Every experienced driller I've met (many dozens) uses dowsing rods. They use it on conjuction with other tricks of the trade but it used.

If you want your roof to be warm in the winter (for melting snow, etc), make sure its black.

If you want your roof to be cooler in the summer, make it white. Why don't we do this? Fashion, and the desire to make sure someone will be willing to buy the house a few years in the future.

I live in tornado country, and I've seen a DOT structure that is thick steel-reinforced concrete in a dome shape. Its the shape that is the most resistant to high winds.

Why aren't houses shaped like this? https://www.thestructuralengineer.info/storage/news/562/featured_image/1160/665e96c29d55b13435d7a8d39deafe53_XL.jpg

The study here is interesting, but not conclusive. - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31001155/

We tested this hypothesis in a double-blind, placebo-controlled experiment.

Specifically, we administered 1,000 mg acetaminophen or a placebo and measured effects on different measures of positive empathy while participants read scenarios about the uplifting experiences of other people.

Results showed that acetaminophen reduced personal pleasure and other-directed empathic feelings in response to these scenarios.

In contrast, effects on perceived positivity of the described experiences or perceived pleasure in scenario protagonists were not significant.

These findings suggest that (1) acetaminophen reduces affective reactivity to other people's positive experiences and (2) the experience of physical pain and positive empathy may have a more similar neurochemical basis than previously assumed.

Fatalism is the believe that anything that happens is predetermined and inevitable.

Nihilism is the believe that nothing has inherent meaning or purpose.

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Ah I see!

Well that makes sense. Yes, I was saying this “tongue in cheek” — stating the amusing fact that almost all of the earth’s land is opposite an ocean while making light of the humorous idea of digging a well through the entirety of the earth’s crust.

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I noticed that each wire wrap on a transformer is roughly one volt, so I wonder if that's how one volt of potential acquired that value?

My bad 😂

The comment I replied to was (jokingly) insinuating you could take water from the ocean on the other side of the planet. I understand ground water is plentiful

I'm autistic, I heavily rely on the /s lol

I’m from rural country land and everyone’s has well water there, pretty rare your in an area where you can’t hit water

> You realise that Earth's oceans simply sit on top of the planet? The whole planet isn't made of water with land floating on top of it.

Yes? Maybe you don’t get what I’m saying.

> If you dig down through the earth, unless you're on top of a cave system or underground reservoir you will keep digging through solid material until you reach the mantle.

And then? What will happen if you keep going?

> At that point you would be long dead from heat exposure from the core of the planet which is a molten hot compressed ball of iron

Lol. Yeah. This is an r/whoosh

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All good. Etymology for different versions of names fo Germany are all over the place.

You realise that Earth's oceans simply sit on top of the planet? The whole planet isn't made of water with land floating on top of it. If you dig down through the earth, unless you're on top of a cave system or underground reservoir you will keep digging through solid material until you reach the mantle. At that point you would be long dead from heat exposure from the core of the planet which is a molten hot compressed ball of iron

Thanks - I knew it was something like that.

Yep, and tv since upgraded to 16x9. Hollywood movie have not, because they are wider, and it’d ruin that cinematic feel.

Well, certain IMAX movies/scenes are cropped to 16x9 from their originally taller former.

Sin and Cos are about the angles of the corners of the triangle other than the right angle, they are not about the length of the sides. Sin and Cos are really ratios - given a particular angle the ratio of the sides and the hypotenuse will always be the same (it's a fraction, or a decimal if you will, between 0 and 1). So squaring just the ratios and adding them together will always be 1 because for the ratio itself, the length does't matter.

We do use metric, we learn metric in school and metric is exclusively used in science fields and engineering. There are countries besides the U.S. that use both metric and imperial. The U.S. uses U.S. Customary instead of imperial, and we use metric.

"For both eyes the combined visual field is 130–135° vertically[33][34] and 200–220° horizontally."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_vision

That means that the ideal screen ratio if you want to fill up someone's field of view while they are looking in the middle at a good distance is 0.61-0.65. 9/16 is 0.56 which is that far of. 1:2 would be 0.5 which is worse. 1:1 would be 1 which is very far from the ideal.

>Germany comes from a town in Deutschland.

Huh? Germany comes from the name Romans used for area north of Rhine, Germania.

And if you do hit bedrock, just keep going. Almost all landmass is opposite an ocean on the other side. There’s only something like 1000 square kilometers of land overlapping with land on the other side of the earth.

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16:9 is a compromise aspect ratio between older movies that were 4:3(going all the way back to black and white film) and 'modern' widescreen formats that sit around 21:9. Thats why you see the black bars at the top at bottom on 16:9 screens displaying 21:9 content.

I say 'modern' widescreen formats like 21:9 because the aspect ratio wars kicked off in the 1950's with Cinerama, which was three 35mm cameras taped together and required the same 3 projectors in the movie theater to work. Ridiculous complexity and cost. The war ended with some clever anamorphic lenses letting filmmakers use just the one 35mm camera(and therefore single cost of film) and using the reverse lens on the projector in the cinema.

This was all in effort to destroy peoples experience in watching movies at home on TVs(so they would buy movie tickets instead). It didn't work; people still did that, they watched 21:9 content on 4:3, which then had to be 'panned and scanned'. If you ask any director or DP about panning and scanning, you'll witness an entire horror movie play on their face. Or they'll just start swearing before you've finished saying 'scanning'.

The effect of P&S is taking a 21:9 movie like ben-hur, then having a teenager record that movie on their phone in vertical mode(9:16), trying to keep all the principal action in frame. A man named Ken Powers came along and established a compromise between 21:9 and 4:3 = 16:9. This is a now the dominate aspect outside the movie theaters, unless you buy specific ultra wide screen monitors or home projectors.