It may not have a scientific meaning but I would submit that's not relevant; it has a perfectly clear engineering meaning, and it's commonly used on electric and hybrid trains and cars. And when it's given that use, it's entirely valid; other uses, I haven't encountered.
I'll see your committees and raise you my volcanologists. How to get twenty different opinions? Put ten volcanologists in the same room...
How does this photo pertain? I see no ships. Only ugly hotels; when hotels go to sea...
Former firefighter here. It's *trivial* to get into a dead Tesla: - pop button on front bumper; apply 12V to terminals inside - frunk solenoid energises, frunk opens - apply 12V to auxiliary battery in frunk - computer resets, doors can be opened I've done it inside 30 seconds. Brains, not brawn!
Is that really still a cultural thing in the USA? We dislike honorifics and never normally use them, but if we did, it would be Mr. Ross and Dr. Gordon; neither of us even considered changing our name.
With ongoing minor eruptions generating ash from Whakaari I talked offshore volcanoes this morning on RNZ with Mihinarangi Forbes and Colin Peacock www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
The key word here is "bigotry". Intolerance of bigotry is always a virtue, never a vice. Tolerating bigotry, whatever language it's couched in... well that's yet another variation of Nazis at a dinner table. Again.
At this point I'm moved to quote Clarke's Corollary to Hanlon's Razor: Any sufficiently profound ignorance is indistinguishable from malice. There comes a point at which it's not possible to become THAT ignorant except by deliberate conscious choice.
Interesting. A couple of hours ago, someone in our bay was complaining about high voltage; they were measuring around 247V phase-ground at their house for a little while. Something's a little unstable somewhere, apparently.