CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Had an unexpected visitor in the apartment this afternoon. The cats thought she'd be an interesting toy but thankfully no stings. Safely captured and released to the wild where hopefully she'll tell her sisters this apartment isn't a good place to find flowers.

(To the tune of Jolene) Toe beans, toe beans, toe beans, toe be-e-eans!, #cats #catsofmastodon

@Gulleko Imagine Vincent Price wearing one of those the whole movie!

@Gulleko This is true. For instance, if you're wearing a Zorb, your experience will be quite different!

@Gulleko "Breaking the surface tension" is largely a myth. The surface tension doesn't really have enough force at this scale to do anything. What causes you to splat is that the water can't get out of the way fast enough and because water is incompressible it basically acts like a solid.

What saves you in this case is that if you imagine hitting a wave that has the water up at a 45° angle relative to you, you're passing through less water at first, which slows you down as you impact the rest.

@Gulleko The best number I've found for "this will kill you" comes from the FAA, who say that if you're hitting water at 116 feet per second (~127 km/h) that's almost guaranteed death. They list that corresponding to a height of 149' (~45m).

However, the world record for high dive is 192' (58.5m),a nd people have been recorded surviving from falling off the Golden Gate Bridge, at 220' (67m), so there's some margin for error.

@Gulleko The biggest factor on this is going to depend on how you're oriented. The more surface area you present to the water when you strike, the more water needs to get out of your way when you impact. In general, feet-first is going to give you the best odds of survival.

Choppier water is also better than calmer, because if you're presenting a smaller surface area, and you hit a wave you're basically shrinking the vector of your impact in to the water by a factor of the slope of the wave...

@Poe ...it was released in VCD in Indonesia, and imported copies may have been used for unofficial theatrical showings around that time.

@Poe I haven't been able to find a specific release date and it doesn't seem to have had an official airing. If it was, it wouldn't have been an licensed airing owing to the fact that in 1977, Vietnam was a newly socialist republic and embargoed by the US

With the US trade embargo lifted, in 1994, it's possible that this was where these movies started filtering in. There doesn't seem to have been an official Vietnamese theatrical release of the remasters in 1997 either, but...

@SnyperWolf This actually gets into some really neat options for assistive typing for people with limited hand motion. The most obvious is speech-to-text systems which have gotten a lot better over time, but depending on your specific needs, you might also use something like a mouth stick or eye tracking.

One particularly interesting option is a tongue-operated controller, which involves a magnetic pickup and metal stud piercing.

*dot matrix paper descends*

I want to try something. I have good research skills and a hunger for learning new things. Have you got a stupid question that's been taking up room in your brain that you want an answer to? Ask it here and I'll do my best to answer it! No question too silly!

I promise the results will be as accurate as I can find, and as detailed as I can fit in a post, which isn't perfect but is surely better than an AI

One of the recommended tactics to dealing with a black bear if you find one in the wild is to make yourself as large as possible by raising your hands high in the air, moving them around, and making loud noises.

Because of this we can assume that one of the main natural predators of the black bear is Kermit the Frog.