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Monday, June 28, 2021
CONTEXT: The Trapped Knight
TRACKING WITH CLOSEUPS: The Secret Life of the Lift (Elevator)
Although it's said that hydraulic lifts do not require a safety catch mechanism (at least in Britain at the time this vintage film was made), Fourmilab's three story lift does, in fact, have one. Twice, over the years, it has malfunctioned and immobilised the lift between floors, requiring a service call to reset and re-calibrate.
CONTEXT: SETI Institute's Seth Shostak: “It Isn't Aliens”
Here is my review of Seth Shostak's book, Confessions of an Alien Hunter.
CONTINUITY: Exploding the Solid Steel Box
In a previous post, the intrepid team detonated high explosives inside a robust steel box to see what would happen. The results were varied, but the box survived. Well, they wouldn't be Finns if they didn't finish something, so now the question is, how much explosives can the box withstand? A new anvil tossing record is set.
THE HAPPENING WORLD: Modern Problems
"my laundry machine uses gigabytes of traffic every day" is another one of those fun things we can say now that we live in The Future™ pic.twitter.com/yiYSPKqoke
— Zach Holman (@holman) April 9, 2021