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- Comment on Steve Mould: This microscope spins - and the shots are insane 46 minutes ago:
I used something very similar when I did aviation accident investigation. I’d use it to analyze how wires broke or take a look at cracks in buckles appeared. This was back in 2011. Very cool to see how this technology has advanced.
- Comment on Sea snail teeth top Kevlar, titanium as world’s strongest material 4 days ago:
Cue
- Comment on tune in, drop out 1 week ago:
I always wondered if it was real when I was younger, but now having been on the internet a few decades longer, there’s not much doubt anymore.
- Comment on How do I download a blob: video? 1 week ago:
Hm, still might be worth a shot. There are ways to grab private posts when you’re logged in by using a browser console and finding the line for the video but I’m kinda too dumb for that. I’d probably just use a screen recorder at that point. I don’t need a Snapchat web-dl.
- Comment on tune in, drop out 1 week ago:
Never knew about that story, but I do have a somewhat tangential one about dolphin handjobs.
Teenage me and my friend are out back in the woods smoking weed out of a can or pringles bong or some other stupid contraption a 16/17 year old would assemble. A thought occurred to me, and it didn’t seem strange at the time to me. After a bit of quietness sitting around getting baked in the woods, I broke the silence with:
“Ever been to dolphinsex.org?”
My friend about pissed himself laughing, guess that URL was not an expected topic of discussion. This was peak early internet, find weird sites and discuss with your friends era for me. This question became a bit of a meme amongst our group.
Anyways, bless archive.org, looks like the website went defunct around 2005. You can still check it out, not really NSFW unless someone is reading over your shoulder. Web 1.0 was a crazy place to be as a teenager.
- Comment on How do I download a blob: video? 1 week ago:
You just said web though, right? Not the app. There’s downloaders for everything if you have a link to a public post.
- Comment on How do I download a blob: video? 1 week ago:
For social media videos I always just search for <service> video downloader, paste the link to the post and get the video. I do this for Facebook, instagram, and Reddit. I don’t want some plugin I’ll use rarely and the web downloaders seem to work fine.
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 2 weeks ago:
It’s totally true from a physics standpoint. A longer lever arm between the load and fulcrum requires more force to move the same weight for a type 1 lever, all else being equal.
“Harder to exercise” is poorly defined, especially when you go on to discuss endurance, speed, and force, all of which are very different terms.
I totally get what you’re saying, but I specifically narrowed it down to force for a reason. My shorter friends kick my ass in lifting due to the mechanical advantage their shorter limbs have, but I smoke them in a distance run because my longer limbs allow me to traverse a greater distance in a single step. This is complicated though because larger lungs are a factor here too.
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 2 weeks ago:
The smaller the foot, in this case, the harder the muscles have to work to create the same torque (or moment).
Isn’t that backwards? A shorter lever requires less force. If you had a 10 foot long foot, you’d have to have insanely strong calf muscles to stand on your tip toes.
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 2 weeks ago:
That would be relevant to the calf muscles, but the lower surface area of the feet means higher pressure in terms of psi or pascals.
- Comment on Air Fruit 2 weeks ago:
Where’s air involved? Sounds like things traveling through plant vasculature.
- Comment on God is a dick. 3 weeks ago:
Yes, it requires infinite energy for any mass to get to light speed.
I don’t think our understanding of physics breaks down at such extremes though. I believe it’s decently understood, as in general and special relativity. I’m not a physicist though.
- Comment on God is a dick. 3 weeks ago:
I mean if we’re already violating physics by having objects with mass going the speed of light, I don’t see what’s wrong with also assuming the thing we have for going light speed can’t also instantaneously accelerate.
- Comment on God is a dick. 3 weeks ago:
Time is frozen at light speed. You also don’t experience any distance at light speed due to length contraction. You arrive at your destination instantaneously, not even experiencing a tick of Planck time, and you didn’t even travel a Planck length to get there.
- Comment on God is a dick. 3 weeks ago:
Also, due to length contraction, at light speed the universe isn’t 96 billion light years wide, it’s 0 anything wide.
At light speed there is no time and no distance, the origin is the destination. You won’t even experience a single tick of Planck time to get there. Instantaneous.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 3 weeks ago:
Just use it all the time including turn only lanes. Deal with the clicking, it’s fine.
- Comment on Could you grind up a loaf of bread back into a flour and make a new loaf of bread? 3 weeks ago:
With enough energy you certainly could, even if that meant breaking everything down to their constituent parts chemically and doing stuff like reconstructing proteins from amino acids.
- Comment on Is there a portable swamp cooler with a window hose like air conditioners have? 3 weeks ago:
That’s a great question.
At first I thought it’d be a wash. The heat absorbed by vaporizing the water in the swamp cooler will be released onto the evaporator coils of the AC, so that’s a net zero energy transfer.
However, air is not good at conducting heat. This water evaporation/condensation cycle might transfer heat from the air to the evaporator coils of the AC better.
You are going to have additional water and electricity costs from running the swamp cooler though, so I really don’t know.
- Comment on Surely this is the radical islam people are so concerned about 3 weeks ago:
Free radicals and ions are quite different. Consider the .OH radical and -OH ion.
.OH radical - no charge, one unpaired electron
-OH ion - negative charge, no unpaired electron
- Comment on Cheers lads 3 weeks ago:
Weed
- Comment on Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming 3 weeks ago:
They’re both about price in my opinion.
Personally I don’t feel the console itself is that bad, but $80 Nintendo games, that never go on sale, can fuck right off.
- Comment on Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming 4 weeks ago:
Big Xbox One release vibes.
“Fortunately we have a product for people who aren’t able to stay connected; it’s called Xbox 360” - Don Mattrick, Microsoft’s President of Interactive Entertainment Business
- Comment on Is there a portable swamp cooler with a window hose like air conditioners have? 4 weeks ago:
There’s no point as a swamp cooler does not have heat to reject.
Also, swamp coolers are only effective in very dry environments. Unless you’re in the desert it’s going to make it feel warmer by raising humidity significantly. A large part of why AC makes it feel nicer is reducing humidity, which allows sweat to work better.
- Comment on D E A L 4 weeks ago:
Calcium oxalate in urine looks like Xboxes under a microscope.
- Comment on Breaking - Trump Resigns! 5 weeks ago:
Flightradar24 had a notification that the Concorde was flying again, first thing I saw this morning and I completely fell for it.
- Comment on Embracer studio Eidos-Montreal has laid off 75 employees 5 weeks ago:
I hate
embracereraser group, fuck em for cancelling the Deus Ex game. - Comment on Virgin Physicists 5 weeks ago:
Not knocking people’s choices, it just wasn’t for me. If math in reality isn’t math in education, it’s even better that I left.
I’ll still contend math is much more elegant than physics or engineering, though. There’s no e^I*pi + 1 = 0 equivalent for either.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 5 weeks ago:
Respect. Physics is way up there in terms of hard science nerd cred.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 5 weeks ago:
Eh, it’s just fundamentally ugly to me and that really turned me off. Rounding doesn’t help, that’s like turning the lights off for sex. Engineering is still very cool to me, and I have huge respect for those who do it, but I’d never have made it. It’s physics but even further perverted by reality. Math was beautiful to me because of how “pure” it was. Just straight logic, divorced from the messy world we live in. Tidy coefficients and elegant derivations.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 5 weeks ago:
Numbers like that are why I quit majoring in mechanical engineering. Physics took the beauty of math and made it ugly.
You knew something was wrong in calculus when you got a fucked up coefficient that wasn’t a nice number.
