and says “nice weld.” Or something.
Stderr
All the unbuffered error messages
and says “nice weld.” Or something.
As they say “a bad day fishing is better than a good day at work.” So I can hardly complain. But I’m going to make some whiny noises anyway.
Since this is a sermon/rant, I am going to relax some of my rules of engagement and make some assertions that I think are reasonably supportable – but I may not bother supporting them. We can discuss them in comments if you want to challenge them. Otherwise it’s difficult to write without producing a great big bodge of anti-{skeptical trope} defences to head off pyrhhonian challenges.
I think I’m going to stop here.
This is interesting stuff. For one thing, it does a good job of showing the extreme lengths that you must go to to obtain even tiny amounts of plutonium.
A few years ago, several companies started producing luggage that had built-in power distribution systems and high capacity batteries. Naturally, the Department of Homeland Security concluded they looked too bomb-like and banned them from flights. Never mind that I could just as easily put a tactical(tm) battery in my Maxpedition tactical(tm) shoulder bag, and have a rat’s nest of wires in it, the new bags were not acceptable.
Another overcast day; the evenings the temperature has been down around freezing, and it’s 50 during the daytime. This is my favorite time of year since I am neither hot nor cold – I’m usually active enough to stay warm or I’m wrapped up in a big polartec bathrobe.
I would have enjoyed a version of this recorded by Christopher Lee, too.
As Ray Wylie Hubbard says: “if you go dark, stay dark.”
I had managed to forget that silver work hardens. To soften silver you heat it to red heat (which is just below its melting temperature) and dunk it in cold water. This is exactly the opposite process for hardening steel.
Just a couple of quick shots and some comments on grinding.