Admetus

@Admetus@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL that Will Wright, while making The Sims, was inspired by Quake⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That level editor was awesome in AoE, especially when errr…the nukeboys came out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL that Will Wright, while making The Sims, was inspired by Quake⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Building a world was quite novel back then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nuclear⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, there’s barely any difference between the heating of the earth’s mantle, i.e. geothermal, to the heating by fission. We are just kind of doing the process manually on the surface of the planet where a tiny mistake will cover it in contamination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fastest Animal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I get the joke but I assume fastest is the eagle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be a square in a two dimensional space with different rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  CT bread scan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh, the humanity!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Panel 3 was pulled off so well, I actually felt a bit fuzzy before panel 4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak Fantasy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Terry Pratchett is pretty much the Tolkien of flat earth literature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marie Curie, such a drama queen⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is something I show students because they’re just morbid at high school age and I’m pretty morbid myself.

  But no, I do black it out on the slideshow and give the antsy a chance to vacate the classroom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ochem periodic table⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the ENHANCE 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨penetration tests⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I reckon you’re thinking of the neutrino which rarely interacts with matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technically Correct⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So how about a bottle of dry ice?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hacker Shows How to Get Free Laundry For Life⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Profit 😕

  I agree CCTV is a bit invasive…depends on the tenants! If I were a landlord with some tenants of concern, I’d have washing machines facing away from CCTV so no laundry is on camera!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hacker Shows How to Get Free Laundry For Life⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Free laundry machines’ could essentially be included in the rent, provided laundry machines are used properly and intentional damage paid for. I would be okay with CCTV being employed to ensure this. An extra $10 for water usage, and everyone uses their own detergent.

  But does that make sense for capitalists?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chemists of Lemmy, how accurate is this likability table?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a toddler and I hope to dear god there’s no lead about. She will lick anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chemists of Lemmy, how accurate is this likability table?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the choice between licking mercury and licking lead, 96% of respondents answered with lead.

  ~Apologies for the random percentage and quoting fictional data~

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did gravity worked on the Death Star?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh got it, thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chemists of Lemmy, how accurate is this likability table?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From my elementary knowledge of chemistry:

  I had to go looking for Mercury and Lead and sure enough they look about right.

  Anything in column 7 are desperate to rip electrons away from molecules so yes, permanent damage to your tongue and mouth.

  Uranium is alright if you lick it once. A guy ate uranium cake once on TV.

  The ‘Please reconsider’ lot seem to be a good way to die a horrible death by radiation.

  Tc I believe is technetium which is radioactive and emits gamma rays, perhaps not soluable so stays in your body and you become gamma-man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did gravity worked on the Death Star?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought you might be correcting me so I checked up the definition. Both are okay?

  ‘Composed of’ is a better sounding phrasing though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did gravity worked on the Death Star?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I believe I was being lazy to not want to deal with averaging the density of various rocks, but your suggestion about the density of soil is a good one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨freezing point curves⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chemistry and Physics combined make very interesting ‘resonances’ in molecular behaviour. That’s as educated a guess I may make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did gravity worked on the Death Star?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t deny the star wars universe is getting a bit more of an update in the cinemas, especially post-Interstellar and whatnot, but space opera in the 80s was really intent on ignoring the stark reality of space for both constraints of filming and viewership. Goddamn fun though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did gravity worked on the Death Star?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know we’d all like some scientific actualisation of Star Wars but I mean:

  • They made noise in space 'cause that’s fun.
  • There was always gravity on pretty much any ship.
  • I don’t really recall any spacewalks so we don’t see any instance of 'no gravity’
  • There’s hyperspace since lightyears is a bit of a long time.
  • Stormtroopers seem very scientifically and inefficiently accurate

  At this point I think the Star Wars movies (the oldies) pretty much ignored a fair bit of the science.

  But if it was a death star literally put there in our universe, I think there would be a bit of structural considerations for gravity, but not huge due to it being quite hollow. Gravity is pretty strong when the sphere is entirely comprised of dense rock and no air. A mostly hollow sphere of air where air is something close to 1/1000 that of rock (yes, used the density of water lol) is not going to get much of a rollicking from gravity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Science bitch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One article suggests that:

  Although the leading speculation for this relationship implicates stressors that are unique to these relationships, the current study suggested that this phenomenon is mostly due to characteristics of individuals with whom those in interracial relationships are more likely to be coupled.

  So the conclusion of the research suggests it’s not a racial characteristic. It’s much more nuanced.

  Link to abstract

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨me irl⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now try calculating the density of some of the lattices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Absolutely deranged⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. When I wanted to transfer files between phone and computer I had to try out 3 cables before I found one that was data capable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tango Gameworks employee shares pictures from the Xbox studio’s final day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So Xbox bought the studio about 3 years ago and then just went ‘nah, not profitable.’ Fuck Xbox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Progress can be seen in all parts of life⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair though, part of the passengers were a father & son participating in a sort of father & son trip in which the son was adamant that he didn’t want to go down in the submarine. He was literally scared. But the father dragged the son down with him, and sadly the son perished inside something he feared.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speed⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like this is the most concise answer in this thread.

  Omega squared baby!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It got on the news. They sacrificed their jobs for that at least.