BORPower additive?

[Piotrsko]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Didn't sound right.

"...and they took twenty-seven eight-by-ten color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, explaining what each one was, to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach, the getaway, the northwest corner, the southwest corner, and that's not to mention the aerial photography.‎"
genius.com/Arlo-guthrie-alices-restaurant-massacree-lyrics

Delends on which version recording you listen to or if it's live. It varies, .mine i recall from long ago, the recent one at his concert here was abbreviated, he said he was in a foul mood, wouldn't sing the motorcycle song. Also it's memory. His and mine,mineis fading fast, just ask my wife

[freebeard]

For the sake of harmony on the Forum, I will concede.

Originally Posted by Logic

I'm no shrink but seems to me there should be name for this craziness?

Why Don't You - Yes But | From Games People Play by Eric Berne
"Why Don't You - Yes But" occupies a special place in game analysis, because it was the original stimulus for the concept of games. It was the first game to be dissected out of its social context, and since it is the older subject of game analysis, it is one of the best understood."]

[Logic]

Originally Posted by freebeard

For the sake of harmony on the Forum, I will concede.



Why Don't You - Yes But | From Games People Play by Eric Berne
"Why Don't You - Yes But" occupies a special place in game analysis, because it was the original stimulus for the concept of games. It was the first game to be dissected out of its social context, and since it is the older subject of game analysis, it is one of the best understood."]

The link isn't working?

[freebeard]

Bad edit. Try it now.

[Logic]

Clarke’s three laws, written by the British science fiction writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke, are his observations on the nature of technology and discovery.

Clarke was renowned for his scientific knowledge, literary skill and uncannily accurate technological predictions. Best known for co-writing the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, he popularised the concept of space travel and predicted the use of satellites for telecommunications.

Three observations of his have come to be known as Clarke’s three laws.

The first two appeared in the essay “Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination”, first published in Clarke’s 1962 book, Profiles of the Future.

The first, which he expressly designated as “Clarke’s law” in the essay, states: “When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”

His definition of “elderly” was tongue-in-cheek: for those in physics, maths and astronautics, Clarke defined it as being over thirty. “As every researcher just out of college knows,” he wrote, “scientists over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and at all costs should be kept out of the laboratory!”

People later designated another observation Clarke made in the essay as his second law: “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”

He had written this in the context of a list of inventions and discoveries that he had classified as either expected (including automobiles, telephones, robots, “flying machines”) or unexpected (x-rays, nuclear energy, photography, quantum mechanics).

But perhaps the best known of Clarke’s three laws is the third, which has inspired multiple variations. It appeared in a footnote in his 1973 revision of Profiles of the Future: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
https://www.newscientist.com/definit...es-three-laws/

[freebeard]

Niven's laws - Wikipedia
Niven's Law is also a term given to the converse of Clarke's third law, so Niven's Law reads: "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology."However, it has also been credited [by whom?] as being from Terry Pratchett. [citation needed] Keystone Folklore identifies it as a "fan-

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[Logic]

Formation mechanisms and functionality of boundary films derived from water lubricated polyoxymethylene/hexagonal boron nitride nanocomposite



"...the friction coefficient of h-BN/h-BN sliding pair in water was reduced to 0.06–0.12 in comparison to 0.18–0.25 obtained from dry sliding...
...h-BN reacted with water molecules, and thereby led to the formation of a tribo-chemical layer, consisting of hydroxide (i.e., boric acid (H3BO3)) or boric oxide (i.e., diboron trioxide (B2O3))...
... With respect to the mechanism of self-lubrication of the tribo-chemical layer, Erdemir et al...proposed that the layered triclinic crystal structure of H3BO3 could be the main reason. In summary, the high tribological performance of h-BN in water can be attributed to two aspects: (i) the weaker interplanar forces make the interplanar layers slip easier; (ii) the tribo-chemical reaction products of h-BN provide efficient lubricity.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...64127516314034

[freebeard]

Any interest in Boron Nitride?

RSC Publishing -- Graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, and their heterostructures ...
In this review, we introduced the synthesis, structure, properties, and applications of graphene, h-BN, and their heterostructures, especially focused on their mechanical, optical, thermal, electric, and magnetic properties.

[Logic]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Any interest in Boron Nitride?

It's interesting in that it turns into Boric Acid in the presence of water and oxygen freebeard.
That seems to be the WHY it works, according to the above paper.

[freebeard]

I guess h-BN/h-BN is that.