Whenever I'm considering a steak with blue cheese sauce, I console myself with the idea that it's basically the same atoms as salad. (View Post)

Your clock has millisecond precision? (View Post)

I have a somewhat guilty indulgence of watching Futurology videos on YouTube. Isaac Arthur has done some quite enjoyable ones on colonising Venus : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI-old7YI4I (View Post)

I wish I could remember which director it was - but he despised 'Cinemascope' and it's ilk. So he'd frame all his shots with trees/hills/houses at each side of the frame to make t… (View Post)

I faintly remember us having a small and dogy B&W telly with a curly aerial. And watching an episode of Whirlybirds where a helicopter crashed and burst into flames. Just as smoke started billowi… (View Post)