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Good report but needs detailed references.
Wikipedia would never accept it. 
Actually, I'm sure that they used vacuum pumps. Although the idea of pumping nothing is most confusing.
But creating a vacuum is relatively easy as long as you're not an absolute perfectionist. Completely fill a long (3 foot) glass tube sealed at one end with mercury, without letting any air get into the tube, carefully dip the open end into a dish full of mercury and raise the sealed end vertically. The mercury will partially drain into the dish and there will be an empty space between the top of the mercury and the sealed end of the tube. The height of the mercury above the level of the mercury in the dish will be about 29 inches but the space above it is a vacuum
. The only thing in the "empty" space is a few atoms of mercury vapor, perhaps a couple atoms of silicon or boron or other ingredients that jumped off the inside of the glass tube and perhaps some bacteria and viruses that clung to the tube. Not a perfect vacuum but close enough to be functional. Getting better vacuums down here on Earth is possible but is difficult and I've been told that the process sucks.
PS: This mercury thing is a barometer as invented by Torricelli in 1643 which is why normal atmospheric pressure is described as "29 inches of mercury" Well, I'll be jiggered!
PS: You can do the tube thing with water instead of mercury but you need a tube at least 32 feet long.
I need to do a water change for my aquarium today, but neither goldfish want to help. They do their share of getting it dirty but refuse to lift one fin to clean the tank.
lb for the Latin libra, hence the zodiacal scales being called Libra (also why pounds, shillings, and pence is abbreviated LSD from the Latin equivalents of the coins - s for solidus as I recall, d for denarius).
...start up complaint: I woke up fine (gut issues finally gone) but apparently Windows Explorer didn't and immediately went into "not responding" mode.
When I tired to restart it (WE), nothing happened and I just sat there looking at two screens with the backdrop wallpaper and no icons. Went into Task Manager (which I had running) and shut everything down. After restarting, all the entire desktop was messed up with icons all over the place instead of neatly organised (requiring having to move them back to where they were) and everything was running super slow (the shutdown and startup sequence also took three times as long). Then WE crapped out again, requiring another shutdown and restart as well as reorganising all the icons again. When the start up finished (taking a long time again), I opened the Event Viewer to diagnose what happened. Apparently WE just kept hanging up for some reason with no other explanation given. All in all about an hour of my morning was wasted.
I recently defragged and cleaned the C: drive so this should not have occurred
Why are there PC games out there that require a touchscreen and will not work without one? And why did it self install onto my computer? I did not remember installing this Dragon game onto my computer. I do know that it requires a touch screen and not a mouse.
Gremlins!
They're getting around. I must have had one fly through here recently. My UPS has started proclaiming "Battery not connected. Will not be able to supply power during an outage". Or something to that effect. The message will repeat for several minutes then stop for an hour or so. Several days it's been doing that. I suspect it's battery age and after looking at the LCD screen on the UPS I could see that the battery is only about 80% charged. Argh... $$ Last time my battery conked out on me. I happened to be in OfficeMax while they were having a big sale and was able to get a brand new identical UPS w/battery for just a little more than a replacement battery alone + shipping. Now, I find that with Amazon Prime and my free shipping, I can get the battery for about $55 instead of $120 for a new complete unit. Perhaps I should order two because I still have the old battery-less unit sitting under my desk idle.
It's always nice to have more of your precious electronics shielded from wonky power. I've got another computer and lots of external hard drives now that should be protected.
Argh..., budget stretching time again.
...yeah that's what I chock my morning experience up to.
As to games being installed, recent Windows feature update perhaps?
How do I put a dress on a female Centaur?
same way you put a dress on a male centaur?
new exam table in store
yanno the trope about aliens and probing, how the heck a trope like that get started??
I think you need a little primer on the purpose of a fish. It is to live, eat, not get eaten, and keep from doing the backstroke.
The role of "fish" does not include doing water changes. You, on the other hand, have hands, feet, and a sense of balance. Using these physical features and talents make you the PERFECT choice in your household to take on the role of "water changer".
