I've made a mask made out of fiberglass. I need to add detail to it so I decided to use polymer clay. I brushed a two-part epoxy over the clay and it held fine but the polymer acted like wax paper. Since I can't put this in the oven, can I brush over resin on the unbaked clay to harden? I don't know what else to use as detail for this mask. I've got so much done already, starting over is not an option. I'm using Sculpey III. I've read I should have used FIMO since it's stronger than Sculpey III.
cant stop something from blockin glight can you? With metamaterials, you can. Publicly they're only known to work for microwaves, not visible light, but I'll bet various countries are doing secret research on it. Anyway, while it's possible a spy satellite could be spotted passing in front of the Sun or Moon, it will be a very small black dot travelling very fast, in front of an object that already has black dots (sunspots, lunar shadows) on it. It won't be easy to see. And even if it IS seen, I can think of no practical way to tell that it's a spy satellite and who owns it.
To calculate the probability that half the laid off employees were women but only 1/3 of the workforce was female exactly, we'd need to know the size of the company. It will come out differently if they started with 15 employees (10 men and 5 women) or 1500 (1000 men and 500 women). The larger the total workforce, the weaker the claim, because it would be more likely to occur 'by chance'. The extreme case would be the smallest one: 15 employees, 10 fired. In that case, there are 15 C 5 ways to choose the 5 employees not fired, (of 15 C 10 ways to choose the 10 who got the axe, same result). And 10 C 5 ways that either group (the 10 or the 5) has 5 men. 10C5 252, 15C5 3003 So the chances that it would come out this way are 252/3003 or about 8.4 %. I'll leave it to the lawyers to decide if that would merit a suit. The fact that all the women were fired might strengthen their case. If the company is larger, it will be different: To keep the numbers from getting out of hand, let's say there were 120 people employed (80 men, 40 women) Then there are 120 C 10 116068178638776 1.16068179 × 10^14 ways to pick 10 people to fire. Of those, to pick 5 men and 5 women, there are 80C5 * 40C5 ways 24040016 * 658008 1.58185228 × 10^13 So the probability that it came out this way is (24 040 016 * 658 008) / 116068178638776 0.136286474 About 14% chance. That's about 1 in 7 chance. I don't think it would be a very strong case of discrimination.
