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stromm t1_j9cmmhe wrote
Reply to TIL that Milton Bradley originally had been in the business of selling pictures of celebrities. After his biggest seller Abraham Lincoln grew his iconic beard and rendered his entire stock of lithographs worthless and had customers demanding their money back, MB switched to selling board games by Loki-L
MB was like Disney.
He straight up stole other peoples intellectual property and inventions, rebranded and renamed them, and sold them himself.
stromm t1_j5gmmzw wrote
Reply to Radxa Rock5 Model A is a credit card-sized single-board PC with RK3588S and up to 16GB RAM (starting at $99) by giuliomagnifico
If something had the depth and width of a credit card, but is one hundred feet tall, it would still be referred to as “credit card sized”.
stromm t1_j9xy89j wrote
Reply to Is it possible (at least theoretically) for an meteorite to ricochet from Earth instead of exploding? Are there any known cases (even if not on Earth)? by khukharev
LOTS of meteors skip off the Earth’s atmosphere. But not the tiny or very large ones.
Tiny can’t maintain enough kinetic energy because the atmospheric resistance slows them down too much. Very large (and I would guess that’s more than 100lbs, since most meteorites are below a pound) are more affected by gravity pulling them deeper into the atmosphere, which then slows them down.
The in between come in at a very shallow angle. Not close enough for gravity to pull deeper, so they only graze the top much less dense part of our atmosphere. So they skip off.