ahead of ourselves -- If you think about it, nowadays people barely see their in-laws anyway. How many times do you think families see each other after their kids get married? KI-JUNG (scoffs) Crazy fuck. KI-WOO You hear about people hiring actors to stand in for their parents ...
The main charge explodes, producing a high-pressure shock wave or blast wave, and may propel shrapnel, toxic chemicals or fire-starting chemicals. Here's the distressing part: IEDs are relatively simple to make with a little research, time and training. After all, how hard is it to get ba...
The primary concern with static electricity, even with mitigations in place, are the latent failures, or product's not performing as they should(because of now present electrical issues) because once they become detected, it's usually long after the event has already taken place, potentially eve...
The most critical threat comes from the same source that powers the LEDs, and is known as “Electrical Over Stress” (EOS). An EOS occurs every time the LED driving current or voltage exceeds the component maximum rated values. There are many different types of EOS - some ...
According to conventional wisdom, geniuses are different from everyone else. They can think faster and better than other people. In addition, many people think that all that extra brainpower leads to eccentric or quirky behavior. And although geniuses are fairly easy to spot, defining exactly what...
Speaking of alarms, whenever the words "nuclear radiation" are used an alarm goes off in many people's minds. The amount of radiation in a smoke detector is extremely small. It is also predominantly alpha radiation. Alpha radiation cannot penetrate a sheet of paper, and it is blocked by se...
Electrical surges: Power surges or electrical spikes can damage the disk's circuitry, rendering it inoperable. Wear and tear:After a long period of use, the platter and the head assembly are prone to wear out, especially the head assembly with an exact structure. ...
“global catastrophic infrastructure loss”. These are events where you have catastrophic impacts on the way we produce stuff — especially impacts on our electrical grid. And those could be things like, for example, a geomagnetic storm, which can disable large parts of the electrical grid and ...
These two phenomena are examples of static electricity, something you probably learned about when you were a kid. But how does static charge make your hair stand on end and why can it give you a static shock? What's actually going on at the atomic level that produces these universa...
This is why many people choose instead to fly to a nearby city near the coast, where the mountains dip their toes into the cool surf of the Pacific Ocean. There you can catch a train up the mountain, gradually acclimatising to the altitude as you ascend. Well, I say gradually, but ...