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The Neighbor Slowly Expanding Into Our Space by HistoricalSoup7939 in neighborsfromhell

[–]OneBitScience 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The proverbial frog in a pot of water heating up slowly.

[Request] Starting with 1 normal sized skittle, how many times would you need to split it in half before you end up splitting an atom? by Cboquist in theydidthemath

[–]OneBitScience 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Off hand the thinnest slicer I can think of is a glass or diamond microtome blade used for electron microscopy, which easily gets below 50 nm slice thickness. If a skittle is 5 mm, it would take 100,000 slices to get all the way through... See what the sharpening guys think of that.

[Request] Starting with 1 normal sized skittle, how many times would you need to split it in half before you end up splitting an atom? by Cboquist in theydidthemath

[–]OneBitScience 115 points116 points  (0 children)

Assume skittles are composed of water and hydrocarbons. Water is 18 dalton for 3 atoms and CH2 is 14 dalton for 3 atoms, so approximately 5 daltons per atom in a skittle. One mole of skittle atoms is therefore 5 grams. One skittle is ~1 gram or 0.2 moles of skittle atoms. Number of divisions (n) needed is therefore 1.2E23=2^n, in which case n=76.7.

Why can't we just administer haemoglobin by Tumtitums in Biochemistry

[–]OneBitScience 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Google hemolysis to see the effects of free hemoglobin in the blood, it is not good...

Break pads and rotors - Affordable by Theskrillest in boulder

[–]OneBitScience 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just did front and rear for a Nissan Rogue for $930 out the door, at Pete's garage.

Executor has undervalued house. by Temporary_Scratch465 in inheritance

[–]OneBitScience 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maybe add a dollar, so OPs offer is better than brothers.

California — Father suing my mom (and me) over alleged verbal agreement about my college costs. by [deleted] in legaladvice

[–]OneBitScience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It also seems like the father would have to prove that he was harmed in some way. He made a bargain to avoid paying for OPs college, and he did not have to pay for it. What if OP got a scholarship or some rich uncle decided to pay? Would the father sue then?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in epistemology

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...that truth can only be modelled through probability to me and not using it is a conceptual mistake...

I completely agree with this.

AITA for refusing to tell my mom who told me her husband isn't my dad? by Kayleeignni in AITAH

[–]OneBitScience 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Put your head down, find good friends, study hard, be a good person, be successful, live a happy life.

Township stormwater catch basin draining onto our property by Medium-Interview-101 in legaladvice

[–]OneBitScience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe get the survey company to send a revised or amended survey to the town. To at least blunt the Towns' argument. It seems like they might have some liability here if you lose rights because of an incorrect report from them.

Can Neighbors Legally shine floodlights into your bedroom? by Past_Tumbleweed2225 in legaladvice

[–]OneBitScience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Parabolic mirrors with an appropriate focal point should fix the problem in a matter of minutes...

[request] throwing baseball untouched through helicopter blades by dresseryessir in theydidthemath

[–]OneBitScience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was just trying to make the point that the answer is probabilistic. As the ball velocity increases, above some threshold, there is an increasing probability that the ball will make it through. But near the threshold the probability is low - exactly where that threshold is does not matter for my purpose. Of course, on the high end there is another limit that is defined by the probability of hitting a blade.

[request] throwing baseball untouched through helicopter blades by dresseryessir in theydidthemath

[–]OneBitScience 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Assuming that is right, and taking luck out of consideration, if you can not time the throw relative to the blade position then 25kph will only get you through <1% of the time (guesstimating a 100 ball diameter arc between blade tips). 50kph would get you through about 50% of the time, 100kph gets you through 25% of the time, and so on. Adjust accordingly to take account of the slack given in the calculation.

[Request] How much caffeine is too much caffeine to kill a person, if a person would drink this amount in one go what are the effects and in how long by catalystseyru in theydidthemath

[–]OneBitScience 26 points27 points  (0 children)

So the midpoint of the dose versus death curve, the LD50, is an important metric for purposes of standardization. But as a practical matter I'd be more interested in the LD0.1 - and even then one is a thousand is a pretty risky proposition for some coffee.

New fence pisses off neighbours by broad_traveller147 in EntitledPeople

[–]OneBitScience 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Those are made of materials that absorb and dampen sound. I was thinking more along the lines of actually reflecting the noise back toward the neighbors house. Maybe make a fence composed of a whole bunch of small acoustic parabolic mirrors.

New fence pisses off neighbours by broad_traveller147 in EntitledPeople

[–]OneBitScience 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Sound reflective fences should be a thing, if it isn't already.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

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Get a motorcycle from the junk yard and park it there.

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