by David Dale Heckman | Sep 1, 2024 | Train of Thought Derailed
From time to time, the tree of Liberty (or the “Libertree,” as I call it) must be refreshed with the blood of patriots (or “Freedom Sauce”)
by David Dale Heckman | Sep 1, 2024 | Trivia
In case you didn’t know about the one truly viable doomsday device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salted_bomb
by David Dale Heckman | Sep 1, 2024 | Train of Thought Derailed, Trivia
If you’re trying to get rich, remember, “pressure makes diamonds.” Specifically, pressures of about 5 gigapascals and temperature of 2000° C applied to a piece of carbon inside a diamond anvil cell. So actually you have to already HAVE two diamonds...
by David Dale Heckman | Sep 1, 2024 | Train of Thought Derailed
Debating whether to sell off all my stock in preparation for the impending financial crisis. Decided “eh, America’s got one more in ’em” and that I’ll wait on that until the next, even bigger financial crisis that’ll happen 15 years...
