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Deconceptualist
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4·2 days agoWood Science must be a rather strange field.
1 mL of pure water weighs exactly 1 g at 20 °C and 1 atm pressure :) It’s a defined standard, useful for calibrating other things.
1 mL. Studying chemistry has made that extremely useful and now other units seem ridiculous.
If we’re talking about geology or oceanography though, cubic meters are fine.
6·7 days agoThere’s a trans/egg joke in here somewhere…
This is how I feel a lot of times. But I did at least have the sense to go for Endeavour rather than straight to Arch (and prior to that, Manjaro and Ubuntu).
These are nice and all, but honestly the main issue I’ve seen as a new player (PC) is NPCs clipping through floors. They’ll just be standing there waist-deep in the ground.
I know that’s pretty minor compared to the T-posing and broken pathing way back at launch, but it’s still fairly disruptive, especially if it happens in a story mission.
Misread this as MO (Missouri) for a sec and I was ready to be flabbergasted.
Anyway, good job Maryland!
6·17 days agoIt’s not the laser beam itself, but more that the laser excites a material in such a way that the material can no longer be transmissive to a second beam (i.e. becomes opaque to the second wavelength).
Assuming this happens fast it could be amazing for optical switches.
6·16 days agoWhen we’re talking about molecules, millions is usually an extreme understatement. PPB (parts per billion) is a common measure for contaminants.
But PPB is still an enormous quantity. Remember Avogadro’s number (used to relate count to grams) is on the 10^23 scale (aka thousands of billions of trillions). Even 999 million is a drop in the ocean there.
EDIT: The journal abstract lists the leached nanoparticles as 10^9 (billions) per mL, and the uptake by human-derived intestine cells as 100 micrograms/mL. So yeah this is coverage by a journalist who can’t math.
Also, water is an amazing coolant. At the molecular level its hydrogen bonding contributes to a bulk property called heat capacity that ends up much higher than most other substances, meaning it can soak up a ton of energy per unit volume (and later release that energy, e.g. into a turbine). And there’s even more of that heat capacity in the phase transition from liquid to steam and back. It’s crazy good.
It’s also super cheap and abundant. The main reason water isn’t the coolant for nearly everything is that it can be corrosive. Also steam can be quite dangerous due to all that energy it carries.
341·1 month agoBecause the real asshole money hoarders don’t make a big income and store their funds as wealth and are living off interest.
Still, this would be a step in the right direction and as others said, some places do it.
Egad, I read about that but forgot. Now that you mention, I’m sure that’s how the idea popped in my head. How awful 😞 Now I almost feel bad for joking about it.
For maximum hair-tearing insufferableness?
Baby Shark x14
My Pal Foot Foot x1
The audience HAS to actively listen to it? Like no talking over it and no interrupting with other noise?
I like this. Finally some peace and quiet.
Buy one made before, I dunno, 2005?
2·2 months agoYeah for real, fuck SMS protocol for omitting basic quality of life features developed decades prior.
It was just a nibble!