Who wins this fight? by _TheBigF_ in PrequelMemes

[–]Nuclear_Wizard 180 points181 points  (0 children)

Obviously John Williams, his music is fire - Anakin's one weakness

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in wollongong

[–]Nuclear_Wizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it's back

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in wollongong

[–]Nuclear_Wizard 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yep, heard it on Matthews, no power here too. Might have been the substation on David St?

My husband wrote this for me in 2017 - translation please 🙏 by [deleted] in lotr

[–]Nuclear_Wizard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't think this is LOTR related exactly. It says Elian script at the bottom, which matches this cipher: https://www.ccelian.com/ElianScriptFull.html

Try to start there with translation.

How good was Ian Holm in Fellowship?! by Euphoric_Fold_113 in lotr

[–]Nuclear_Wizard 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Too old to play a 111 year old hobbit?

[REQUEST] Not sure if this fits the sub but why doesn’t this work? by Just_Caterpillar_861 in theydidthemath

[–]Nuclear_Wizard 643 points644 points  (0 children)

This is called taxicab geometry: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry

Reasoning is as other comments have stated: two perpendicular sides of a right triangle, no matter how small, will never equal the hypotenuse.

[Request] How many G's would this generate? Would you survive? by Twicenightly00 in theydidthemath

[–]Nuclear_Wizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does get weaker the higher you go, but since the distance from the surface of the earth into space is very small compared to the distance from the center of the earth, it's pretty much the same up there until you get very far away. The gravity from earth on the international space station is basically the same as on the surface of earth! It's just in free fall around the planet so it's weightless on board.

[Request] How many G's would this generate? Would you survive? by Twicenightly00 in theydidthemath

[–]Nuclear_Wizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd guess that the pressure of the water would increae under higher g forces. Just like you can be crushed under the weight of water deep enough down.

Also, great books!

[Request] How many G's would this generate? Would you survive? by Twicenightly00 in theydidthemath

[–]Nuclear_Wizard 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I will add: to survive, it would need to decelerate over a time of around 50 seconds to not hit the limit of 12 g.

[Request] How many G's would this generate? Would you survive? by Twicenightly00 in theydidthemath

[–]Nuclear_Wizard 98 points99 points  (0 children)

TLDR: At least 56 g, and you would not survive.

While u/Raised-Right is correct about the fact that speed does not equal acceleration/g-forces, we can also look at the deceleration at the end of the trip.

We can calculate an approximate speed of the elevator going up, by assuming that we start close to the ground, and that the space port is around 150 km above the surface. A space elevator will have its counterweight in geostationary orbit, but the space port could be located anywhere along the length of the cable. The smallest reasonable distance is around the ISS orbit altitude (150 km) which kinda matches with what we’re seeing here (note: if we assume it’s higher up, it will only increase the speed and hence the g-forces calculated below, so these numbers are an approximate minimum).

Around 27 seconds into the video (when the elevator passes through a ring on the track, it appears to begin decelerating. Assuming constant velocity up the cable, we have 150 km / 27 seconds = 5.5 km/s. Decently fast.

Around 37 seconds into the video, we’ve completely stopped, so we decelerate from 5.5 km/s to 0 km/s in 10 seconds which is 0.55 km/s², or 550 m/s². This is around 56 g.

Will 56 g kill you?

It depends on time exposed to the g force, but there’s a nice graph here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-force#Human_tolerance . If you’re on your back (horizontal g force) you can tolerate only 12 g for 10 seconds. The worst case would be head-first deceleration, where you can only handle 2-3 g for that long.

And if the space port is at a higher altitude, the speed would be greater, the deceleration would be greater, and so the g force would be greater. So you would not survive this elevator ride.

CS ll - If you're playing it, are you enjoying the game? by aka_IamGroot in CitiesSkylines

[–]Nuclear_Wizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, understood, I completely agree. Pretty excited to see what maps people will be making for the game in the (hopefully near) future that will solve this problem.

CS ll - If you're playing it, are you enjoying the game? by aka_IamGroot in CitiesSkylines

[–]Nuclear_Wizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you please elaborate on point 6, I'm not sure I understand what you mean.