*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

@freemo
LOL, When, well - just now.

I guess the short form was unclear. Meant: Freemo has got to see this!

Imagine all the bubbling action when it's in use. Glass cleaning might be less fun, but it's a great build. 😜

@salad_bar_breath

@pschwede @freemo Yes, I had seen it mentioned on the About this server page, but have never used it.

That is gorgeous formatting!

@pschwede

I niticed last night there were two of these on the Local area. First announce Freemo, later one Aaditi.

Kind of wondered...

Nice work on the equation format, looks great.

@freemo

@Yonos

^------ search box is up on the left corner. Your request above went out, in Public message, to the whole fediverse. Oopsie.

@freemo

@salad_bar_breath I just started looking thru and it seems pretty amazing, creative, and details for people to build their own. Neat. 😄

@salad_bar_breath No doubt, I was impressed too!

@freemo got to see it.

"You give a few pot heads a bunch of weed and nothing to smoke out of and they suddenly become engineers. It's amazing."

https://www.reddit.com/r/StonerEngineering/

With thanks to @salad_bar_breath !

@salad_bar_breath Amazing!

https://www.reddit.com/r/StonerEngineering/comments/e1ajbk/diy_wine_bottle_bubbling_gravity_bong/

@salad_bar_breath Awesome, I love discovery new and interesting things. TY!!

@salad_bar_breath

@salad_bar_breath LOL, I will bite.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StonerEngineering/

@binsrc OMG!

Can one take more than one option? 😲

The stain is just a colour agent, or does it attack the eye tissue?

@mngrif Oh, yeah, right. 😛

@mngrif but surely there's some bar in the airport, a huge one, no?

"Solar Sailing

Light is made of packets of energy called photons. While photons have no mass, they have momentum. Solar sails capture this momentum with sheets of large, reflective material such as Mylar. As photons bounce off the sail, most of their momentum is transferred, speeding up the sail in the direction opposite the bouncing light.

Unlike chemical rockets that provide short, powerful bursts of thrust, solar sails provide continuous, slight thrust and can reach higher speeds over time. Sunlight is free and unlimited, whereas rocket propellant must be carried into orbit and be stored onboard a spacecraft."

The Planetary Society's LightSail project.

https://www.planetary.org/explore/projects/lightsail-solar-sailing/

@mngrif Take Caltrain to SF downtown, if you have enough time?

Just read another news item about the Planetary Society's successful experiment with Solar Sail propelled spacecraft earlier this year.

I love the idea, and fondly recall one of my favourite Arthur Clarke Novels, titled "The Solar Wind", whci I read many years ago.

Searched for it, and found a complete post of the "Sunjammer"short story originally published by Clarke, which was further expanded into the novel.

Read it here and enjoy. 😉

https://bookzone.boyslife.org/arthur-c-clarke/

see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunjammer

"All spacecraft come with an expiration date: They can only travel as far as the fuel onboard allows.

This is one of the biggest obstacles we face in attempting to explore deep space.

But an experiment spearheaded by the Planetary Society may be a step toward addressing that problem. The group launched a satellite called LightSail 2 on June 25; it's designed to be the first-ever spacecraft propelled solely by sunlight."

https://www.businessinsider.com/worlds-first-ever-solar-sail-unfurling-in-orbit-2019-7