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Without the "e". As Silicon can be CNC drilled, it led me to wonder of it's interior applications in a water environment, with extremities of heat.

Metalloid rather than a metal per se. It's got a very high melting point so it won't object too much to having a hot pan placed on it. Pretty tough too.

I think that was the sentiment at first Such a stout (and humiliating) counter attack was not anticipated. It is a very different ball game now but I still don't know what the (largely unspoken?) rules are. I want them to target Russian infrastructure in a tit for tat exercise but I cannot say if this is (a) wise (b) possible(c) ,Nato friendly(d)self defeating (e) avoidable Is it Russia itself who will take out Putin? I wish I had a better sense of what will happen

The best home distillers I've known always discarded both tails of the distillate, up front when starting and at the back when finishing, keeping only that which was in the middle.

I think the Munich argument has merit here. Authoritarian aggressors will take whatever they can. But I think Ukraine and allies would lose whatever moral authority and standing they now have if they okayed an attack on a large urban civilian population. I'd say nyet to a Moscow attack. Shelling a Russian power plant or fuel depot or military base, however, would be a legitimate dose of their own medicine. Though I'd have reservations about hitting infrastructure that leaves innocent Russian citizens shivering in the dark. Russia has done that, and shown themselves as monsters on the world stage.

The center line of the barrel in many guns is above the center of mass of the weapon resulting in the muzzle of the gun to rise.

Does that really matter? If a majority of the people in London decide they want to be an independent country, is their right to do that a 'grey area'? If I decide I want the land my home sits on to revert to Native American control, is anyone going to argue my desires should be taken seriously, and that perhaps my wishes should be allowed?

trevorjohnson32 has been banned because enough is enough

I believe you have a sign error here.

That appears to be the answer to the question where does the methanol go to. An interesting question in its own right, but not the one I asked. There's not much pectin in grain, potatoes or most grapes. There's a bit of low boiling crap in most wash- commonly acetaldehyde. The density of ethanol and methanol are pretty damned similar; about 0.79 You can't really see a change in density- only a change in refractive index and ethanol and methanol are pretty similar on that score 1.36 vs 1.33 . If there's any methanol present in the distillate then it must have been present in the wash. If drinking that wash won't kill you due to methanol poisoning then the same is true of the product. So any of the millions of "homemade wine" recipes will give you a product that , when distilled, won't contain enough methanol to kill you. One of the most effective antidotes to methanol poisoning is ethanol. The only ways to get methanol poisoning from moonshine involve being fundamentally stupid. You can either selectively collect the distillate with the wrong boiling range (and throw away the actual ethanol which would save you) or you can start with something like industrial meths which contains a lot of methanol. The thing about methanol in moonshine is that it's mainly a bogey man set up by law enforcement to protect alcohol duty revenue. I am not going to comment on any practical knowledge I may have about methanol tasting sweet but ethanol tasting bitter.

Then they're witches, and they'd weigh the same as a duck; so we can drown them...

Maybe so, but good/bad, positive/negative are not what personality tests are for. Extrovert and Introvert do not mean indiscreet and secretive, they just refer to how sociable one is by inclination. They're equally capable of lying and keeping secrets. Because you asked a question I thought I could answer - about the personality test.

I hope it's not because I suggested that you know more about yourself than the Briggs people do! Initially, my question was simple aimed at whether the test revealed anything about you that was surprising. It was curiosity, not ridicule. I only asked because my general impression is that people can tell you about themselves without long questionnaires. But, when they have nothing to lose by it, people also like doing quizzes, enjoy having some aspect of their character reflected back. I'm not sure why that is - maybe it's like talking to the mirror on the wall. In that sense, it can also benefit the test-taker by reminding him of behaviours that could be modified. I've never believed that these personality tests administered to prospective employees are particularly useful; I think they are an invasion of privacy, and I'm very much against them as a condition of being considered for a job. The applicant is qualified or not; their inner self, or self-image is no employer's business. But I can see that such tests - in fact, now that I think of it, any of those quizzes they used to have in magazines - may be helpful in starting a discussion among peers, colleagues, teammates, even families, to promote better understanding. I can't speak for anyone else, but I gained some insight from this discussion.

Space is defined as what numbers relative to a reference position points to.

You see: you are removing yourself from the physical reality. Because we understand the particle to behave like "A" the particle behaves as "A". This requires the particle to read our minds. Its absurd.

If they knew about the construction details through telepathic means.

Neat JFKIN neat how a teacher can be put into jail for teaching about the Aether, and your going to complain about your rights in the current political and religous systems? Like someone is attacking you? OH MAN! that makes me so sick listening to the whinyness.