You’re going to name constellations after things that you know well, so the fact that there are a lot of bears relative to other megafauna in northern regions means that in a way the original idea still holds, just not quite as basic.

When I first read this comment I thought your superpower was being able to taste dry cleaning chemicals in groundwater. Then I read your other post in this thread and realized it’s street markings.

100% a better way of doing it. I was just trying to answer the question of notching versus drilling a hole.

Much better. Imagine your bending something. The maximum tension is going to be at the very bottom and the max compression is going to be at the very top (this is why steel I-beams are shaped the way the are - to put the most material in the areas doing the most work). If you can put the hole in the middle you’re not impacting the structural integrity of the joist too much. You’d still have to worry about shear forces so you’d not want the hole to be too close to either end. Look up “castellated beam” if you want to see some steel examples.

t is a much more common letter than x, making the chance of confusion higher. x rarely gets used and kinda looks like a cross.

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Horrible, but at least not that part.