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Fact of the day: Modern pilot helmets have eye tracking sensors that allow pilots to look at a target and input a command to lock onto it. These helmets also come with a heads up display, which allows the pilot to lock onto things, but also allows the pilot to see through the aircraft of things highlighted by the radar and sensors.

Fact of the day: Induction cooking is when an electrical cooking system powers a copper coil creating an oscillating magnetic field with alternating current. This magnetic field directly creates dozens of eddy currents in a ferromagnetic cookware, which, if all uniform would create an electric current, but since the magnetic field is oscillating, the eddies are not uniform and thus create heat as the electrons make micro-movements inside of the pot's metal. This means, that since the cookware is being heated directly, the surface of the induction system is cool to the touch and is unable to burn people, this also means that induction cooking is typically more efficient since less energy is lost to ambient air.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_cooking

Fact of the day: In the city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a statue of Bruce Lee was built in celebration of peace in the region that stands for solidarity in the divided city. Bruce Lee was picked because all the ethnic groups couldn't come to a peaceful choice of person, so some decided pop culture figures would be best and they picked Bruce Lee because they liked Kung Fu. The statue was vandalized after it was completed by one of the ethnic groups, claiming that it was looking int heir direction in a threatening manner, so the statue was turned to face a "neutral" direction and no further incidents have occurred.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Bruce_Lee_(Mostar)

Story time with Fishy: Today as I was riding the bus to work, we stop to pick up an old lady with a trolley cart thing. She gets onto the bus, but due to COVID-19 the buses aren't allowed to have people seated in the front sections, this means the trolley lady can't sit where she's meant to sit; however, the bus driver is used to this and tells her to go to the second row of seats not the first, and sit there, holding onto her trolley while it sits in the front row where it fits. The old lady stands confused for about half a minute before she starts to pry at the front row seats that are locked upright to prevent people from sitting there, while the bus driver tells her to move to the second row, and telling a Greek guy to switch seats for the old trolley lady. The Greek guy waves off the bus driver and tells her that the lady can sit in the front, but after a small back and fourth, he relents and gets out of his seat to help the old lady to pull down the front seat, which is locked. The bus driver, fed up with this stupidity gets out of the bus, but due to a safety shield keeping her safe from people, has to walk around the front of the bus to re-enter. Once in, she grabs the man, seats him in the second row on the other side of the bus and points the old lady to the second row where she sits, but before she can complain about her trolley, the bus driver pushes it against the front row and has her hold it. We then set off, this took 5 minutes to play out.

Fact of the day: Tornadoes are formed when warm front and a cold front collide with one another, the cold front gets sucked down but the warm front is sucked up, the resulting vortex from the two currents is the tornado we all get to watch and see.

Fact of the day: Slavic languages found in Orthodox Catholic nations use the Cyrillic alphabet; whereas slavic languages in Catholic nations use the Latin script. This came about due to the conversation of pagan or orthodox to catholic religion in many of the western slavic nations, most notably Poland, Slavonia and Croatia, much as it had happened to Germanic nations a few centuries prior.

Fact of the day: In North America, namely Canada, the Canadian Electrician's hand book states that for any electrical circuit the load will not be greater than 80% of the breakers capacity. This was introduced due to the way we manufacture breakers on such a scale, that they aren't always as good as what the max load number says they can take. For example; a beaker can take 15 amperes but with this law, you can only give it 13 amperes of load, how electricians figure this out is by counting how many objects are on the line, 12 lights can be put on a line, or 6 double plugins. So, for a long time, multiple breakers were needed for houses because of this; however, with LED lighting becoming more popular and common, each LED is counted as 0.25 amperes, rather than 1, meaning future homes can have more lights on a single breaker then before.

Sauce: Fishy did a short stint as a Canadian Electrician.

Fact of the day: Toxic materials that get ingested by species at the bottom of the food chain build up in intensity as creatures higher up the food chain eat them, this means that it may not be as harmful to prey animals, but predators may get lethal doses of toxins; this is what happened to eagles across the U.S. which resulted in their eggs' shells being too thin and cracking upon laying, killing the chick inside.

Fact of the day: Solar power plants are always stated to be the cleanest power option, however, that's omitting the fact that solar plants have a life span of ≈20 years before the solar cells break down and are no longer useable, requiring a complete refurbishment and disposal of the parts that can't be recycled, such as the solar cells, which contain toxic materials and have little to no regulation on their disposal. This is also omitting the fact that battery storage only lasts 5 to 10 years before needing replacement and has the same disposal issues.

Fact of the day: Batteries use a decaying acidic reaction that, when attached to an electrolyte that connects to wires and powers the device. This means that once the reaction finishes, no more power can be taken from the battery. Rechargeable batteries use electricity that is taken from an outside source to reverse the chemical reaction through a process known as electrolysis; however this can only be done for so long since the reaction can't be completely reversed.

Fact of the day: Nuclear power plants produce little yearly ambient radiation, so little that coal plants produce more yearly radiation. Both of these yearly radiation levels are actually lower than what you can get by eating a banana.

Fact of the day: The internet was originally created as a network for scientist to share information but was also then decided to allow people to use it for the purpose of free speech.

Fact of the day: In the cold depths of our ocean lives an 8 metre long squid known as the Bigfin squid. This strange looking squid has all ten of its tentacles the same length and has them joined to strange elbow joints that protrude from the body at 90 degrees. It's mantle also has an enormous fin with which is uses to glide through the ocean, silently cruising around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfin_squid

The ambassadors reception

The Embassy

The ambassadors reception wrote:*Sends you a diplomatic cable*

Can I eat the cable?

The ambassadors reception

The Embassy

SteamPunkFishTree wrote:Can I eat the cable?

I don't think it's one of those strawberry flavoured ones...

The ambassadors reception wrote:I don't think it's one of those strawberry flavoured ones...

But it just looks so gosh darn tasty. O¬O

The ambassadors reception

Man, I really forgot how to breathe there, my nation almost ended up sleepin' with the fishies

How are y'all handling all this covid stuff?

Gunji-Gun wrote:How are y'all handling all this covid stuff?

Handling it best I can, work has been cut down to two four hour shifts a week so I have no money.

Died for a minute there, no biggie!

Gunji-Gun, SteamPunkFishTree, Anarcho-monarchist mocha, and Tostandia

Nitralia wrote:Died for a minute there, no biggie!

Welcome back!

I keep forgetting this :(

Anarcho-monarchist mocha

Eientei Gensokyo

I hope this region can revive

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