LostXOR
Your average science guy, Linux nerd, and Minecraft player. Left Reddit for this place and haven’t looked back. :)
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Supecritical fluids are more like a gas than a liquid. Their lack of surface tension means they’ll diffuse throughout whatever container you put them in, so they can’t really be “poured” like a liquid can. They’re actually a pretty good example of why liquids need surface tension to be liquid.
For a liquid to be a liquid, rather than a gas, it needs to be held together by intermolecular forces. Which means it will have some amount of surface tension. I therefore dismiss this hypothetical as physically unrealistic! :P
This can actually be beneficial if your router is right at the corner of your house. The foil acts as a reflector for some of the radiation that would’ve been wasted, and thus improves the signal quality within your house.
LostXOR@fedia.ioto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's something people incorrectly assume about your line of work and/or hobby?6·1 day agoCan you make me a website that runs on my microwave?
LostXOR@fedia.ioto memes@lemmy.world•Stop using a browser that violates user freedom and privacy!0·3 days agoNot on iOS, of course. But if you’re using iOS what are you even doing?
LostXOR@fedia.ioto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the most frustrating experience you've had with a website? (Sign-up, form, downloads, etc.)3·3 days agoYeah that’s happened to me too; as far as I can tell it’s just Spotify silently banning your account. Must’ve signed up for one too many free trials.
LostXOR@fedia.ioto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the most frustrating experience you've had with a website? (Sign-up, form, downloads, etc.)5·3 days agoMicrosoft likes defaulting to email-based login, and I always click on the option to enter my password instead, but after doing that it sends me an email with a verification code anyways. Seriously???
All’s not lost, just drive the car in reverse for a mile. :)
LostXOR@fedia.ioto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Every last one of these questions is terrible3·4 days ago“What’s your mother’s maiden name?”
“c@#Wz6Ani5$!Z8L5$1$DJybIWaq^BwZw”
I can view the convergent (cross-eyed) ones no problem. I managed once to focus on the divergent ones with like 30 minutes of practice, but I had trouble focusing normally afterwards for like an hour so I haven’t tried since.
The layperson stares in horror at the manmade horrors beyond his comprehension. The highly intelligent person stares with even more horror, for he can comprehend them.
Aneurysm posting is my middle name :3
Gotta make sure to do it from a Russian VPN too.
The Earth is actually warmer than an object in space would be due to the greenhouse effect. But even without the effect, a spherical blackbody human won’t freeze. Since humans aren’t spheres, you could probaby get one to partially freeze by pointing its head or feet at the Sun, minimizing the surface area it receives sunlight from. This is definitely something that needs experimental testing.
Freezing would happen very slowly, and not at all if the human was relatively near the Sun (around Earth’s orbit or closer).
We do, however, swell up quite a bit.
LostXOR@fedia.ioto Technology@lemmy.zip•FolderDrive USB-C flash storage drags computer folder icon into the physical world – Skeuomorphism in reverse0·9 days agoIt would make a cute SSD enclosure, but alas…
LostXOR@fedia.ioto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Can all the milk replacements bubble if you blow thru a straw in it like a child?2·11 days agoI’d think mercury would be too dense to form bubbles. Though it does have a very high surface tension, so perhaps I’m wrong. I actually have quite a lot of mercury, but trying to blow air through it as a test doesn’t exactly sound appealing.
From what I understand, thorium reactors have been more or less proven to be a viable power source, while fusion reactors still have major unsolved problems and likely won’t be viable for decades.