Recent content by wgering

Thank you for hitting that, I forgot to mention it. I find the "romance" aspects of BioWare games to be absolutely preposterous. For instance, my most glaring complaint: why in bloody hell does the protagonist (speaking primarily of DA and ME here) never get turned down? In ME2 I ended up...

I'd disagree that people don't want deep and involving stories; I think they might want them, but they don't expect them from videogames. Games, in general, are about getting away from reality; when one plays a game, there is an element of fantasy involved. Games enable what is impossible in...

SMES is just a storage method (it's right there in the acronym); you have to put in energy in order to get any back out. It is just a very efficient method of energy storage. If you want to waste an afternoon, check out http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm Bonus points if you...

Actually, you could even dunk your hand in a vat of LN2, provided you don't leave it there for too long. The temperature of your hand relative to the nitrogen is so high that any nitrogen that comes close to your hand will vaporize, forming a thin layer of nitrogen gas between your hand and the...

That looks suspiciously like the Meissner effect...only upside down. I guess no one ever thought to put the magnet below the superconductor? I've gotten small bar magnets to levitate above rings of chilled YBCO, but never experimented with moving them around...did it more for giggles than...