wolframhydroxide

@wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smells Great⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So, when you get to the scale of “a laser that can destroy objects”, it turns out that the reflectance of natural materials is just utterly insufficient. Consider the following: suppose that a mirror finish reflects 90% of the light from a laser in the range you’re looking at (a fair assumption, from what I’ve read). Now, let’s do some basic back-of-the-napkin math: we’ll use a 30 kW laser, which is apparently standard for current destructive laser weapons. Let’s further assume that the laser light is spread over a surface area of 0.04 m^2 (because a spot 20 cm on a side seems to me a fairly high estimate for the spread on a precision laser, even on a moving target, if it’s motion-tracked, I should think). Let us be generous and assume that this reflective paint coating is 0.5mm (0.0005m) thick. Given the paint’s approximate specific heat of 2.302 J/gK (polyethylene) and density of 1400000 g/m^3 (PVC), and let’s also assume the breakdown temp of the reflectance is near the boiling point of PVA (spray paint), which is 112C.

  So, the mass of paint absorbing the energy is 0.04*0.0005*1400000=28 g.

  To heat the entirety of these 28 g of this material by about 90C (from 22 to 112), completely destroying the protective layer, we would need 2.302*28*90 = 5801J

  Now we know that we have 30000*0.93= 3000J/s, so it would take about 2 seconds of lancing to completely destroy the protection. Given that it already takes 2-5 seconds to destroy things with the laser, and it doesn’t actually have to destroy the entire area for the reflectance to deteriorate and let the laser through, this would only be adding another second of work. I think that, no matter what you do, the laser’s gonna win.

  I can give sources for any of these estimates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smells Great⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I memorised the band once in orgo, and never looked at them again, so you’re more likely to know than I.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smells Great⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that wouldn’t necessarily work once you get to the right wavelengths for it to start interacting with the organic bases of the paints. There’s only so much you can do when someone shoots an infrared laser at the resonant frequency of a C=C double bond.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨egg time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe that, nowadays, it is generally accepted that dinosaurs, crocodilians and birds are all “archosaurs”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Load bearing Tupperware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is not that any outage occurred. This still happens often. Things just refuse to work sometimes. The issue is that SO MANY eggs were in ONE basket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wax on⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They do, but in order for them to _re_gurgitate, they first must gorge upon it. They eat it, chew it up and spit it out in the shapes necessary (planar, cylindrical, or otherwise).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amen⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Until a Cartesian Solipsist points out that your senses are inherently fallible, it is impossible to prove that you are not a Boltzmann Brain, and the only thing it is possible to know with certainty is that you exist, in your present moment of experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cox-zucker⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man, pre-FNAF? Thats the deep magic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PRAISE HIM⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, there’s gas, liquid, bose-einstein condensate, and plasma at the least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds like more of an ESA/JAXA joint venture. The only stuff NASA is going to be doing for the foreseeable future is ensuring the rapid exhort of Space Fascism™

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, we can’t call them atoms, which are defined by the presence of an electron cloud surrounding a nucleus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would argue that, since they lack an electron cloud and are comprised of a collection of free-floating nuclei, they are actually a plasma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk in his own words.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Founder of Scientology, who said this a few years before starting Scientology, while he was still publishing as a science fiction author.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Worse, they bundled it with the worse half of the USA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This gate keeping of cuisine is ridiculous. It would logically follow that you have to throw out anything that’s made with something originally from a different zone. So no potatoes, tomatoes, corn or other new world crops… Well, anywhere but one of these sections. Anything that comes from cultural exchange is, apparently, right out. So good luck with whatever the fuck they were eating in mesopotamia and the India river valley civilisation. I hope you like your beer to be bread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, D even gets the entire bay of Naples.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somebody call a doctor!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, you have to include other possibilities, such as the likelihood that you are hallucinating, dreaming, or that your entire subjective experience is the result of a Brain-In-A-Vat scenario

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Here, you want a mind fuck? I’ll let you have it for free:

  Bell’s Theorem: The universe is not locally real (either the speed of light is violable or properties of things do not exist until observed) Light simultaneously takes all paths, and so does everything else if given the right conditions. We just perceive “Location” as a property things have because of probability. “Everything” literally is “Everywhere, All At Once”. The world that we perceive is nothing more or less than a vast ocean of waves within overlapping fields. The interference between the waves, the troughs and crests, are the objects we perceive. Nothing is truly as you see it, even yourself. Also, gravity doesn’t exist. Time just passes slower near massive objects.

  That’s the best I can do for ya. First hit’s free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tall tails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the fascinating read! It seems like it’s still far from certain, by the study authors’ own admission, but I look forward to seeing validation studies by others! Do you know of any? I wasn’t able to find any from a cursory glance around the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tall tails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, much like how brontosaurus was later discovered to be a mix of bones from various individuals, “Distanceraptor” is actually a conflation of multiple Displacemosaurids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tall tails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, you’re thinking of the much more dangerous “acceleraptors”. Velociraptors were very different from how they are commonly portrayed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ditto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t want people to eat your genitals, have you considered filling them with deadly alkaloids and neurotoxins? Alternatively, just make your genitals look deeply diseased and likely to kill anyone who breathes near them? These methods seem to work pretty well for most mushrooms.

  If you’re absolutely determined to make sure that no one eats your genitals, and you don’t want to learn from the mushrooms, I would recommend registering as a Republican.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i 💚 animals.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and there was no explicit text that said “separate, but equal” was about racial purity and whites being the best race. But here, “separate, but equal sciences” is totally normal, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i 💚 animals.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that there is not a difference, but this meme is claiming that there is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i 💚 animals.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that the very definition of something that makes a meme is that it allows transmission of a specific idea in an encapsulated manner, there are inherent implications of using a meme, whether you explicitly say them or not. This meme is implicitly about a miscommunication between two interpretations of the same term:

  I Love Video Games / Me Too is a parody meme format based on an exploitable image macro in which a woman misinterprets a man saying “I love video games” as him expressing love for Lana Del Ray’s song of that name.

  This meme, since its earliest usage, has been used as a statement of purity, which you can clearly see if you look into the history of it. That attitudinal connotation is preserved in the use of this meme, whether you yourself are ignorant of its origins, or simply pretending that it isn’t some sort of purity statement. I don’t disagree with your sentiment, but you are definitively wrong about the implications of the original post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i 💚 animals.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Though im told that Philosophy’s just math, sans rigor, sense and practicality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i 💚 animals.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Except that the meme is very specifically used to highlight a distinct qualitative difference between the two “interpretations” of a term which leads to friction or miscommunication between the characters. This meme is doing precisely what you claim it is not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i 💚 animals.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, “Tell me you never took more than high school level chemistry without telling me you never took more than high school level chemistry”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent points!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Karl Popper, “The Logic of Scientific Discovery” is a seminal work in the modern philosophy of science. It led the way for modern statistical methodology in the form of null hypothesis rejection, proposes to solve the problem of induction, and his proposal of falsifiability is, to my knowledge, the most popular philosophical framework for modern scientific practice.