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  • Rapeseed (Brassica napus subsp. napus), also known as rape and oilseed rape and canola, is a bright-yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family), cultivated mainly for its oil-rich seed, which naturally contains appreciable amounts of mildly toxic erucic acid.[2] The term “canola” denotes a group of rapeseed cultivars that were bred to have very low levels of erucic acid and which are especially prized for use as human and animal food. Rapeseed is the third-largest source of vegetable oil and the second-largest source of protein meal in the world.[3][4]

    Brassica napus subsp. napus is the proper name. Everything else is slang and not worth arguing about.

    We call it Sunflower Oil

    We call it Rapeseed Oil

    Not Rape Seed Oil










  • Insulation on the dishwasher is mostly for noise and stopping moisture or heat from damaging surrounding cabinets.

    The dishwasher is using new water or heating water. It is not designed to keep the same water hot for an hour plus.

    The whole back of the dishwasher is a tiny piece of plastic. Not insulated at all. Some fancy ones now put a little insulation on back.

    But the idea isn’t to keep heat trapped to wash dishes, but to keep heat from being released and damaging things.




  • You can’t check for back feeding.

    Cable coming from house to pole has no power. Electrician goes to hook up wire. Homeowner puts on generator. Electrician gets electrocuted.

    Yes the testing and hooking up could be a small window of time but a fraction of a second after testing is all it takes.




  • Space isn’t really a vacuum

    Wait what?

    Space is a vacuum.

    Could argue it’s not a perfect vacuum. We haven’t created a perfect vacuum on Earth but we have come close.

    If I have a container and remove all the air inside. I have created a vacuum. Not a perfect one, but a simple vacuum.

    If I add rocks to the container. The rocks are now in a vacuum.

    Just like space. Space is a vacuum and there is “rocks” in it.



  • I’m not trying to disprove you or anything, I know it’s not your paradox. Apologies that it came off that way.

    But like a tiny flake of space dust is enough to eclipse a sun for us a near infinite distance away. Matter is not going to let light through it. Even if some space dust thermalizes and radiates. The chances something like an asteroid, planet, moon, etc. Is high. Space seems mostly void, but an infinite amount of mostly void is still a lot of stuff.

    I’ll check then out!


  • Can’t we see stars that do not show up in the night sky? Like that spot looks dark to the naked eye, with a hobby telescope it looks dark, but with a space probe telescope you can see a distant star is there?

    You discounted space dust. But there has to be a near infinite amount of asteroids out there. If I wanted to see 1m lightyears into a specific spot, like the odds of not hitting an astroid would be pretty hard.

    Like if you had a Lite Brite globe with each Lite Brite peg representing a sun. In the middle of the globe it would be completely lit up. However, if you started throwing around astroids around inside the globe, you’d start blocking pegs. Suns, pegs, are still behind the astroid. It’s just blocking the light. A tiny astroid could cast a huge shadow. Even tiny space dust.