MaximumHamster

877 pts ยท July 5, 2017


Up there with the newscaster who talked about Jupiter's moon "ten" (Io)

1 week ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

No, it's an ocelittle.

6 months ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Enormously easier. Say you have 100 kilos of 3.5%. uranium. That means you have 3.5 kilos of 235 - to get that to 60% you need to remove about 94 kg of non-235. Now you've got 6 kg of 60% - to get to 90% you only gotta get rid of another 2 kg.

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I mean, the brachistochrone *is* the geodesic as far as the ball is concerned.

10 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Can Solo was right there...

11 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Distance is 542 AU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens), Oort Cloud is thousands to ~hundred thousand AU. The Voyagers are about a third of the way there already, so it's not completely insane to think about this in the future.

1 year ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

You absolutely are measuring position by forcing the light to go through the slit. Calling something Heisenberg or not is kind of arbitrary anyways. If you squeeze a function, its Fourier transform expands. That's what's happening here, and is what is happening in Heisenberg, because momentum is Fourier transform of position. Happens with sound, too.

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

and the fact that they move together also means there's no angle to worry about.

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It's not very efficient. Your tidal volume is maybe 2l, which is about 2g of air at STP. By blowing on my hand, I estimate I can blow about 0.5m/s and it takes about 3 seconds to exhale, so the force is 0.002*0.5/3=300 micronewtons. Assuming 66 kg, that means your acceleration would be 5 microns/s^2. If you could exhale continuously, it would take 10 minutes to go 1m, so realistically more like 20 minutes given inhaling. Yeah, you'd get there eventually, but it would suck. Or, blow.

1 year ago | Likes 142 Dislikes 1

Sadly, this is not true. The cheapest way to send someone into the sun is to send them to the edge of the solar system (nearly parabolic orbit), then an infinitesimal delta-v will send them into the sun. On the plus side, you can freeze them, then incinerate them for one low price!

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Everything but the squeal.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Can confirm. Not really a fan of young coconut, but the styrofoam is the bee's knees.

1 year ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I don't think the moon actually matters for waves, except in special cases (like Bay of Fundy). They're called gravity waves because Earth's gravity acting on the water is what tries to flatten the waves out. The alternative is tiny ripples where surface tension is more important.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

And Kodaly had them all beat by decades (cello sonata in 1915, bottom two strings downtuned)

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

OP's good. An actual noose is designed to tighten by allowing the knot to slide along one side of the rope. If you look at this one, you can see that there's no straight stretch of line, so this loop stays fixed size. Great for fishing! Not for other things.

1 year ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 0

I see your Whittier and raise you the wall of Fermont (in Quebec).

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Think that's it. Kitts only jumps on asphalt, but not on white paint/concrete, which are presumably cooler.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's fine even with physical gears. If I start turning the last gear, it starts moving the inside of the penultimate gear. It takes a finite time for the outside of that gear to know that the inside has started to move. That time is set by the speed of sound in the gear material, and that speed is always less than the speed of light. Title is flat wrong even with idealized gears.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

I cancelled mine today.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I read it as Reg Bid Baboon. Apparently my brain thought that was less messed up.

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My sister worked in the State Department years ago. Guy came in trying to get a US visa, said he was an opera singer. My sister made him sing, and he belted out Nessun Dorma. He nailed it, and got his visa. I absolutely believe this could have happened.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Maximum hamsters!

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Eddie the Eagle has entered the chat.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Mount Meharry is totally a thing, named for William Thomas Meharry, chief surveyor of Western Australia from 1959 to 1967. It was only discovered by Europeans in 1967. My parents were in their 30's when "highest point in WA" had to be updated!

2 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

2000 Jetta!

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Not enough pixels to really tell, but it's probably an oxpecker. They love to sit on large animals and pick parasites off of them (and/or pick holes in their skin and drink the blood that comes out...)

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0