KingGimpicus
@KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 1 week ago:
Kind of, but not really.
Auroras dont necessarily need a stars radiation. Any old radiation will do, so long as there are charged particles floating around. Jupiter, for example, has gigantic continuous aurora around the magnetic poles. If auroras only came from the sun, and the earth is much closer to the sun than Jupiter, wouldn’t earth have a bigger aurora than Jupiter?
No, obviously. The size of the aurora depends on the size of the magnetic field interacting with charged particles and the number of those charged particles.
In the case of supermassive planets like Jupiter and this rogue planet, they produce way more of their own radiation than they recieve from the sun or space. This rogue “planet” in particular is so massive that it could actually fuse deuterium down in the core just with the pressures and temperatures of gravity crushing all that matter down. If you pumped enough hydrogen in there to quadruple the mass, it would probably ignite into a star quite comparable to our sun.
For that reason, it’s better to think of this as more of a baby star that didn’t quite eat enough wheaties than a planet in the traditional sense we think of here in our solar system.
With the crazy physics that come with suns and near dwarfs with similar mass, it’s no surprise that it generates a titanic magnetic field, and as a bonus, it produces its own radiation. It creates all the necessary ingredients it needs to make it’s own spectacular auroras with no actual outside interaction.
Tl;dr it makes it’s own aurora
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 1 week ago:
Because the planet produces its own radiation. That much mass means this is less a “planet” and more of a proto star. It’s actually large enough to fuse deuterium if the right conditions were met. Pour enough hydrogen in there to raise the mass a three of four times what it has now and it’d be comparable to our sun.
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 2 weeks ago:
Worse, cat tongues are barbed and are actually abrasive. They can literally lick your face off given enough time.
- Comment on Last Epoch players turn on the action RPG for announcing a paid DLC class, tanking its Steam reviews: 'go play Path of Exile instead' 2 weeks ago:
Y-puck
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 2 weeks ago:
Had a bunch of wolf spiders in the last shop i worked at as a welder. They have eye shine like cats and alligators. It was always easy to tell the wolf spiders from black widows even behind a dusty welding machine because you can see the little wolf spider eyes looking back at you.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Why buy AAA slop when indie gold cheaper?
Checkmate juden.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
What’s that? Capitalism fixing problems?
Checkmate atheists.
- Comment on Name your favourite prehistoric tree. 3 weeks ago:
Had a Gingko tree outside my childhood home up in Washington. We were right down the highway from Ginkgo Petrified Forest too. It was wild knowing a tree like the one at home stood just down the road ~ 16 MYA. Yeah, there aren’t a lot of gingkos in that park, and there’s plenty of other trees that have the same circumstance, but that gingko was special to me.
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 1 month ago:
Bards Tale. That game was full of shit actively taunting or tricking the player. Best ps2 game.
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 1 month ago:
Seconded.
I have more fond memories of blood dragon than I do of farcry 3, despite blood dragon being like a 20 hour standalone dlc
- Comment on Show your pride 1 month ago:
Actually uranium is a really bright yellow color. It’s called “yellow cake” during processing…
- Comment on Wild Seals 1 month ago:
Well to be fair seals are a special kind of asshole among assholes. Some of the coast guard are chill, and the vast majority of the active forces are literally 18 and 19 year old children. Literally too useless to get an actual job. The only ones that stick around are either the assholes among assholes or the functionally unemployable.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk is a Racist 2 months ago:
Ahem,
Was/were
Pronouns people.
- Comment on thick skinned employees, how can you be so thick skinned? 3 months ago:
As a welder turned machinist, is it really so hard to act like an adult as an adult? I’ve seen a bunch of different shops around my area, and hands down the old heads are the worst when it comes to drama. They’re so focused on status and seniority that they forget that it’s just a job.
That being said, work how you want to work, not how you see other people working in your role. “Good enough” is fine for learning, but i want to be good at what I do, not good enough. I like my paycheck, and I like feeling like I earn it too.
I’m actually in a position where I got a raise at work and acknowledgement from my peers where I feel like I’ve been doing average work. I could take that to mean that I’m doing good enough and I can coast. That would be totally normal. But I’m looking at it as encouragement to continue to develop my craft. I tried out some shit on a lathe the other day I’ve only ever seen on crazy Instagram videos, but it worked for what I needed to do, and the part came out acceptable in the end. Now I can continue to expand my experience with confidence.
