Well, for small batteries, cooling them down with water is the best solution, since they contain little lithium. 
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Time to go to sleep… nighties lovelies!
Also: september 9th 1947, the first actual case of a computer bug being found
There was a moth on relay #70 panel F of the Harvard Mark II computer…
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Time to go to bed… nighties lovelies!
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Comparison of space station size
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I have nothing to share.
Timezone lovelies. 
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Its in VR chat, Space Colony Island-4.
What would you feel? Seeing how the sky above is just the further city, would you be afraid that something from there will suddenly drop on your head?
Because it could! 
Here you can simulate the physics inside rotating station. By throwing ball with different speeds and at different angles, you can see that the balls will just speed up up and up around station, or do some different strange things, and its all correct. Really strange. 
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Conservation of energy (and momentum). The inevitable question is how many balls it would take to make the station stop rotating, or what the equilibrium would be for a given number of balls.
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I think that this kind of stations will never come to be, rather they will be layered floor upon floor at different perceived Gs to maximize occupancy for volume. Maybe a really fancy and luxurious one will have a “vistas cliff” with nothing built to perceive the actual diameter of the station… and some real prime estate to enjoy those views.
Such solid-disc station could be expanded to a solid-cylinder (or a series of different cylinders to expand the available room along the rotational axis). I guess the floors enjoying 0.9 and 0.8 G would be the most popular, whereas the “Martian” 0.38 G would be used for training/acclimation and the “Lunar” 0.17 G could even be used as a prison/punishment floor (rendering criminals physically ill and unable to endure higher gravity without serious acclimation back). The central areas with very low G could be used for storage and manufacturing.
What would definitively NOT happen for a long, long time, would be building empty cyilindrical shells with just a fuckton gasses bouncing and swirling around for the sake of “views”. They’re romantic (A.C. Clarke’s Rama…) but not realistic. Would be like building a skyscrapper and then live only on the top floors…
(And probably the first rotating station will be just a single arm, with a stubby counterweight holding machinery and fluids on one side of the axis and a thin arm holding a small artificial G pod on the opposite end. Good engineering sticks to the KISS principle)
And now I’m off to bed. Nighties lovelies!
Also: some people just share old sketches, this one is funny!
I looked up and 10 pounds in 1976 would be about 80 euros today… not a small thing.
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Apparently yes. He may be unintendedly right.
I like digging holes and hiding things inside them
When I grow old, I hope I won’t forget to find them
'Cause I’ve got memories and travel like gypsies in the night
Timezone lovelies.
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Unfortunately the amount of energy will not cover the needs of loading car battery., Or they would need a lot more area. I am rather thinking that the energy bank would work, It would be like loading battery at day and then using the energy at night. Its cost is douuble tho, for you need 2 batteries instead of one.
I believe in efficient machines powered thru muscles. Like in that video of old time China. People drove rikshas and camels, they had locally grown food and didnt need much resources. Of course we could use nuclear energy to cover all the needs, Thorium reactors, but they would also not give enough power in long run. Only what people can actually do with their own power and animal power is in long run sustainable, maybe also burning some wood, but not much of it, so it can regrow.
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ffree stuff for monke
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Well… maybe he was, huh, thinking of charging a battery during day to charge the car overnight… maybe?
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This strongly reminds me of old people at free buffets, just without the blood and violence… 
And now i’m off to sleep. Nighties lovelies!
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Real John Wick
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Time to go to sleep… nighties lovelies!
Also: AI generated pictures (and descriptions) of houses, just because
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Last three episodes left of La Casa De Papel. There are 41 episodes in total. I’ve learned a new Spanish word from the show: “cojones”.
That house-AI software has still way to go.
Timezone lovelies.
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