Which of these continents have you visited?
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@evan South America for Wikimania 2009 (Argentina), Africa for Wikimania 2008 (Egypt)
here's hoping for a Wikimania at McMurdo Station
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This is not an exhaustive list of continents. Please choose responses out of the continents listed.
I am aware of other continents and I omitted them on purpose.
If you know of other continents, please feel free to reply to the poll with the names of those continents if it will make you feel good.
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@evan Sadly, none...
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This is not an exhaustive list of continents. Please choose responses out of the continents listed.
I am aware of other continents and I omitted them on purpose.
If you know of other continents, please feel free to reply to the poll with the names of those continents if it will make you feel good.
You may not believe that one or more of the land masses on this list is a continent. That's OK. There are multiple continent systems and you and I have different ones. The world is complex and minds are diverse. That's good, not bad.
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@evan None of the above.
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This is not an exhaustive list of continents. Please choose responses out of the continents listed.
I am aware of other continents and I omitted them on purpose.
If you know of other continents, please feel free to reply to the poll with the names of those continents if it will make you feel good.
@evan *nodding* Terra Australis
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This is not an exhaustive list of continents. Please choose responses out of the continents listed.
I am aware of other continents and I omitted them on purpose.
If you know of other continents, please feel free to reply to the poll with the names of those continents if it will make you feel good.
@evan I once visited Mu with a stopover in Hy-Brasil. Got diverted via Lemuria on the way back.
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You may not believe that one or more of the land masses on this list is a continent. That's OK. There are multiple continent systems and you and I have different ones. The world is complex and minds are diverse. That's good, not bad.
@evan Glad you're reminding this to people. It's crazy the number of people who think that continents are an objective and absolute concept and not a social/historical construct.
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@evan none of the above, sadly, and thus I cannot vote.
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You may not believe that one or more of the land masses on this list is a continent. That's OK. There are multiple continent systems and you and I have different ones. The world is complex and minds are diverse. That's good, not bad.
@evan
Eurasia ā¤ļø
Afro-Eurasia š¤Æ -
@evan Iāve been very, very close to being in South America.
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This is not an exhaustive list of continents. Please choose responses out of the continents listed.
I am aware of other continents and I omitted them on purpose.
If you know of other continents, please feel free to reply to the poll with the names of those continents if it will make you feel good.
@evan I'M OFFENDED THAT ATLANTIS IS OMITTED
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@evan I have been to none and think I will make Australia first. Possibly South America.
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@evan I'M OFFENDED THAT ATLANTIS IS OMITTED
@n8 Wait till you find out about NĆŗmenor
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@evan None of those. Just North America, which I don't know if it counts since I live here, and Europe. Oh, and what's the DR and Jamaica considered?
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@evan None of those. Just North America, which I don't know if it counts since I live here, and Europe. Oh, and what's the DR and Jamaica considered?
@Fragglemuppet š¤·š½
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@evan I once visited Mu with a stopover in Hy-Brasil. Got diverted via Lemuria on the way back.
@Floppy TIL about Hy-Brasil!
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This is not an exhaustive list of continents. Please choose responses out of the continents listed.
I am aware of other continents and I omitted them on purpose.
If you know of other continents, please feel free to reply to the poll with the names of those continents if it will make you feel good.
@evan Now I want to stand on every craton. New bucket list item I guess.
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@jwz I know. Some people don't
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Magnetic-Suspension Hoverboard is Only 11 Years Late
Anyone who saw Back to the Future II was disappointed when 2015 rolled around with nary a hoverboard in sight. There have been various attempts to fake it, but none of them quite have the feel of floating about wherever youād like to go that the movie conveys. The little-known YouTuber [Colin Furze] has a new take on the idea: use magnets. Really big magnets.
If youāre one of [Colin]ās handful of subscribers, then you probably saw his magnetic-suspension bike. We passed on that one, but we couldnāt resist the urge to cover the hoverboard version, regardless of how popular [Colin] might be on YouTube. Itās actually stupidly simple: the suspension is provided by the repulsive force between alarmingly large neodymium magnets. In this case, two are on the base plate that holds the skateboard ātrucksā, and two are on the wooden ādeckā that [Colin] rides upon.
Of course magnetic repulsion is a very unstable equilibrium, so [Colin] had to reduce the degrees of freedom. In his first test, that was with a pair of rods and linear bearings. That way the deck could only move in the z-axis, providing the sensation of hovering without allowing the deck to slide off its magnetic perch. Unfortunately those pins transferred too much vibration from the ground into the deck, ruining the illusion of floating on air.
After realizing that heād never be able to ollie (jump) this massive beast of a skateboard, [Colin] decides he might as well use a longboard instead. Longboards, as the name implies, are long skateboards, and are for transportation, not tricks. The longboard gets the same massive magnets, but after a couple of iterations to find a smoother solution ā including a neat but unsuccessful tensegrity-inspired version ā ends up with a pair of loosely-fitted pins once again, though relocated to the rear of the board. From the riderās perspective, it looks exactly like a hoverboard, since you canāt see underneath from that angle. According to [Colin], it feels like a hoverboard, too.
The only way to do better would be with eddy currents over copper, or superconductors over a magnetic track, but both of those methods limit you to very specific locations. This might be a bit of a fakeout, but its one with a degree of freedom. One, to be specific. You have to admit, itās still less of a fake than the handle-less Segway we got in 2015, at least.
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@geeknik this sound like a dystopian fiction. Donāt wanna believe it.
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@haayman We do what we must because we can. Also if I don't then the answer won't be there when I forget and do the search again.
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In questo caso il sito utilizza cookiebot, che proviene da UK ma la cui proprietĆ ĆØ USA, vanificando quindi qualsiasi idea di servizio completamente EU.
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@jwz this is soo stackoverflow to post the answer yourself š¤
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@jon_ellis So I guess if this is on a machine where file vault matters for other accounts, your plan B is to make a Guest2 user and rsync it back to template from cron.
