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Snappy, go to Chinatown to replace your glasses. Cheaper than elsewhere. My place is cheap but you can shop around. I know Biff went to a different place.
It’s like putting pressure on a hose – maybe you have a 100 foot hose – you blow on this end and water comes out the other end pretty quickly, but the water itself is moving very slowly through the hose.
Speaking of places to go in March and AC power,
there’s a nice bronze sculpture of Tesla at Niagara Falls.
That guy was amazing.
They say he was robbed of credit for inventing radio as well.
It should be Marconi-Tesla, or Tesla-Marconi.
Snappy, go to Chinatown to replace your glasses. Cheaper than elsewhere. My place is cheap but you can shop around. I know Biff went to a different place.
So it’s like a wave of water? The undulations go quickly while the molecules of water pretty much sit there?
It’s like putting pressure on a hose – maybe you have a 100 foot hose – you blow on this end and water comes out the other end pretty quickly, but the water itself is moving very slowly through the hose.
*buzzer sound*
Not light speed
Not even close
Really really not even close
Electrons have a “drift velocity” of like 1 millimeter per second in a regular power cord connected to a normal home device like a lamp!!
The electrical impulse moves at a significant fraction of the speed of light, but the things that actually move – the electrons – go very slowly.
Without googling it – guess how fast the electrons move in a copper wire through which an electrical current is traveling.
FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCK! I BROKE MY GLASSES 🙁
What’s Civilization wendybear1?
Speaking of video games, Scott got the latest Civilization today and is in geek heaven!
Speaking of places to go in March and AC power,
there’s a nice bronze sculpture of Tesla at Niagara Falls.
That guy was amazing.
They say he was robbed of credit for inventing radio as well.
It should be Marconi-Tesla, or Tesla-Marconi.