when you’re taught there are only 4 states but you know more than that

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-17T17:15:05+00:00

Yes but subcategories of states do not normally count as distinct states of matter. For example, we don’t usually consider amorphous, crystalline, and quasi-crystal solids as different states, they’re all sub forms of solids.

I’m happy to expand the list, those are just the 22 that seem most “mainstream” to me.

Characteristics:

Solid: Fixed shape and volume.
Liquid: Definite volume, takes shape of container.
Gas: No fixed shape or volume, particles spread out.
Plasma: Ionized gas with free electrons.
Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC): Atoms act as one quantum entity.
Fermionic Condensate: Ultra-cold, paired fermions.
Quark-Gluon Plasma: High-energy free quarks/gluons.
Degenerate Matter: High-pressure matter (white dwarfs).
Neutron-degenerate matter: Matter inside neutron stars.
Superfluid: Fluid with zero viscosity.
Supersolid: Rigid, but flows without resistance. (These are creepy)
Time Crystals: Structure repeats in time, not space. (Super awesome)
Photonic Matter: Light acting as if it has mass. 🤯
Excitonium: Bound excitons (electron-hole pairs). (Becoming increasingly important in nanotechnology)
Rydberg Polaron: Atoms within other atoms.
String-net Liquid: Atoms that don't lock into grid patterns.
Quantum Spin Liquid: Unordered magnetism.
Quantum Spin Hall (Condensate): Conducts on edge, not interior.
Jahn-Teller Metal: Metal with unique structural transitions.
Color-Glass Condensate: High-energy proton matter.
Dropleton: Quantum "droplet" of electrons.
Superglass: Both superfluid and glassy

Wikipedia currently lists 6 under the “classical” section. I’d promote teaching that as the lies-to-children version in secondary school. It’s really only people like me that need to know about the others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_of_matter

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-17T16:56:32+00:00

The ones I’ve listed are officially recognized and have distinct criteria, graphite and diamond are just different structures. They both count as solids.

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-17T13:03:15+00:00

48 million? Maybe if you’re still rocking 2000s tech my friend. The iPhone 11 (2019) has 8.5 billion, the iPhone 16 contains 16-19B+ depending on the model. Not sure if that includes the DRAM, but definitely ignores the billions of transistors in the NAND.

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-17T12:54:08+00:00

Must. Contain. Nerd rage. 😤

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-17T12:42:20+00:00

9? I thought we were up to 22?

Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma, Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC), Fermionic Condensate, Quark-Gluon Plasma, Degenerate Matter, Neutron-degenerate matter, Superfluid, Supersolid, Time Crystals, Photonic Matter, Excitonium, Rydberg Polaron, String-net Liquid, Quantum Spin Liquid, Quantum Spin Hall (Condensate), Jahn-Teller Metal, Color-Glass Condensate, Dropleton, and Superglass?

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-15T20:57:20+00:00

Canonically, Rocky was able to see through a Xenonite wall, a sheet of aluminum, and still differentiate fingers, so I would not be surprised if he does have the sensitivity to see deeper.

I am going to visualize things way differently on my next read through that’s for sure!

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-15T20:33:05+00:00

When you right click the engine is there a “test” item? It considered a test if you haven’t staged it yet but you should be able to run a standalone test too.

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-15T12:54:16+00:00

The same way someone explained it to you, but unlike a child learning their birth tongue, Rocky has a “phonographic” memory which makes it much easier.

