Scientists build a robot that is part fungus, part machine
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> They could power it from potato batteries!
> I eat a lot of mushrooms...
Explains a lot, really. ;)
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
Scientists build a robot that is part fungus, part machine
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> They could power it from potato batteries!
> I eat a lot of mushrooms...
Explains a lot, really. ;)
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
Maybe they contain magic.
I've not heard of that. Is it for anti-static dishes?
I know you're Dutch but I don't think that's an English word either.
Not an uncommon mistake. If you grind pepper then you end up with ground pepper.
I speak fluent American too but English is my native language.
Misapplied they're, their and there make me cringe every time. And complementary vs. complimentary, and it's vs. its, Then there is Wein bridge (the guy's name was Wien, not Wein.) What about damped vs. dampened, route and rout? And for the francophiles: viola vs. voila.
I could probably go on, but it's late and I should go to bed.
Jeroen Belleman
That's similar to the issue with ground and grounded.
To damp. A system might be critically damped. To dampen. A cloth might be dampened so that it is a little bit wet.
I think your nose was simply overwhelmed by all the scents when you were closer to the bottles - backing up diluted the smells enough that your brain could then differentiate them...
One of Richard Feynman's books (What Do You Care What Other People Think
- AIR) went into some simple experiments he played with his wife on scents...
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John :-#)#
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