Bob Mahar - Curator, The Maharchives

From the #Maharchives: IDK, man, I just work here...

Bessel Functions Gonna Function, Yo! That's the way we roll at the subterranean dungeon that is my basement #Maharchives.

Having popped out of the womb and spent 22 years in the classroom does not make you smart, clever, or even knowledgeable. It makes you educated - which is an entirely different thing. We have created an intellectual tower of babel where, without generalists, consequences are not perceived.

What's great about the baobab thing is that the initial papers make no mention of sterilization procedures for the core drills. No mention of research proving such bore holes could be survived by the trees. It's worse than that idiot who cut down one of the oldest bristle cone pines.

Then we had climate researchers claiming Ozone Holes gave frogs sunburn, causing a dieoff. OR.... the researchers studying the frogs carried a deadly skin fungus to remote frog populations they studied, thereby killing them.

Let's make a movie about that. We need a movie about scientism.

Climate change researchers were taking dendrochronolical bore samples from thousand year old baobab trees, on coming back, half were dead. They liquefied and rotted from the inside. Conclusion: climate change. OR... COULD DRILLING A 10 FOOT DEEP HOLE INTO THE TREE CONTAMINATE IT? GEE, IDK!

The "OMG, some people with money whose name is on a 100 year old ceramic are not supporting my political bull-bleepery!" is hard to stomach.

It's going to be a ripple tank, God willing.

They also often start with scientists and engineers designing something so insanely dangerous that only their hubris, corporate profiteering, and American exceptonallism spurs on the project to initial success - then ultimate disaster.

From the #Maharchives: IDK, something wierd I've wanted to make for a while. I TRIED super glue, but that failed. So to recoup after several failures, I used urethane foam - which was the perfect solution, but applied poorly. "The next time, it will be flawless!"

I just got back from a 4 day, 300 mile outing in my VW Bus. It was a super fun weekend exploring junkyards and visiting friends.

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From the #Maharchives Enlightened Self Promotion Department: "Finally!" You can own a thoriated lens for just $25 that has the same activity as much more expensive / rare classic camera lenses. www.ebay.com/itm/29725364...

From the #Maharchives Enlightened Self Promotion Department: "Finally!" You can own a thoriated lens for just $25 that has the same activity as much more expensive / rare classic camera lenses. www.ebay.com/itm/29725364...

IIRC about half the activity of natural uranium is from ²³⁵U and based on your video that "sounds" about right.

There is some clear emission from the depleted Uranium. :)

Here’s a ~1g example of depleted uranium followed by isotopically natural material.

The depleted stuff sees a lot of use for shielding still, it is minimally active with a favorable density for the application.

Damn! Where an I supposed to get depleted uranium now? Depleted Uranium Depot? Depleted Я U-238? Because those went out of business during the financial collapse of 2008.

Massachusetts Man Indicted for Illegally Possessing Ammunition and Explosives BOSTON –A Hadley, Mass. man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Springfield for allegedly possessing ammunition and explosives after being convicted of a crime punishable by more than one yea...

“[Miller] was selling depleted uranium [and] launched his own online business called “Collect the Periodic Table” in 2017, through which he marketed and sold radioactive materials, including Plutonium-239 allegedly derived from Cold War-era Soviet smoke detectors.” 😮

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I saw this on the side of the road while biking, stopped, and picked it up. 60 second later I wrecked.

the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed

It looks like a herd of wildebeest overwintered in my back yard. I refuse to poison it, so it turns purple from the violets, and yellow from the dandelions, and red from windswept Coke Zero cans.

The landscaping trucks have come out of hibernation and the drone of leaf blowers is ringing in the air.

Warning signs informing the expected behavior of guests at the Trinity site, White Sands Missile Range. New Mexico

A trinitite bead sitting on a Geiger counter, trinitite being soil melt from ground zero at the first nuclear detonation.

A ‘teardrop’ of trinitite, possible copper inclusion.

Rough trinitite photographed in the palm of a hand at Trinity site in New Mexico.

Nine years sure flew by.

Just found out there were thermite powered cordless soldering irons.

"Oh, yeah. Come to mama... "
---Janet, after laying down two pair---nines and queens---to win a hand during a friendly lunchtime game of poker

It's officially time to retire.

Congratulations, everyone. Now I hate this platform as much as the other one. Awesome job! High fives for everyone! Feed is now 38% AI generated cute animals, 30% political shitposts, and the balance appears to be people who don't understand financial markets and / or causality, ...

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Apparently we like smartass signs in Philly

"The Ads Made Me Do it!"

Prohibition started in Colorado in 1916. The Coors family pivoted to ceramics, using the rich clay deposits around Golden. That kept the family business afloat until the end of Prohibition in 1933. Coors Porcelain Company became CoorsTEK, which is still in Golden today.