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[scriver]

Pretty sure most of the molecules in cardboard will go straight from solid to gas at the relevant temperatures and pressured; I think you can only get carbon to liquefy at high pressure for instance.

Taco bell disagrees

[wierd]

I would point out that burning coal will liquefy inside a blacksmith's smithy.  It will continue burning while molten.

[McTraveller]

I would point out that burning coal will liquefy inside a blacksmith's smithy.  It will continue burning while molten.

Is that right? Was I misreading the pressure axis on the carbon phase diagram?

Or is this not really molten carbon, but molten other stuff (sulfur?) with solid carbon in suspension?

[methylatedspirit]

Laptops that need you to remove the keyboard and trackpad assembly to get to anything else are hell to work on.

[Naturegirl1999]

What movie is it where there’s a giant toy store and without (hope/happiness?) they turn to stone and stop being alive?

[MaxTheFox]

I have only 504 posts. Huh, I thought I had more...

[King Zultan]

What movie is it where there’s a giant toy store and without (hope/happiness?) they turn to stone and stop being alive?

Sounds metal hope someone knows what it is.

[dragdeler]

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[Bumber]

What movie is it where there’s a giant toy store and without (hope/happiness?) they turn to stone and stop being alive?

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium?

[Naturegirl1999]

What movie is it where there’s a giant toy store and without (hope/happiness?) they turn to stone and stop being alive?

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium?

Thank you. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it and have no idea what triggered the thought about it

[Reelya]

There was a discussion on another site today about some calendar reforms, and someone proposed switching to a base-12 number system. Which is fair enough (plenty of proposed advantages for base-12), but they also threw it in with a few more ideas, including a call for the US to finally get rid of imperial measurements.

Now, call me crazy, but if you're switching to base 12, then metric needs to go, because that's entirely base-10, so you'd be stuck looking for a base-12 alternative. Your choices would be to concoct a new system (google xkcd competing standards) or just base it on feet and inches, which would be far more desirable, since they're already exactly defined against the SI units. You'd do a few reforms at the edges (such as a mile being 3000 feet in base-12, just slightly shorter than a normal mile) but a lot of the American stuff would translate over well enough that Americans would be ok with it.

[Egan_BW]

cly we need to go to base-64, boop.

[Maximum Spin]

Since it's been a year or so, I want to be on record again as stating that metric is bad and dumb and 12 is the best small base (but 60 is better).

[Frumple]

Base ten is best until such a point we grow extra fingers, really. If you can't finish off your base without taking your shoes off or reusing digits you've already screwed up.

[Maximum Spin]

Base ten is best until such a point we grow extra fingers, really. If you can't finish off your base without taking your shoes off or reusing digits you've already screwed up.

Do you count on your fingers often?

What is it with people and fingers, anyway? Why can't you count your ten fingers and your two palms to make 12?