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I'm wondering the same. Like was it really some standard cut and paste work and then some generative fill? It's got a certain 00s vintage look to it like it's not current interpretations of "AI" with text prompt input.

I've seen many waterfalls over the years, but never really a Gorge waterfall such as this until a few weeks ago. I got there right after a well-below freezing cold snap, so it was surreal to see the snowy buildup on the water where the fall spray was re-precipitating. It gave a real Tomb Raider feel. I gotta find more gorges

Gorges

67% of the Earth's mass is comprised of silicates in the mantle. Solid silicates have very low thermal coefficients of expansion, meaning they change volume very little in comparison to other compounds. So if the mantle was cooled and solidified to 0, then heated to 50, it'd have very little effect. It'd grow something like 0.02% in volume.

Being that the mantle is generally liquid, you'll see a much larger effect from the initial cooling. But how much? I don't know. Liquid rock isn't present in mere mortal online calculators and my ability to dive into the material properties and manually calculate it is long gone from my head.

But "much" larger may not be significant to the human experience, given that 0.02% would be imperceptible as a baseline. If you had a 1km long solid silicon ruler, heating it from 0 to 50C would make it just 20m longer. A circumferential ruler reaching around the Earth along the equator would go from ~40,000km to 40,008km.

I take it the Switch/S2 has many non-Nintendo games shared with other consoles? Hard to search through 4,000 titles on Wikipedia to find them at random, but I did see they had one Assassin's Creed (Odyssey) at the game's launch. I never really had Nintendo systems and just associate them with exclusive Nintendo games.

I'm choosing to believe the Steam Machine will do more of the same for PC games. Maybe it won't force optimization at launch, but I hope it maintains itself as a benchmark for builds and provides demand for optimization to a certain spec.

Huh, I thought the cash value wasafter taxes

Most of the land in the US does not have million dollar 3 bed homes, but I bet most of the population lives within a commute's distance where it's true. I was expecting the quotes around "modest" to do some heavy lifting in both directions. Could be an apartment in a cultural center, could be an extraordinary place in the mountains. Winner's preference

I understand the instant payout's attraction. In this case, it makes you nearly a billionaire. It solves every financial problem a normal person has immediately. Take the payout, buy a "modest" $1 million home, live lavishly by spending $1,000 every day for 90 years straight, and still have $800 million left - still nearly a billionaire

No no, I understand the improbability and don't play, which means I'm better than everyone who does. Quit having fun. Right? Right?

It just makes me wonder why they bother stamping the book then if they don't stamp anything supplemental with the card.

Right, I understand the difference in which the book is required and the card is insufficient. I'm just confused on how the card saved your book. You said they were stamping the book when you made land crossings. Instead, to save your book, you brought the card, which they obviously couldn't stamp. So what did they do instead? Issue no stamps at all? Stamp something else? Whatever they did instead, could that alternative not also be applied to the book? I've only ever used my book by plane, so I don't know what the alternatives are

Do they stamp something to supplement the card? Is that not an option with the passport book?