The content.lanl.gov server is hanging indefinitely and never serving the images. So it seems the images should be there on the server, the server is just dead in a weird way.
I have emailed the journal and told them about the bug.
While that was a problem, the larger one was that the cars were too fast for the tires and safety equipment of the time.
In a 13 month period there were three fatal accidents that were down to drivers losing control and crashing on their own. The last two coming in successive months. The repeated accidents killed off Group B and the nascent Group S that was supposed to replace it.
Modern WRC cars much higher cornering speeds than the Group B cars because of advances in tire technology. They aren’t as fast in a straight line, but they are massively safer in the event of a crash.
Major drawback of Apple Hi Res is that Apple headphones dont support it (bluetooth is lossy), and even their recommended 3.5mm adapter converts it down to 48kHz (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212183)
That sounds like a bad joke. "Everyone can use Facetime, except if you're on a certain platform you have to ask someone on the 'real' platform to initiate the call." That's... not a viable communication method.
Almost all links I get via SMS are phishing. The rest is OTP, there is sometimes a link in the same SMS but I _never_ clicked a link in an SMS...
My point is, the inhibition to click a link inside an SMS is very high with lots of users, hence I can't imagine this working well.
Also, it's purely inconvenient. You're not having a conf call at a previously agreed time, you want to call someone, this means it's spontaneous or somewhat urgent...
Most people lead up to an invitation to a video call with text messages (e.g. "When are you free for a video call?") unless they're very familiar with the other party.
Until recently, Formula One teams used Helium in their wheel guns as it spins them faster. In their push to be more environmentally friendly the sanctioning bodies realized that banning the use of pneumatic helium was an easy win.
My favourite F1 tire gas story is when Ferrari used a refrigerant gas (HFC 404a) to inflate the tyres instead of the usual nitrogen.
The gas has mutch better heat transfer properties and helped with cooling, which gave them a slight advantage.
Not sure if they utilised a full-on refrigerant cycle within the tyre (liquid being thrown against the inside and evaporating) or similar a higher density and heat capacity, giving improved connections heat transfer, but pretty interesting nonetheless. Was banned soon after, of course.
This was probably in the old days of F1 when teams could do whatever they wanted. Nowadays Pirelli is responsible for mounting the tires on the wheels and inflating them to spec.
> "Balloon Grade" Helium represents a slightly impure Helium. While there is no scientific definition of this quality, it is often accepted that the purity of "Balloon Grade" Helium is around 99%
Sounds high, but not pure enough for MRI applications, and it isn't currently economical to reliquefy without shipping it to a processor.
> Manufacturers have stated that this wasted helium is considered a ‘recycled product’ as it would have been lost to the environment had it not been captured and re-purposed. If the balloon market demand declined, manufacturers would have to re-evaluate other markets and consider the possibilities of re-liquefying it. Re-liquefying is currently considered uneconomical from the locations of where the filling application take place.
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