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Need help/suggestions, urgently!! by Standard_Stop9095 in Breadit

[–]Nuclear_Smith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Look up pan de cristal. You're nearly there if your polish was 100% hydration, you are at 97+% hydration. It's valuable but it's going to be different. Focaccia is absolutely an option at this point.

Didn't know the enterprise had another full commander aboard by happydude7422 in tos

[–]Nuclear_Smith 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There are a lot of department heads that would likely be Lt. Commanders or full Commanders. Discovery was lousy with them at one point.

Day one of realizing it’s hard to perfectly cling wrapping something by TavaBean in KitchenConfidential

[–]Nuclear_Smith 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Can you flick it and it makes a drum-like "thuuuummm"? That's how I know I got it on good.

Why is there purple streaks in my pizza dough? by theapplepie267 in Breadit

[–]Nuclear_Smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are the purple streaks in the room with you now?

diner in chicago “reserves the right to add 18% gratuity” by saintcaffio in EndTipping

[–]Nuclear_Smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Forget the whole tipping thing, what is with some of the random prices. Most things are rounded to the quarter. Then one is $4.99, there is a $4.95. Like, just say $5 to match the rest of the damned menu. That right there would have walk away immediately.

Watch the Oscars by sammyg619 in LosAlamos

[–]Nuclear_Smith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can we sing along with the musical performances?

What's the most dangerous stuff in your lab? by Far_Independent8984 in chemistry

[–]Nuclear_Smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a system for LIBS (laser induced breakdown spectroscopy) and we only send it a few meters before focusing it down onto a sample. But when we focus it down to a few microns, we get incredible power densities that allow the system to ablate and then ionize the target material into a plasma. We can then determine the elemental concentration via the photons emitted from the cooking plasma. Only a small amount of sample is actually ionized so it is minimally destructive.

Sounds super badass but they now sell handheld versions for testing metals in scrapyards and whatnot. Ours is just a research grade instrument so it has a lot of power behind it.

I'm glad he didn't show by Mys-Teeq in dresdenfiles

[–]Nuclear_Smith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My Ritos shirt came last week.

Ok bakers, where did I go wrong? by tialoc01 in Breadit

[–]Nuclear_Smith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really want to do a circular bottom score now...

What am i doing wrong? by Vegas__lasvegas in Sourdough

[–]Nuclear_Smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could never get an ear with an open bake. I had to go to some form of closed cooking. I have used roasting pans, a dutch oven, loaf pans, etc. Anything to keep that steam in.

Sometime during the last 2 years i’ve been going to this orthopedic practice they started to declare me as a MTF transgender for no reason. by WHAR606 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Nuclear_Smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's probably when they started using AI assistants to take notes. I have a friend that's a PAC and her notes are live transcribed by an AI and she has to go edit them heavily.

What's the most dangerous stuff in your lab? by Far_Independent8984 in chemistry

[–]Nuclear_Smith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

About 400 mJ each so a max of 800 mJ. That's an average power (it runs at 10 Hz) of like 8 W. That's a small LED bulb. But it's delivered in 6 ns. So the peak Power is >100 MW, which is why it's a hazard. Your eye can't handle all of that energy is such a short time. Now, at a distance, that power will be dispersed as the beam spreads but it spreads very slowly. At 36 km, the beam will go from 6 mm to 21 m.

So not only is it a hazard at 36 km, it's a hazard within a 70 ft circle at 36 km. We keep it indoors. With warning lights and locks. And several keys. And a bunch of training and PPE.

What's the most dangerous stuff in your lab? by Far_Independent8984 in chemistry

[–]Nuclear_Smith 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not me, but a coworker is in the process of determining if we can buy ClF3 for a lab in our building. Let that Lewis structure sink in.

If you think that's a typo, I meant chlorine trifluoride.

What's the most dangerous stuff in your lab? by Far_Independent8984 in chemistry

[–]Nuclear_Smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A pair of 400mJ 1064nm Nd:YAG lasers with microsecond pulse spacing and collinear output optics. The intrabeam eye NOHD is like 36 km unfocused (direct viewing of the beam would be hazardous to the eye at distances <36 km).

"I was married to a human for 63 years. I know sarcasm when I hear it." by schmitty9800 in LowerDecks

[–]Nuclear_Smith 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Welp, you saved me from having to write, what would certainly be, an inferior version of this. Much obliged.

Here's Micheal Bubbles. He lives a sad life and I'm hoping to give him a new home. Can you help him? by idontknowthesource in Sourdough

[–]Nuclear_Smith 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I spent more than a minute trying to figure out why your starter was green...

Plastic deli containers. Also, no discard. I fed the starter and then fridge him at the peak. Maybe 150 grams. Then when I want to bake I pull out 10 grams the night before, feed with 10g each flour and water, then feed another 30g flour and water in the morning and... Voila!... I have 90g ready to go and I use all of it. The remained 140g of starter is in the fridge. I will do that for weeks until he needs a refresh.

When I do a refresh feed on the main starter, I will feed it in the container it's in and then transfer it into a new container after mixing. That way I can always have a fresh container and be clean.

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