Rare Encounter

Resting on the porn couch, popping potato pimples, and driving the electron autobahn.

Show Notes

13 Ghanaians successfully complete 10,000km drive from Accra to London | Africanews

Bizarre moment man is attacked by FURRY after he's caught filming fetish group in Huntington Beach | Daily Mail Online

They really missed an opportunity with the headline. Should have been "mauled by furry"!

'I Visited Iceland From The US And Went To An American-Themed Bar. I'd Never Felt More Like A Tourist' | Digg

American Bar the home of fun and sports in Iceland

Suspected thieves who stole $300,000 worth of TCG cards might've worn their own card game's merch during Gen Con heist | PC Gamer

Over $300K worth of gaming cards stolen from Gen Con during setup

The Smurfs: Hidden Village | Board Game | BoardGameGeek

Maine’s potato ‘acne’ phenomenon: A wet season aftermath – Potato News Today

The ‘wow’ factor and the reality of mobile, automated potato cleaning – Potato News Today

The Theory of Interstellar Trade

This paper extends interplanetary trade theory to an interstellar setting. It is chiefly concerned with the following question: How should interest charges on goods in transit be computed when the goods travel at close to the speed of light? This is a problem because the time taken in transit will appear less to an observer travelling with the goods than to a stationary observer. A solution is derived from economic theory, and two useless but true theorems are proved.

While most of Paul Krugman's works are nonsense, at least this is entertaining nonsense!

It should be noted that, while the subject of this paper is silly, the analysis actually does make sense. This paper, then, is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.

Theory of interstellar trade (1978) (pdf) | Hacker News

Bitcoin Astronomy, The Third Law – Part 1 (Dhruv Bansal) | Bitcoin Audible

LK-99 isn’t a superconductor — how science sleuths solved the mystery

So much for room temperature superconductivity, again. But at least we know why it acts the way it does.