Things that float my boat: tinkering, invention, ideas, devices, technology both old and new, kindness, being grateful, persistence, integrity, and conversation
Utilizing my forced induction wood combustion invention to melt Silver and Niobium in the open air. Benefits: Very high temperatures with blue and ultraviolet flame.
Inexpensive as it only uses pumped air and large pine logs as fuel.
A concentrated heat output above 160,000btu's
@libsoftiktok
Reminded me of this post:
"When I told my father I was going to marry Jake he said, ‘If you marry that man you will never set foot in this house again.’
He was horrified that I could contemplate marrying a black man, and I soon learned that most people felt the same way.
@timecaptales
Never forget the 2,977 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
“If we learn nothing else from this
@LeadingReport
"One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people—I categorize them as life’s losers—who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I’m concerned, if they had any real ability
@JamesLucasIT
Sverd i fjell (Swords in Rock) commemorates the Battle of Hafrsfjord and unification of Norway by King Harald Fairhair in 872 CE. The three bronze swords stand at 9.20 meters high (30 ft).
@PicturesFoIder
With specialized equipment that all could be scooped up and made into biofuels. Also maybe only slightly related, but it reminded me of liquid trees
@elonmusk
Never forget to be kind, it's the most important lesson my mother taught me, I've slowly came to realize. There is much good in this world if you look, most people are just like you and I.
@elonmusk
-The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget-
"Twenty years ago, I drove a cab for a living.
When I arrived at 2:30 a.m., the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window. Under these circumstances, many drivers would just honk once or twice, wait a minute, then
@DC_Draino
“It’s the nature of the world that most people have moved on, but the people directly involved with 9/11, for them, twice a day it’s 9/11.”
-Robert Reeg Former FDNY Firefighter
@Rainmaker1973
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and
@iluminatibot
During the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda-affiliated hijackers flew two Boeing 767 jets which weighed around a quarter million pounds each at 460mph+, one into each of the Twin Towers; between 16,400 and 18,000 people were in the Twin Towers when they were
@DrEliDavid
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
Robert F. Kennedy
@Rainmaker1973
I'm a huge fan of high voltage acrylic art which this reminds me of: specifically the use of a Marx generator to create a 1-5 million volt discharge which causes a branching lightning like permanent pattern in the thick acrylic sheets or blocks. It's quite dangerous, especially
@elonmusk
After all we are just ghosts piloting solar powered meat-coated skeletons made of space explosion residue, living on an extremely fast moving ball of salty mud with a force field that protects it from bursts of fire launched at it by a colossal nuclear explosion that said salty
@LibertyCappy
“It’s the nature of the world that most people have moved on, but the people directly involved with 9/11, for them, twice a day it’s 9/11.”
- Robert Reeg, former FDNY firefighter.
@goddeketal
I've known that all along, also most people don't know indoor air is 5 to 10 times dirtier than outdoor air and these masks cause the smallest particulate to be concentrated and reinhaled (the death warning from improper use on masks refers to this)