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Rhinobirdon Why Black Hole Interiors Grow Almost Forever

If black holes are universes, then what happens when 2 black holes merge? What happens when universes merge? The sudden appearance of more stuff? More space? Existential cataclysm?

Rhinobirdon Why a Pterosaur Is Not a Dinosaur

My thought would be, when the asteroid hit, it blew away a large chunk of atmosphere with it.

Rhinobirdon Why a Pterosaur Is Not a Dinosaur

They may have been able to fly because, perhaps, the air pressure was different back then. 2 bar or more

http://levenspiel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/DinosaurW.p...

Going back even further, there's giant insects. Bugs today are limited in size to the efficiency of their respiratory system. They don't have lungs like vertebrates. Air just sorta diffuses through their bodies. I you raise insects in a high oxygen environment, after a few generations they get bigger. The size of bugs before the dinosaurs indicate a higher oxygen content.

https://www.livescience.com/1083-oxygen-giant-bugs.html

Rhinobirdon Plants repeatedly got rid of their ability to obtain their own nitrogen

Perhaps a sweetbread of some sort?

Rhinobirdon Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely

>... dairy farmer named Joe Dorgan inadvertently conducted an experiment on his herd in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Dorgan noticed cows that grazed on washed-up seaweed in paddocks along the shore were healthier and more productive ... and found the new diet saved him money and induced “rip-roaring heats,” or longer cycles of reproductive activity.

Rhinobirdon Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003)

>This might be true for any organization.

Jerry Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy

https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html

Or the Peter Principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

Rhinobirdon Original Windows File Manager with enhancements

That would explain why it didn't do anything.

Rhinobirdon What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

What if you have no foot? Or the foot hook isn't there? Or you have to turn a knob?

Rhinobirdon The Jumpsuit That Will Replace All Clothes Forever

As I'm reading, all I could think of was Speed Suits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImVJHR9cQ7o

Rhinobirdon The US Army’s costly quest for the perfect radio

Where is S.V.?

Rhinobirdon Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983

The author went back a tad far, but not too much. The Amiga came out in 1985 and the Apple IIGS in 1986. The user experience of those machines would be more comparable a modern PC with a thousand times the clock speed and memory

Rhinobirdon Freedom of Information Release on Nikola Tesla (2011)

Tesla was trying to make use of the conductivity present in the ground and ionosphere to transmit power. Not inductive, but more like capacitively coupled.

Rhinobirdon Amazon developing three new sci-fi series: Lazarus, Snow Crash and Ringworld

I thought it would make a good mini-series. Needs like 3 or 4 hour long episodes.

Rhinobirdon An ancient Babylonian tablet may contain the first evidence of trigonometry

Just a minute! I'll second this.

Rhinobirdon D as a Better C

D is one better than C, but K goes all the way to 11.

Rhinobirdon Forgotten Religions That Worshipped Electricity

By Zeus, this displeases Thor!

Rhinobirdon The Cornell professor who invented the chicken nugget

So, nuggets are made from the Cornell of the chicken. That also explains Cornell Sanders.

Rhinobirdon NASA proposes a magnetic shield to protect Mars' atmosphere

Magneto goes through "the change"