Skyrmir
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- Comment on How can an airplane hit -47°c (-52°f) temperatures while flying over Southern Florida? 2 hours ago:
Turbine blades are pure aluminum, which melts at 1220 degrees. They operate inside the compression chamber of the turbine to move gases that are around 1500 degrees. There’s a whole art to making them single crystals and optimizing flow rates so they don’t melt, or explode, or melt and explode. And a lot of work goes into making sure when they do melt and explode, they don’t turn into supersonic bullets. Just barely though, because armor is heavy.
- Comment on How can an airplane hit -47°c (-52°f) temperatures while flying over Southern Florida? 12 hours ago:
While on the same machine, the turbine blades that melt at 1250 degrees operate at 1500 degrees.
It’s all magic
- Comment on My ECON Professor always said that the Black Market Economy always influences the legal economy. Is this actually true? Does this not mean the legal economy is making money on criminals? 3 days ago:
Economic activity is economic activity. Laws are regulations are just expenses that lead to market distortions. If all works as planned, the cost of violating the law minimizes the size of the black market, but it’s always going to be there. Because of that, spending will get shaped around not only that market, but legal avoidance as well.
- Comment on MMO players (past and present): what is your attitude towards "forced" group content? 1 week ago:
I think Warhammer Online had the best mix. They just had some balance problems, and of course huge technical issues. There were some great elements to the game though. The automatic pickup raids and scenario system were pretty good ideas.
- Comment on Britain cannot deal effectively with geopolitical crises without rejoining EU, says thinktank 2 weeks ago:
But Putin would be very disappointed if all his hard work weakening the UK and NATO went to waste.
- Comment on Hello there 5 weeks ago:
This is why you should be thinking of words that rhyme with the names of people nearby while having conversations.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 5 weeks ago:
It doesn’t have to be more rare than Earth metals, supply just has to be more limited than demand. Given the rising use cases, and the global population, it’s only a question of time until economic viability. Especially in cases, like now, where supply is constrained by political tensions. It becomes a national security issue to not have a sovereign supply. Lunar mining is cheaper than a resource war.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 5 weeks ago:
The Moon is a staging area and supply of resources. Lunar launch costs are almost negligible to Earth, so large scale mining of rare earths, deuterium, and other metals is viable. And the low gravity means building/launching giant ships capable of reaching the outer solar system is possible.
The research and knowledge gained from a lunar base would almost certainly far exceed the cost of building it as well. Science and practices in medical and botanical fields that would be directly applicable here on Earth, but are not possible or would not be studied without the existence of a lunar base.
- Comment on Day 5 of deliberations in Lindsay Clancy trial ends without verdict, jury remains deadlocked 1 month ago:
I was close but substantially wrong. It was only 1 juror that was holding them up. I had my doubts that a single person would stand up to that much peer pressure.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 month ago:
I understand that since you’re working 400 less hours per year, with a months more vacation, and paid parental leave on a job that’s much more difficult to get fired on you might still have complaints.
But seriously, the tiny fractions of a problem that still exist in the Swedish labor market, wouldn’t even make rounding errors in the US. There are always going to be problems, and lots of arguments about how to fix them. Most people in the US, would much rather have Swedish labor market problems to argue about.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 month ago:
It was never implemented in the first place. What was intended never happened. Probably for the best honestly. Minimum wage is a poor way to accomplish a living wage, the only advantage it has, is political expediency.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 month ago:
It was never sustainable, it was a hack to keep people from demanding unions. There’s plenty of countries with no minimum wage and well paid workers. It takes strong unions and labor protection laws, which is why the fascists will fight it to the death.
- Comment on Jury goes home for the day after Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer asks to remove juror who ‘refuses to listen to the law’ 1 month ago:
They may as well just start planning the retrial now.
- Comment on Day 5 of deliberations in Lindsay Clancy trial ends without verdict, jury remains deadlocked 1 month ago:
I know nothing about this case except a few random headlines, but I’m betting it’s 2 or 3 jurors that have decided to ignore law and facts to just say no for some visceral reason.
- Comment on Was Reagan's second term like Douche In Chief second term? Where it was finally revealed Regan had full alzheimers for the majority of his second? Were there signs the public saw something wrong? 1 month ago:
That’s pretty much always been known. Otherwise we’d know what meds he was on.
