The Midshipman’s Hitch Knot is promoted by Ashley (ABOK # 1993, p 325) as the only knot to tie in the following unlikely but critical circumstance: you fall overboard and catch hold of the line which you have prudently left trailing astern and find yourself hanging on with difficulty. Before you tire, you manage to bring the bitter end of the rope around your back. You then have to tie a suitable knot to make a loop around you. A bowline cannot be tied under load. Two Half Hitches will slide and constrict you. The Rolling Hitch is the answer. Even as the second turn is tucked “up” into the correct place, the major strain is taken and the final Half Hitch can be tied with less urgency.

 Manbird wrote:

because fluxnark?

 miamizsun wrote:


LSMFT

"AI isn't our second brain, it's our third hemisphere."

- some guy on the internet

morning reflection:
baffled that my grandmother was a sir isaac newton fan

 black321 wrote:

i agree
esp when you can get hijacked by someone else's emotions
it saves the me the trouble

 oldviolin wrote:

don't get hijacked by your emotions

 Manbird wrote:

sporkely

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 oldviolin wrote:

rude

"If you jump into a black hole, your mass energy will be returned to our Universe, but in a mangled form, which contains information about what you were like, but in an unrecognizable state. It is like burning an encyclopedia. Information is not lost, if one keeps the smoke and the ashes. But it is difficult to read."

— Stephen Hawking, Information Loss in Black Holes, 2005

 oldviolin wrote:

Actually a lot more to get a spark to jump the gap - just about 75,000 volts per inch (3000 volts per milimeter).  You can sustain an arc with less once you have ionized the air in the gap, but it takes a bunch to get it going. 

 Manbird wrote: 
Tell him you big baby. I don't care. You can even tell William.

you should get friendly with your Yamanaka factors
the sooner the better

 Manbird wrote:

Not when it's a hundred and fuck!

 Red_Dragon wrote:

Aye... you're a good lad. But you SHOULD be wearing at least 3 of them. As is what I tell all my customers.

 Manbird wrote:

I'm wearing a Manbirdio tee shirt and you're not.