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We've all been there too hungry to get up and too lazy to reach for your phone, what's
the solution?
Well if you're New Zealand's Ollie Mason-Clarke, you use the same technology the defense industry
uses to solve its problems.
Clarke wanted KFC but was nowhere near a KFC and since they don't deliver he retro-fitted
a drone into a fried chicken delivery system Clarke,runs the website King of Cheat Meals
and he made arrangements with a local KFC branch and then flew his drone across town
to pay for a meal and pick it up in the drive-through lane.
Sadly, the drone wasn't able to carry an entire bucket of chicken back.
But he did end up with enough food for him and his friend, and he didn't even have to
leave his table in the park to get it.
Now, for those of you out there who may be skeptical by all of the viral marketing stunts
that companies have pulled off in the past, Mason-Clarke insists that wasn't the case
here.
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10 Things Pro Clash Royale Players DO - Duration: 10:06.
yo what is up guys it's Clash Tips
back again with another clash Royale video
today we will be going over the top 10 things pro clash royale players do
while they
are battling now before we get into
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on the battle field
first and for most clash royale players analyze
your deck and your play from your first
move so top players practically mail
every type of debt and considering the
death which type of deck you're playing
and can know if it favors to them or if
it doesn't most of the time knowing your
opponent's deck is a big advantage as
you can expect his attack and will not
be surprised by their move contrail
players are sneaky we basically can read
mine because of this game this game that
would only teach Ivy a better strategy
person but it also helps us in learning
how to read mine so just make sure you
be careful the second thing that the top
class rail players do in the battlefield
is that they can defeat that by counters
their type of deck in this game is very
essential to be able to counter any type
of deck with your deck even if the
opponent has your deck counter with the
ride variety of cards there will be a
lot of time where you have the counters
to your opponents only the opposite top
players don't panic and try to win even
at a disadvantage
so yeah basically don't think you can
just win instantly if you have a good
deck that can counter mind alright guys
so the first thing that the top class
writer players do is that they leave a
like on all of my videos if you leave a
like on to my video
it basically is like a life hack where
we're making would win your next battle
100 thousand percent guaranteed at low
levels people tend to play cards without
even knowing if the card is able to
counter the other cards for example they
share an equal level fireball at a
musketeer or that a mirrored Goblin
barrel at tournament standards those
interactions make the difference in a
lot of situations and they know them and
are able to avoid unnecessary one this
completely depends on the situation but
let's go ahead and say that you have a
giant in your next place so the must
appear with the help of the tower would
defeat the musketeer and you would start
a counter flip this is only one of the
simplest examples and there are
definitely much more complex situations
top players just can quickly analyze each
situation and therefore they can quickly
respond according to that situation
basically in this game is all about
being beast and ruthless so if you can't
be based on ruthless I don't know if
they can compete with the elite to be
honest I come around there actually can
anyways the fist thing the top soccer
players do is that they play with one
hand while they use their other hand to
play a metal battle on a different
account yes there literally is that good
all right I'm just joking
anyway the fifth thing that top popular
players do is that they do a lot of
predictive moves there is a guy's not so
long ago about predictive moves clash royale is a fast-paced game and the faster
you are and the smarter the more likely
you will win predictive moves can be
satisfying when they succeed but are
also high-risk luckily though if you do know
how to use predictive moves they
obviously can have a high reward so it
definitely is worth it in my opinion
they can prevent a lot of damage for
your troops or can let other troops do a
lot of damage and a good example of this
is the graveyard predicting spells are
very important for top players at higher
levels and can change the course of a
game so yeah there's really no harm in
being a little predictive and it can
definitely help you win a game moving on
to the sixth thing that top-class shows
our players do in battle and honestly
I've probably said that too many times
so I'm gonna I'm going to stop saying
what they do in battle but this number
six thing that they do is that they do
not give up when they have one or two
towers down unlike others they keep
pushing knowing that there still is a
possibility of coming back and actually
winning I remember when I first started
playing clash Royale I would just give
up whenever I had like my first tower
down and I just thought to myself you
know this this is the end but I've
learned not to do that not to just give
up I would get so involved in the game
and just get so mad when I would get my
first tower down the mouth I literally
just push through it knowing that you
can come back because obviously a lot of
people have come back and if you played
clash royale for a long time you
probably know what
