Lots of applications – from rocket engines to ink jet printing – require breaking large droplets into smaller ones, so there are many methods to do this. Some techniques rely on fluid instabilities, others use ultrasonic vibration. But one of the most effective methods may also be the simplest: placing a mesh between large drops and their target.
That’s the idea at the heart of this new study, which uses a wire mesh to break large droplets into a spray of finer ones 1000 times smaller. The target application is agricultural spraying, and the researchers argue that their method would allow farmers to treat their crops effectively with fewer chemicals and less run-off. Drops impacting the mesh form a narrow cone over the plant, and the smaller, slower droplets are better at sticking to the plant instead of bouncing away. They’re also less likely to injure crops, since they don’t disturb the leaves the way larger drops do. (Image and research credit: D. Soto et al.; via MIT News; submitted by Omar M.)
In 1978 Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the JIS standard was released people noticed something strange – several of the added characters had no obvious sources, and nobody could tell what they meant or how they should be pronounced. Nobody was sure where they came from. These are what came to be known as the ghost characters (幽霊文字). […]
By interviewing the catalogers involved in the creation of the standard, the investigators established that some characters were inadvertently invented as mistakes in the cataloging process. For example, 妛 was an error introduced while trying to record “山 over 女”. “山 over 女” occurs in the name of a particular place and was thus suitable for inclusion in the JIS standard, but because they couldn’t print it as one character yet, 山 and 女 were printed separately, cut out, and pasted onto a sheet of paper, and then copied. When reading the copy, the line where the two little pieces of paper met looked like a stroke and was added to the character by mistake. The original character (𡚴) was not added to JIS or Unicode until much later and doesn’t display on most sites for me.
I saw these glorious photos of Chris Pine and concluded they had extremely Big Dick Energy, so who better to model them than the Dickman himself? Figures that my first Dick pic would be a complete shitpost.
Wrong DC character, but I can’t imagine Steve Trevor in that myself
Starbucks in the DCU has drinks for each of the Batfam. Tim hates that the Red Robin is all strawberry syrup and not just fifty shots of espresso. The Nightwing is bubblegum syrup and 90% diabetes.
Please be aware that “gypsy costumes” are RACIST CARICATURES!
And you guessed it, blame white folks for this image. Long story short, when the camera became “mobile” (they could more easily move it from place to place) Europeans traveled all over the Asian continent.
The photographers fetishized and placed the natives in costumes and outfits THEY found attractive and “sexy”, NOT the natives. MANY populations are victims of this, the Roma included.
Please, do NOT buy these racist outfits. IT IS JUST AS BAD AS SOMEONE WEARING BLACK FACE!
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