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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
The XP-55 Curtiss Ascender [link]
That was a cool-looking airplane, but not really a great design due to stability issues. I think the Japanese Shinden (another canard fighter) was better, but the war ended before it could enter production: [link]
Also, I think the Shinden looks slightly better.
Oh, and here is a really short answer to the specific 1998 point.
That is actually from a shorter site doing the same thing "How to talk to a Climate Skeptic" does.
Oh, and I was surprised that the Vultee XP-54 Swoose Goose had a 2,300 hp engine but a top speed of only 381 mph. The P-38, P-47 and P-51 (the main USAAF fighters of the time) were all faster. Pro'lly why the thing never entered production.
I've read higher figures for the XP-54's speed, but it and it's engine were definitely flawed. Still, very cool looking.
For people who have had bedbugs and/or think they might have them: DIY Bedbug Detector Interesting. They say CO2 is better at attracting them than heat.
Also:
Studies from early in the last century may not describe today’s bedbugs well, says entomologist Andrea Polanco-Pinzón of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. Older generations of bedbugs weren’t resistant to pesticides and lived in tougher environments: houses without central heating.
On the bright side though, Polanco-Pinzón reported at the meeting that her survival tests found that a pesticide-resistant strain she collected from Richmond, Va., lived at most two months without feeding. That record, set by the fifth stage of the immature bugs, falls far short of the year and a half reported in the old literature.
I have found that I don't care what a housemate or boyfriend does to help, just that he's not sitting while I am not. Steve and I found a good solution was for him to take the dogs out while I cleaned/cooked/puttered. Got them all out of my way, and I didn't feel like someone's slave. But we didn't live together, and he wasn't working, so we had our own issues.
I have found that I don't care what a housemate or boyfriend does to help, just that he's not sitting while I am not.
so much this. It's not so much the task as the feeling you are the only one contributing.
Huh. I don't mind if only one of us is doing chores at a time, so long as I feel there's not a huge net imbalance.
It's not so much the task as the feeling you are the only one contributing.
Yup!
Huh. I don't mind if only one of us is doing chores at a time, so long as I feel there's not a huge net imbalance.
Yeah, the problem with me and Steve is that if I am sitting, he also sits. He simply doesn't do stuff if I am not.