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- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 2 days ago:
It’s the weak point of the analogy, surface gravity waves like you’d get in a shallow lake do have nonlinear behaviour though.
Maybe a more accurate description would be to describe the wavespeed of the medium having tiny variations that cause extremely small, close range kinks where the wavefront crosses past itself, relating speed through time vs speed through space as the radial and tangential propagation of the wavefront. But that’s a less clean analogy, and the lake ripple is still good for describing how an entire universe can appear to be in the middle no matter where you look, despite originating from (suspectedly) a singular point.
- Comment on Liminal Space 2 days ago:
If you follow an integrated information theory derivation, consciousness is emergent from integrating and partitioning information, and with no immaterial soul the possible capability of awareness remains, even if not directly comparable to our own.
Give that brain some morphine as a treat to be on the safe side, most brains find that one relaxing.
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 2 days ago:
A drop of water falls in an endless, still lake. The ripple spreads out, leaving a circular wave spreading out endlessly. Tiny disturbances create their own ripples; one side travelling with the main ripple, causing wonderful interactions in the wavefront; but the main ripple grows faster than these disturbances spread across it.
The beings of the ripple look across the main ripple, seeing the disturbances as their interactions propagate across the main ripple. Looking back far enough to the earliest disturbances, one thing becomes clear; the entire ripple comes from one drop, and most of the ripple is moving away faster than a disturbance can propagate.
An expanding universe where every point of the universe started from the middle is pretty easy to conceptualize with the right analogy.
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 5 days ago:
Ouchie, got me right in the TCP stack
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 5 days ago:
Fuck regions, I cook for tasty not tradition
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 5 days ago:
Legumes.
- Comment on RAS Syndrome 5 days ago:
Sorry, best we have is neutrino :(
- Comment on Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"? 1 week ago:
- Comment on The sun is a deadly laser... 1 week ago:
Can’t ignore bosons; photon wavelength is a measure of temperature too.
Space has a temperature, which is based on the average of incoming radiation through that space; i.e. the thermal equilibrium to emit as much energy as is absorbed by a theoretical perfectly thermally conductive black body at that point in space.
Based off CMB radiation, space on average is a little over 2.7 kelvin. It’ll be hotter near stars, but the void dwarfs matter on a cosmic scale
- Comment on halal paintball 2 weeks ago:
Nooch gang nooch gang
- Comment on 50ohm goes brrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s showing polarization superpositions of the E-field?
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 2 weeks ago:
To alleviate your concerns - unlike fission, in a fusion reactor the only radiation comes from the active fusion process, and chamber lining that’s been bombarded by radiation. The worst case is a brief spike of neutron and gamma radiation from where the chamber breaches before the plasma collapses, a small amount of short-lived radioisotopes from the chamber debris, and a bit of tritium.
The radiation from the debris would be at background levels in a year or two, since there’s no transutanic decay chains. The tritium would disperse to background levels in minutes, and the radiation burst would only be a hazard in the immediate vicinity.
Not free from issues at all, but compared to a fission reactor the worst-case scenario isn’t bad at all.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 2 weeks ago:
I’m old, fusion has been close for a while. Some reactors achieve unity but can’t sustain, some can sustain the plasma but don’t quite produce a net energy production, and all of them are limited by selection of materials compatible with the sheer radiation of the chamber.
We’re frustratingly close, and progress has been made, but I get the feeling it’s one of those areas of science where a large breakthrough in either MHD theory or material science is needed to kick fusion from info NG research into practically possible.
- Comment on You are allowed flavor 2 weeks ago:
Beans, toast, wilted spinach, fried tomato, sauteed mushrooms and onion, all sprinkled with thyme and served with a big cup of coffee.
Not something I’d eat every day, but if I’m doing stage setup for a festival with back to back shifts? That brekkie will keep you going a good 10 hours.
- Comment on Schlip schlop 3 weeks ago:
SNW at least had some bangers, the Elysium kingdom episode captured that TNG magic
- Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature 4 weeks ago:
Idk what to tell you, a lot of youtubers talk pretty fuckin slow
- Comment on Y’all ain’t ready for this 1 month ago:
It’s the good shit
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 5 months ago:
the fact that he disappeared off the face of the planet after this only reinforces my feeling about deplatforming nazis
- Comment on Tesla's latest decline could be one for the history books - $795 billion since Dec 17 or 53.7 percent 11 months ago:
i just had a moment of clarity - there’s absolutely nothing stopping me from linking goatse instead of rickrolls on lemmy, the internet can finally heal.
- Comment on I love the future. 11 months ago:
wouldn’t surprise me, antivax movement has a strong association with the raw milk cheesebreathers.
- Comment on Why British cities make no sense 2 years ago:
This isn’t not the first time I’ve not narrowly avoided me missing seeing them map men.