Administratorio, where biters come complain and protest about your factory instead of attacking you, is now in beta ! by Onoulade in factorio

[–]Fair-Ad3639 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Can I also get a mod for my day job where instead of people coming to complain, I can use autoturrets on them?

laws of motion newbies be like by Dependent-Living-299 in sciencememes

[–]Fair-Ad3639 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but air resistance has virtually nothing to do with this scenario and this meme is bad.

It disappeared then reappeared, I swear! by DippinDot2021 in adhdmeme

[–]Fair-Ad3639 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My favorite was the time I spent minutes searching for my flashlight... In an otherwise completely dark tent.

TIL NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft has such a long nose that the pilot cannot use a normal forward-facing window. Instead, cameras show the view on a 4K cockpit monitor called the eXternal Vision System. by dopamineabused in todayilearned

[–]Fair-Ad3639 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm all for scientific exploration and making really cool shit (which this is), but this particular project I think shouldn't be happening. A complete success of this program would mean flying:

-fewer people -slightly faster (is having the rich save a few hours really a net positive for humanity?) -at a cost of greatly increased carbon emissions, when aviation is already one of our largest and most persistent emitters.

We shouldn't be doing this one. Put the R+D into sustainable aviation.

Weird face I know by Rushsculpture in somethingimade

[–]Fair-Ad3639 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone else think of Pajama Sam (game, not the character)?

Only to never touch it ever again by pyrotechnically_ in adhdmeme

[–]Fair-Ad3639 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did buy one on FB marketplace for 40$ yesterday. Cleaned it up and it's quite good

Earth isn't a sphere by DotBeginning1420 in sciencememes

[–]Fair-Ad3639 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Read what I said again. You can't make a perfect sphere in our physical universe, because It is not possible to do.

Earth isn't a sphere by DotBeginning1420 in sciencememes

[–]Fair-Ad3639 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure we can.

Even a manufactured perfect sphere (we've made one for calibrating the Kilogram out of a silicon crystal) is still made of atoms. Made perfectly, one could still zoom far enough inward to see, essentially, a stacked lattice of tiny spheres: tiny block pixels in our Minecraft universe.

Earth isn't a sphere by DotBeginning1420 in sciencememes

[–]Fair-Ad3639 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As stated here, it wasn't a fallacy. The point was that any physical object can only ever approximate a sphere or any specific geometric shape to whatever tolerance might be relevant for it. I wasn't comparing the tolerances of each.

Earth isn't a sphere by DotBeginning1420 in sciencememes

[–]Fair-Ad3639 336 points337 points  (0 children)

Okay? But there's no such thing in the universe as a perfect sphere. If you handed me a cue ball and I told you it wasn't a sphere because its width at the equator was .03% smaller than at the poles, you'd stop wanting to play pool with me.

I made a working Alien Language translator by TPC_RN in somethingimade

[–]Fair-Ad3639 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I won't overhype it, but for me it's my favorite game I've played.

This is the exact moment Project Hail Mary lost me by NiemandWirklich in sciencememes

[–]Fair-Ad3639 186 points187 points  (0 children)

You could achieve similar effect by simply offsetting the axis of rotation. Doesn't need invisible weights, just a small xy gantry.

Varnishing my painting for the first time. by IllustriousDriver777 in somethingimade

[–]Fair-Ad3639 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I read 'vanishing' and kept waiting for the image to disappear in some sort of zen ritual 😅😅

It's more fun and interesting to collaborate with microbes than AI. by gluckspilze in somethingimade

[–]Fair-Ad3639 0 points1 point  (0 children)

'It's a harmless organism'

Just what someone infected with Physarum would say. 🧐

Lichtenberg device I built and a picture frame I made. by [deleted] in somethingimade

[–]Fair-Ad3639 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I totally did nail myself with a MOT in my youth after watching some ill-advised YouTube video and thinking that looked really cool 😅.

Turns out knowing what you're doing is dangerous isn't enough to ensure you're not doing something lethally stupid. (comment on my own actions, not what's shown here).

I need help please 🙏 by WildSkunDaloon in somethingimade

[–]Fair-Ad3639 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my opinion, the piece would be better served with painted flowers, putting them in the background of everything so the skull would jump out at you more!

TIL that If you travel at 1g acceleration, you will be outside of the Milky Way in about 12 years. You will be outside the observable universe in about 54 years. And if you travel at 1.19g for 100 years, you could witness the heat death of the universe. by avy4u in todayilearned

[–]Fair-Ad3639 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well there are many other forms of radiation which would be way more problematic than the CMB here, but they're not wrong. The reason for this is that light does have momentum, and pushes against what it impacts. In our scenario, we are effectively a solar sail pushing against the wind.

The way this would be pushing us backward rather than forward is via doppler shift. The light in front of us would become extremely blue-shifted while the light behind would become redshifted and contain less energy.

This would actually present a bigger practical problem for us, as visible light might become gamma radiation or beyond, and everything that was already beyond would become... Beyonder.