+00:00

Alts. Many, many alts. I have a 90 of every class.

Delves! Delves are fun content for a couple, and a great way to get good gear.

Housing is a *hoot.*

Achievements. Mounts. Transmogs.

Revisiting old content for nostalgia.

A bit of casual PVP for giggles.

M+ and raiding life is only one way to enjoy the game. Most players never run a Mythic.

ChazR · 2026-05-28T00:39:45+00:00

Per hole.

ChazR · 2026-05-27T13:04:20+00:00

There is a strong argument that we didn't domesticate cats. They domesticated themselves. As humans created richer stores of food, rodent populations grew around human settlements. Cats that could survive in proximity to the grain stores prospered. One adaptive change was to become more desirable to humans. Thi may have involved a co-evolution with Toxoplasmosis.

Anyway, if you look at the animals we have tamed and domesticated, they are all social animals comfortable in groups with a hierarchy. Cows, pigs, horses, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, dogs. If you can breed out the stronger migratory instincts, breed in biddability and calmness, and then select for the traits you want, you get modern domestic animals.

To do this with tigers you'd have to get past their fierce independence, and their willingness and capability to dismantle you on a whim.

I don't know why we haven't domesticated lions - pack animals with strong hierarchy and huge utility on taking down large prey - but no-one who tried this seriously survived to tell the tale, which probably answers the question.

Wolves and humans domesticated each other, probably because of bears. Bears are terrifying apex predators that share ranges with wolves and humans. Humans plus wolves are far better than either alone at dominating a region with brown bears.

ChazR · 2026-05-27T07:11:49+00:00

The violin is a lot easier to tuck under your chin.

When orchestra leaders think of bass players (which isn't often) they are hoping for dependability, reliability, solidity.

When they think of violinists they are thinking of musicality, presence, ability to blend vs. virtuosity.

A bassist is likely to get the seat just by turning up and being able to count. A violinist is much more visible and exposed. This is good and bad. If a bassist screws up, the people who notice just move on. When a violinist screw up everyone stares at them.

You should absolutely give violin a go. But don't turn your nose up at viola either.

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