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I walked around in my garden, sat down under a tree and fell asleep in the warm sun of an early spring. Then I watched a male blackbird catching earth worms half a meter next to me, listened to the song of the yellowhammer birds and watched little cicadas hop around on my shirt. I should have been working but I just didn't care at all today.

So the plane indeed has to be accelerating the same speed objects accelerate in vacuum, since the objects are not subject to drag because the air in the plane is also accelerating (falling) the same speed / alongside the objects. But once the plane has reached terminal velocity due to air resistance and cannot accelerate the objects should slowly start to hover to the front of the c0ckpit, though slower because the air is now creating friction on them, also giving the objects a terminal velocity. Thank you for taking your time for writing such an elaborate helpful answer, by the way.

According to Varric Cassandra is tall and grumpy. Though the inquisitor can beat her in both categories quite easily.

Can anyone with some physics and aviation knowledge explain me how parable flights work? Today I saw a video of a fighter pilot in his jet flying a parable which made his chocolate bar float around in the c0ckpit. Pretty straight forward of course. But something puzzles me, I know that an object pulled by gravity continues to accelerate till air resistance and gravity pull even each other out, it reaches terminal velocity. But since the chocolate bar in the c0ckpit does not experience any air resistance how does it not immediately fall forward and onto the front of the c0ckpit glass of the diving plane? If the c0ckpit was incredibly long, shouldn't the bar then start to fall inside the plane till it reaches terminal velocity itself? Does the plane perfectly out-accelerate the chocolate bar for some time? And if it does, why doesn't the chocolate bar smack onto the rear c0ckpit glass if the plane accelerates just a little too fast? Which leads me to another question. According to science, in perfect vacuum a feather and a led ball will hit the ground at the same time. Makes sense, but not really. Objects with more mass create more gravity, which means a lead ball should make the earth move towards it. A really tiny amount but still right? Lets say If we have two really long vacuum tubes on earth, in one a feather, in the other the moon. Wouldn't the moons gravitational forces created by its much larger mass pull the earth towards itself hitting it before the feather does? So heavier objects will hit the ground first after all? Just some questions that just popped into my head.

I just received my rifle stock from the US, I'm definitely not one of those mindless US bashing bandwagon jumper drones but I have to say every time I get parts manufactured there I'm less impressed of their quality. This case is no exception, even though the manufacturer is known for quality the stock has a nasty white imperfection at the rear at a super visible spot, the colors are completely off with the red part being screaming pink, the inletting leaves much to be desired for for a stock labeled as finished ''drop in'', the holes for the screws are all drilled way too small in diameter and a little off too, they would need to be re-drilled. Which I'm not going to do since I'm not going to start using low quality components. And thats just the tip of the iceberg, many friends of mine who own rifles manufactured (AND assembled) in the US (like Remington) complain about the ever decreasing quality, tool marks, rough fit-and finish and that kind of thing. I've shot many guns made in the US and I agree with their complaints. Coincidently prices for used US manufactured arms from the 70's have gone up dramatically and are worth at least 30-50% more than newly manufactured ones of the same type. This is not a global phenomena however, even with outsourcing to eastern Europe most traditional European arms manufacturers manage to keep their product quality from dropping.

A proven method is a method that works for the majority of people through a process of what could be described as evolution. There are time proven and highly successful methods to lose weight, just as there are highly effective and time proven ways to build muscle. There are always exceptions, but there are methods which are described as standards because it works for most people. You cannot deny this.

Theoretically there is an infinite amount of ridiculous ways to fail at any task. This does not mean, however, that all those tasks are complex.

I find it endlessly puzzling how so many people struggle with losing weight, its such a simple process yet it seems a new creative way to completely screw it up is found every single day. Either they work out so hard with circle training they're wrecking themselves, or they do a reasonable amount of exercise but increase their caloric intake by 300%, or they do a couple of crunches every three days and despair because nothing happens, or they stop eating while working out till the inevitable collapse happens, or they get a highly dangerous bariatric surgery and die, or they start weight lifting with isolations and wonder why they get heavier.

