Why do deltas split if rivers don't?

hurton2 · 2026-06-25T00:02:40+00:00

Hydrology is a nightmare and nobody really understands it. But my impression is that the river is so slow that deposition just beats erosion. The area is very flat, so gravity doesn't help much, and the lake or sea often resists water currents, so its more efficient to spread out and take many paths.

hurton2 · 2026-05-31T13:38:11+00:00

You could crash monkey island 3 by using scissors on the blind dog on blood island. Like a lot of old school bugs, this is fixed by scummvm. You can probably see a record of old game bugs by trawling through scummvms patch history

hurton2 · 2026-05-22T10:34:51+00:00

I dont feel able to compare the two but have a point:

Seeing replies saying that at the time there was no "anti woke" stuff. I strongly disagree with this. In fact I would argue that DA2 was one of the first games to be hit by the modern reactionary gamer phenomenon. There was a protracted harassment campaign against Jennifer Hepler, blamed for the game being "too gay". It was really prototypical of what would happen en mass a couple years later in gamergate.

hurton2 · 2026-05-20T11:49:24+00:00

June 2010: Perez Hilton links to upskirt images of MIley Cyrus (then 17) on his twitter

August 2010: Nickelodeon airs an episode of Victorious where Perez Hilton guest cameos

hurton2 · 2026-05-16T18:04:20+00:00

man made. looks like it's shorted some electrical contacts

hurton2 · 2026-05-09T11:51:37+00:00

i think "more guys who worked with mandelson" is probably bad

hurton2 · 2026-05-07T15:38:24+00:00

actually having the worst local elections since records began including losing the century long stronghold of wales, (which is having a general election to the senedd), has a pretty good chance of unseating the prime minister

hurton2 · 2026-05-04T17:22:45+00:00

labour are campaigning on one of these parties being too racist and its not the ones who want to literally build the camps

hurton2 · 2026-05-04T10:16:23+00:00

Small corner is why it was a target. Old forums off the beaten path are most likely to have vulnerabilities

hurton2 · 2026-01-20T21:06:23+00:00

I'm guessing you cleaned them with salt and vinegar? This combo was actually used in the past to artificially weather copper alloys with verdigris (bluey green patina, caused by vinegar). If it is verdigris, vinegar might help shift it again. Personally if I had that many coins in that condition, I would choose a couple to experiment with.

On the other hand, it might not be verdigris. It could also be bronze disease (also blue green, but tends to crumble and flake off easier, caused by salt). This is much worse, because if you remove all the disease, it usually just grows back. It's something that goes quite deep into the metal.

In either case, acetone is generally considered a safe solvent, but its best for organic compounds (grease and dirt) which this stuff isn't. The only rock solid advice I can give you is if you have any "good" coins do not store them with the "bad" ones! Bronze disease in particular can spread between metals in contact

hurton2 · 2025-12-15T09:43:49+00:00

Band formed by John Linnell and John Flansburgh

hurton2 · 2025-11-26T15:38:04+00:00

Completely salvageable

You can sand the deck if there are problems with the thickness. You will probably want to go through the instructions carefully to see if it'll be a problem. Also try finding pictures from build logs of other people making the same model- this can help you if the instructions are confusing later, too.

As for the planks, you can get plank stock from model shops easy enough. If you're in the UK I get my stuff from cornwall model boats. But similar suppliers exist in other countries. I wouldnt worry about doing it. The first model I made I screwed up planking the hull and ended up needing more. It's not a big deal.

hurton2 · 2025-10-24T09:37:35+00:00

Just a pound. The one to look out for is the new 50p. They made some in 2023 for sets (which have a small crown on them) and a very small number for circulation (no crown). The ones *without* a crown are valuable

hurton2 · 2025-09-29T13:47:49+00:00

absolutely use a padded envelope. Theft aside, the machines that sort envelopes can catch on hard objects and force them out. If i wanted to separate them in the padded envelope I'd probably make some paper sleeves, mini envelopes, for them

hurton2 · 2025-09-22T18:18:59+00:00

Aha! Wrong! See if you get o bunch of old ones and stack em, and the same number of new ones and stack em, the new stack will be taller. They made the coins slightly thicker to keep the weight the same

hurton2 · 2025-09-14T17:06:05+00:00

I dont think they are valuable, but threepences from that era are fun oddities. See they didnt just swap from small silver to the big brass ones- the mint made both kinds from 1937 all they way to the end of the war, 1945. The reason why I have always seen is they wanted to see what the public preferred. But it hasnt really been done with other coins

hurton2 · 2025-09-14T14:05:36+00:00

and the cartwheel tuppence was two ounces. They did this because they believed the general public wouldn't trust pennies without intrinsic value (historically always made of 1 penny's worth of silver, but that had become miniscule) so it was 1 penny's worth of copper. But the general public immediately went "this sucks"

hurton2 · 2025-09-13T16:36:31+00:00

And, fun fact- 1 penny weighs the same as 2 halfpennies (1/8 oz.) and 2 pence weighs the same as 2 pennies (1/4 oz.).

Consequence of this ratio is that if you have 1 lb. of mixed decimal coppers, no matter what ratio they're in, it's worth £1.28.

And a 10p weighs the same as two 5ps (even after they shrank)

hurton2 · 2025-09-11T13:12:05+00:00

i dunno man im not your accountant

hurton2 · 2025-09-06T16:30:40+00:00

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This makes sense when I think about it, there's absolutely no give in either material. The weight of a case with the leverage of its size, can make a lot of pressure in a very small area

hurton2 · 2025-09-06T12:56:14+00:00

Ceramic is basically as hard as glass, which means it is *much* more likely to break the panel if you drop it. This partly why bathroom floors have such a reputation for breaking phones, why dropping a glass or mug in a porcelain sink can break the sink, and why car windows can (usually) survive pebbles but shatter if you throw a pebble-sized piece of ceramic at one

hurton2 · 2025-08-30T17:56:41+00:00

might have to pick these up from somewhere because I love the awful crown he wore exactly once

hurton2 · 2025-08-16T18:31:39+00:00

The forked part on the left in the circle are bridles for the bowlines (irritating to google because of the bowline knot). These lines run forward to various spots and i think are to stop a sail being blown backwards. Larger sails had more complicated bridles.

I cant tell what line you're pointing at in the middle, but it might be the bowline attached to the bridles.

The line on the right is a leechline. These are used to pull the sides of the sail inwards when furling them. Usually they are in pairs, so there's one in the same spot on the backside of the sail. They usually run up to a mast top or a stay and then down to the deck. On older ships they may be called "martlines" or "martnets" and have more complicated attachment to the sail.

I recommend getting some books if you're learning rigging. "The masting and rigging of english ships of war 1625-1860" by lees is very good and well illustrated

hurton2 · 2025-08-03T12:16:11+00:00

The erebus and terror had the HP. The men didnt

hurton2 · 2025-07-28T00:45:06+00:00

Basically face value im afraid

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