AirborneRodent
AirborneRodent t1_iybheb7 wrote
Reply to comment by PeachSnappleOhYeah in TIL the best time to get your vehicle undercoated is actually in the spring/early summer. The salt from wintery roads is not as much of a culprit as damp and humid days are. by HeySquirrelFriends
Too much.
Undercoating for years was synonymous with sleazy car salesmen selling you extra features you didn't need. "Bought the undercoating" was an idiom that meant you got swindled.
It's mostly forgotten today, because the metal and the paint on modern cars are far more rust-resistant than they were 40 years ago.
AirborneRodent t1_iybfpbr wrote
Reply to comment by hvgotcodes in TIL that beans are banned in Spacecraft because they can produce "1-3 cups of flatus" in an environment where there are no windows by April_Spring_1982
The fart would move from the high-pressure side to the low-pressure side. Whether you call that "suck" or "blow" is just semantics. They're the same thing.
AirborneRodent t1_iu850s6 wrote
Reply to comment by scurvydog-uldum in TIL that antimatter is made with antiprotons, which are the opposite of protons, with a negative charge, antineutrons with a neutral charge and positrons, which are the opposite of electrons, with a positive charge. by Doomguy2021
You have to go smaller. A neutron is made of an up quark (+2/3 charge) and two down quarks (-1/3 charge each). An antineutron is made of an up antiquark (-2/3 charge) and two down antiquarks (+1/3 charge each).
Even though they both sum to zero charge, they're still opposite. And they still annihilate each other if they come in contact.
AirborneRodent t1_isrmobc wrote
Reply to comment by PizzaQuest420 in TIL: Airplanes take off and land into the wind. They takeoff into the wind to reduce the groundspeed required to lift and land into it to reduce groundspeed when landing. by Key-Code-4296
It's an old meme from 2007 or so. It's up there with the blue/black dress on the list of memes that caused the most arguments on the internet.
AirborneRodent t1_j1h15jw wrote
Reply to comment by drecklia in Factbox: About 1.2 million without power in United States from winter storms by Smithy2232
Texas became a laughingstock after the power grid failed last year, so they put a lot of effort into making sure it didn't happen again. The high winds have also been very helpful at keeping the grid supplied, since we have so many wind farms across the state. On the flipside, those high winds are responsible for the outages we do have - lots of downed power lines from fallen tree branches over the last day.