Water has a high heat capacity and conduction. This means that the water will absorb heat from the surrounding air, which will cool the panels even if they don’t touch the water. The high heat of evaporation will also cool it. This is why ocean cities (i.e. Redondo) are much more mild than inland cities. (i.e. Fullerto…

In a sense, yeah, there are still movies and books. But if you count time spent on those things, or attention span, then yes TV did absolutely replace much of the time and money previously spent on movies and books. As streaming and other online venues have replaced TV to some extent.

But the common thread in many of the recent stories about Hertz reporting theft is a clear lack of internal communication about the actual rental status of the car. Multiple stories about confirmed rental payments and/or extensions and it still gets reported.

Bulb based projectors would lose a lot of brightness to the color filters, but the laser creates a pure color, so each LCD gets its own laser, and doesn’t need filters that reduce brightness and create heat.

No Nopeity Nope.

U.S. official carrying out an inspection in Uruapan, Michoacán received a threatening call to their cell phone.

I also learned pill swallows by using M&Ms. (Back in the 80's!) But it took quite a few tries to get it right.

Right, but it’s in the contract with Netflix for movies released in that time period. Disney may want to change things, but Netflix has the contract as leverage to get a good deal.

Source? I haven’t seen anything that far out.

I thought I was the only one. I think I bought the wrench originally for pipes and such, but it soon found use in the kitchen, and never left. That was 20 years ago, and it’s still the best tool for the job!

That rover has not even covered half a mile in the 3 years it’s been there. No way it can cover the hundreds of miles between it and the impact site.

There’s already an in-universe TV show that Woody was based on, and they actually covered much of that in TS2.

When they talk about “the significant value of Village Roadshow’s intellectual property” they are not talking about public perception, they are talking about the ability of that IP to contribute to Village Roadshow’s bottom line. The “value” here is cold dollars and cents, not how the public feels about it, but the…

A GPS tracker, especially if it has an independent cellular connection, needs a much bigger battery, so they are not as compact and don’t last as long. Tile only works in proximity of its owner’s phone. Airtags are unique in that they will network with ANY nearby iPhone to report their location back to the owner. And…

That depends on if they can somehow detect such mods from the software. putting a hole in the speaker, so it can no longer move much air, would not change the electrical characteristics of the speaker in a way that is detectable, as far as I know.

The result of COVID is not strictly binary: death or no death. A child that does not die but is seriously ill for weeks is still a result worth avoiding, and the vaccine helps avoid that. And thousands of children are getting “long Covid” that can last for months.

“If you are not completely confused by quantum mechanics, you do not understand it.” - John Wheeler.

Whales often spend a few minutes near the surface doing 1-2 breaths per minute to maximize oxygen before they start a deep dive. I would think that having a calm, slow heart rate would also help preserve the oxygen they need to go that far. Neither of these options are available when they are under attack, and they…

It might be more accurate to say the first documented targeting of adult blue whales.

I thought the whole point of the turn signal tell tales was they had an optic guide showing the actual turn signal bulb, so it also served as a bulb out indicator.