"I anesthetized and cut open the middle finger of my left hand, implanted a laser crystal and some piezoelectric webbing, closed the incision and kept the hand in a healant unit for four hours. There was no scar. It would sting like hell and cost me some skin if I used it, but if I were to extend that finger, clench the others and turn my palm upward, the beam it emitted would cut through a two-foot slab of granite."
@microtones That shade of blue is the color of space, the color of the sky in the East before dawn.
I couldn't give a definitive explanation, but I might suppose that the compassionate activity of Medicine Buddha is as vast as space, it can encompass any amount of suffering, and depth of need, without bias or loss of equanimity. Medicine Buddha will always manifest when needed, from any distance, in any situation. In essence, he is all-pervasive like space.
Palestinians arrested in the northern Gaza Strip describe how Israeli soldiers systematically abused civilians and combatants alike, from severe deprivation to brutal physical violence.
I will not start yet another pointless metric vs. imperial units thread but I will say that looking at annotated floor plans and furniture measurements in the US involves a quantity of fractions and mixed numbers that absolutely nothing in my European upbringing has prepared me for
@senanthic Isn’t autogyro what happens to helicopters that lose power? Putting the nose down would be a bad idea (if you could even steer). You want to stay flat and let the rotors spin. The engine should slow your fall. Some.
(There are some typos and odd word choices, but English isn't his first language, he usually writes in Hebrew, I think. He expresses himself masterfully, nonetheless)
@HistoPol Looks like other people have had similar errors and found different solutions. I don't get the error, so I can't offer much advice, but there are a couple of things in the comments.
Air pollution from Canada’s tar sands is much worse than we thought
Oil operations release vast quantities of damaging particles and noxious compounds.
