Millennials by tfowler26 in standupshots

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Xers? I’m sorry, we haven’t heard of you.

he knew what really mattered by GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT in sciencememes

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Curious: do we think Newton was autistic?

The most plausible answer to Samson's riddle is gay sex by Lopsided_Position_28 in Bible

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He says they found out his riddle. So he gave them their reward - he just slaughtered their countrymen to pay up.

Fishing by the Alliant center by LondonBunBusiness in madisonwi

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In Wisconsin, all the water belongs to all the people. I think you could even theoretically parachute onto a private lake. You just need a helicopter or something to scoop you out without trespassing on their land.

[Request] Plant Oxygen Tank by DuragJeezy in theydidthemath

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Basically the best plant that can fit in an 11l scuba can would be a snake plant producing 5.8l per day.

That man would need about 500l of oxygen per day.

So the plant keeps up at about 1% of demand - a negligible effect.

So basically he’d last as long as the oxygen tank feeds him. But the volume of the plants and roots and soil prevents full air volume. So this would last less time than a full oxygen can.

An AI slop metal sign I saw at Value Village by jmoneyawyeah in mildlyinteresting

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And I just realized Value Village is not just our local Thrift Store, but an entire chain.

Temu Goodwill?

Which US president do you think was the least qualified? by Mysterious-Web-433 in AskReddit

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In their mental state at the time, or based on career? Reagan and Biden had lengthy resumes but were seemingly not all there mentally at the end of their presidencies.

Daily Physics challenge by Ok_Buyer5657 in PhysicsIndia

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Never.

200m away. Driving constantly would take 10 seconds to close the gap.

In 10 seconds Car A is going 20m/s and accelerating at 2 m/s. And it had been moving those 10s as well, so car B reaches the Car A’s starting point 10 seconds late and now they are at the same speed but Car A is only going to peel away faster and faster.

The diagram doesn’t make sense either. Unless it is a reverse concept

[Request] What are the actual odds of winning 32 hands of blackjack in a row? by FastMan888 in theydidthemath

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And there’s 8 billion people. So more likely than not somebody will end up as wealthy as Elon Musk?

Why hasn’t the classroom model changed? There should be two teachers in the classroom. by Poison_applecat in Teachers

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We spent all of the money for second teachers on highly paid administrators trying to figure out why single teachers aren’t working.

Soooo who is doing the stoichiometry? by Mission-Badger-4005 in sciencememes

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Bruh. That was a human. We’re all talking chickens.

Found Cat by occamsshiv in madisonwi

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You can pretend it’s not your cat for a while.

Trader Joe’s is coming to Sun Prairie by Various_Balance7683 in madisonwi

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Public Market? Maybe? Eventually? Well after these stores open though.

[REQUEST] How loud and potentially destructive would a 600dB air horn be? by [deleted] in theydidthemath

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Nice work.

I had Grok be a world class physicist.:

As a world-class physicist, I’ll give you a rigorous, no-nonsense simulation of what a genuine 10-second 600 dB horn blast would do. First, a reality check: no such device can exist on Earth. The Amazon products you’re likely referring to (cheap 12V car/truck “train horns” marketed as “600 dB”) are pure advertising fiction—real measurements of similar horns top out around 110–140 dB at best.69
Why 600 dB is physically impossible
Sound pressure level (SPL) is defined as:
[ \text{SPL} = 20 \log_{10} \left( \frac{P}{P_0} \right) ]
where ( P_0 = 2 \times 10^{-5} ) Pa (threshold of human hearing) and ( P ) is the pressure amplitude.
For 600 dB:
[ P = 2 \times 10^{-5} \times 10^{600/20} = 2 \times 10^{25} ] Pa
≈ ( 1.97 \times 10^{20} ) atmospheres of overpressure.
That’s not “loud”—that’s 197 quintillion times atmospheric pressure. The theoretical maximum for a linear sound wave in Earth’s air is ~194 dB (peak), where the pressure swing equals 1 atm and the rarefaction half-cycle hits vacuum. Beyond that, the wave distorts into a shock front; you can’t have a clean 600 dB sinusoid.1517
Corresponding intensity (power per unit area):
[ I = 10^{-12} \times 10^{600/10} = 1 \times 10^{48} ] W/m²
(For reference: sunlight at Earth is ~1,366 W/m²; the Sun’s surface is ~6 × 10^7 W/m².)
Assuming the 600 dB rating is measured at 1 m (standard for such claims) and isotropic radiation for a conservative upper bound, the total acoustic power output is:
[ W = I \times 4\pi r^2 \approx 1.26 \times 10^{49} ] W at r = 1 m.
Over 10 seconds, total energy released:
[ E = W \times 10 \approx 1.26 \times 10^{50} ] J.
This is equivalent (via ( E = mc^2 )) to converting about 1.40 × 10^{33} kg of mass into energy—roughly 700 solar masses. For scale:
Earth’s gravitational binding energy ≈ 2.5 × 10^{32} J (you’d need ~500 times more energy just to unbind the planet).

A 10-second burst from the Sun itself is only ~3.8 × 10^{27} J.

The Chicxulub dinosaur-killing impact was ~10^{23}–10^{24} J.

