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Venicon@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• CurlyChopz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Middle bottom is the demon core, an extremely radioactive orb

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

  And anyway, he’s the newest physics demon

  newscientist.com/…/2386751-demon-particle-found-i…

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  • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    3.5" in diameter, and 14 pounds. That seems very odd.

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    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Uranium is very dense.

      But iridium is twice the density of lead!

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• eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Solely based on knowledge, yes. In practice most of us wouldn’t be able to create a half working lamp from raw materials.

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  • ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    "I call it..._FIRE!!!_ Oh. Shit. You already have that. I don't really know any others."

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  • MajorHavoc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is also why at see inventions emerge almost at the same moment from people who don’t share knowledge.

    A lot of invention is material science.

    Even if I know enough to make a modern computer from raw materials, I’m not going to find the necessary industry to refine those raw materials correctly in the 1400s.

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• pipe01@lemmy.pipe01.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The middle bottom is the demon core, and I guess the bottom right is a reactor of some kind

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  • peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Cherenkov radiation gives it away that it’s a reactor of some sort.

    I haven’t seen this before, unless it’s a nuetron breeder.

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• rescla@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The bottom right one looks like a mercury arc valve: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-arc_valve It reminded me of an old Phoyonicinduction video youtu.be/QY6V2syGnZA

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• Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have a habit of calling things ‘technological magic’ because that’s what it is in my mind. The fact that the universal laws and logic exist in such a way to allow things like computers or the huge complexity of living things and AI matrixies is nothing short of miraculous when you think about it.

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• IndiBrony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  youtu.be/aFlromB6SnU

  In terms of the bottom middle: that’s the demon core. Science Thor (a.k.a. Kyle Hill) does awesome videos on nuclear and radioactive stuffs which can explain it better than I could.

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• Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  samw, what is the bottom right??

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cherenkov radiation. Look it up on youtube for a video of a experimental reactor making some.

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  • Illegal_Prime@dmv.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mercury arc valve, an old method of converting AC electricity to DC.

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