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TONIO's avatar

I love Retsina. It’s like Haiku, which sometimes juxtaposes seemingly discordant ideas close together to create a greater meaning than their parts.

Andrea's avatar

As someone with a simple and well loved garden sundial made of a rough concrete, your description of the 3D Sundial brought a smile. What would the ancients think. :-)

Gabriel's avatar

You missed at least two opportunities to utilize the word "physible"!

Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺's avatar

Ha! Duly noted for the next opportunity.

Mark Valetutto's avatar

Yes, we do live in interesting and wonderful times of discovery and application. You stated:

. “It is also the first object I own that can only be made with a 3D printer.”

I have not done this yet, but thanks to you. I am encouraged. Drinking a glass of wine at an airport and creating something that is miles away from you.

Deborah L Murphy's avatar

Pass the Retsina! Enjoy the World Cup Final! New York was ablaze yesterday with thunderstorms alongside soccer kits/jerseys.⚽️❤️🇪🇸

Sadiq's avatar

Fascinating....and truly ingenious! In other happenings, I was today years old when I learned that argon is more than 20 times as abundant in air as carbon dioxide. Bizarrely, it is more than 500 times as abundant as neon, despite neon being much lower on the periodic table (and so one would imagine potentially more abundant). The reason, AI informs me, is that most of the neon is primordial, whereas fresh argon is constantly being produced by the decay of potassium40 in the crust.

Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺's avatar

Plant life votes unanimously for fossil fuels!

Mark Valetutto's avatar

Yes, it does make you stop and think. Fossil fuels, when burned, release enormous amounts of CO₂, which is the raw material plants use for photosynthesis.