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Anything electroplated can have significant issues due to hydrogen embrittlement. This is why guns are usually plated using electroless nickel. And gun barrels have rather short active lifespans anyway. I did the calculations once (using various plausible but unreliable estimates) and it came out t...

Yup, that's correct. This has led to some interesting technical failures. A few years ago, a bunch of iPhones gave up the ghost at a medical facility... they just stopped working. It turned out that helium escaping from the superconductor cooling systems in the new MRI machine was hanging around th...

As I understand it, helium diffuses easily because it has the smallest molecule of any substance known to exist - While hydrogen has smaller atoms, hydrogen takes the form H2 -one molecule composed of two hydrogen atoms - and helium does not bond and thus remains monatomic - and smaller than an H2 m...

A few years ago someone built a directly liquid-cooled PC . . . by putting it in an aquarium that they filled with mineral oil. They reported using standard components, and the only modifications they needed to make was to alter a few of the incidental adhesives to something that would not dissolve ...

Re-reading this . . . would that "psycho Gremlin" in Chapter 4 be one of the ones with the 390 and a four-speed? (I understand that the later 401 was a bit fragile in the lower end.)

--FreeFlier

I have the opposite case on residences . . . all of them are are still there . .. except the one we dismantled in about 1973-74 to build the new house . . . which my sister still lives in. Yeah, I understand about thinking/feeling like they should still be there . . . I still do that sometimes excep...

Sounds like his son will be okay.

Best of luck!

--FreeFlier

I always think of the line "You're going to make quite a name for yourself, George".

--FreeFlier

But maybe in Castela's case Katherine would have used a peeler. (Aside from the small detail that's she'd never literally skin one of her kids.) So, you're saying that Katherine isn't apeeling? She's been tempted I suspect, probably with Atsali. But I don't think she'd actually act on those temptat...

Warrl wrote: ↑Wed Jul 05, 2023 11:56 amNot all figures of speech make literal sense even in ordinary circumstances. . . .

Starting with the phrase figure of speech . . . figures are numbers, so the phrase doesn't actually make much sense.

--FreeFlier

My condolences.

Losing family members is rough.

--FreeFlier

Pheromones.

--FreeFlier

Somebody needs to take a chill pill . . .

OTOH, I suspect that Castela and Daylla will be good for shortstack . . . if she survives.

--FreeFlier

I'd say they both win . . .

--FreeFlier

Judging by the location tags, I'd say it's working out well . . .

--FreeFlier

Groan.

Pun jar, now!

--FreeFlier

"I know that ghosts don't exist, because the bogeymen who live in my bedroom told me so." Perhaps these are her anxieties coming to visit her in the night, the way Monica's demons used to bother her. Or else maybe she fell down those stairs harder than we realised, and she's in the afterl...

There's a real-world theory connecting poltergeists to girls going through menarch/puberty . . .

I wonder if ghostly chickens could be called poultrygeists . . . /deposits an order of Colonel Sanders' best in the pun jar./

--FreeFlier

I wouldn't be surprised if Sofia had placed anything breakable in locations protected from Rosslyn or Andrew in a panic . . .

Hmmm . . . I wonder if Sofia had this tendency too, and has been broken of it . . .

--FreeFlier

Rosslyn does just fine at stressing herself out . . . maybe Sofia is trying to keep Rosslyn moving instead of locking into a Modified Stationary Panic?

--FreeFlier