I’m impressed that the lightsabers survive.
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I’m impressed that the lightsabers survive.
This is a pretty funny story.
I don’t know if this is accurate or photoshopped. But, it’s funny enough to share with that warning.
Back in November 2018 I posted a link to a video of the deflection on a katana blade as it cuts through some rolled-up matting. [stderr]
Turbulence, that’s what we’ve got. Things pressing against other things in irregular ways, and energy goes squirting around in complex, dynamic, ways as materials are displaced and look for another way of getting into equilibrium.
Over at Vice, they ask: “since copper is anti-microbial, why isn’t copper everywhere?” [vice]
One of the nice things about being approaching 60, having done and been a bunch of different things, is I have a pretty solid view of my capabilities. So I don’t feel bad when I see someone who is light years better than me at a thing, since I know that what I’m seeing is someone who made different choices in their path, and it’s alright that I didn’t compete with them.
Back in the day, I recall someone getting excited about “tool using animals” when a monkey was using a stick to pull ants out of a hive for dinner. (His, not theirs)
I call this “frost fog” but that’s probably not the right name for it. It’s frost that melts off early as the sun rises, and becomes a cold, dense, low-lying fog.
I’m a hoarder of certain things; I admit it. Somewhere I have source tapes for Peter Langston’s Empire game, just in case someone wants to reconstruct that piece of history for a modern system.