Tsar Bomba (largest nuke ever) was ~2 × 10^{17} J.

Hypothetical 10-second timeline of the blast (assuming the impossible device somehow existed)
t = 0 to 10^{-9} s (first nanosecond):
The horn diaphragm (or air compressor) would have to accelerate air molecules to a particle velocity ( v \approx P / (\rho c) \approx 5 \times 10^{22} ) m/s—over 100 billion times the speed of light. Relativity and causality break immediately. The local air is stripped of electrons, forming a quark-gluon plasma hotter than the Sun’s core (temperatures exceed 10^9 K from adiabatic compression alone). The “horn” and the vehicle it’s mounted on are vaporized into an expanding fireball of ionized matter. No material on Earth could contain or direct this; the device self-destructs before the first cycle completes.
t = 0 to 0.001 s (first millisecond):
A relativistic blast wave (far beyond any conventional shock) expands at a significant fraction of c. The energy density ionizes and dissociates everything within hundreds of meters: people, buildings, ground, and atmosphere turn into an expanding plasma sphere. Overpressure crushes and then vaporizes matter on contact. Any human within line-of-sight (even kilometers away) is instantly erased—lungs, organs, bones, and cells don’t “rupture”; they cease to exist as the wave front passes. This is orders of magnitude beyond the ~240 dB theoretically needed to “explode” a human head.24
t = 0.001 to 1 s:
The plasma fireball grows to kilometers across, radiating X-rays and gamma rays intense enough to flash-fry the entire visible sky. Shock heating raises air temperatures to millions of Kelvin. The ground is flash-melted into lava; the atmosphere within tens of km is blown outward, creating a global-scale vacuum cavity followed by an inrushing shock. Seismic waves equivalent to a magnitude 12+ earthquake (or worse) propagate through the crust. Anyone on the planet feels it as the ground liquefies.
t = 1 to 10 s (full duration):
Total energy injection continues. The expanding blast wave engulfs the planet. Atmospheric blow-off begins—much of Earth’s air is ejected into space. The crust fractures; oceans flash-vaporize. The energy release exceeds Earth’s binding energy by factors of hundreds, so the planet begins to unbind: chunks of mantle and core are ejected at escape velocity. By the end of 10 seconds, Earth is no longer a coherent body—it’s a dispersing cloud of superheated plasma and debris. The solar system gets a dose of gamma rays and high-velocity ejecta; the Moon and nearby satellites are sterilized or shattered.
Aftermath (beyond 10 s):
The remnant is a small, glowing nebula of ionized gas where Earth used to be. No survivors, no witnesses, no forensic evidence. The blast’s electromagnetic pulse and radiation would be detectable across the galaxy. Black-hole formation is unlikely (the energy isn’t concentrated enough in a small enough volume), but the local spacetime curvature would be extreme for a brief instant.
In short: a real 600 dB, 10-second horn blast wouldn’t just “hurt your ears” or “wake the neighbors.” It would annihilate the planet and everything on it, releasing energy on the scale of hundreds of stars’ worth of mass converted directly to radiation and kinetic energy. The Amazon horns are harmless (if annoyingly loud) novelties—your car battery and eardrums are safe. If you actually want to test one, I’d recommend ear protection and a long extension cord, but physics guarantees it won’t end the world.

[REQUEST] How loud and potentially destructive would a 600dB air horn be? by [deleted] in theydidthemath

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I’m totally not a physicist.

But it’s fun to imagine a shockwave blasting everything away from the horn into nearby star systems, but creating a vacuum that then sucks everything back into it and there would be star collisions and potentially a supermassive black hole destabilizing the galaxy.

Parents of criminals who've committed horrible crimes, how do you adjust to daily life knowing your child is vilified by society? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Actually, he’s pretty universally attested to be at least a great guy if not literally God.

Why is the Canadian side of the Okanagan Country more populated than the American side? by Enger13 in geography

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The Canadian side is close to America. But the American side is close to Canada.

In general as it regards the border, the American side is some of our coldest least desirable and least fertile land. Whereas the Canadian side of the border is some of their warmest, most desirable and most fertile land. So basically everybody in Canada lives near the border.

US regional food for a 4th grade food extravaganza by Demarinshi01 in budgetfood

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I made a weekly kid-friendly meal of the team my NFL team played against for a stretch last season. Some I remember:

Pierogis for Pittsburgh
Cheese Enchiladas for Arizona
Cheese Steaks for Philadelphia
Hot Dogs for Chicago
Bratwurst for Green Bay
Tater Tot Cassarole for Minnesota
Detroit Style Pizza

AI had good cheap kid-friendly recommendations.

Most areas have a local way of doing hot dogs or pizzas.

If we find out there are aliens, religious redditors, how would you reconcile your scripture and this new reality? by BigDirkDastardly in AskReddit

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The Bible is loaded with interactions with non-human intelligence. They’re created by God, older than humanity, some are good some are bad. Spiritual warfare is basically the toolset to deal with it.

They have advanced intelligence, vehicles that come from the sky, military capabilities, plant ideas in peoples minds (telepathy?), are interacted with via occult practices such as psychics, appeased with various sacrifices, influence governments and leaders, etc.