I've seen a lot of older houses where a room has nice oak around the edges, and poplar or some similarly cheaper wood in the middle, because many people used rugs in the middle.

If you like the look of the edging, its pretending to be "Baltic Birch Plywood" like Ikea stuff...

It was never a question as to whether or not it would work. The theory is soud, plus...it's already been dine before by Lockheedin the late 1960's.

The problem has always been how to transport the fuel, and what form of H2 fuel was viable.

Which usually translates into short range.

I think they got free shipping, but...I suspect Lockheed Martin raised the initial quote in anticipation of this...

A lot of animals become adorable after they are raised from childhood with love and food. It seems the smarter they are, the more they appreciate kindness...

This is generally true, because batteries encounter greater internal resistance and voltage-drop...when they get cold.

During the day, heat rises, so that last gasp of life can hold on till the next cold cycle, at night...

Butterflies should be considered as disgusting as flies, but they don't land on our food or buzz around our mouths. Same with rats and squirrels. Squirrels are "cute", but they are just a tree rat with a bushy tail and good PR.

I think he may have had what we now call "anger management issues", which led to his brushes with the law. At one point, I believe he was at a fork in the road, and he decided to play up the "maybe I'm crazy" angle, so he would go to a mental facility, instead of a violent prison. This is all speculation...

I always heard that it was from the Egyptian "Book of the Dead" found in one of the pharaohs tombs...

This isn't this guys first bad joke. I'm sure he can tell by now when it's malicious or accidental. My mom had one eye after an accident when she was a kid. She knew more funny blind jokes than anyone else I ever met.

Are the three blind mice the SEC?...because I get the feeling it's the SEC.

Bernie Madoff was paying out 10%, and FTX was paying 8% on their Ponzi investment fund.

It was a drive-by fruiting!

I KNOW!...riiight?

It took me years to realize that some bathroom fans are loud...in purpose.

Irving Rhames wanted to register with the screen actors guild, but someone else already used that name, so...he is now "Ving Rhames"

That makes sense. If some children were terrorized when they were small and helpless, sometimes one of them can develop a desire to find out what it would feel like to be the person wielding the power of terror.

I think everyone has heard of an example similar to the child who ate the oreo cookies, and when the three kids were asked who ate them, they all three said "not me" but...one of them has black cookie crumbs between their teeth.

Even a "good" kid is curious about how to exert some little bit of control in their lives, and getting away with some minor offense can be exhilarating.

Interesting and insightful observation. I hadn't thought of that angle.

Roughly a hair over 9,000 square feet, for us troglodytes in the US.

That could be sub-divided into four condos of 2200 sf each, add a solar panel farm and battery storage, and you could sell three of them and live in the fourth for free.

Many children can be exposed to the same type of abuse, with each having a different response.

However, it's understandable that neglect and abuse can foster a lack of empathy at a critical stage of development.

I have a theory that it doesn't do much involve a fascination with fire per se, but rather that a child who is evolving as a sociopath and possibly a psychopath, seeks power over others.

Guns are unavailable to most children, and even readily available knives leave fingerprints and blood.

A fire is powerful and destructive, and children would easily see how they could set a fire and "get away with it".

The question then becomes...if a psychopath had fire available plus other methods of striking fear into others, would they still choose fire?

Bed wetting is often associated with terrifying nightmares. In the dream, the child becomes extremely frightened, and literally urinate as they would in real life when shocked by an unimaginable horror.

I'm not sure how that either influences the evolution of psychopathy, or simply reflects that its roots may be present.

It highlights a powerful experience where the child feels powerless in the face of something that has power over them.

Cargo-ships were easily sunk when found. The first year of WWII, the Germans called the east coast of the US the "happy hunting ground" when we were sending supplies to England.

Since Japan was an island empire, their ships were criss-crossing the south Pacific, and books about submarine list them sinking cargo-ship after cargo-ship...

Early in the war, it was often customary to stop the ship, and give the crew a chance to man the lifeboats. However too many submarines were then chased down by destroyers.

So...if you want to be a human with a healthy and diverse gut microbiome, groom your fellow humans by picking out any ticks or skin flakes they have on their back, which they can't reach themselves.

I disagree, but I do respect your opinion may remain different than mine.