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exintrovert OP t1_iyfdipf wrote

Reply to While doing dishes, this cluster of perfectly sized and arranged bubbles appeared. by exintrovert

Bonus points: I am remembering a video, perhaps it was Matt Parker or Veritasium, about the patterns that matrices formed from spheres can create. There was a demonstration with a toy made from ball bearings in a single layer beneath plexiglass that they tilted back and forth and discussed the ways the bearings arrange themselves. I can’t find it and I can’t remember the name of the theory or phenomenon that this demonstrates.

I bet someone here knows what I am talking about though.

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TheThiefMaster t1_iyfcp7o wrote

Reply to comment by LivingGhost371 in Electric car made in 1922 by whothefuqisdan

Refuelling the early gas cars was a huge pain - you had to go buy a can of gas at the shop! And hope they had one!

There were apparently often street power points to charge electric cars outside major shops in the cities to compensate for the hilariously small range the first electrics had (30 miles is probably an over estimate!)

In other words, both kinds of car were "a bit shit" to start with. It's widely accepted that ironically it was the electric starter that won it for the combustion engine, but I imagine the development of filling stations helped too, Vs no real progress in battery technology for a century on the electric side.

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