Iron_Lynx
@Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world
- Comment on Cat 1 week ago:
WHERE DID YOU COME FROM OH NEUTRINO
- Comment on Easy 1 week ago:
An acquaintance of mine tried giving a deer buck shot the other week. On a semi-related note, they’re having Venison for dinner tonight.
- Comment on Help 2 weeks ago:
Try H
- Comment on Water 2 weeks ago:
Drats, it seems I’ve bee outplayed! ಠಗಠ
- Comment on Water 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen this described as Conservation of Ninjitsu, the more mooks Our Hero must face, the less competent each of those mooks will be.
- Comment on Water 2 weeks ago:
And if all of this continues to elude you, click here
You just lost The Game^TM^.
- Comment on Water 2 weeks ago:
And if you still don't get it, click here
Meanwhile, there are two hydrogen atoms in a water molecule - H~2~O
- Comment on I don't have to check the price because I know I can't afford it. 3 weeks ago:
I’m so glad that in NL, the cheese industry is so massive that cheap cheese exists, and is at least half decent
- Comment on master manipulators 3 weeks ago:
Can confirm, purring is a sure way I can get attention from my gf
- Comment on Like a boss 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on tickling ur spidey senses 5 weeks ago:
You may not like it, but this is what peak software engineering job security looks like.
~ a friend of mine, 2024
- Comment on tickling ur spidey senses 5 weeks ago:
Because you stop searching when you find the bug.
- Comment on Standoff 1 month ago:
Of course there’s an xkcd for everything!
- Comment on Makes more sense than the Imperial system 1 month ago:
A decakilogram would be 10 kg though. But fuck, that’s quite an unwieldy word.
- Comment on 5x Evolutionary Winner 1 month ago:
You’re in a community dedicated to science memes. That is a total compliment.
- Comment on Even better than a cart of apples 1 month ago:
With the previous ELI12 under control, let’s ELI>12 overhead line catenary a little more. For instance, why do you need tension in the first place?
Fact of the matter is that using a rigid conductor is problematic with high voltage AC (skin effect and such), plus it’s more visually intrusive than wires. Meanwhile, a wire will sag, regardless of how much tension you can practically apply. So you need a few devices to help keep the wire at height.
For one, the wire is supported every few dozen metres. Secondly, there’s a second wire strung above the first one. And while both wires are pulled taut, there are dropper wires between the upper and lower wires, which vary in length. Longer near the poles, while at the shortest near the middle between two poles, which creates a structure similar to a suspension bridge to keep the contact wire within a tight margin of vertical space.
- Comment on Even better than a cart of apples 1 month ago:
In case people don’t want to click a link, let me explain it here:
If you want to use overhead line electrification, you need to suspend a wire over the rails. In theory, you could simply hang up a wire, but whichever amount of tension you choose, if it’s warmer outside, the wire will droop, potentially causing damage, while if it’s colder outside, the wire will pull taut and may snap. So you want a system to account for external temperature.
Instead of picking a tension at a standard installation temperature, you pick an amount of desired tension and use weights to pull it taut. Now, if the wire heats up and extends, the weights drop, and if the wire cools down and contracts, the weights are pulled up.
And to keep the amount of weight you need to add under control, you use a series of pulleys to control the tension in the wire.
In NL, the mainline system looks a lot simpler: They have only one wheel, but that’s two pulleys: a larger one and a smaller one. The larger one holds the weight, while the smaller one holds the wires.
- Comment on Shiny 1 month ago:
(do it again now!)
Hard like heroic, more than you can handle - Comment on Culture Wars 2 months ago:
There are only two things or people that I don’t tolerate:
People intolerant of others’ ways of life…
And the Dutch.
…
Wait, I am Dutch 😨
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You could say he murdered it.
- Comment on Tiny pp 2 months ago:
It must be a rule on the internet:
There’s always a relevant xkcd.
- Comment on Mushrooms 2 months ago:
… it’s very hard experimenting when you’ve no idea of potency or dosages.
This.
Fun thing I bumped int a few weeks ago: the guy who’s credited with inventing LSD tried a bit to see how it worked and how it felt. But he had no idea just how ridiculously potent LSD is. I forgot the exact numbers, but I do recall the ballpark. So he had a Fermi-estimated 100 μg while he only needed like 10 μg for a good time, so not only did he have the first known LSD trip, he had the first known bad trip.
- Comment on Capsaicin 2 months ago:
After reading this, for some reason, the phrase “cryogenic hellfire” lives rent-free in my brain.
- Comment on pump up the jamz 2 months ago:
I’m thinking There Is No Planet B by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
- Comment on Colours of Blood 2 months ago:
Or at least by Big Penis Worm
- Comment on Please be patient. 2 months ago:
Sorry mate, Tom couldn’t make it, so here we have Bill.
Weather update: it’s raining rocks from outer space
- Comment on smart engineering 2 months ago:
Wonder what that’d look like to a layman. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9… Awesome? Beastly? Crushing? Deafening? Ear-shattering? Fuck that’s loud?
- Comment on smart engineering 2 months ago:
Relevant xkcd about these xkcd’s:
- Comment on PLAGIARISM 2 months ago:
If we’re going to assume the copyright of the body would rest with the first Homo Sapiens, that was tens of thousands of years ago, so even under Jamaican copyright (life of the author + 95 years), that’d be public domain.
Plagiarise away!
- Comment on Monke 2 months ago:
Mok
