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@twotwenty oh wow the wikipedia article doesnt connect it tot he modern part...

Yea the recent iteration is 2.24 + 2.24 = 5.49 which rounds to 2 + 2 = 5 on modern computers if using integers.

All things are true... for sufficiently generalized definitions of true.

2 + 2 = 5... for sufficiently large values of 2.

@Pat All things are true, for sufficiently general definitions of true.

Every science teacher ever: Energy can be neither created nor destroyed.

Casmir Effect: ::hold my beer::

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@freemo @stux

You can also evaporate something (but only as long as you have something to evaporate). Surprisingly many spacecraft used evaporative cooling at least sometimes (Gemini had an evaporator that seemed to have been used at low flow continuously, Apollo LM was cooled purely by evaporation, Apollo CSM had an evaporator to allow higher heat rejection rates than by radiators alone and as the sole way to dispose of heat after the SM was gone, Shuttle had an evaporator to cover high heat load intervals and, I assume, to help in the case the payload doors won't open).

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@robryk

Yes very true but evaporative coolin can be tricky since it can freeze and slow the heat transfer. Plus as you say, it requires a "fuel" that is expended to do it.

@stux

@cee Thanks you just reminded me to bring some hand-shoes on my trip.

@Pat

> In a simi-, sub-quantum, non-causal extent, I suppose it could be.

Story of my life... so relatable!

@trinsec

In case anyone was wondering the word for a Greyhound is "Windhond" which translates to "wind dog".

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