talkative so moving on to number seven
that day learning from their mistakes
during the course of a battle even if
you made a mistake in the battle the
battles are usually three minutes long
and you have enough time to learn from
what you've been wrong learning from
your mistakes can be critical in order
to win if you made a wrong move
do not repeat it and take it into
account the next time you do do a move
every time that you make fewer mistakes
you are more likely to actually bounce
back and win seriously guys if you want
to become an elite at class why well you
just have to you just have to accept the
fact that you did something wrong that
you made a mistake and then you have to
just fix the mistakes throughout the
game take note of the mistakes you made
don't try to blame it on something
someone else did or something you know
just just absorb that you made the
mistake and prevent it from happening in
the future of that battle and in other
future battles and that is the only way
you're going to actually improve your
game I stock rail if you sit there
blaming everything else and everybody
else you're never going to actually fix
your mistakes because you're not
accepting that it was a mistake all
right so we're almost done here we got
two more things that the classifier
players do so if number eight is where
we are at right now and that is that
they know how to control their temper
playing successive matches can be
stressing and can make you lose your
temper controlling your emotions seems
like common sense but it is not as easy
as you may think when you're actually in
a battle in the game moving a close
match you can feels really angry and
start to lose more battles after because
you're just kind of you have that like
mad mentality to you and you're not
really focusing then you're just we're
just pushing yourself to win and
honestly this goes for any video game
and anything in real life if you played
sports in the past and you get mad you
actually start to play was worse at the
sport and the same thing with video game
let's say you're playing calls duty
you're on a kill streak and you die and
you get super mad you're not going to
get back on a kill streak if you stay a
mad you have to stay focused and clear
minded
that's the same thing here with clash
Royale so I'll rely for number 8 learn
to control your temper and the easiest
way to do this is to realize that even
though you just lost you'll probably win
another game really soon like just know
that's what I use that's what I keep in
my head as you know I'm gonna win I'm
going to where this is just going to
make me stronger you know take more of
your mistakes as we said in number 7 all
right but anyway guys for the 9 thing
here is that they know how to cycle card
when you have a bad starting end or when
you're nearing victory with two
fireballs needed tadhana players know
how to cycle cars and know which card is
the best to play in those exact moments
and honestly that's it for number 9
miles probably the shortest one that we
win over but you know it's know how to
cycle the cards as simple as that
so for the final and last thing we're at
number 10 and that is objectives are
very essential for success if you don't
have one it is very hard to win a game
whether you're playing it for fun or for
gaming the crown chest also being the
first in the leaderboards your objective
is always a different thing I always say
to myself that if you want you can
having an objective and motivation are
important factors for winning and
honestly it's notable for that is for
anything in it life if you want to
succeed at something you must always say
to yourself that you will because if you
put the time in and if you put the
effort in and everything you can
honestly do it there's there's no reason
you can't and the same thing goes with
clash Royale if you want to be good at
the game put your mind to it and you're
honestly you're honestly destroy anyone
you will legitimately see improvement
just by changing the thoughts in your
head so guys I hope these 10 things
helped you become a beast at clash
Royale these are the top secrets that
elite players use in class as well ok
guys you're not getting this information
anywhere else this is top secret from
the government files though most of them
are very simple and you just need to
just need to implement them once you
start doing them you'll see they're not
that hard to do
and we'll definitely see in prison so
with that being said good luck to all of
you clash Royale players once again if
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Large Maine Coon Cat Facts Cats 101 #mainecoon - Duration: 5:11.
Maine Coon
Known as the gentle giants of the cat world, he's fluffy and he's Yuuuuge.
But, he's also sweet tempered and said to be the most dog-like of all the domestic cat
breeds.
This plus-size cat, adorned with a beautiful neck ruff, tufted feet that resemble snowshoes
and a big, bushy tail is likely the oldest cat breed native to America.
Hi, welcome to Animal Facts.
Today, we look at 10 Fun Facts about the big, friendly feline, the Maine Coon.
Let's get started.
But, before we start, take a moment to like and subscribe for more fun, fauna facts.
Let us know about your kitty in the comments below.
10.
He's a kitty of legend.
Lots of myths surround the origin of the Maine Coon, from the belief that he's the result
of a cross between a cat and a raccoon, which is kinda genetically impossible to a folktale
that he descends from French kitties sent to Maine by Marie Antoinette anticipating
fleeing from France.
Some even say the Vikings brought them when they landed in America centuries before the
settlers.
