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Forum: The Barbie
Feb 22nd 2014, 5:51 am
Replies: 107
Views: 6,629
Posted By GarryP

Re: Tell me something.........

What percentage of the population has daylight savings time, and what not?

Whip the vocal yokels in queensland and western australia into shape and get them on DST like the rest.
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 20th 2014, 9:37 pm
Replies: 107
Views: 6,629
Posted By GarryP

Re: Tell me something.........

???

Depends what you want, and what you mean by integrity, but there's some pretty serious, high integrity, uses of 3D printing out there. Hell, the seeker head on the latest Sidewinder missile is...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 20th 2014, 8:48 pm
Replies: 107
Views: 6,629
Posted By GarryP

Re: Tell me something.........

I'm a bit surprised that they haven't started exploiting 3D printing for bike frames yet. You can 3D print carbon fibre, integrate it with other materials, and construct it far more intricately and...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 19th 2014, 8:45 pm
Replies: 107
Views: 6,629
Posted By GarryP

Re: Tell me something.........

Actually there seems to be a repeated pattern.
You get someone with the inquisitiveness and 'step back and look at the big picture' nous. They find the general area, do what they do best (research...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 18th 2014, 11:14 pm
Replies: 107
Views: 6,629
Posted By GarryP

Re: Tell me something.........

Nope.

Everyone in the middle east has enough money that they have 3D mapped everything that might form an oil reservoir, and drilled'em as well. They wanted to know how deep their pockets were....
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 18th 2014, 10:47 pm
Replies: 107
Views: 6,629
Posted By GarryP

Re: Tell me something.........

Yeah, I've been aware of oil peaking since about 2001. Originally I thought there would be an obvious solution, but the longer I looked, the less I found.

I don't think we necessarily have a short...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 18th 2014, 9:49 pm
Replies: 107
Views: 6,629
Posted By GarryP

Re: Tell me something.........

Aaaaagggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Yeah, I'm one of those people. I used to fund things like battery research. Power sources are few and far between. You don't only have to be able to get more power out...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 17th 2014, 1:26 am
Replies: 107
Views: 6,629
Posted By GarryP

Re: Tell me something.........

Really, would sir like to take a bet that that's always true? .....
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 13th 2014, 9:44 pm
Replies: 107
Views: 6,629
Posted By GarryP

Re: Tell me something.........

Ahh, you're in the 'I expect miracles' camp. You're like the economists who think things should just appear because they want them. You canna change the laws of physics.

Cars, and indeed our...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 13th 2014, 7:55 pm
Replies: 107
Views: 6,629
Posted By GarryP

Re: Tell me something.........

Depends.

It's pretty obvious to see that if you are in neutral, the engine is going to need a little fuel to keep the engine actually turning over - so the fuel consumption won't be zero.
...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 12th 2014, 11:53 pm
Replies: 107
Views: 6,629
Posted By GarryP

Re: Tell me something.........

OK, this is a fairly simple one, but shows how you can derive things like a finite universe, a big bang, cosmic background radiation etc. from thinking about why the sky is dark at night.

Why is...
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