mthoody

Did you mean recursion?

I will watch that show. I think opening a dusty cad board box in a forgotten museum storage area is WAY more exciting than a opening a floor safe someone found when putting in the new carpet in their old house, and look how popular that is.

The item in the safe was merely meant not to be stolen. The item in the museum was meant to be remembered. This is the "secret sauce" of your show idea.

Oregon here. We have a death with dignity law. After a long, brave battle with Parkinson's, my father exercised his option. He passed surrounded by family instead of alone in a facility. Held his hand.

It takes real conviction to "drink the drink", no doubts whatsoever. I guess my point is that for those who do contemplate it, all BS falls to the side and the Now, Later or Never decisions have an element of clarity to them unlike any other decision one may face. But until actaully faced with them, it is impossible to know how you may feel.

I hope OP never faces that decision. Go science!

My mother had her aortic valve replaced last week (severe stenosis). Tell us all about cutting someone's sternum in half, installing rib retractors, and exposing a beating heart. Tools, steps, time per step, tricky bits, noises, smells?

After surgery, when the surgeon shook my hand following the "went great" talk, my thoughts fixated on fact that his hand had literally touched my mother's heart just an hour earlier. Wizards of the magic of modern medicine.

I'm confident that you are familiar with basic geometry and angles of reflection. Do you study the physics of billiards (17 page PDF)?