Indeed there is a resemblance between the Maine Coon and the Norwegian Forest Cat, but
most likely, the cats descend from hook-ups between shorthaired domestic cats already
in the US and longhaired foreign cats, possibly Agora types, brought home as souvenirs by
New England seafarers.
9.
There's a reason why some people have mistaken Maine Coons for bobcats—they're huge.
Female Maine Coons tip the scales at anywhere from 9 to 16 pounds and 13 to 18 pounds for
males.
Although there have certainly been larger.
Maine Coons aren't the largest cat breed, and they actually fall somewhere between Norwegian
Forest Cats, which weigh up to 16 pounds, and Ragdolls, which can weigh up to 20 pounds.
It's ok, big boy, we still love you.
8.
In 2010, the Guinness World Records accepted a male purebred Maine Coon named "Stewie"
as the "Longest Cat" measuring 48.5 in (123 cm) from the tip of his nose to the tip of
his tail.
Stewie died in February 2013, from cancer at his home in Reno, Nevada, at age 8.
7.
These beautiful cats are superbly equipped for Maine's harsh winters.
He has long, shaggy multi-layered fur and large paws that help him walk on the snow.
He also has furry ears (some with tufts) and a bushy tail, which he can wrap around his
body for extra warmth.
6.
His personality has earned him the reputation of being the "dog of the cat world".
The loyal and good-natured Maine Coon adapts well to many lifestyles and personalities.
He likes being with people and has the habit of following them around, but he isn't needy.
He's happy to receive attention, but if you're busy he's satisfied to just supervise.
Close a door on him and he will wait patiently for you to realize the error of your ways
and let him in.
He's not typically a lap cat, but he does like to be near you.
5.
The show career for the Maine Coon cat began in New York in 1895 when the best cat award
was given to a tabby Maine Coon named Leo.
Leo kept winning at the Boston cat shows until 1900 when he was defeated by his own son.
4.
The Maine Coon cat likes water and enjoys playing in and with water.
His luscious coat is water-resistant, and also thick and dense.
A lot of Maine Coon owners have observed their cat's love of water and it is actually a
delight both for the cat and his owners.
See, told ya he was dog-like.
3.
Any cat can chirp or trill but theMaine Coon cat does them often.
Cat owners love hearing these sweet sounds from their cats.
We don't know for sure why they chirp or trill, but chirping is said to be made by
cats when they spot or catch prey.
Either way, it makes them fun to talk to.
2.
He has larger bones, a barrel chest, with a rectangular body shape that tends to be
more muscular as compared to most other breeds.
Unlike most other domesticated cats, he doesn't reach his maximum growth until 3-5 years of
age!
1.
This shouldn't come as a surprise, but he is the official state cat of umm, Maine.
Yeah, shocker, right?
The Maine Coon cat was recognized as the official state cat of Maine in 1985.
Cats are also recognized as state symbols in Massachusetts (tabby cat), and Maryland
(calico cat).
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Third day in Havana, we are gonna exchange money. The line is a bit long!!
You have to bring your passport. Then the person will give you a piece of paper with the total amount and how
many and which bills and coins you are gonna get, then you get the CUCs. After this you can exchange the CUC by Cuban Pesos.
1 CUC can be exchanged for almost US$ 1,00. Meanwhile, 1 CUC can be exchanged for 24 Cuban Pesos.
1 Cuban Peso is the same as US$ 0,04. But you can have lunch for 30 Cuban Pesos, which is like US$ 1,20.
Really cheap if you are using Cuban Pesos!!
Yesterday we were supposed to party, but apparently on the weekends you have to get there really early,
otherwise it is gonna be full and you can't get in. At around 8PM we bought a bottle of rum and started
doing drinking games. When we realised, it was around 11PM already, so we didn't go out.
Yesterday we didn't go out, but tonight we are gonna go!! Today is a day for... - Party
Breakfast with Rafa.
We found this cuban Shopping Mall to see how it is, if it is anyhow differente, but as you can see, it isn't
that differente from any Shopping Mall anywhere else. Obviously a small Shopping Mall and from a
poor country, but not that different. Now we are gonna get out and keep walking to the train station.
Yesterday we found out that you can travel by train in Cuba, but the train breaks all the time.
