Amusing Science
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Pretty good shit. What's the trick?
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What are those, colored marbles? I see them being sorted into colors, but I can't think of how they would do that. It looks kind of like a pachinko game. Are the weights and sizes all the same? Maybe they aren't really being sorted by color but by something else that isn't apparent from the gif.
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Size.Anaxagoras wrote:What are those, colored marbles? I see them being sorted into colors, but I can't think of how they would do that. It looks kind of like a pachinko game. Are the weights and sizes all the same? Maybe they aren't really being sorted by color but by something else that isn't apparent from the gif.
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Anaxagoras wrote:What are those, colored marbles? I see them being sorted into colors, but I can't think of how they would do that. It looks kind of like a pachinko game. Are the weights and sizes all the same? Maybe they aren't really being sorted by color but by something else that isn't apparent from the gif.
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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/machi ... red-balls/Rob Lister wrote:Anaxagoras wrote:What are those, colored marbles? I see them being sorted into colors, but I can't think of how they would do that. It looks kind of like a pachinko game. Are the weights and sizes all the same? Maybe they aren't really being sorted by color but by something else that isn't apparent from the gif.Spoiler:
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So totally fake (not even 'shopped).
Your challenge: Now do it for real.

Your challenge: Now do it for real.

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Waste heat into the sea will cause teh dreaded sea level rises and shit!Anaxagoras wrote:
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Worse, it will infect the sea.
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Indeed. The World Oh-See-Un will become self aware and in a hissy fit temper tantrum over all that plastic we dumped in there, will destroy us all!!
We are doomed.
We are doomed.
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Or Ransomware converts the entire ocean to Ice 9!
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Ooooh. I like that plan much better. Does Ice 9 work with a good Single Malt? (Yes, I remember that ice in Scotch isn't a nice thing, but...you know me.)
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Unfortunately, it would turn the water portions to Ice 9 as well.
The same way Windows corrupts all it touches.
In the hard rain.
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The same way Windows corrupts all it touches.
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"It was the criticisms of Doc X, actually, that let me see more clearly how far the hypocrisy had gone."--clarsct
"I'd leave it up to Doctor X who has been a benevolent tyrant so far."--Grammatron
"Indeed you are a river to your people.
Shit. That's going to end up in your sig."--Pyrrho
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"Never sorry to make a racist Fucktard cry."--His Humble MagNIfIcence
"It was the criticisms of Doc X, actually, that let me see more clearly how far the hypocrisy had gone."--clarsct
"I'd leave it up to Doctor X who has been a benevolent tyrant so far."--Grammatron
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Re: Amusing Science
Do they need a device diver?Anaxagoras wrote:
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On a serious note, I first thought this was a very stupid idea. How do you R and R a bad server or storage blade? The answer is, you don't. You let it fail and and use the remaining good ones. By the time enough blades fail to make a difference (5 to 7 years), the technology as a whole has moved on the unit is just scraped for a new one. As long as they don't run Windows 10 Enterprise on it, they'll be fine.
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Correct.Rob Lister wrote:Do they need a device diver?Anaxagoras wrote:
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On a serious note, I first thought this was a very stupid idea. How do you R and R a bad server or storage blade? The answer is, you don't. You let it fail and and use the remaining good ones. By the time enough blades fail to make a difference (5 to 7 years), the technology as a whole has moved on the unit is just scraped for a new one. As long as they don't run Windows 10 Enterprise on it, they'll be fine.
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... d-dinosaurThe Guardian wrote:Oldest known case of dandruff found in 125m-year-old dinosaur
Scientists have discovered fossilised dandruff on the skin of a feathered microraptor
The oldest known case of dandruff has been identified in a small feathered dinosaur that roamed the Earth about 125m years ago.
Paleontologists found tiny flakes of fossilised skin on a crow-sized microraptor, a meat-eating dinosaur that had wings on all four of its limbs.
Tests on two other feathered dinosaurs, namely beipiaosaurus and sinornithosaurus, and a primitive bird known as confuciusornis, also revealed pieces of fossilised dandruff on the animals’ bodies.
The prehistoric skin flakes are the only evidence scientists have of how dinosaurs shed their skin. The material shows that rather than losing their outer layer in one piece, or in large sheets, as is common with modern reptiles, the feathered dinosaurs adapted to shed their skin in tiny flakes.
“This is the only fossil dandruff known,” said Maria McNamara, who worked on the dinosaur fossils at University College Cork. “Until now we’ve had no evidence for how dinosaurs shed their skin.”
Images of the dandruff taken with a powerful electron microscope show that the material is extremely well-preserved and is almost identical to that found on modern birds. Like human dandruff, the skin flakes are made of tough cells called corneocytes that are full of the protein keratin.

A fossil of a microraptor found in Liaoning province, China. The crow-sized dinosaur lived about 125m years ago. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Prehistoric dandruff found on the skin of a microraptor dinosaur. Photograph: Maria McNamara at University College Cork