The problem is that 'maneuvering in orbit' isn't very basic. For example, if you are in the same orbit as the ISS but ten miles 'behind' it, and you wanted to catch up to it, your first thought would be to thrust toward it — but that moves you away from the station. If you want to catch up to the station, you need to…

Not to mention that, if the rate of wrong 'guessing' about the site you're going to visit next is significant, Chrome on a mobile device is going to burn through your data allowance faster than any other browser as it downloads pages and images you don't need. That alone is going to get it deprecated as a mobile…

Several years ago, I bought a teak-and-aluminum bench seat to stick in my shower to make it more convenient for me to wash my feet, allowing me to sit down and lift one foot at a time to scrub it without trying to balance on one foot or having to kneel on the hard surface. As a side benefit, it's relaxing to just sit…

I think the point was to get the most quintessentially Japanese car as produced; certainly once you allow aftermarket modifications and go all dekotora, as in your example, or bōsōzoku, as in mine, on the vehicle you get something that expresses aspects of Japanese culture with a great deal more emphasis, but they're…

It also makes you wonder whether you would be better off ignoring the advice and come back to play in the sand more often, thereby acquiring an immunity by repeated exposure, the way kids used to build up immunities to the diseases they all seem to catch now because parents insist on sanitizing everything their kids…

Like cheap printers and expensive toner!

"It's this duel benefit..."

The studios who actually make the films don't measure it, because films don't make money... and the studios will go to whatever length necessary in their accounting to ensure that they don't make money, in order to avoid having to pay out on any "percentage of net profit" contracts, even if it takes something like…

You don't have an appreciation for how homeopathy works. A 1C preparation means taking one unit of the 'active' ingredient and adding 99 units of a diluent; a 2C preparation takes a unit of that product and does the 1% dilution again, and a 30C preparation does this 30 times. So if you start with one gram of pure…

The centisimal scale is dilution by a factor of 100, and 30C is doing this 30 times, giving you one part arnica to 10^60 parts diluent.

You're treated like a human on the train.

"star trek 2009 jump scene" will do it, but it's got commentary interthreaded with the action.

It's either physicist prime or engineer prime. Physicist prime: "All odd numbers are prime. 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is experimental error, 11 is prime, 13 is prime..." Engineer prime: "All odd numbers are prime. 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime, 11 is prime, 13 is…

If you're really paranoid, get a can of tool dip and dip the upper ends of the stand in it to create a pad.

Another place you might want to look is National Geographic Expeditions, which are all the same sort of small-ship cruises.

I think this one is more evocative of a safety placard...

And looking at the image at the top, I wonder how much more visually effective it would be if, instead of liquid, you filled each test tube with resin — colored appropriately for the lower rung — so that the test tubes made better lenses to spread the light around the room.

You can try reloading the page; after one or two reloads, it will generally load for me without the blanking iframe (which never goes away if I just wait).

So... much... cheese...

"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and…