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You guys are awesome, I've never had such a rain of relevant advice whenever I asked for something on the internet! That will help me a lot, I'm really grateful.

Regarding li-ion batteries, I'm used to the technology since I'm already using these for different applications (airsoft, mostly).

Speaking of the weather, I've got a little question regarding sunlight and solar panels. To make it short, my wife and I may be leaving Russia soon, not to come back to Scotland, but to go to Greece, where we're planning to buy a house and work from there. However, we'd like to make it as autonomous...

Well, isn't spider web tougher than a piece of steel of the same size after all? Or was it a hoax/pseudoscience that was debunked? Anyways, someone without 8 legs finally found a purpose for cobwebs, and that's good to know ; maybe some day I'll find what to do with the indecently large amounts of t...

Speaking of flat earth theories, have you heard the last ones? Turns out that the Earth is flat, but laid on the surface of a giant, giant ice ball with a little sun that's a tiny fraction of the size of the ice ball heating it, and that's why our world isn't frozen. I'm still doubtful about where t...

Now that looks gorgeous, nature (and a random car passing by) can create things that look better than any picture with tons of filters..
Oh, well, the fact that 16 pictures are superposed can play a role in the fact it looks like something out of a dream, but still.

Hello everyone, I'm Paul from northern Scotland and have always been fascinated with astronomy since I saw my first northern lights as a kid. Right now I live in Moscow and can't really look at the sky (which is always overcast, and polluted with light when the weather's good) but when I go to the d...