Your gut is you. But your Windows version is pretty much older than you. Windows ages in dog years, while you're still aging in people years.
Don't we "chalk it up to"; you know, as in "chalking up an idea" on the...(ahem) chalkboard?
If you're still on Windows 95 (teasing!), I'm pretty sure you haven't gotten any Windows feature updates...oh, since about the Clinton Administration. So it ain't that, my friend!
...and a lot more...
...and even pictures!...
...and even MORE!
Um...sure thing! I'm archiving it now just to be sure I have it all. One never knows when this'll come in handy! Hey, does anybody have a 4 TB hard drive handy that I could use?
Mental Note: Be careful what you ask for!
Yay! McGuyver's back!
Dana
Very very carefully!
..Umm W7 came out in 2010, I was born in the early 1950s. When I was around in the old days there was no Windows, no Microsoft, only Unix and a few proprietary OS's.
..apologies, old school here and that is how we used to say it.
Where and when did this idea that an "L" in a word isn't worthy of being pronounced? As in "walk", "talk", "chalk", "salmon", etc. English is such a sloppily spoken language. It's no wonder there are so many accents. Personally, I blame the British for butchering their own language first. I mean, the country is an island, and it's tiny!
Most of our States are bigger and the island still couldn't maintain a common accent.
But at least we Americans have had a go at fixing it for them and straightening out some of their worst non-essential spellings.
But the silent "L" still bugs me. It's there, it's proud, let it speak. And don't get me started on putting an "F" in the pronunciation of "Lieutenant". For that I'm going to blame the French.
(which for mosts things English is a useful fallback)
Why do we even have silent letters?... it's not like we have silent numbers...
Clerk: "That'll be $295..."
Customer: "But you said it was $25 a moment ago..."
Clerk: "Oh, you missed the silent nine..."
Then again I should be quite about that before I give big corporations and governments any ideas...
One of my housemates is going psycho and I cannot wait till she leave.
going to dmv, i hope thay have large print forms. have to get my non driving id
Complaint: I checked my UPS status display again this morning and the battery charge has gone down to about 60%. So, I disconnected everything and pulled out the battery and it was HOT. Not particularly a good sign. It's probably been trying to be charged. It was so hot in fact that although it didn't burn my hands for the few moments that I held it, it was hot enough for me to think that it might be safer sitting out on the porch to cool down or in case it had an internal short that was going to cause it to burst into flames. (I had that happen once in the computer room of a company I worked for. Scary situation!)
So, after I found other places to plug in all the things that had been plugged into the UPS I got back on the internet and ordered two new official #123 APC replacement batteries from Amazon. It was time. Couldn't be put off any longer.
But good news is that with one for my current UPS and one for my old UPS that's been sitting on the shelf for 3 years I'll now have two working UPS devices. Yay! 
However, considering the weight of the batteries, I'm glad I'm not the FedEx driver who has to deliver them in one box.
Non-complaint: Oh, and "yes" because I'm an Amazon Prime member, they will be delivered to me (free) by FedEx (or possibly UPS) on Wednesday, directly to my door so I won't have to lug them walking from the post office.
Oh godhelp me dmv nightmare. No large print forms. No one on staff to help me read the form. Cant read the counter number. Cant read theboard with numbers they calling.
bus home not for anither hour.
discrimination against the visually handicapped. Complainnnt
I'm OK, just lurking.
I should install the new version of Daz Install Manager soon (TM).
I am in a van heading home. However some dude almost ran into the van. The van is almost full of clients of group homes. Only one seat is empty. We are currently waiting for police to come write an incident report. I do not know where the dude went.
I am okay physically but not really emotional stable yet. But that is more to do with my grandma passing instead of this.
But what about ChaynaWolfsmoon?
My phone battery is low and I do not see a usb thing in this van.
Good to know!!!
Dana
..thanks for the update and letting us know you're OK.
countng zebras more fun than counting sheep.
counting Aiko ?