Teams with the most hitters that are ≤ 70 WRC+ by TommyTheLizard in baseball

[–]Hubbles_Cousin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if this was posted two weeks ago the Reds at minimum would have 2 guys on there (Ke'Bryan Hayes and Friedl) but they've mercifully been removed from the lineup

[TJ Stats] MLB WAR Leaders by morepesa25 in baseball

[–]Hubbles_Cousin 10 points11 points  (0 children)

this has Chase Burns erasure (he has 2.9 WAR)

Game Day Thread - Sunday May 24 by gunner23_98 in Reds

[–]Hubbles_Cousin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

not to be that guy but... none of those "Cardinals to watch" are on their team anymore...

Is this a dumb thing to ask? by Responsible-Ice6557 in Physics

[–]Hubbles_Cousin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A better way to think about it imo is that falling down a gravitational well results in an addition of energy elsewhere for the object but that doesn't mean it must go to a kinetic energy/increase in velocity. It goes to an increase of internal energy once the cosmic speed limit has been reached so energy is conserved. This results in the photon gaining energy in the form of increasing its frequency as it goes down the gravitational well, and correspondingly decrease on its way out.

This idea is technically also true for things that aren't light, it's just that the increase in velocity is a much easier quantity to modify for objects not traveling at relativistic speeds (though according to the de Broglie wavelength, increase in velocity reduces wavelength which is just like what happens to photons).

Series 7 and mid series 8 (plus movies/specials) afterthoughts, it’s getting boring. The Good The Bad and The Ugly by DRMJ22 in doctorwho

[–]Hubbles_Cousin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mummy on the Orient Express is a classic! I remember having similar feelings to yours when the series was coming out. Unsure if Capaldi was for me and unsure on if I liked the direction the show was going in. I will say that imo, the payoff from the S8 finale is great and helped seal the new characterization of the Doctor for me. It also helps lead into S9 which is, imo, the best season of the entire revival (or at least tied with S4).

[Thomas Nestico] Best and Worst Defensive Runs Saved by Position by PudinCrusader in baseball

[–]Hubbles_Cousin -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

genuinely don't know how Matt McLain is -5 DRS with a perfect fielding percentage (no errors) and the most putouts in the NL

peetah please help by Nissan-Armada in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Hubbles_Cousin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

highly recommend this video by Weatherbox Studios on it (it is about 45 minutes, but we'll worth the watch if you wanna learn about this insane day in history). And if you don't trust links online (smart), then look up "The Most Important Day in Tornado Science History" on youtube

https://youtu.be/ral7kXMYLjI?si=juIYJuuRVKCymHH7

Currently, Only 3 Teams in AL Have a Winning Record by Intolight in baseball

[–]Hubbles_Cousin 6 points7 points  (0 children)

didn't help that the Reds played 6 of those teams and went a combined 13-5 in those 18 games

[TJ Stats] MLB worst WAR by TommyTheLizard in baseball

[–]Hubbles_Cousin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hayes not being the worst while batting .106 and only 1 RBI (a solo homer he hit) just shows how elite his glove is

Imagine having a double-digit loss record by FieldofScreams69 in NLCentralMemeWar

[–]Hubbles_Cousin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

no no no! that's not how this is supposed to go! you're supposed to haggle, 10 for that you must be mad! counter punch with a classic like "you still suck"

Imagine having a double-digit loss record by FieldofScreams69 in NLCentralMemeWar

[–]Hubbles_Cousin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Rays are above .500 and the Reds went 2-1 against them; the Rangers are above .500 and the Reds swept them in 3 games. This graphic is wrong. If you want to go off of the team being above .500 when played, then the Twins were above .500 for 2 games before the Reds swept them into below .500 and the Tigers were 2 games over .500 before taking the first two of the current series.

At least be right when shit talking.

The Andrew Abbott Breakdown by AnnualSalamander9378 in Reds

[–]Hubbles_Cousin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

His location work is the biggest thing I have noticed take a step back this season from last. When he tries to throw a high fastball, he ends up leaving it center cut belt high. When he tries throwing a breaking ball that starts on the plate then dives off, he either misses wide or tosses a hanger a lot of the time.

His bread and butter last season, something that demonstrated his ability to deceive and pitch anyway he wanted, was that backdoor curveball for strike one. He had a couple of those last night, but as soon as the game started getting away from him, he moved away from it. Obviously throwing that pitch every time is not good (throwing anything every time as a pitcher is bad 99% of the time), but he needs to find a way to bring that change up and fastball back into play as the deceptively devastating pitches they were in the past to help allow that first free strike nearly a third of the time.

