It's been more than a decade since the Philadelphia 76ers began their so-called "process" to tank-the-team, earn high draft picks, and set themselves up for a bright future. This strategy has now become the norm across sports, and for the Sixers' sake, it did yield them Joel Embiid...
After filling the pond with your garden hose, add Pond Detoxifier to the water so it is safe for your fish. Dip a five-gallon bucket, or similar sized container, in the fish holding tank and fill it with water. After you’ve caught a fish, place it in the bucket and set the bucke...
To put it simply, a salmon essentially flies through the sea, and a pelican swims through the air. The core of the matter is this: Even a clear sky isn't empty. Our atmosphere is a massive fluid layer, and the right application of physics makes it possible for humans to traverse it....
By adjusting the plane's ailerons (or spoiler) a pilot can cause the lift to increase in one wing and decrease in the other. One wing rises, the other descends. This causes the body of the plane to rotate along its roll axis, which results in a maneuver known as aroll. When a pla...
boat, there's a basket of sunscreen, a pile of rolled towels and a white orchid. The marina around them couldn't be more private, without a coffee shop or store, not even showing up on the navigational charts in some maritime GPS systems. (Woods' camp declined to comment for ...
Now that we've learned how these massive ships float, let's look at the various propulsion systems that propel them from port to port. How Cruise Ships Move The propellers on this superliner are easy to spot while this boat is dry-docked. ...
Most boat owners are shocked when they do this math. At Compass Marine Inc. we have never seen a single lead acid battery bank hit its lab rating in the marine environment. This is especially true on cruising boats. Lead acid lab numbers are fairy-tale ratings when applied to real world...
to just always fire it upon receiving an attack of greater than 14 garbage, but, of course, then you have lost the structure. The other obvious solution is to simply not add leaves to one side of the beanstalk unless the stalk is more than 6 blocks tall, so that one can tank a 5-...
(64 to 68 percent nitrogen, 32 to 36 percent oxygen). The gas is contained in a cylinder that you carry on your back. The typical cylinder is made of aluminum, weighs about 31 pounds (14 kg) empty and holds 80 cubic feet (2,265 L) of air at 3000 pounds per square-inch (psi),...
Imagine you’re zooming down the highway at 70 miles per hour and the car’s fuel gauge is on its way to empty. Just up ahead there’s a tanker truck trailing a long hose attached to a basket that’s floating a couple of feet above the ground. Approaching the tanker, a probe ...