Spent a nice early spring day in the garden catching some sun rays and digging a new vegetable patch. I also found some leftover parsnips from last summer, since they're now two years old they'll flower in a couple of months and that means harvesting seeds.

He also makes music with English lyrics. A classic:

Go pro vid form the very innovative Nissan LMP-1. Love the sound.

I really liked FEAR2 even though it was nowhere near as scary as its predecessor. (Although the elementary school basement creepyness wasn't bad) If you haven't already played the original FEAR give it a shot, Its damn good and the graphics are still absolutely acceptable. *edit* Oh, and the FEAR2 add ons are fun.

If it didn't work I wouldn't have done it that way, don't ya think?. A post digger is nice as long as you have soft, loose earth, not full roots. Also no matter what I do, when using a post digger I cannot compress the earth around it enough to make it solid. I tried compressing it in layers but that took me forever. Hammering it down (70 centimeters) takes strength but in the end I find it to be stronger. And a sledge hammer is no problem as long as use use a plate that protects the post from the impact. I'm talking about 17x17cm posts here. I dug one out and while the tip flattened out the shape remained largely intact and so did the protective tar layer. For what its worth, my neighbor who is a farmer built his cow fence in the same manner. *edit* I also know somebody who has machine attached to his tractor that pushes down those posts, like magic.

Through the park. The industrial park. Loved that episode.

I built my own fence a while ago so I totally get you, though I was dragging around a truckload of wooden planks instead of the wire. But what exhausts me the most is swinging the two handed 10lbs sledgehammer like a madman. Several dozens time no problem, great endurance training and its fun beating the hell out of poles with a giant hammer, after a couple hundred swings however it starts to get really tiring. Especially if the soil is dry which makes the pointy ends of the wooden poles flatten out after the third hit, then you really have to beat that pole like your life depends on it. / Redneck problems. Yeeehaww!

Since nothing sucks more than having chicken legs and a weak back I did 5 sets dead lifts +2 max lifts and 120kg dumbbell squats with a really narrow stance (feet touching), 5 sets of 10 reps. Feels like picking up two 60kg suitcases over and over again. Simple, effective and really brutal, just how I like it.

The only animal that ever died in my hands was a 4-year old bunny when I was a kid, I loved it but then it got that horrible head-tilt illness for which there is no cure nor treatment. In the end it choked in my own arms. What still haunts me is that it suffered so much, trashing around and not getting any air for hours, I was only a kid but even back then I should have had the guts to end its misery. It was a hard lesson, as soon as you realize that there is no hope stop the bullsh!t and put it to sleep immediately. When my cat was put to sleep it was a good end and he had a very long beautiful life.

Only if its by accident or through an early illness, I felt not sorry for all the pets and people close to me who died, when they perished I reflected on their lives and always came to the conclusion they had a wonderful ride. And then their time simply came. Many beings are denied of such a nice fate. In those cases I feel no grief nor loss and move on like nothing ever happened.

Its probably diabetes, my cat got it from the cat food when he was 19 and the first signs were weight loss and fatigue. Kidneys failure and diabetes are extremely common problems with old cats. With heavy medication my cat lived two more years with severe diabetes and kidney failure, the last two months before I put him to sleep were...not pretty.

Sense of achievement is half the fun, I would not take such wonder drug if it existed even if it was free of side effects. Its like that self aiming gun - Boooring.

Been training a buddy who is completely out of shape and not the youngest person anymore, a few weeks ago I thought she was a hopeless case, she can neither do a push up nor a single crunch not to mention pull up which requires very special exercises. But now she is starting to get better rapidity and today was really promising. There might be hope afterall.

I'm unloading bulky firewood briquettes and I'm laughing at those who say strength training is useless while I'm carrying 11 10kg (with height of the packs making the limit) packs in one turn without breaking a sweat and more importantly without injuring myself. My friends struggle with 4 packs at once and complain about back pain. Strength is useful.