Florida is okay if you don't mind sink-holes, alligators, hurricanes, crazy people, and mosquitoes the size of small birds. I'll stick with California... until it falls off into the ocean.
Ice and snow? I was outside in a t-shirt all day. Been watching record-setting blizzards across the US on the news, then going outside, washing my car.
Strange to think that California is even in the same country as the rest of the USA. I think we got 2-3 weeks this year where the high temps were below 60F and below freezing at night, and that was it. With all the trees blooming, it feels like Spring already. I'm not even anywhere near the coast... plenty of places where it NEVER gets below freezing, and some areas where it almost never drops below 50F.
It was an obvious and simple typo. They meant: 2 x 10^19
That said, the article is massively incorrect and utterly riddled with errors throughout. The comment section is nothing but corrections. Worst Top 10 list I've ever seen.
WP specifically says it reacts with teflon... However: "Vessels made from steel, copper or nickel resist the attack of the material due to formation of a thin layer of insoluble metal fluoride" Also: "stable to 180 °C in quartz vessels".
And as the video page says, it's a marimba, xylophone, and glockenspiel. A marimba is quite a bit larger with big wooden keys that make a deeper and more "tropical" sound. While a xylophone has smaller fiberglass keys that make a sharper sound a bit like glass bottles.
The vibraphone is the only one in the family left out, being in-between those two in size, having metal keys and a sustain pedal for long dream-like notes.
I don't blame the panicked people, really. The appropriate actions in these kinds of situations should be taught to kids early on with catchy jingles. Is there anybody who made it through the public school system that doesn't know to "call 911" in an emergency, or to "stop, drop, and roll" when on fire? If authorities came up with a catchy jingle for a few other dangerous scenarios, which all amount to "get the hell out of there", getting drilled into their heads as kids, many more people would act in a reasonable manner when under stress.
My own wedding ring bore no gem. It appears perfectly plain and featureless, until put to a simple test: when placed in a fire, it displays a fiery inscription in the Black Speech of Mordor.
I'd love to stand on the border of Deer Valley and Cave Creek, and see what a 2895F degree temperature difference looks like... I would expect hurricane-force winds so hot people are instantly incinerated.
Strange to think that California is even in the same country as the rest of the USA. I think we got 2-3 weeks this year where the high temps were below 60F and below freezing at night, and that was it. With all the trees blooming, it feels like Spring already. I'm not even anywhere near the coast... plenty of places where it NEVER gets below freezing, and some areas where it almost never drops below 50F.
That said, the article is massively incorrect and utterly riddled with errors throughout. The comment section is nothing but corrections. Worst Top 10 list I've ever seen.
And as the video page says, it's a marimba, xylophone, and glockenspiel. A marimba is quite a bit larger with big wooden keys that make a deeper and more "tropical" sound. While a xylophone has smaller fiberglass keys that make a sharper sound a bit like glass bottles.
The vibraphone is the only one in the family left out, being in-between those two in size, having metal keys and a sustain pedal for long dream-like notes.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYtrnr4chfU (Marimba)
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHP5xjBP-9I (Xylophone)
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vf-gTakrp0 (Vibraphone)
And this one is just simply hilarious:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JurYqQBQkEI
I wonder more about heating... Just how much power is the gondola supplied with, and what accommodations have they made?