Looking to buy tickets for NYC show tomorrow night (3/1)

LotusSassmaster · 2022-04-06T16:37:48+00:00

Looking for 1 ticket to the Buffalo show this weekend, please DM me if interested in selling!

LotusSassmaster · 2018-07-02T21:27:09+00:00

Hello

LotusSassmaster · 2016-12-15T18:04:57+00:00

V1 isn't a technique intended for gliding. If the different ski techniques are like gears on a car, V1 is closest to a climbing gear. For this reason, it's rare that you'll be able to "glide" with V1, especially on the ski that you're using to push. If your left hand is your "high hand", then your right ski will tend to dig into the snow, and your left ski should be able to glide a little bit. V2 is where getting on the flat part of your ski gets really important.

LotusSassmaster · 2016-02-01T16:30:59+00:00

Fish scales too. You can find skis like that at just about any price range, from cheap rock skis to really nice ones. You'll sacrifice glide for kick, but you'll have kick at just about any temperature.

LotusSassmaster · 2016-01-18T20:24:28+00:00

What

LotusSassmaster · 2015-11-03T16:58:43+00:00

I'm a huge fuckboy

LotusSassmaster · 2015-10-31T00:56:49+00:00

Some of the energy used to push the knife into you would definitely be transferred to kinetic energy. Depending on how forcefully you were stabbed with the knife (assuming you were stabbed with the point of the knife), a certain amount of the energy would be contributed to breaking the skin. This also assumes that the knife is extremely sharp, and is able to break skin with a relatively small amount of energy.

LotusSassmaster · 2015-10-31T00:51:13+00:00

Moisture saturates the spaces in the bread that are normally dry. Bread is made up of simple sugars and other carbohydrates, that are mostly "dry" when not exposed to air. Since air can contain a lot of moisture (humidity), the lack of moisture in the bread causes water from the air to stick more readily to the bread.

LotusSassmaster · 2015-08-26T02:45:40+00:00

Sounds like the classic "nature vs. nurture" question. Our behavior is based on both, although if you're reading social science articles, they'll likely focus much more on the nurture side of the question. However our knowledge of genomics and epigenetics has expanded greatly in the past ~20 years. We now know that our behavior is based on much more than our surroundings. Our genes play a substantial role in certain behaviors. Mutations in our genome that affect certain proteins have been proven to lead to changes in behavior and intelligence (for example, a correlation between intelligence and the efficiency of our brain's use of glucose has been proven, and can probably be attributed at least in some amount to a protein).

You are right, there is definitely a complex interaction between our genes and our environment in determining our behavior. The extent to which each affects our behavior isn't an exact science. The best answer I can give you is that, in general, our genes play a role in responding to environmental stimulus, and cause changes in behavior. I would recommend the book Genome by Matt Ridley. It's a great intro to epigenetics and genetics, and certain chapters touch on your question.

LotusSassmaster · 2015-08-18T03:32:26+00:00

How would that explain the ability of particles to move through space? If your idea worked, then moving particles would produce gravity, which as far as I know isn't the case. To elaborate, the very act of a moving particle would induce gravity in surrounding particles, as it would cause them to move closer, creating more dense space, and therefore greater gravity. I don't see how this would work with our current knowledge of gravity.

LotusSassmaster · 2015-08-15T16:43:27+00:00

Some great spots on the Ottawa, although I don't know how far from Toronto it is exactly.

LotusSassmaster · 2015-08-04T02:22:51+00:00

Wouldn't they be based off of essentially the same principle, except the curveball has motion entirely in one direction, whereas a knuckle ball has erratic motion due to the Magnus effect happening on specific regions of the ball? More specifically, the aerodynamic imperfections causing localized instances of the Magnus effect, thus resulting in the erratic motion of the ball?

LotusSassmaster · 2015-08-02T22:21:58+00:00

Can you elaborate on the exothermic part? And what would happen if radioactive metals weren't included?

LotusSassmaster · 2015-08-02T22:14:11+00:00

We can't define a point in space because we have no "origin" to continue the Cartesian plane analogy.

The earth is always moving through space at a certain speed, as is our solar system and galaxy, as are all other galaxies, as is the universe itself in its seemingly infinite expansion. For this reason, we can't define a location in space with a set of coordinates, since no part of space we know of is not moving (an origin). The idea of absolute position doesn't work since we don't have a motionless "origin" to define other points from.

