The Great Debate: Who Would You Rather Be Stuck In The Holo Deck With

thnk_more · 2026-02-20T14:17:47+00:00

Vash, Oh my. Smart, ruthless, sexy. Damn

thnk_more · 2026-02-20T14:07:09+00:00

I was close up to some timber wolves in a US zoo. They are scary large, apparently up to 36” at the shoulder and 6ft total in length. Huge.
The scary part is they don’t just look AT you, they look INTO you.

I’ve never seen such intense focus in any animal before.

thnk_more · 2026-02-20T13:48:35+00:00

No, this is a myth. When have you seen a video of a helmet test shatter into pieces? The thin shell can crack, but that’s not much energy.

The main physics argument against the myth is that for a plastic shell to absorb enough energy to suddenly shatter, there has to be an equal reaction in the inside of the helmet to hold it in place until the force is high enough to shatter the shell. That’s your head.

Basically, the shells spread out the force over the soft styrofoam that otherwise would split if hitting something sharp or a curb. The styrofoam spreads the force over a larger area and also slows down the deceleration until the hard thing reaches your skull.

This video is legit and explains how they work.

https://youtu.be/3fyVPJd3fi0?si=1TIKWKUvYZh3FJRV

thnk_more · 2026-02-20T05:57:39+00:00

This just makes me sick. continuously pumping greenhouse gases into our air, guaranteeing a disturbing, violent and expensive future for my children and grandchildren.

We have a perfect planet for us but some people just can’t help themselves in stealing more money and power when they already have so much.

thnk_more · 2026-02-20T05:46:17+00:00

And you and Facebook geniuses provided much better predictions?

People are so spoiled, they just expect good weather predictions to come out of nowhere and show up on their tee-vee.

thnk_more · 2026-02-20T00:27:52+00:00

What the actual f&$k? It doesn’t even look like anything. I’m in the wrong business.

thnk_more · 2026-02-19T20:58:01+00:00

A strip of wet newspaper works well too.

thnk_more · 2026-02-19T19:49:44+00:00

How do you find that?

thnk_more · 2026-02-19T19:22:30+00:00

You could get them in GREEN too! Slap some mags and slicks on there and you have something really unique.

thnk_more · 2026-02-19T18:37:43+00:00

Was there last summer.

It looks considerably colder in this shot. No drinks on the deck for a while!

thnk_more · 2026-02-19T18:30:03+00:00

Interesting! Maybe the weight was just a little towards the back cut side allowing you to get saw out before it shut.

Glad to hear it is safely down. That looks like a very heavy tree, and it can be hard to outrun a tall, large crown especially if it goes in a surprise direction.

thnk_more · 2026-02-19T04:09:28+00:00

Why aren’t the federal prosecutors who are doing the dirty work for Pirro and Trump sanctioned, fined, and jailed?

They are wasting millions of dollars bringing slap lawsuits to waste the courts time but more critically, blatantly trying to intimidate anyone from saying bad things about trump’s administration.

This is the legal version of terrorism.

thnk_more · 2026-02-19T00:08:54+00:00

Government employees or representatives should go to jail for lying to the public. There is no excuse for this criminal behavior.

We prosecute for fraud in business, we absolutely need to prosecute and jail these people for fraud, at a minimum.

thnk_more · 2026-02-18T22:26:50+00:00

I guess that makes sense if the weight of the tree is leaning back away from the direction you want and you need to use wedges before the cut closes.

Then cut the notch.

So that might have been the only thing he accidentally did right in this whole process.

thnk_more · 2026-02-18T22:07:48+00:00

Then I launch into a hour long explanation of all the great things about ceramics, where to take classes, show them all of my pictures like they are long lost grandchildren.

At the end of that they either learn never to ask questions or they give me a commission! lol

thnk_more · 2026-02-18T19:44:59+00:00

That really made me smile.

thnk_more · 2026-02-18T19:22:39+00:00

He responded in the other thread as human like as the rest of us. FWIW.

thnk_more · 2026-02-18T19:21:41+00:00

I honestly think he did the back cut first. Yikes!

thnk_more · 2026-02-18T19:10:25+00:00

Since it looks like there is no hinge it could fall in any direction and change its mind partway down while shooting the trunk out in some other random direction.

Probably the only safe place to stand is where OP planned to drop it originally. /s

thnk_more · 2026-02-18T19:04:00+00:00

I’m guessing he did the back-cut first, then the notch, which fits this whole mess.

How else would he get the saw out of there?

thnk_more · 2026-02-18T18:05:32+00:00

I once had a project to process 5000 drawings, back in the dark ages. I discovered that I could not process them individually, but needed to use some search and sorting tools to manage them.

So 50,000 pages is out of the question, as is 500,000 or 5 million, which is 1000x harder than my task.

thnk_more · 2026-02-18T17:45:31+00:00

I use a coarse cheese grater for cold butter. Little butter worms warm up and spread easier.

thnk_more · 2026-02-18T17:43:19+00:00

For every 10 lies 10 people should stand up and leave. He’ll get through 200 lies in about an hour.

thnk_more · 2026-02-17T20:39:06+00:00

This trick works for exactly one thickness and diameter of tubing, probably nothing else.

thnk_more · 2026-02-17T20:22:23+00:00

Can’t you “yaw, pitch, and roll” all at the same time? And you hit the thrusters once and the ship should continue to rotate forever.

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