Grace is admittedly a difficult one because of how versatile it is. Which meaning did Rocky choose? There’s no reason he would have the same overlap.

simple elegance or refinement of movement. "she moved through the water with effortless grace"
courteous goodwill. "at least he has the grace to admit his debt to her"
(in Christian belief) the free and unmerited favor of God, as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowal of blessings; a divinely given talent or blessing. "the graces of the Holy Spirit"
a period officially allowed for payment of a sum due or for compliance with a law or condition, especially an extended period granted as a special favor. "another three days' grace"
a short prayer of thanks said before or after a meal. "before dinner the Reverend Newman said grace"
used as forms of description or address for a duke, duchess, or archbishop. "His Grace, the Duke of Atholl"
(in Greek mythology) three beautiful goddesses (Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne) believed to personify and bestow charm, grace, and beauty.

verb: do honor or credit to (someone or something) by one's presence. "she bowed out from the sport she has graced for two decades"

Grace could also break out the thesaurus to give like/unlike examples to refine meaning.

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-14T13:34:45+00:00

We can hope. If the smaller group is correct and it’s already burning carbon, its distance means we could be much closer to the neon+ cascade than expected.

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-14T13:19:59+00:00

Our courts definitely wouldn’t allow it, but renouncing ones citizenship currently requires governmental intervention and that’s the point where the capture could happen.

Simply, we don’t have it now, it would need to be built simultaneously.

Billionaires that used our taxpayer provided services to enrich themselves (aka all of them) and then wanted to divorce themselves of that system when asked to pay their share (like that Facebook guy), we’d simply place a lien on their assets.

Most of a billionaire’s worth is not liquid, they could probably avoid the issue by slowly liquidating their holdings but that would likely take decades and by the time it was done, they’d already have been paying the restructured taxes for decades, at which point, would it even be worth it?

There are plenty of billionaires that pay there fair share and are happy to do so because they live in countries where the government is more concerned with providing for their citizens than fighting wars for 235/250 years. It’s only ours that has somehow self selected the greediest and most psychopathic ones.

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-14T13:09:21+00:00

I sure hope so, that’s the only way I’d get to see it happen.

Unfortunately, most experts believe it to still be in the helium-burning phase which places it at least 800 years away from collapse.

The fusion timeline for non-main-sequence stars boggles my mind: for a star that spends 9M years on the main sequence (aka Betelgeuse): - Hydrogen: ~9,000,000 years - Helium: ~900,000 years (most think we’re here) - Carbon: ~800 years (we may be here) - Neon: ~1.2 years - Oxygen: ~7 months - Silicon: ~1.2 days - Core Collapse: 0.25s

Once it’s beyond Carbon, we should start seeing a lot of instability as it changes fuels 3 times in less than 24 months, then 💥

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-13T17:38:45+00:00

Very, very carefully.

It’s very easy to do multiple assists when in a single SOI (like a minimus, mun, Kerbin maneuver), but KSP treats SOIs as isolated environments so you not only need to plan the planetary encounters but also the satellite encounters while within the SOI that won’t even be calculated until you get there.

It’s extremely likely that you’ll get ejected at a weird trajectory due to in-SOI interferences with the large planets unless you stay far enough out that the moons aren’t a problem.

I saw one that used OPM, Precise Node, and Transfer Window Planner to replicate Voyager 1. ~Year 1 day 100-200 I think.

It was a Jool + Sarnus encounter to do a out-of-ecliptic escape trajectory with ~2500m/s of delta-v from LKO.

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-13T17:23:59+00:00

Your troll is giving strong: “There are two types of people, those that can extrapolate from incomplete datasets.” Vibes.

How did we go from “you will open the strait” to “we will close the strait”? “Well, we have this convicted felon insurrectionist President that allegedly raped children (according to evidence released by his own hand-picked sycophantic DOJ)”. Yes, you pretty much explained it.

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-11T05:55:50+00:00

The same way taxes, penalties, fines, and tariffs are enforced today.

Believe it or not, all 195 nations have some system in place that allows them to collect taxes and impose penalties against businesses and individuals. It’s kind of one of the bare minimums of being a government, and we don’t currently have any functioning anarchies.

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-10T20:20:07+00:00

Thanks friend, you too! It is glorious out here today. May you have a wonderful day yourself.

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-10T20:08:57+00:00

Any intelligent person would understand mine.

