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10 Short Videos #6047

10 Short Videos #6047

Germans Crazy Gregorian Armor

The 19th Century Music Machine That Inspired Computers

Heating Coffee with Thermite

Bow, red Ryder and slingshot vs 340fps BB trickshot which do you prefer?

A little savage

WATCH TILL THE END: This Girl in a Big Block Chevy Truck Shows YOU How to Take the WIN

Oilfield Service Job

When Your Rocket Launcher Fires a Bullet First

Have college students seen this yet?

This Is Why Planning Matters

Chicago Harbor Lighthouse

Chicago Lighthouse Fresnel Lens

At least I think it's the lens in the Chicago Harbor Lighthouse. Google seems to think this lens is in the Grays Harbor Lighthouse in Westport, Washington. Looking at some images, I kind of think it's from Chicago.

Chicago Harbor Lighthouse

Chicago Harbor Lighthouse

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10 Short Videos #6046

10 Short Videos #6046

Roadtrip time!

Sometimes it goes through the snow, sometimes the snow goes through it

When she is used to dating broke guys

1927 Bugatti type35

How an Automatic Mahjong Table works!

How a Simple Device Stopped Power Lines From Breaking

Horses are just bad toddlers

We don’t call her Queen Sarabi for nothing! Look at this girl FLY

Black diamond mining

Pipeline Side Boom Operators… where’s the counterweight? 

Compact Muon Solenoid Particle Detector

Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) particle detector, one of the general-purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

From CERN:

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a general-purpose detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It has a broad physics programme ranging from studying the Standard Model (including the Higgs boson) to searching for extra dimensions and particles that could make up dark matter. Although it has the same scientific goals as the ATLAS experiment, it uses different technical solutions and a different magnet-system design.

The CMS detector is built around a huge solenoid magnet. This takes the form of a cylindrical coil of superconducting cable that generates a field of 4 tesla, about 100,000 times the magnetic field of the Earth. The field is confined by a steel “yoke” that forms the bulk of the detector’s 14,000-tonne weight.

An unusual feature of the CMS detector is that instead of being built in-situ like the other giant detectors of the LHC experiments, it was constructed in 15 sections at ground level before being lowered into an underground cavern near Cessy in France and reassembled. The complete detector is 21 metres long, 15 metres wide and 15 metres high.

The CMS experiment is one of the largest international scientific collaborations in history, involving about 5500 particle physicists, engineers, technicians, students and support staff from 241 institutes in 54 countries (May 2022). For the latest information, see here.

The Real Problem

Federal Budget

 From Why Firing 9% Of The Federal Workforce Didn't Move The Needle:

The total federal payroll— every salary, every benefit, for every civilian federal employee (excluding the military)— comes to about $336 billion a year— less than 5% of total federal spending.

In other words, you could fire every federal employee tomorrow— every bureaucrat, every regulator, every paper-pusher in Washington— and 95% of the spending would continue as if nothing happened.

That’s because around 60% of the budget is mandatory spending— Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid— programs that pay out automatically based on laws that were passed decades ago. Congress doesn’t vote on these expenditures each year. The checks just go out.