Tied up and Perfect
Also known as frozen smoke, Aerogel is the world’s lowest density solid, clocking in at 96% air. It’s basically just a gel made from silicon, except all the liquid has been taken out and replaced with gas instead. If you hold a small piece in your hand, it’s practically impossible to either see or feel, but if you poke it, it’s like styrofoam.
Aerogel isn’t just neat, it’s useful. It supports up to 4,000 times its own weight and can apparently withstand a direct blast from two pounds of dynamite. It’s also the best insulator in existence, which is why we don’t have Aerogel jackets: it works so well that people were complaining about overheating on Mt. Everest.
the future is nao
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Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov is a Buddhist Lama considered to have reached Nirvana, due to the lifelike state of his corpse, which is not subject to macroscopic decay. He died in 1927 and upon the latest examination in 2002, scientists and pathologists stated his body is “in the condition of someone who had died 36 hours ago”.
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Weed facts: One acre of hemp will produce as much paper as four acres of trees.
A real shame our government prefers to expend the trees despite there being safer means of filling our already dangerous consumption. There are more logically expendable plants such as hemp we can use, it just seems environmentally right to go about it this way. If we can create huge hemp farms that are better at meeting our vicious consumption cycles it seems like a no-brainer to want to go about it the most rational way, which would be going for the resource that is not only easy and cheap to produce from, but also as quality if not better than trees. Aside from the the other obvious gem, that we, well, we breathe, and so.. we need trees around. Why can’t we have more scientific literacy in congress now not later? :/ make my brain hurt sometimes.
fail my math quiz, smoke it later
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