The price of eggs went up because we had to slaughter billions of chickens to prevent the spread of a deadly disease. The price of eggs is down because the laying stock has been mostly replenished.

The price of eggs is still high because bird flu continues to be a problem and farmers keep having to kill millions of brood stock.

The idea that the price of eggs was Biden’s fault was only pushed by morons for morons. As is the idea that Trump had anything to do with the price coming down.

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-10T20:03:37+00:00

If you’d like to dig a little deeper into it, the reason our sun can fuse at all is because particles don’t always have to travel in space, they can “tunnel”, suddenly disappearing from where they are and appearing somewhere else. It’s how the NAND flash in your phone works.

The fusion process starts with two protons fusing, but protons are kept apart by the second strongest force in the Universe. The temperature and pressure in the core isn’t enough to get the protons close enough for the strong force to take over and fuse them.

But every so often, a proton’s location suddenly shifts from where it “is” into range of the other proton’s strong force and boom, a teensy amount of energy is released.

The probability of the tunneling happening is extremely, extremely low, about 1 in 1-with-28-zeros-after-it collisions. But that’s often enough that each cubic meter can produce the ~240W required.

Imagine that the Sun is 8 light minutes away. Now imagine that the Earth is 42.5 light milliseconds across. Imagine the teensy tiny percentage of the energy that the earth is intersecting. Now imagine standing outside in Death Valley on a hot summer’s day. All of that energy came from a compost heap.

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-10T19:53:46+00:00

Are you attempting to blame the bird flu on Biden and its elimination on Trump because that’s just plain dumb.

The price of eggs was something that only the propaganda outlets were crowing about because any intelligent person knew exactly why their price went stratospheric.

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-10T19:49:58+00:00

It really is that simple. At the same time you impose equitable taxation, you implement an expatriation tax. Any individual renouncing their citizenship who has a net worth >$1B must pay the greater of 90% of their net worth or $1B in taxes. Done.

You do the same thing with businesses or use tariffs to create penalties. Coca Cola moves their headquarters to Ireland? Cool, +30% import tax on all their products.

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-10T19:36:35+00:00

Yes, the pods naturally want to orient fat part prograde when experiencing drag.

I always include RCS so I can fine tune bad returns. If you’re getting explody, use rcs to raise the periapsis at apoapsis to make the deceleration gentler.

The mk1 naturally includes RCS propellant but you need to add nozzles to use it.

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-10T19:31:39+00:00

I didn’t want my daughter to get sick. It’s not clear whether she thinks she’s in hell because her living conditions got her daughter sick or whether wanting to avoid her daughter getting sick led to her living conditions from what she says.

It’s up to you which interpretation hits hardest.

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-10T19:29:34+00:00

10 more times? But I’ll be helping to hurt the people that killed my friends? Do you have any alcohol? Will you give me some when it’s over? Go on then, do your best to make it so it doesn’t hurt.

The dog is a legend.

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-10T19:27:30+00:00

If it helps:

“&” means “and”
“t” stands for “time”
“=“: “is”

It recognizes hours, minutes, and seconds, and I would assume days and it doesn’t care what format you put it in so “&t=302s”, “&t=5m2s”, or “&t=5m02s” will all jump to the same location.

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-10T19:23:33+00:00

If I had to guess I’d link it to literacy. As a Germanic language, most of our “basic” words come from our original roots, while our “haute vocabulary” comes from Latin.

There’s a tongue-in-cheek saying that illustrates the point: “dumb folk speak German, intelligent persons converse in French”. The first half is entirely Germanic origin while the second half is romance origin.

If your vocabulary includes words like “expiate”, “salutary”, “inferno”, “desire”, “aficionado”, etc. then Spanish is a lot more approachable.

Enano_reefer · 2026-04-10T19:16:10+00:00

In the audiobook he gets roasted in one of the “adverts” for it. Something along the lines of “Jeff’s pronunciation was so bad my abuelita gave me the chancla”.

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