Singapore vs London (from someone who has lived in SG for 20+ years and survived 2 months in London):
Phone Safety
🇸🇬 SG: Use your $2,000 iPhone to chope a table at a crowded hawker center while you go order food.
🇬🇧 LDN: Keep your phone zipped in an internal pocket, inside a bag, under a coat, or an e-bike rider will snatch it in 0.2 seconds.
Public Transport
🇸🇬 MRT: A 3-minute delay triggers a national meltdown
🇬🇧 Tube: You pay £4 to sweat in a 40°C underground oven that breaks down weekly.
Weather Strategy
🇸🇬 SG: Step outside into a 34°C sauna, immediately run inside to a -5°C AC freezer.
🇬🇧 LDN: Experience 4 seasons in 20 minutes, declare a national emergency if it hits 30°C.
Happy Birthday Singapore!
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This is Tennis for Two, created in 1958 at Brookhaven National Laboratory by physicist William Higinbotham
To play, you held a custom aluminum box, twisted a knob to dial in your trajectory angle, and slammed a button to hit the ball
Inside? An analog computer, vacuum tubes, and clicking electromechanical relays calculating gravity and bounce physics in real time
The entire $200B modern gaming industry started as a glowing dot bouncing across an oscilloscope screen
We’re one step closer to cyberpunk.
Engineers have created a robotic suit that puts itself on a person in about 10 seconds.
Soft air tubes are built into the suit. As they inflate, they wrap around the body and pull the fabric tight without any manual assistance.
The idea came to the developer while he was riding his bike in the rain.
At that moment, he thought how convenient it would be if a raincoat could put itself on while he was still moving.
At Production, S42's A3:4 section has rolled from SFC into MB-2 ready to be stacked with the rest of the ship. Once stacked, next to move in should be the transfer tubes.
@LabPadre
Everyone knows the phrase "You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube." But what if you could?
John's new toothpaste idea Paradox comes in a glass jar, turning the most ordinary part of your morning into a luxurious ritual.
Turns out you can put toothpaste back in the tube.
Paradise, Lost.
Gavin Newsom's California Nightmare
See my doc on the Palisades disaster...and the complete failure to rebuild. You Tube version linked here:
🔊 'If you go to the hospital in Venezuela ... You have to bring the bandages, the needles, the breathing tubes … because hospitals are just so poorly supplied.' @JSymmesCobb on the Reuters World News podcast