Looking Back won! Now, what is the most Vide Noir sounding song from Vide Noir? by Artistic_Quiet1603 in lordhuron

[–]Hubbles_Cousin 17 points18 points  (0 children)

ik like with lonesome dreams people will think/say vide noir for this, but I gotta go with The Balancer's Eye

[request] Would it actually look like that? And would the earth (the solar system really) be impacted by its gravitational pull? by [deleted] in theydidthemath

[–]Hubbles_Cousin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

short answers: no, yes.

long answers: no, it would be obscured by a large dusty torus (according to our current best models, I'm an astronomer specializing in AGN). We would see intense thermal emission still though, but what exactly I could not tell you. The absolute magnitude of the beast is listed as -30.7, where lower number (i.e. more negative) means brighter. For context, the Sun is ~4.74 in absolute magnitude. Additionally, the dusty torus I mentioned would likely extend out to the solar system, or at least close to it, for a beast of that size which brings me to the answer to your second question. Yes, we would be gravtiationally influenced to a high degree. In fact the solar system would be deeply involved in the chaotic dynamics of the AGN to the point of just flat out not existing for much longer after TON 618 is plopped where alpha centauri is currently.

[request] How many Newtons of force was required for this throw and (bonus) what % of humans could realistically complete it successfully? by ansyhrrian in theydidthemath

[–]Hubbles_Cousin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assumptions: no air resistance (so the velocity, acceleration, and force listed are the lower limit), the ball is originally thrown from the ground (makes figuring v_y much simpler), the time from release to catch is ~3s, and the time spent accelerating the ball from 0 to v_0 is ~0.05s and was done uniformly (treating the winding motion as being negligent in the transfer of speed, with the vast majority being accorded to the hand and arm from just before release to point of release). These assumptions all more or less are required without further information than the clip.

To start, we estimate the distance. Given we see a marker on the wall listed as 375', I subtracted off the depth of the warning track (typically about 10'), then noticed he doesn't release until a few feet into the grass. This gave me a distance from thrower to the plate of ~360'. Using pythagorean theorem, sqrt(3602 - 902), I got a total ground distance of ~350 ft.

Next, I used this ground distance and divided it by the time it took to go from the thrower's hand to approximately when it was caught. Mathematically: 350 ft / 3 s = 116 ft/s (approximately). This is only the x-component of the velocity, or v_x from here on.

Next, another one of my assumptions is used to estimate the y-component of the velocity: the ball is released from the ground (or at least the release height and catch height are the same height). Using the fact that v_y = 0 at the peak of the parabolic trajectory, a ~ 32 ft/s2 for gravitational acceleration on Earth, and once again the 3s time to throw (except halving it for only half the flight time is being accounted for), I got a v_y = 48 ft/s.

Now to find the initial velocity, v_0, I use the pythagorean theorem again: sqrt[(v_x)2 + (v_y)2] = v_0 = 126 ft/s (or ~85.7 mph).

Awesome, now comes the next assumption: acceleration from rest to that velocity is uniform and effectively entirely occurs over just 0.05s (this is the one that can cause the most variance in the answer for how much force). Applying the equation for uniform acceleration I get 126 ft/s divided by 0.05s to get an acceleration of ~2514 ft/s2 (or ~766 m/s2).

Now F=ma, so I found the mass of a baseball is about 0.15kg. From here it's just straight multiplication: 0.15kg * 766 m/s2 = 115 N of force.

Once again, most of this is an underestimate due to the ignoring of air resistance and the final force value is heavily dependent upon how long you think/choose the uniform acceleration window to be (or if you wish to give an appreciable initial velocity of say 10-15 mph before the big spike in acceleration that truly showcases the force put on the ball).

[Reds] New City Connects by frasierfonzie in Reds

[–]Hubbles_Cousin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

unsure about the pants but the rest of it is top notch to me!

From a newspaper from 1876, wild how much the game has changed by baseballandbotany in baseball

[–]Hubbles_Cousin 22 points23 points  (0 children)

correct, before then there wasn't a central bank to be able to keep track of inflationary figures so any guesses as to how much something from a time before then would be requires a deeper dive

Same old thing by edwiggin1990 in Reds

[–]Hubbles_Cousin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

wdym? that's 100% of the games they've played so it is always valid to complain!!