deranger
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- Comment on God is a dick. 1 day 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. 1 day 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. 1 day 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. 1 day 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? 4 days 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? 5 days 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Weed
- Comment on Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Calcium oxalate in urine looks like Xboxes under a microscope.
- Comment on Breaking - Trump Resigns! 2 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 2 weeks ago:
I hate
embracereraser group, fuck em for cancelling the Deus Ex game. - Comment on Virgin Physicists 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Respect. Physics is way up there in terms of hard science nerd cred.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 2 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 2 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.
- Comment on Big Marijuana don't want you to know... 2 weeks ago:
Spun is also fucked up on hallucinogens, like at a festival when you take too much acid.
- Comment on Big Marijuana don't want you to know... 2 weeks ago:
You didn’t discover this as a child? Shit, spinning around was the first high I ever had, followed a few years later by hyperventilation.
- Comment on Chat, is this accurate? 2 weeks ago:
They’re different species.
- Comment on Since they wouldn't understand phones, I'd just tell them I was speaking to demons. 3 weeks ago:
I know you said read, but the reason this came to mind was from rewatching an excellent Down The Rabbit Hole video recently. It’s a good one, 24 minutes long and no annoying bullshit or filler. The concept of social density is mentioned in the video, which isn’t something I saw reading the wiki on it or during a quick search.
Side note, these experiments are what inspired the Rats of NIMH books which you may be familiar with.
- Comment on Since they wouldn't understand phones, I'd just tell them I was speaking to demons. 3 weeks ago:
Makes me think about the concept of social density in the mouse utopia experiments. It wasn’t population density per se that caused the decline of the mouse society, it was the inability to escape social situations.
- Comment on What's the problem sweetie? You've barely touched your eggsicle 3 weeks ago:
Fantastic post workout snack, hydration and high quality protein.
- Comment on u up babe? 3 weeks ago:
He’s a thirsty, thirsty man.
Combos!
- Comment on FOREX is not for the faint hearted 3 weeks ago:
Using an ATM to get foreign currency is still insanely better than using a currency exchange place like you see in international airports. Talking 1-2% fees versus 15-20% or higher.
- Comment on Good to exercise at home instead of gym? 3 weeks ago:
I spend a grand on a nice adjustable dumbbell set and a bench and went from 165lbs to 210lbs over the last 18 months with a combination of weight training and eating better. It’s absolutely possible to work out at home with the resources that are out there these days. I do miss some of the equipment at the gym but the convenience of a home gym is just too good.
I would point out that getting lean/shredded is not a function of the gym, it’s a function of the kitchen. You cannot out exercise a bad or even mediocre diet. You can use a gym to build muscle, increase flexibility, or improve cardiovascular fitness, but there’s no avoiding making changes to your diet if you want to decrease body fat.
- Comment on rising sun redbud tree 3 weeks ago:
Very cool looking plant, but it doesn’t look out of focus to me.
- Comment on Pineapple was never the problem 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s kinda dumb, much like putting whole little tomatoes on a pizza It’s hard to get topping consistency from bite to bite and they’re likely to roll off.
Taste wise, everyone’s different, I’m not going to judge in that aspect.
