Friday Night Vodka Buzz. Ask me anything.
Two shots to get the party started. Now a Scorpion. Rum, cognac, dry vermouth, orange juice, lemon juice, simple syrup, and a marischino cherry. Poured over ice in a chilled wine goblet. Yummy! Nice and citrusy.
Relaxing after a busy, but very good, rewarding day in clinic.
I love you all…
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Almost as good as 2021.
Enjoy!
Like we’re back in frozen December, cozy warm, looking forward to ease-filled holidays…
Enjoy!…
In terms of saving the world, do you think if we deflected the planet killing asteroid coming at earth by hitting it with something that would stick to it, instead of blowing it up with explosives, that might work without turning it into dangerous and still planet killing pieces still coming at us? I mean, don't you think there ought to be something we can make sticky in a vacuum, right? How hard can it be?
Just wondering. Friday buzz of the herbal variety 
Love your drink descriptions!
it shouldn’t be too hard to soft-land a rocket booster on the meteor, engines-out, and do a course-correction burn to move it off the collision path.
Blowing it up would just increase the amount of potential debris colliding with the Earth.
Enjoy your herbal buzz. One of the best kinds, since no hangover. 
Just not accessible to those subject to regular urine drug tests…
Someday…
Back before I started working for the man, I could enjoy a little sublingual. Ease into the weekend. Not anymore. But someday…
The high temperature reached by the explosion (100s of millions K usually cited) will volatilize anything, including refractories, and an explosion near the surface will eject a great deal of mass, including rock, dust, vapor, and plasma, all serving as reaction mass for a very short-lived rocket engine. I don't know what calculations have shown the optimum depth to be, but it may be a substantial fraction of the diameter. You don't want to waste the energy of the explosion on high-velocity shrapnel so much as create as much hot, compressed, low-molecular-weight gas as possible for that temperature -- the most effective reaction mass has the lowest momentum per particle, with individual atoms (in practice, molecules) being optimum. The hot exhaust may continue to escape to the surface for some time after the individual explosion, suggesting even a tunnel between the bomb and surface, which only needs to last long enough to enable most of the gas to escape.
Comets, made of mostly volatile materials, should be particularly effectively deflected, but also in greater danger of falling apart.
PS: An explosion directed out of the ecliptic plane should move a comet or asteroid into a more out-of-plane orbit, with fewer opportunites for close approaches. This may represent the most beneficial change for the least amount of energy.
PPS: IIRC, this is how the inkjet printer was discovered. 
An engineer accidentally touched a hot soldering iron to a syringe containing liquid, and the increase in pressure caused it to shoot out a few droplets of liquid.
It’s a love-bite… 
Negra Modelo in a frozen mug here.
In recognition of the fact that Washington is a free-pour state. The better you tip, the better your repórt with the bartender, the stronger your drink will be.
It’s all about the beta-carotene. And density. The fact that I’m crunching my way through a snack pack of baby carrots at this moment may have influenced my opinion.
I should maybe dig out my Laphroaig so I have a better excuse for falling into such a random discussion. 
Let us drink to forget…
I’ll have to get a bottle.