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  1. Vavrik

    My mind is blown, someone please explain this!

    Good questions. I did it again by the way, it's reuleaux polygon. The distance to the glass table does not change. You could describe a perfect sphere as a 3d reuleaux polygon with an infinite number of sides. There's another property though that makes the 2d kind especially useful (and...
  2. Vavrik

    My mind is blown, someone please explain this!

    The trick to the gomboc is, any rotation from the point of stability causes the center of mass to become offset from the center of rotation. there are tons of shapes indeed, but at least there is a commercial application. They're not just curiosities. The hull of a self-righting displacement...
  3. Vavrik

    My mind is blown, someone please explain this!

    The trick is, all of the points on the radius are equidistant their opposite side, just like a sphere - so, it can roll like a ball. Yes there are rotary engine designs built on this principle (the Wankel engine), but not all rotary engines do.
  4. Vavrik

    A Slight Miscalculation

    57656c636f6d6520746f2054657374205371756164726f6e @277e949c !!!
  5. Vavrik

    From the official White House youtube channel

    The song "I don't like Mondays", by Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats was written about this event. The silicon chip inside her head Gets switched to overload And nobody's gonna go to school today She's going to make them stay at home And daddy doesn't understand it He always said she was as good...
  6. Vavrik

    From the official White House youtube channel

    I don't think anyone misses that this meeting appears to have been politically motivated, to give the appearance of doing something. Nothing to do with science or statistical evidence. Those kind of things, facts, experts, and such just get in the way of politics anyway.
  7. Vavrik

    From the official White House youtube channel

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C_IBSuXIoo It's unlisted so it doesn't appear in lists, unless you search for it directly. Link is below the video.
  8. Vavrik

    From the official White House youtube channel

    There is something else though, that we often discount but the evidence is mounting that it's a real factor here. I haven't been able to find a really interesting chart i saw back in 2011 (at the CDC... I was doing some work there), but I did find these...
  9. Vavrik

    From the official White House youtube channel

    yep, and sometimes it's not even kids. But does this translate to desensitization and violent crime? In some cases maybe, but I don't think it's statistically significant. The fact is violent crime peaked during a time before video games were popular, and the bulk of the evidence seems to...
  10. Vavrik

    From the official White House youtube channel

    lol. Yeah well. That's probably not the worst of it. But the two boys didn't look like they had a particularly good time on that trip. Check out Xavier's expression. There was also Hadrian's face plant thing at that memorial ceremony. So maybe there's hope for the whole Waterhole family...
  11. Vavrik

    From the official White House youtube channel

    Oh I dunno. He's not the best, certainly not his father, that's for sure. But tell ya what. Science isn't done, or even understood by Justin Trudeau any more than it is by Donald Trump. But one at least tries to listen to scientists, and tries to learn learn what they mean, and the other one...
  12. Vavrik

    From the official White House youtube channel

    I'm not sure what you're getting at here, since you didn't say what science "proved". There is a popular misconception that science proves things. It does not, and there is not actually a concept such as "conclusive proof" in the scientific method. Second thing you said I agree with, but...
  13. Vavrik

    From the official White House youtube channel

    Good summary. But hang on a sec, I'm downloading America's Army...
  14. Vavrik

    Petrolheads, SUV owners, I need your advice (car buying)

    Gotcha. I agree. Actually I think a 2 liter diesel needs to be naturally aspirated and mounted in a boat. But Dieselgate was a issue of ethics, not of diesel engines themselves. Generally the ethics of Volkswagon executives, but specifically for me it's what that incident says about the...
  15. Vavrik

    Petrolheads, SUV owners, I need your advice (car buying)

    You're right there, I thought that went without saying. Same as "all season" which means every season except winter. Don't forget, I'm from Eastern Ontario, Canada. I just live in houston Tx now, cuz my wife got fed up with having 14 feet of snow on the ground.
  16. Vavrik

    If you were designing a ship from the interior out ...

    My Starfarer Saloon model has dorm areas that can be suitably modified, but I'm not sure if you're aware of this but the male avatar models in Star Citizen are actually missing some of the required parts. Do we need to suggest an Xcite outlet on Thurston? (a Second Life vendor where you can...
  17. Vavrik

    [USAF / ARMY / NAVY / MARINES / CIV] - PMEL and TMDE

    That's cool enough!!! One of my all time favorite aircraft to fly in is the CP-140 Aurora.
  18. Vavrik

    "Joystick"

    Ok. Good advice. BUY IT ALL! https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dcomputers&field-keywords=
  19. Vavrik

    Petrolheads, SUV owners, I need your advice (car buying)

    I have only two pieces of advice, and a question. 4WD feels good in snow, but it's deception. What you really need is front wheel drive for winter driving. If it snows where you are, take an informal survey of the number of 4WD vehicles in the ditch. You'll find there are proportionally way...
  20. Vavrik

    "Joystick"

    I also own the Thrustmaster T-16000M joystick/throttle combo. Amazon generally has the best price, and if you're a prime member, you get it tomorrow kind of thing. It works pretty well, no complaints at all, and I've used a few others that were far more expensive. My satisfaction with higher...
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