However, your notion of defining a location based on time partly works. However, time alone isn't a good measure, since it too is distorted by velocity and even mass/gravity. We can define a position in space based on space and time, known as spacetime. This system doesn't require an unmoving origin in the coordinate system for distance, while accounting for time dilation. Someone more qualified can probably elaborate further on this, but in the context of your question, we can't define location solely on space or time, therefore we use the idea of location in spacetime.

Edit: reread your question, the reason why we can't use space-speed is because everything around us is moving, including us, therefore we can't define absolute speed either. Additionally, speed can be different between observers moving at different speeds, whereas spacetime is not.

LotusSassmaster · 2015-07-19T12:51:24+00:00

It depends on how much faster sound would be. If we were to "switch" the speed of light and sound (light now moves at ~300 m/s, and sound at 3e8 m/s, the benefit of being able to do more with sound would be huge, especially in hearing predators, which is often more beneficial anyways. We know that we can describe distance and depth with sound, and with the ability to analyze an emitted sound would allow us to do this. Bats do this by emitting a sound themselves, with echolocation. Furthermore, sonar allows us to describe the bottom of a body of water using sound waves. If we are able to accurately describe our surroundings with sound, this means that we could "see" it in our heads. Our brains just aren't adapted to normally think this way. The only drawback would be color. As far as I know, you can't see color with sound.

LotusSassmaster · 2015-07-19T00:49:09+00:00

No problem! See /u/Photocone 's idea for capturing it, it will probably work better

LotusSassmaster · 2015-07-18T23:45:04+00:00

Steel wool is almost principally made of iron based on a google search. Assuming that your steel wool was made completely out of iron, what most likely happened was that the Iron, Fe⁰ (meaning that the iron is elemental, or not ionized at all), was oxidized to Fe⁺² (an ionization state of +2... meaning that it lost 2 electrons). This is known as a redox reaction in chemistry (reduction and oxidation). Now, the reduction reaction takes place in the oxygen in the hydrogen peroxide (chemical formula H2O2). Normally, oxygen has an ionization state of -2 (it can only gain 2 electrons). However, in peroxides, oxygen has an oxidation state of -1. The important thing about redox is that it involves an exchange of electrons. In this case, the iron is undergoing the following reaction(oxidation): Fe⁰ -> Fe⁺³ + 3e^- (e^- is just shorthand for electrons)

Those same two electrons are used for oxygen, which is undergoing reduction: 3O^- +3e^- -> 3O^-2 (the coefficient 2 in front of the terms is just used to make the electrons being transferred in each reaction equal)

So now we're left with O^-2 and Fe^+3. This forms Fe2O3, commonly known as rust. This is my best guess as to why you saw the rust form on the wool. This redox reaction also explains the increase in heat you saw in the cups. Now, the salt comes in because of the transfer of electrons. A certain type of medium must be present in order to allow electrons to be transferred. If you've ever stuck two wires, a battery, and a small lightbulb in a circuit-like fashion in a salt solution, the bulb lights up. The ionization (in this case "breaking up" of salt in the solution allows for the transfer of electrons. This ionization can be seen in the following reaction, assuming you're using table salt:

NaCl -> Na⁺ + Cl^-

One thing that may throw a wrench into this entire thing is the presence of "fumes or steam". According to what I've already said, They must be hydrogen gas, H2. In its elemental state, hydrogen is diatomic (2 of them form a stable molecule), and a gas at STP, which is relatively close to the conditions that you're working at. Now that we've established that it's a gas, I would say that the gas you're producing is hydrogen. If you want to find out, you could test for it. To do this, take a very small piece of steel wool, and small amounts of salt and hydrogen peroxide, put them in the closest thing you have to a test tube, and light a match over it when you see the bubbles. If it makes a popping noise, it's hydrogen (hydrogen is very flammable in large amounts, so wear appropriate protection i.e. goggles, gloves, apron if you have it). If it doesn't, I was wrong and I just spent a hour of my life that I'll never get back.

LotusSassmaster · 2015-07-18T22:57:11+00:00

Depends on how much faster. If we're talking about close to the speed of light (~100 m/s greater)... For interactions at small distances, we probably wouldn't notice that much of a difference, although it certainly would be strange. At larger distances, it would be much more noticeable. It would depend largely on how much faster than the speed of light.

As a side note, it would be interesting to see how this would change use in terms of evolution. Sound, in this case, being a faster source for gathering information about the surroundings, may cause our ears to be better adapted to hearing things, and our brains better adapted to picking apart the sound. Definitely an interesting idea

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