New Dwarf Planet Discovered Far Beyond Pluto's Orbit

space.com ^ | 07/11/2016

[NicknamedBob]

"But if you are out of cat whiskers you can substitute a 1N34A."

I've got a poem for this ...

One Tin Whisker

Listen children to a story that was written long ago,
'bout electronics we depend on and the way it changed us so.
In the magic was a treasure buried deep within the board,
no one now can tell the reason it was all we could afford.

Go ahead and beat your neighbor, get ahead of him in the game.
Any way that you can do it, for you know that you’re not the same.
There won't be any trumpets blowin' come the judgment day
on the bloody morning after one tin whisker gets its way.

So the people paid their money, to send up a bird to fly,
singing songs for all to listen, from a voice up in the sky.
All was peaceful in the kingdom: "With our brothers we will share,
our electronics is perfected, no one needs to have a care."

Go ahead and beat your neighbor, get ahead of him in the game.
Any way that you can do it, for you know that you’re not the same.
There won't be any trumpets blowin' come the judgment day
on the bloody morning after one tin whisker gets its way.

Now the greenies cried with anger; you’ve made poison, we will die,
and they killed the mounting programs, kept them from the common sky.
Then they rose in righteous anger, eviscerating protocols,
stormed the bulwarks of the castle, now they own the magic halls.

Go ahead and beat your neighbor, get ahead of him in the game.
Any way that you can do it, for you know that you’re not the same.
There won't be any trumpets blowin' come the judgment day
on the bloody morning after one tin whisker gets its way.

[Tax-chick]

[Monkey Face]

What an interesting little face! Squee!

I slept until 0445... *gasp* My day is half gone before I even got out of bed! Ohnoes!

[null and void]

4444!

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For the nit-pickers here, the actual equation is e=mc^2+p^2c^4 (where ^ is the power operator)

Did you mean e=mc²+p²c⁴, or e=mc²+p²*c⁴, or e=mc²+p^2c4?

[Monkey Face]

YES! Morning, Nully!

[moose07]

A Germanium beauty.

[Monkey Face]

Hey! I used to know what that was and what it did, but since Igor passed in 2000, I don’t have any electronical wizard to remind me of what gazinta and what gazouta. ;o]

[moose07]

Howdy Face,
That there thingamabob is easiest described as a one way valve.
Of sorts.

[NicknamedBob]

"... a one way valve. Of sorts."

Useful for filling up an electron bucket.

[NoCmpromiz]

Beats a full house...

[Monkey Face]

(I knew that!)

How has your Saturday been, so far?

[moose07]

Not to bad of a day , thanks Face.
Intermittent sunshine with the occasional shower.
Have popped over to HQ for the evening. :)

How’s it going with you?

[moose07]

:)
*A bucket of electrons please.*
*Charge card or cash?*

[ArGee]

The first two (which are really the same one).

Thanks for putting in the HTML effort to clarify.

[ArGee]

Do they pay for air on your side of the at lan tick?

[NicknamedBob]

:)
*A bucket of electrons please.*
*Charge card or cash?*

That would be a charge, of course.

[moose07]

Sgt Coulomb’o is the investigator for Charge card fraud.

[moose07]

Usually 10p at the garage to use the tyre pump.... :)

[NicknamedBob]

Charly Brown should be arrested as a resistor.