I spent an hour today trying to find a real source for this quote, often misattributed to Churchill. And failed. Found some sources saying it predates Churchill, but no direct references. Seems an adage that is quite old though.
Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.
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I spent an hour today trying to find a real source for this quote, often misattributed to Churchill. And failed. Found some sources saying it predates Churchill, but no direct references. Seems an adage that is quite old though.
Lithium as well, if I recall correctly. Most lithium is theorized to date to the big bang. There are no current pathways to create it, and only pathways that destroy it.
Most helium also dates to big bang, but some was created through fusion or alpha decay.
Plot twist. The raccoons are aliens in costume trying to learn about park rangers.
Out of curiosity, how is this ratio relative to some place like North Korea?
We called it “Beetle Bump” but same thing.
After the release of the redesign, it sort of stopped. Only really made sense for the classic version.
“The Transporter Refueled”. Living in a smaller city in Northern Canada with three screens… We had a Tuesday night cheap movie night group that would go to whatever was playing, then to the pub afterwards. Small city – something to do. We had seen a lot of bad movies as a result, but this was the worst. At the end of the movie, everyone had left except our small group. We’re masochists, apparently.
Easier to infiltrate terrorist networks – networks are, well, networks. Most school shootings are independent actors, even if radicalized online.
Now, if you’re asking about why they haven’t implemented decent gun control laws…
I had a null result for my MSc thesis. My supervisor lost interest immediately, and my funding went away. No interest in publishing a failure on his side, because the premise was flawed and he provided the premise. I dropped out and went to industry rather than be student poor with no funding.
Cryochamber test #42. Patient still dead.
And losses in the inverter.
I am fortunate in that I took a very niche applied science in university, and was successful in that career as an employee/consultant – geophysics. So I have high value, rare technical skills. I blew out my knee in the high arctic doing scientific surveys – so I decided to try to parley those skills into something where I could be my own boss. Fortunately I also picked up a business partner with a similar background (former coworker) who wanted to run the business side of the business.
During COVID I started an equipment business to provide the required specialty tools to other geophysicists – things like ground penetrating radar and such. There was exactly one business already operating in this space in Canada, so there was room for a second player. It’s a high capital business – I’m basically taking the capital risk of buying rare equipment and spreading it out across the continent. (People don’t want to buy a $50k device to use for a week.) But it was a huge risk – I have one business partner, and we both wagered out houses on the startup loan. We’re past the hump now and our revenue is directly funding growth, so huzzah! (It took six months to get our first client – but now it’s about six hours between clients, without having to do any marketing bullshit.) I have real world hands on experience with all the gear and am not just a sales robot, which keeps everyone coming back for advice, opinions, networking, and we are growing by word of mouth.
My boss is a hardass though. ;)
If later in life means, more recently… I started my first business during COVID in my late 30s. Doing great!
so – did anyone watch the live action rendition? Was it worth the time in retrospect?
see also !geospatial@mander.xyz – although I suspect that will be more theoretical.
Thanks!
This is reminding me of the internet in the 1995 era, where you’d be on geocities finding people to crosslink your site with haha ;)
I also set up !geology@lemmy.ca !geophysics@lemmy.ca !geologycareers@lemmy.ca and !mining@lemmy.ca
I moderate r/geologycareers on reddit – and wanted to get ahead of an exodus should it occur. In the meantime, I’m quite liking this experience :)
I’ll cross link !earthscience@mander.xyz sub in the sidebar on the communities I’ve set up.
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