MONDAY #3742

One Of My Very Own

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NATURE AND SCIENCE

Remember the Leaf Frog? Well...

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How could he know exactly where the pearl would be? I'm thinking cultured.
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Nothing to worry about.  Just a river-spanning anaconda crossing in front of a boat.

Holy fucking shit, we're gonna need a bigger river!
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Superfluid Helium

What you see in this gif, is liquid Helium.
Helium is normally a gas, and it's the 2nd-lightest element in the Universe.
It is not easy to keep Helium as a liquid. It will constantly boil and try to evaporate unless you keep it under some amount of pressure.
The pressure needed depends on the temperature.
But watch... Suddenly, the liquid Helium comes to a rest.
It stops boiling and becomes absolutely still.
This happened when the temperature was lowered to 2 Kelvin (-271 Celsius, or -456 Fahrenheit).

The Helium turned into a so-called superfluid.

Superfluids has some remarkable properties.
Look at that beaker. It can hold liquid Helium without problems.
I mean, why wouldn't it? It's just a liquid.
When the Helium turns into a superfluid, it flows through the glass and out of the beaker!

It is so fluid, that it actually passes through the small cracks there is in even the most perfect glass.

Superfluid also has zero viscosity which allows them to defy gravity, by running on surfaces of other objects.
Regular water has some of this property as well because water has an extremely high surface-tension.
Superfluids do it because they have no viscosity.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z6UJbwxBZI
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I watched a documentary concerning wind turbines which stated that they originally thought that the blades would be more or less maintenance free for a long, long time.

But all those experts failed to calculate the long term effects of dust in air and speed of the tips of blades, which can reach a sustained speed of 180 mph at the tips.

Imagine the drag on the blades with this kind of damage.

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I didn't believe this when I read it, so I looked it up and found it in many science journals. Go figure.

 It's happening...

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The longer you stay single, the more they fuck your future wife. Tick, tock, motherfucker.

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PEOPLE IN AWKWARD SITUATIONS

I didn't believe that either, so I researched it, and it's true.

You want to die in a Chinese prison? Cause that's how to die in a Chinese prison. 

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I've shown this before, but we should all be encouraged by this man's grit.
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This man has his followers...

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And the world is...jumping on trend...

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Oh, the memories. 
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He's asking the Bobbie how to find the nearest bank...

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I can do that. 
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I would like to meet this young woman.

Some are born great; others have greatness thrust upon them.
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His friends think this is hilarious.
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He must have seen that gif of the big ass snake.
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Tell your young children that birds are secretly drones that recharge by sitting of power lines.

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PEOPLE BEING OR ATTEMPTING TO BE HUMOROUS

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"Honey, why do we always meet our therapist at Applebee's?"

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My wife HATES every one of his car commercials. 
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We have all had things on our computers that we only wanted to see ONCE!
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I would drop the guy a few bucks. He seems to be working hard to entertain me.
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The true genius of classical Pavlovian conditioning is that every time I hear "Pavlov" I automatically think of a dog.

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CONTEMPLATION FODDER

I wrote a novel about this very thing. I have watched it in various school districts where middle management must convince the top managers that they are competent by having teachers do stupid shit that makes sense to nobody. 
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These youngsters are learning hands-on physics whereas American children's playgrounds are cleansed of anything remotely dangerous.
At the school where I taught there was a great play area that the children loved.

It was ripped out because a few children a year got splinters. How are children supposed to learn not to run your hand down a wooden rail? Anyway, I had the fill the bed of my truck and my trailer with the larger pieces and used them for various borders in my yard.
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There will always be people who insist dictating to others what they deem appropriate. 
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Well, it's about fucking time...no pun intended.
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Sharks don't infest waters. They live there.

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NEWS FROM YOUR HOST

I refuse to be bored.

I have piles (that is but one) of puzzle pages from USAToday that I take anywhere that I may have to wait and where I can't take my computer. The USAToday has a wonderful puzzle page that I recommend highly.
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When I tell people that I make art out of dollar bills, this is what they think I do.

And...

I consider those cute, and I don't do cute. 
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Here is the latest in the bills I received from the defunct bar who for decades had customers donate enhanced bills to decorate the wall of the bar.

I had an antique leather suitcase that I wanted to use because...I had it, but I didn't want to just dump the bills in there.
So I bought some mesh bags - holes large enough to show the bills, but small enough to keep them from falling out.

Without boring you, there is a special way to shove bills into bags so that they won't stack up.

I worked hours getting the money into those bags.

But then I had to secure the tops of the bags.

The final enclosure devices took hours to perfect, but at last, it is finished and I'm satisfied with it.

And believe it or not, I did not count the money, but if I had to guess it would exceed $4000.

But the actual amount means nothing to me. 
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When I toured Alaska we saw thousands of sign like on the left.

Luckily we weren't there to see those signs in the winter.

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Many times here on Folio Olio I repost items.

But please keep in mind that I have many new viewers. And to be fair, I'm an old man and simply forget what I have and have not shown you over the years. I ask for your understanding.

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 I absolutely love dogs.


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I do have reservations about breeding them to ridiculousness.
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I have had home improvement projects go south before.
After hanging a porch swing my sister was going to be the first person to sit on it. She, being a large woman, asked it if would hold her and I said that it would hold a small car. She sat and it promptly collapsed. But in my defense, she was the one that bent the tailgate of my full sized pickup truck.
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I sorely regret that I simply not physically able to make the things I used to make. That's not one of mine, but a few years ago I would have given making it serious thought. 
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Blanket Party

I participated in punishing a fuck up just like that while in the military. The socks are filled with a bar of soap. 
You don't do that just for fucking up. You do that when the recruit refuses to work harder to overcome his deficiencies, thus causing the whole squad to be punished.
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