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When I started this company, I had only two things - a dream, and six million pounds

In the UK you can’t even buy that many at once 😆 without a prescription at least - paracetamol and ibuprofen are usually 16 per pack and they don’t let you buy more than one of each

https://youtu.be/JUO7LvDnCPA

In that picture? It’s a bee, contemplating leaping from the edge and ending it all after reading that article

“Jean-Luc, what have you done?”

First baby in space yeah, it was a post-Soviet prestige thing

Random thought that I, a fellow 33’er, had yesterday - Sputnik was launched in 1957, 34 years before I was, I’m almost as old as the space age was when I was born

Enjoy!

We all have a bean hall in our houses, building regs say you have to

A man did this in London in 1810, but with everything - chimney sweeps, piano deliveries, priests, lawyers, coal carts, doctors, undertakers, the archbishop of Canterbury…

It brought the whole area to a standstill and the guy won a guinea in a bet and ran away to the countryside

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berners_Street_hoax

Just awful, 10/10

A fire? At a sea parks?

Huge if true

Nah I’ve got something similar - not exactly like this but the glass tube with heat exchanging mesh and space underneath for a burner is pretty distinctive - then searched “Stirling engine heart arrow” and tons of these came up

It’s a mini Stirling hot air engine, never seen one that shape before but here’s a video of one working

https://youtu.be/t1dT6kTxojc

Bhhaaa the French

Anybody else seeing Eric Idle?

Getting a bit “Nautilus from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” vibes

First section says it’ll take 10^29 joules to slow down the earth, third section says 10^22 joules in 350 days, so 10^7 difference, approx that many years to make back the energy from step 1