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fleebleganger t1_jclgyak wrote

Reply to comment by Phormitago in Grad Student Explores Ancient Warfare With Naval Ram Project by kratos2025

Ensure the wood is dry, get a tight fit and then launch the ship. Give it a week or so and wood will swell and the metal bits might as well be welded onto the wood.

For extra fun maybe wrap a rope around it. Looking at the bits that are left over I’m not sure it’s much of a mystery. Wouldn’t be 100% certain but those 4 open bits seem to be the mortises for the wood to fit in.

Edit: saw other pictures below, looks like there’s a mortise in the other side, same deal just my 4 open bits comment is wrong.

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fleebleganger t1_j92uo06 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Scientists have figured out a way to engineer wood to trap carbon dioxide through a potentially scalable, energy-efficient process that also makes the material stronger for use in construction by giuliomagnifico

A mature oak tree weighs somewhere around 2,000 tons.

The average American generates 16 tons of carbon a year. That’s 125 years of emissions covered.

So each tree does quite a bit

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fleebleganger t1_j67ygry wrote

Reply to comment by ObligatoryOption in Near-whole ankylosaur remains found, complete with its jagged spikes, most of its limbs, armor coating, and some of its guts and stomach contents. The remains could be a key to understanding aspects of Early Cretaceous ecology, and shows how this species may have lived within its environment. by drewiepoodle

Uhhh-yes, found it does remain!…

(Nervously changes the subject)

So…curious…did you see anything big and ankylosaurish shaped around here lately? Just checking if we’d gotten another one because I know where the old one is….

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fleebleganger t1_j3ih2zn wrote

Reply to comment by cld1984 in Earliest evidence of the use of the Mesoamerican 260-day calendar, ‘centuries earlier than its previously known use in textual records,’ revealed by the orientations of newly-uncovered ruins along Mexico’s southern Gulf Coast by marketrent

Sunshine was a huge deal before lightbulbs.

Artificial lighting used to be really expensive, so light in the morning and evening, while receiving shade at midday would have absolutely thought of.

My opinion is the modern world, especially in developed nations, is too dependent on conveniences like light bulbs, microwaves, salted roads. Now no one has to give any thought to other people or the world around them, just what they need in the moment. People being selfish isn’t new, but now the whole world seems to cater to being selfish.

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fleebleganger t1_ivjxbuw wrote

Reply to comment by m4gpi in [OC] First and last frost dates for Concord, NH for 80 years. The growing season is getting longer. Repost because the image got deleted somehow. by reficius1

A longer growing season will produce higher yields than a shorter season, assuming weather, pests, disease, is the same.

Either you get the crops in early and can use longer maturity hybrids so they have more time to grow the crop or you still have time to replant or plant wet areas.

Additionally, longer season allows farmers to plant more acres helping to address the decrease in available farm labor.

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fleebleganger t1_iutnpld wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in US Credit Card Loans v. Personal Savings Rate [OC] by rosetechnology

That seems like a very reasonable explanation given the data we have.

If it were people putting money on CC to “get by” you’d expect it to return to something close to the prior level as a large majority of those people default and declare bankruptcy and the others pay it off as they get back to financial security.

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