So it is a nice experience, but dangerous. What we are gonna do is to go to the train station, as tomorrow
we are gonna go to Viñales and I found out that there is a train to Viñales. Here in Cuba you should only get a
train if it is a short distance. Actually, they say you shouldn't get a train at all. But let's see the prices.
- Hello. Tomorrow we wanna go to Viñales and we would like to know what time, how much and how long it takes by train.
- Pinar del Rio. - Sorry?
- Pïnar del Rio? - Si, si. Pinar del Rio.
- Tomorrow at 7AM. From the train station next to this one.
- Should we pain when inside of the train? - You have to be there at 6AM or 6.30AM to buy the ticket.
- How long is the trip? - It leaves at 7AM and gets there at 2PM.
- How much is it? - 5 Cuban Pesos. For you CUC 5.
- Thanks. - Where are you from?
- Brazil. - Do you like Brazil?
- Of course!! - The soap opera that is playing...
- Here all the soap operas are from Brazil. - Yeah, in the place we are staying we saw the soap opera "Vítimas"...
- Mentiras something... Rastro de Mentiras!! - I am watching...
- Nico is a... - I am watching... No, but my favourite brazilian girl is Pitanga.
- She is my favourite. - She is THE brazilian woman.
- She is my favourite. All of them are good, but the one I like the most, how she works, is Pitanga.
- Here in Cuba we say La Pitanga.
- Well, good luck and have a nice day. - You too.
We are not taking a train for sure. There are two other options... Three, actually...
We can take a "Guagua", which is the local bus, cheaper. We can take a Viazul bus, which is for tourists and
expensive. This options is not gonna happen also. Or we can take a shared taxi.
More people who are going to the same place, so they share the taxi.
It costs around CUC 10 each and it takes like 2h to get there.
Now the idea is to walk around Havana Vieja, the most touristic place in Havana.
So we are in Havana Vieja and behind me is the Capitolio.
Some people believe that Raul Castro lives there, but actually he doesn't. He is at the Plaza de la Revolución.
There are some ministries. Here is actually a museum that they are fixing.
It looks like it is closed for restoration.
One of the most touristic things here is to take an old taxi like this and go around the city.
- Now we are going to the Museum of the... - Revolution.
Those are bullet holes. In 1957 some revolutionary students attacked Fulgêncio Batista. This was actually
the government palace. They attacked him. They didn't succeed, as Fulgêncio Batista only scaped from Cuba in 1959.
Fidel came here, took the palace and started to rule the country. It was here in this room where Che Guevara was
turned into a cuban citizen, as he was from Argentina.
We just left the Museum of the Revolution. So, are you feeling revolutionary?
Yes, I am. I am ready. Just invite me and I will do it.
So it is a really basic museum, full of pictures and text. There aren't any videos, but it is interesting.
The first floor only has the ticket entrance. The second floor shows the post-revolutionary period.
Which were the first actions of the government, like turning into public property everything that
belonged to the pro-Batista people and to the americans also. One curiosity is that the americans supported
the revolution, thinking that like this they would bring more democracy to Cuba, but when the revolutionary
started making everything State property, then the americans became against it.
The second floor shows the story of the revolutionaries before the revolution. The main ones, not all of them,
like Camilo Cienfuegos, Che, Fidel, also talks about some women that participated in the revolution.
And here they show the Bastards Corner. The first one is Fulgêncio Batista, the dictator before the revolution.
Ronald Reagan, which started the anti-communist actions here.
Bush father and Bush son, a bit nazi and also stupid, reading the book upside down.
From there you can access the Granma Memorial, which shows the Yatch Granma. For those who don't know,
Granma was the yatch used by the cuban revolutionaries in 1956 to come from the Gulf of Mexico to Cuba.
It is made for 12 people, but 82 people came on it, including Fidel and Raul Castro, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos.
They got in Cuba in a place nowadays called Granma, which is also the same place where Jose Martí
landed 61 years before to fight for the Cuban independence from Spain, so this made a poetic sense
to the landing of the yatch Granma. This is the story they tell in the museum.
Of course there is no criticism to the revolution as we are in a dictatorship. But you can always check on
Google to see if those informations are correct and have your own conclusion.
Shit, we are in a really touristic place. Probably everything is really expensive around here.
The problem is we are starving, as it is already 3PM, and for sure lunch is not gonna be here. We are gonna try to
find a Paladar (private family owned restaurant) to have lunch.