- Comment on Super Weaner 3 months ago:
The scientific name for this phenomenon is a heckin chonky honker.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 4 months ago:
Ice cube in whatever the fuck he’s doing in the war of the world rehash on prime. From the trailer it just looks like ice cube is reacting to chat about mid af cgi videos
- Comment on Hmmm... 4 months ago:
Jokes on you, fish don’t exist.
Welcome to taxonomical existentialism.
heavy metal riff
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 4 months ago:
Gonna show my age a bit here.
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Chromehounds. Nothing since has filled that 20 story tall mecha hole in my heart. The way you could build your hound into the role you wanted to play really hasn’t been done well in any game since
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MAG (massive action game). Ps3/ps4 128vs128 matches online? It was such a clusterfuck and I loved it.
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Binding of Isaac and all its expansions. Game has been a solid and consistent time sink in my life for more than 10 years. Quirky and infinitely replayable.
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- Comment on Anon crunches some numbers 4 months ago:
It’s about the communication of technology, not the technological advancement itself. Language is a relatively recent human adaptation.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 4 months ago:
Mass effect had this weird metamorphosis across the series where the character writing and gameplay improved noticeably between each game in the series while the story and mechanics took big steps back. Andromeda had some of the best movement/power sets in the series, not to mention your own build-a-gun workshop, while absolutely failing at everything else it tried to do. “My face is tired” indeed random not-the-citadel lady.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 4 months ago:
Why? Lilith was the best siren gameplay in the series. Yeah, ol Randy fucked her up real good with their dogshit writing, but her character never really changed. I’ve never been able to seriously pick up another siren character because nothing compares to phasewalk.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 4 months ago:
A lawn? Absolutely not. It’s a resource sink for no other reason that vanity. If they weren’t going to put in something useful, like clover or any actual productive plant life, then I’d rather see it capped off and no longer watered. Golf courses too for that matter. Pave them over entirely and build dense urban housing instead on a national scale.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 4 months ago:
So does a fucking lawn. Actually, imo, lawns are worse. It’s a perfect representation of the toxicity of the “American dream”. It’s an unnatural landscape that’s inhospitable to life, sort of like the concrete, but it gets some weird psychological pass because it’s green. It’s shit either way.
Talking about “he ripped out the rose garden” is just more sensationalism horseshit when the roses are right there, just fuckin dandy. He tore out a lawn that was equally as shit.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 4 months ago:
I mean i would’ve preferred clover instead but the concrete is precisely as useful to bugs as that grass was.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 4 months ago:
Am I missing something here? It looks like the roses are still there and he just paved over the big useless lawn.
Anyone else see this? Those rose bushes are still clearly there on the right side of the image. Ifball were talking about is the replacement of some shit grass anyways, who gives a fuck?
- Comment on the elder gods 4 months ago:
Iirc the closest modern day relative is some form of sea slug. How you go from spore to slug has got to be a wild journey
- Comment on the elder gods 4 months ago:
Happened all the time. It just depends on the environment. Check out basically anything on the “Tully monster” if you want to know more.
Tully monsters are actually even older than OPs fossil and we have no idea where they came from or where they went, from an evolutionary perspective.
- Comment on Finally a solution to the Königsberg Bridge problem. 4 months ago:
What about an opposite bridge where you cross under the river? Some sort of tubular subterranean structure. We could call them opposite bridges.
- Comment on It's just loss. 5 months ago:
A planet is a pen without fences. You just have to expand your perspective. You’ve obviously never interacted with a farmer in your life if you’ve never heard them brag about how many animals they have on the property. And those are just the ones they can count. Im sure some crazy farmer somewhere in India would be mad proud of how many rats he’s got running around. They’re holy in certain parts.
- Comment on It's just loss. 5 months ago:
The pic says “of all the mammals on earth”. It’s exactly as i said with the pen, just scaled up to a 3d spherical planetary sized pen. The numbers I’m talking about don’t change.
There are WAY more rats than cows. Period. They’re on every continent except Antarctica, and there might be some weird subterranean prehistoric voles huddled around a hydrothermal vent pool or some shit.
OP just needs to add a qualifier to the graphic. Anything along the lines of “with respect to biomass” right at the start