QuinceDaPence

So a prickle of picky porcupines only partook in parts of prehistoric primates? Preposterous!

Andorra

Guitars are definitely an anomaly in instruments just because of the economy of scale.

Then you have the other end of that spectrum like anything with the words “Contra Bass” attached to the front, where the acceptable ones start at $10k

It’s a safe and legal thrill!

It’s a safe and legal thrill!

I’d start with washing and letting it sit in the sun a couple of days. If that doesn’t work I’d go nuclear with an ozone generator just be easy with it or it will turn the food smell into an off-gasing plastic smell, and don’t use it in an occupied space. Idealy stick it in a tote outside or something like that.

iFunny, 9gag and I don’t know what the M is.

Ah. So yeah like the other person said those static blades are stators. I havent found a good name for the cone aside from “aft cone” but that’s more for turbines. The stators should help it make pressure (that’s what they do in turbines) but the only reason I see for the aft cone is reduction of turbulence and since this is for cooling the hot end turbulence is actually a positive thing because it reduces the skin of hot air that sits against the heatsink fins.

If you’re pusing enough air you may benefit from a nose cone but it should probably be more hemispherical. Also an intake cone that’s like a trumpet bell might be beneficial.

For noise, most is probably in the blades but you may see some reduction by adding a sweep to your stators and/or adding a jaged pattern in some places like all the new jet engines do. Like this: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/qtd2_sunrise_3024x2016_0.jpg

Granted, on the scale we’re talking here all of this will be splitting hairs.

What exactly are you trying to do, if you don’t mind my asking?

Just trying to quiet those loud fans?

The cone shaped hub in the middle? Same reason you’d see a pointed nose or tail on a plane, to reduce drag and turbulence and possibly noise. With some fans it doesn’t really matter but at high enough flows it’ll become worth it to spend the extra money on that part to make it cone shaped.

Look at airplane propellers. On them that part is called a spinner. On an old, slow, biplane with tons of cables and other draggy parts, it likely wont have one because it’ll make no difference anyway. But on anything that’s the slightest bit sleek you’ll have one because it will significantly reduce drag.

Photovoltaic doesn’t require water. What are you talking about?

There’s a recent Veritasium video on it. The water helps because of the Mammalian Dive Reflex. The guy he’s doing the video with says basically getting over that first instinct to breathe is the worst and then after that your body makes more adjustments and quits complaining as much.

Also, buying the right book and then not using it at all

Also if you can overcome the urge, you’ll successfully hold it a lot longer than you think you could without passing out. Especially if under water. The record is 24 minutes and 37 seconds.

Though to go that long you have to minimise the amount of energy your body is using even down to your thoughts so your brain uses less.

USB-C likes to get full of dust and is impossible to clean out.

I have dust plugs in mine and just wireless charge because I have also had failures.

No, the Fire TV Stick is a streaming stick. The Fire TV is a TV with the stick built in and it makes you go through the Amazon Fire UI to do normal TV things as well.

You just gotta add a sign that says “Warning: trapping wild animals without a license is illegal. This trap is for feral cats only. Any wild animals found in this trap will be shot on sight.”

That’s because it’s a made up number that they add on instead of just pricing the vehicle accurately. So then they advertise it as $60K and then add the market adjustment of $40K.

If I was Attorney General I’d be shutting dealers down if the price before TTL was even $1 higher than the advertised price.

Pretty much figured that. I have seen one which shines it at the filter which 🤷‍♀️ maybe does something but yeah, probably the better way if someone really wanted to do that is to evacuate the room and just have the light in there for a bit but even having one of those bulbs around without interlocks is kinda dangerous. All the danger of staring at someone welding without the super bright light to make you look away.

I don’t really know what air filters filter out can they remove CO2

They filter particulates, CO2 is a gas. Some also have UV-C lights for killing microbes, and some have ozone generators which, despite making things smell clean, should not be run near people.

If you want to “filter” CO2 out you need what’s called and carbon-dioxide scrubber, like what’s used in rebreathers for divers, submarines, and the space station.