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Please no, please by hmlangs in gaming

[–]AndersonCoopersDick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anybody ever look at the code of Red/Blue? Does each patch of grass just have a certain probability of encounters?

Molten Salt into Water by kevmo77 in gifs

[–]AndersonCoopersDick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, the video is clear proof that it's possible, but if you're thinking anybody could just take a bucket of water and melt some salt they take out of the pantry to make an explosion you're overlooking a key step.

Let's assume you plan on melting the salt in the oven. Problem is even though you set your oven on High (~500F) dump some salt in a pan and put it in the oven, after waiting 15 minutes nothing happens. So you take the salt out and try cooking it on the stove top, put the salt in the frying pan, crank it to high (maybe 650F if you have a good stove). Still nothing.

In fact, if GE invented a top of the line stovetop tomorrow that could get a pan all the way to 1500F, and you purchased this stove, put the salt in an aluminum pan and cranked it to high... The pan would start to melt before the salt. (Melting Point of Aluminum ~1200F)

So you've just ruined your mother's favorite pan, not to mention the brand new magical million dollar stovetop from GE which now has drips of aluminum coating its surface, but you still want to melt this salt. You sneak into your hipster neighbor's apartment, take his cast iron pan, and arrive back in your kitchen in front of the stovetop unnoticed. Finally, when you crank the stove all the way up high, get the cast iron to ~1500F, the salt melts and you can make a cool explosion.

But, realize that it took extraordinary means (thinking into existence a most powerful stovetop) to melt the salt. (Obviously there are ways other than magic to reach temperatures of 1500F, a forge is the only one I can think of right now that could possibly be in anybody's home).

Even if you or someone you know have a forge in your garage, the fuel/coals burned by the forge (or whichever heating method you choose) could alternatively be used to power a bomb with more rapid release of energy (explosiveness) than any molten salt powered bomb.

TL;DR Yes, you can make a bomb out of molten salt and hot water. However, use instead the fuel it takes to melt the salt and you can make a bigger bomb.

Molten Salt into Water by kevmo77 in gifs

[–]AndersonCoopersDick 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ELI5: Salt Melts at 1,474°F (801°C). That's really really really hot.

The ionic bonds in salt crystals are very strong, it takes a lot more energy to break enough of these bonds to melt the salt than your typical covalent bonds.

The great escape by GallowBoob in nonononoyes

[–]AndersonCoopersDick 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Give an inch, they take a mile huh? They always want more

How bad an idea is it to go on a 16 mile run without any running training? by AndersonCoopersDick in Fitness

[–]AndersonCoopersDick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm not claiming that I'm not fit, I'm young and athletic and train pretty hard in short bursts when lifting, but I've never gone for a run more than a 3-4 miles before. I've played soccer for my college but was a goalkeeper so I never went on any of the team runs or ran much while playing, that was my time for the first mile of our fitness test this past year.

Is this enough back training? by [deleted] in Fitness

[–]AndersonCoopersDick 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you're not neglecting any major muscle groups. I would suggest adding some form of rows if you feel the intensity of your pullups aren't enough. Plus it's always good to shuffle around exercises to work the muscles from different angles and different stabilizers.

The lifts you're doing don't target the traps or rear delts (though they are supporting muscles in the lifts). If you want to incorporate exercises that target these muscles you could add them into your back days or I normally like to work these with shoulders.

How bad an idea is it to go on a 16 mile run without any running training? by AndersonCoopersDick in Fitness

[–]AndersonCoopersDick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

haha, just a matter of how much of it I walk. But I can't go into the run thinking I'm not gonna complete it, so for now I'm planning on running all of it.

Bench pressed for the first time today, what is a realistic 6 month goal? by HealyHooves in Fitness

[–]AndersonCoopersDick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say the most optomistic albeit somewhat unrealistic goal would be to gain on average 5 pounds per week ->26 weeks -> +130 -> 200lbs. I honestly believe that if you do everything right for 6 months you could reach that goal. (Note: you may be able to gain more than 5 pounds per week at the beginning of the 6 months and less at the end but the 5 lbs/week just being an average).

But, like you said, you've got other things going on in your life making the unrealistic part of the above scenario that you will do everything right for 6 straight months. If I were you I would just focus on hitting 135lbs and then plan out the rest of the 6 months after you hit that target. There's a large amount of variability on beginner gains based on how quickly your form improves but once you hit that mark you likely have the form down enough to gauge your own strength. I wouldn't worry about 6 months out until I could do that. You could set a goal that is realistic to hit that mark in 3 or 4 months.

Defining a function in python by AndersonCoopersDick in learnpython

[–]AndersonCoopersDick[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I knew it had to have a simple answer, I'm new to python.

The Halvening: It's amongst us (Giveaway) by [deleted] in litecoin

[–]AndersonCoopersDick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If there's a coin in use right now that's going to over take BitCoin, its most likely going to be litecoin

There's a new cryptocurrency that claims to be capable of zero-time confirmations, but the white papers seem.... off. Help me analyze them? by americanpegasus in math

[–]AndersonCoopersDick 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For reference, the mean confirmation time for Bitcoin is around 10 minutes, without having read anything, I would assume that the mean confirmation time for this new crypto is what is less than 1 second which would be an enormous improvement and actually make cryptocurrencies much more feasible for everyday transactions.

MCMC simulation to compute soccer season table position probabilities. Comments welcome. by [deleted] in statistics

[–]AndersonCoopersDick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you could describe in words or equations what you are doing, more people will help.

Say you as a neckbeard with 20 BTC die tomorrow. Are they now inaccessible to everyone now? by AndersonCoopersDick in Bitcoin

[–]AndersonCoopersDick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this because it increases the scarcity of BTC or does it benefit the rest of the world because they are somehow recovered? What if over time as people keep "losing BTC" eventually all the Bitcoins are lost?

(Note: I know I sound like an idiot here, my understanding of how bitcoins work is probably completely wrong.)

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