Cheap food in a Paladar. Let´s see, because some of them are expensive. Usually they cost 30 Cuban Pesos.
That one is one of those expensive Paladars I was talking about. It costed 9 to 18 CUCs, we are used to pay around 1 CUC.
One more thing we just realised here is the safety of Cuba. Take a look at my camera. Actually, some time
ago the camera was even out of this case. I was walking all around with it and the locals told us that here is safe.
Teresa, the owner of our accommodation, told me that one tourist that was staying at her house got robbed.
When she told me that, I thought she was talking about armed robbery, but she told me that those things do not
exist in Cuba. What happened is that he was really drunk and some people pickpocked him.
So, it is really safe to travel here in Cuba.
Raining a lot. We are trying to get a taxi to a club.
- We managed to get the taxi and tonight we are gonna... - Go party!!
So we came to Fábrica de Arte, which everyone says it is cool, but it is looking really "cult". I am not seeing anyone
drinking, I am not seeing people drunk, partying, dancing. I am not seeing anyone dancing. - But it looks cool!
I am talking to the camera, by the way.
Drinking a revolutionary beer in a fancy bar. Bullshit. It is a Heineken!!
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I'd like to think we're smarter than the Sun.
Let's compare and contrast.
Humans, on the one hand, have made enormous advances in science and technology, built
cities, cars, computers, and phones.
We have split the atom for war and for energy.
What has the Sun done?
It's a massive ball of plasma, made up of mostly hydrogen and helium.
It just, kind of, sits there.
Every now and then it burps up hydrogen gas into a coronal mass ejection.
It's not a stretch to say that the Sun, and all inanimate material in the Universe,
isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer.
And yet, the Sun has mastered a form of energy that we just can't seem to wrap our minds
around: fusion.
It's really infuriating, seeing the Sun, just sitting there, effortlessly doing something
our finest minds have struggled with for half a century.
Why can't we make fusion work?
How long until we can finally catch up technologically with a sphere of ionized gas?
The trick to the Sun's ability to generate power through nuclear fusion, of course, comes
from its enormous mass.
The Sun contains 1.989 x 10^30 kilograms of mostly hydrogen and helium, and this mass
pushes inward, creating a core heated to 15 million degrees C, with 150 times the density
of water.
It's at this core that the Sun does its work, mashing atoms of hydrogen into helium.
This process of fusion is an exothermic reaction, which means that every time a new atom of
helium is created, photons in the form of gamma radiation are also released.
The only thing the Sun uses this energy for is light pressure, to counteract the gravity
pulling everything inward.
Its photons slowly make their way up through the Sun and then they're released into space.
So wasteful.
How can we replicate this on Earth?
Now gathering together a Sun's mass of hydrogen here on Earth is one option, but it's really
impractical.
Where would we put all that hydrogen.
The better solution will be to use our technology to simulate the conditions at the core of
the Sun.
If we can make a fusion reactor where the temperatures and pressures are high enough
for atoms of hydrogen to merge into helium, we can harness those sweet sweet photons of
gamma radiation.
The main technology developed to do this is called a tokamak reactor; it's a based on
a Russian acronym for: "toroidal chamber with magnetic coils", and the first prototypes
were created in the 1960s.
There are many different reactors in development, but the method is essentially the same.
A vacuum chamber is filled with hydrogen fuel.
Then an enormous amount of electricity is run through the chamber, heating up the hydrogen
into a plasma state.
They might also use lasers and other methods to get the plasma up to 150 to 300 million
degrees Celsius (10 to 20 times hotter than the Sun's core).
Superconducting magnets surround the fusion chamber, containing the plasma and keeping
it away from the chamber walls, which would melt otherwise.
Once the temperatures and pressures are high enough, atoms of hydrogen are crushed together
into helium just like in the Sun.
This releases photons which heat up the plasma, keeping the reaction going without any addition
energy input.
Excess heat reaches the chamber walls, and can be extracted to do work.
The challenge has always been that heating up the chamber and constraining the plasma
uses up more energy than gets produced in the reactor.
We can make fusion work, we just haven't been able to extract surplus energy from the
system… yet.
Compared to other forms of energy production, fusion should be clean and safe.
The fuel source is water, and the byproduct is helium (which the world is actually starting
to run out of).
If there's a problem with the reactor, it would cool down and the fusion reaction would
stop.
The high energy photons released in the fusion reaction will be a problem, however.
