Gust
@Gust@piefed.social
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Well yeah. I said they were *topologically flat, not *bottomologically flat ;)
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Calculus tells you how curves work. Aqueducts are famous for their ability to be topologically flat. The math checks out
- Comment on I love science 1 week ago:
It’s true. Friends call me Snow Miser, whatever I touch turns to snow in my clutch. Interstellar was still awful though lol. I might have enjoyed it like any other scifi if it wasn’t specifically advertised as a scientifically accurate portrayal of space travel, but that is how it was advertised and accurate it was not
- Comment on I love science 1 week ago:
Im not familiar with kurzegesagt or Rick and Morty hentai but I’m pretty sure that was the expression on my face for most of the runtime of Interstellar
- Comment on if I ever have grandkids that is 1 week ago:
“Most people used the iron lung for a few weeks or months depending on the intensity of the polio attack. However, those with chest muscles permanently paralyzed by the disease need it for their lifetime.”
I am not any kind of medical professional so I can’t personally vouch for it, but here’s where I got the quote
https://www.medicinenet.com/how_long_can_you_live_in_an_iron_lung/article.htm
- Comment on Hydrogen Atoms 1 week ago:
Assuming the probability distribution is gaussian, I’d guess something like 3.5 to 4 times as large. I dont remember if that specific probability density function is gaussian or not, but assuming a distribution is gaussian is usually a safe bet
- Comment on They are German, of course. 1 week ago:
What happens at the Large Hardon Collider stays at the Large Hardon Collider
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
My biological father did that shit every time we went to a restaurant while I was growing up. Then he’d usually try to get them to flirt with me, starting from when I was like 8. I still hate going to restaurants with table service decades later
- Comment on ¡! FREE REFILLS !¡ 4 weeks ago:
The coca cola dispenser didn’t even need to be edited. I’ve used that stuff as a solvent for engine block corrosion more times than I can count
- Comment on Anyone in tech confirm? 4 weeks ago:
Same but I still keep the gun around in case any printers sneak back in
- Comment on Anyone in tech confirm? 4 weeks ago:
Thanks! Trying right now to figure out how to ask my former advisors for letters of rec without explaining my motivations, which heavily imply that I think they’re in denial about their work being “make tools for fascists”
- Comment on Anyone in tech confirm? 4 weeks ago:
Was working on a PhD in CS focused on industrial cybersecurity, though current events involving the three letter agency that funded my research lead to me crashing out and now I’m trying to get into law school and do immigration law. Far too frail and pasty to buy a farm though
- Comment on Machine go brrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrr br br br br br br brbrbrbrb 5 weeks ago:
Pedantically, I think you could call muon tomography an antimatter imaging method. It doesnt explicitly use antimatter as a probe, but you do often measure products of antimatter decay or decay products that are antimatter themselves when doing it (depending on how much fidelity you need on the structure being imaged). I say pedantically because I assume you meant medical imaging methods and muon tomography doesnt have medical applications afaik
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 5 weeks ago:
That is a fundamental misunderstanding of how magnetic fields and the forces they induce work. Attract and guide are both words that mean the same thing in this context, ie “apply force to.” Not sure what else to tell you; I dont feel like teaching you electrodynamics so I wont reply to this thread again.
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 5 weeks ago:
That is correct. It also has nothing to do with the original claim I made and you disagreed with, which is that the object with the greater magnetic field would be able to attract particles from farther away.
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 5 weeks ago:
The absolute distance is strictly irrelevant given this is a relative comparison between two magnetic fields. The one that is 6 orders of magnitude higher will maintain that 6 orders of magnitude difference exactly the same at a distance of 100m as it will at a distance of 100au. That means that the stronger field will maintain the minimum strength required to “guide” particles towards the dipole at a greater distance than the weaker magnetic field would. I feel you if you’re only trying to argue that it would still need to be within some neighborhood of some star to produce an aurora, but your posts read like you’re claiming 6 orders of magnitude on the magnetic field makes no difference on how close that object would need to be to produce an aurora, which is flatly incorrect.
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 5 weeks ago:
I dont think you’re quite understanding how big 6 orders of magnitude is. 4000000/r2 still falls off way slower than 1/r2.
Also the funnel diagram of the earth’s magnetic field you’re referring to is a near field effect. In the far field regime the only field components that stay strong enough to be relevant are those parallel to the axis of the dipole; a dipole is functionally identical to a bar magnet if you’re measuring it from far enough away. If my understanding of solar wind is correct and the aurora refers to an interaction that occurs between the earth’s magnetic field and particles near the sun, we’re definitely in the far field regime
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 5 weeks ago:
I mean, it has a magnetic field 6 or 7 orders of magnitude higher than ours. Id guess that extra strength allows it to pull particles from much further away and possibly from sources much more reticent to give up their particles than solar wind
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 2 months ago:
From the same type of motherfucker who somehow both understands concepts like the scientific method and interpreting data, but will look at a 15% pass rate in their entry level classes and blame it on the students
