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johnbryanpeters

johnbryanpeters

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Toshi said:
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To Complete One Rotation, This Machine Requires More Turns Than There Are Atoms in the Universe

Machines like blenders, washing machines, and even your car use reduction drives made of multiple gears to increase the torque or decrease the speed of rotation coming from a motor. Taking that idea to its extreme, Daniel De Bruin built a machine with 100 connected gears that turns so slowly on...
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When I worked at Draper Labs we were building a 19" rack console related to the SABRE guidance system. I constructed a panel with a whole pile of LEDs and associated logic which illuminated them in a binary count - it would have taken some trillions of years for the last LED to illuminate. It was called the General's panel, referring to ranking military guests.
 
kidwoo

kidwoo

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Aug 25, 2003
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eric strt6

eric strt6

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Sep 8, 2001
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After weeks of Democratic anger over Republicans’ insistence on holding elections in Wisconsin amid the coronavirus pandemic, a liberal challenger for the State Supreme Court, Jill Karofsky, on Monday defeated the Trump-backed conservative incumbent, Justice Daniel Kelly.

Ms. Karofsky’s surprise victory came after Republicans in the State Legislature, and later conservatives on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, rebuffed Democratic efforts to move the date of the election — held last week but with the release of results delayed until Monday by a federal judge — or send mail ballots to all voters.
 
boostindoubles

boostindoubles

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Apples Thought to Be Extinct Found in Pacific Northwest - Videos from The Weather Channel

Ten varieties of apples thought to have gone extinct were rediscovered in rural Idaho and Washington by volunteers with the Lost Apple Project, botanists confirmed this week. - Videos from The Weather Channel | weather.com
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Back in the day most apples were planted for cider. Every apple seed is different so varieties are all individual apples that spread through propagation. Most seedling apples are crappy but they all make good cider. Johnny Appleseed basically went around planting appleseeds to protect a supply of cider.

Thats cool they're finding old world apples growing in abandoned corners of the NW. I've seen some 150 yr old pear trees that were massive!

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Here is an old commercial cherry orchard. These trees are probably 70-80 years old.
 
johnbryanpeters

johnbryanpeters

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boostindoubles said:
Back in the day most apples were planted for cider. Every apple seed is different so varieties are all individual apples that spread through propagation. Most seedling apples are crappy but they all make good cider. Johnny Appleseed basically went around planting appleseeds to protect a supply of cider.

Thats cool they're finding old world apples growing in abandoned corners of the NW. I've seen some 150 yr old pear trees that were massive!

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Here is an old commercial cherry orchard. These trees are probably 70-80 years old.
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I have a few pear trees, one of which is a giant.
 
rideit

rideit

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boostindoubles said:
Back in the day most apples were planted for cider. Every apple seed is different so varieties are all individual apples that spread through propagation. Most seedling apples are crappy but they all make good cider. Johnny Appleseed basically went around planting appleseeds to protect a supply of cider.

Thats cool they're finding old world apples growing in abandoned corners of the NW. I've seen some 150 yr old pear trees that were massive!

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Here is an old commercial cherry orchard. These trees are probably 70-80 years old.
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Well how ‘bout dem apples.
 
Westy

Westy

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Nov 22, 2002
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boostindoubles said:
Back in the day most apples were planted for cider. Every apple seed is different so varieties are all individual apples that spread through propagation. Most seedling apples are crappy but they all make good cider. Johnny Appleseed basically went around planting appleseeds to protect a supply of cider.

Thats cool they're finding old world apples growing in abandoned corners of the NW. I've seen some 150 yr old pear trees that were massive!

View attachment 143827

Here is an old commercial cherry orchard. These trees are probably 70-80 years old.
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The house I grew up in had an old apple tree in the back yard. It was huge, the trunk was 3+ feet in diameter. It produced massive amounts of inedible apples. Too bad my parents weren't into cider.
 
rideit

rideit

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Aug 24, 2004
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Warms the cold cockles of my heart, I tells ya

buckrail.com

Dog found 4 months after being stolen from San Francisco

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ JACKSON, isHome. – Four months after a distraught San Francisco woman hired a plane to fly a search banner for her stolen dog, the blue-eyed mini Australian shepherd has been found and the two were reunited Tuesday. Emilie Talermo, 31, said she received a call Monday from an...
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