They'll stream into the surrounding fusion reactor and make the whole thing radioactive.
The fusion chamber will be deadly for about 50 years, but its rapid half-life will make
it as radioactive as coal ash after 500 years.
Do you know coal ash is radioactive?
If all goes well, fusion reactors should produce an enormous amount of power.
And yet, we don't seem to have any operational reactors.
In a moment, I'm going to talk about the specific fusion experiments going on across
the world, how they're doing, and when we could expect to see them produce more power
than they require, but first, I'd like to thank James Aberson, Luke Hutyler, Eric M,
Arrakiv, and the rest of our 731 patrons for their generous support.
If you love what we're doing and want to help out, head over to patreon.com/universetoday
Now you know what fusion power is and how it works, what's the current state, and
how long until fusion plants give us unlimited cheap safe power, if ever?
Fusion experiments are measured by the amount of energy they produce compared to the amount
of energy you put into them.
For example, if a fusion plant required 100MW of electrical energy to produce 10 MW of output,
it would have an energy ratio of 0.1.
You want at least a ratio of 1.
That means energy in equals energy out, and so far, no experiment has ever reached that
ratio.
But we're close.
The Chinese are building the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, or EAST.
In 2016, engineers reported that they had run the facility for 102 seconds, achieving
temperatures of 50 million C.
If true, this is an enormous advancement, and puts China ahead in the race to create
stable fusion.
That said, this hasn't been independently verified, and they only published a single
scientific paper on the milestone.
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany recently announced
that their Wendelstein 7-X (W7X) stellarator (I love that name), heated hydrogen gas to
80 million C for only a quarter of a second.
Hot but short.
A stellarator works differently than a tokamak.
It uses twisted rings and external magnets to confine the plasma, so it's good to know
we have more options.
The biggest, most elaborate fusion experiment going on in the world right now is in Europe,
at the French research center of Cadarache.
It's called ITER, which stands for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, and it
hopes to cross that magic ratio.
ITER is enormous, measuring 30 meters across and high.
And its fusion chamber is so large that it should be able to create a self-sustaining
fusion reaction.
The energy released by the fusing hydrogen keeps the fuel hot enough to keep reacting.
There will still be energy required to run the electric magnets that contain the plasma,
but not to keep the plasma hot.
And if all goes well, ITER will have a ratio of 10.
In other words, for every 10 MW of energy pumped in, it'll generate 100 MW of usable
power.
ITER is still under construction, and as of June 2015, the total construction costs had
reached $14 billion.
The facility is expected to be complete by 2021, and the first fusion tests will begin
in 2025.
So, if ITER works as planned, we are now about 8 years away from positive energy output from
fusion.
Of course, ITER will just be an experiment, not an actual powerplant, so if it even works,
an actual fusion-based energy grid will be decades after that.
At this point, I'd say we're about a decade away from someone demonstrating that a self-sustaining
fusion reaction that generates more power than it consumes is feasible.
And then probably another 2 decades away from them supplying electricity to the power grid.
By that point, our smug Sun will need to find a new job.
What do you think?
Are we about to unlock the unlimited power of the Sun?
And if you did have access to that kind of energy, what would you do with it?
I'd love to know your ideas in the comments.
In our next episode, we investigate cosmic inflation.
That mind bending time right after the Big Bang when the Universe expanded to an enormous
size in moments.
Like these ideas?
I've created a custom playlist for this episode.
We start with one of our own episode about why iron isn't poison to stars.
Then onto more information about fusion from Isaac Arthur and others.
It starts right now.
Heated hydrogen gas to eighty million cel- aww.
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Hey, this is Dixie from A Fool's Journey.
The week didn't turn out quite how I planned, so I thought...uuuuuuhhh!
See?
There you go.
So I thought I would do a quick card for coming up just on a little cell phone thing in my
regular look.
So, hang on.
The card for the week, let's see what we get.
Okay.
I've got the eight of swords reversed.
Now, I prefer to get this card reversed because it's a good indication that you can release
yourself from self-imposed restrictions.
Or prison.
That thing that you thought, sigh.
I can't do this, there's nothing that, that um, I know how to do.
What you don't know how to fix or look at or whatever, there is an option for escape
but you're gonna have to take it.
So, keep your eye out for those windows of opportunity and you'll see some.
That's it!
Take care.
Peace out from the Goddess.
Bye bye.
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