Alex Trebek: Yeah, it was a trick question, Mr. Connery. Why don’t you pick a category?

Sean Connery: I’ve got to ask you about the Penis Mightier.

Alex Trebek: What? No. No, no, that is The Pen is Mightier.

DC Union Station is a grand old building.

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For jousting: heavier armour than what would be used in normal battle & jousting lances for these tournaments were designed to break instead of pierce.

Yea, like BASE jumping, why they do it, I can't comprehend. But plenty of them still chase it.

Now to stretch that explanation for why they spin their tails -before- they jump, I would imagine it helps align / straighten the hairs to maximize this effect.

I don’t deal with sound waves but in my field phonons are absolutely a mathematical trick. With some materials, you need more than just a photon to produce the photo electric effect, you also need a phonon which is in this case, a quantized amount of momentum. Phonons are a virtual Particle and therefore aren’t really existing.

I could totally go through a 12 pack of diet coke a day, but my finances don't allow me to drink like that.

Same, but when it comes to alcohol, I can only drink 3 cans max, and i'm really pushing it on the third.

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Volcanoes aren't hollow tubes with magma at the bottom. They either have a plug of solidified lava above the magma chamber, or are actively releasing magma upwards. Either way, you would still have to dig through rock and magma.

Thankyou sir! I will keep this.

Pantone colors aren't just generic colors like red, yellow, or blue. They are very specific and standardized, which makes them useful in color dependent professions like graphic design or interior design. As a commercial architecture an interiors photographer, I have specifically asked my clients for their colors to ensure that the pictures I deliver to them are a perfect match.

The colors can be licensed because they are someone's intellectual property. In fact, they were already being licensed to Adobe by Pantone, but Pantone got upset because Adobe wasn't keeping these very specific colors up to date in their software.

Here's an article from the popular photography website PetaPixel about the issue:

https://petapixel.com/2022/10/28/you-have-to-pay-a-subscription-to-use-pantone-colors-in-photoshop-now/

Sorry, I'll be more explicit: The answer to your question is "No" because of the explanation in my previous post.

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> If the central bank creates money faster than the amount of goods and services is growing, then all prices will rise, in roughly the same proportion.

A small correction here: most money these days is created by private banks, not by the central bank. Part of the idea here is that it makes the money supply more responsive to demand - when there's lots of demand for borrowing, banks will create more money.

Central banks do have the main responsibility for overseeing this though, and can influence the money supply via interest rates and regulation.

Pantone color is just a standard, but it is a standard where you know if you select P244 is it the same color, no matter the machine or surface. Only change is if you want blank or mat.

I do not know why some would take money for it, but you should easily be able to find for free countless places.

I dont mean to be rude, but that wasn't my question.

Phonons are often used in situations where you're analysing things at a quantum level, where wave-particle duality kicks in - particles can be more accurately modeled as waves, and visa versa, depending on the scenario in question - and for reasons that I don't understand well enough to ELI5 this applies to sound waves, which are therefore also particles.

I read that one giant supermarket in China has bigger electricity bill for cooling the building during winter than during summer because more people go to supermarket in winter. Humans are walking ovens.

Agree, but apparently there are some serious Pepsi drinkers here

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• How did it go, son?

• I got dehorsed, mum.

• Oh well. Better luck next time, dear.

Definitely helps feeling roomier, imagine being in a zig-zag queue for checkin in standard room ceilings, just thinking of it makes me claustrophobic.

I guess it also helps with navigation; you can put signs up higher for greater visibility

dormant basically means asleep, or waiting.