- Comment on Was Reagan's second term like Douche In Chief second term? Where it was finally revealed Regan had full alzheimers for the majority of his second? Were there signs the public saw something wrong? 1 month ago:
Not really, there were a lot of people that suspected and rumored, but the press generally didn’t say much about it until Bush was president. The media was more concerned with the economy and Iran-Contra type issues, and didn’t talk about his health a lot. Late night hosts and comedians made jokes about his chin flaps, hair that never moved, and called him an animatronic or puppet. Not a lot about his mental state, other than disdain for his choices, not really health related. After it was publicly acknowledged there was of course a ton of ‘As we all long suspected’ type noises.
- Comment on Why is the world's "oldest profession" still illegal ? Instead of being better managed? 1 month ago:
Because it’s always accompanied by human trafficking and rape. Even in countries where it’s legal, the laws are shaped around an idea of allowing it, while preventing the worst aspects of it. The efficacy of various systems is still under review, as none of them are as effective as anyone would like.
It’s a similar issue with polygamy. No one really cares what a group of consenting adults gets up to, but it always ends up devolving into some ones twelve year old daughter being married off to an old geezer, or a cult leader, or both. So it ends up getting banned.
They’re both non problems that cause problems. And yes, a hundred ways to control the real problems have been tried. No one has really been happy with the results so far, there have just been various levels that local societies have decided to accept.
- Comment on Why is the approach to nudity and sex in films and tv so vastly different between the US and Europe? 2 months ago:
Federal Communications Commission - The US federal organization responsible for approving broadcast content since 1934.
- Comment on Who says romance is dead? 2 months ago:
Isn’t this the same state that had a naked knife wielding guy get in a fight with a naked knife wielding guy?
Nope wait, that was Seattle, my bad whole different state.
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 2 months ago:
First set of pills was $483 with insurance. Bought the refill as uninsured, it was $38.
Our insurance industry is so broken it’s really just unfathomable.
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 2 months ago:
My wife needs a surgery thats likely to cost 18 to 20 grand without insurance, and I have to do some really careful math to figure out if putting her on my insurance would actually save us anything.
Most likely flying to Mexico for a week to get it done would be cheaper too.
- Comment on Look, we're famous 2 months ago:
Never had my neighborhood on a cop show, but I have lived near multiple school shootings. Does that count?
- Comment on Drowning in grid scale batteries 2 months ago:
The US produces 200GWh of batteries per year total, and is projected to reach 4-500 in the near future with new construction coming on line, and large portions of that ear marked for grid scale storage. So it’s probably a couple decades to accomplish the whole project, maybe less if we really push.
- Comment on You can do it 👍 2 months ago:
I was gonna say, I can’t afford cocaine, so I don’t think I could handle all that.
- Comment on Does the military do regular STD tests? 2 months ago:
Not often enough, military bases are STD playgrounds.
- Comment on Housing prices 2 months ago:
The biggest reason is the number of households grew far faster than the number of houses. In constrained areas the number of households tripled, while the number of houses grew 20%. There’s no financial reform that fixes that. In remote areas cheap financing and increasing costs for construction are the largest factors.
There’s no single fix to home prices being insane. It’s going to take multiple reforms, and time for markets to adjust, plus homes to be constructed.
- Comment on Beans 2 months ago:
Never sit on the electric fence.
- Comment on Is there a point to the Straight Of Hormuz? What is the difference between the Iranians having it than the US? What does it mean for the average joe in either country? 2 months ago:
Homuz is an inflation dial for the planet. Squeeze the channel and inflation goes up. Right now it doesn’t seem so bad, because China decided to flex their own oil reserves. That’s the reason the US doesn’t have $5-$6 a gallon gas right now. Until shipping is moving in Hormuz again, China still has the option to make that happen. And they might, depending on how dipshit Donny talks about them.
The only difference between Iran or the US controlling Hormuz, for the average Joe is what crazy bastard gets to hold the inflation dial.
Also there’s a very long delay on some of the affects. Food prices are going to get real sketchy around the world this winter and going into next year.
- Comment on We all told him it would be safer to just take his car rather than using the bus parked in front of the bar 2 months ago:
Is it a tiny bus or a huge otter?
- Comment on Ryan Gosling ‘Had The Vision’ For The MCU’s Ghost Rider, Says Kevin Feige 3 months ago:
I feel like we need an animated series or something to actually build an audience for another Ghost Rider, before we do yet another remake.
Or you know, maybe something new? That’d be crazy though.