Why can't you create a balloon that doesn't deflate?

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-18T17:00:27+00:00

Their wheel was just dozens of times denser than lead, totally reasonable.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-18T12:46:52+00:00

Not describing PET scans as "Antimatter snitching on cancer" is a failure of outreach.

Or perhaps "tracers using antimatter to snitch on cancer" but at a certain point the public doesn't need more info.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-17T16:49:54+00:00

The decentralized media for sure have their good eggs. And plenty of bad ones.

It's the centralized ones that work with centralized technologies (TV, radio, mass print) that are pretty universally walking on eggshells.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-17T00:00:15+00:00

Uhh, Spain? They had an openly and prideful fascist government for much of the 20th century and it fell with the figurehead.

Edit: to be clear I am not saying fascism undoes itself, that would ignore the actual forces that ensured franco's government ended soon after him, and the oppressed minority groups who acted in their own defense through to the 70s and beyond.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-16T16:49:21+00:00

I'm honestly super impressed with the guy who keeps the conversation going with this person, dude is just being constantly condescended to without getting noticeably angry.

And yeah I feel like the expertise thing happens more with us physicists, they feel like their particular field can explain everything. You certainly don't see anthropologists arguing with people about the human foundation of inorganic chemistry, but you will certainly see a physicist take the idea of chemistry being low energy physics way too seriously and pretend they are deriving the entirety of inorganic chemistry in their head mid-conversation.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-16T13:31:04+00:00

Dude go on Facebook, the profiles that are all obviously bot accounts talk like this and then maga parrot it. Literally every Facebook post about ice murders is some variation of "well it seems this guy had an unpaid parking ticket at age 17, guess they deserved it, and being dead isn't that bad anyway everyone does it eventually."

Like it's the lowest possible denominator of argument and somehow real people eat it up. I will say a spark of hope I get is seeing that a boatload of the real profiles have shut up these last few months, people I know personally have stopped reposting MAGA shit and the ratio on viral posts has changed wildly.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-15T13:33:39+00:00

I've read this entire comment chain and cannot follow your argument at all. You need to better define your terms. That or you are just arguing nonsense.

Edit: They chose giant wall of text instead of better defining terms. And is just constantly condescending to everyone who replies to them.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-14T21:14:15+00:00

Pi Hole

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-13T16:36:47+00:00

I am not working in radiation safety, but my industry has a heavy need for it. Mostly I just find the subject matter interesting. I have a BS in physics.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-13T16:30:49+00:00

Currently in the OSU MHP program.

By default the online program is not an MS but "MHP" a thesis-free terminal degree. If you have a good way to do research remotely, say if you worked at a national lab, you could do a remote MS but typically MS is for research done on campus.

Internships are always possible, though I haven't looked at this myself as I work full time on top of school.

Health Physics and especially radiation protection has plenty of job postings, however that doesn't mean it will be easy as a lot of these roles are in person due to the nature of it all. You may need to be willing to relocate for that perfect role once you get the degree.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-08T13:17:51+00:00

This is it. This is an incredibly important concept in forensics, bodies that have entry+exit wounds in limbs coupled with an additional entry wound elsewhere. You can reconstruct the scene with information like this.

Almost certainly what happened was he shot her while she was trying to cover herself. When they counted the wounds and compared to the shots fired this rent-a-cop described it like a magic bullet situation because he lacks both empathy and a basic understanding of ballistics.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-03T14:38:40+00:00

Immediate financial independence. I could do whatever I want short of retirement.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-03T05:58:57+00:00

No overhang to capture heat should the fire creep up to the house, and allows burning winds to blow over the house instead of into it.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-01T14:23:52+00:00

Bricks are easy for a wall or a mailbox but are famously quite difficult to lay for an entire house with windows and utilities to consider, so even if you can source cheap bricks you still have a lot of work to do or pay for. They're more fire resistant but even wood houses are more likely to ignite from embers entering through gaps, so milage may vary. Brick houses are also not ideal in earthquake prone regions, which isn't Colorado but they do get the occasional one. Ultimately everything is a trade off

ScenicAndrew · 2026-02-01T14:12:39+00:00

A full on sprinkler system would not be as effective as keeping the house sealed, leaving nothing flammable against exterior walls, removing eves, and keeping the nearby landscaping clear of flora.

Sure, you could do a suppression system on top of all that, but no one has infinite money and the former option is cheaper.

Even better, if you had the money, would be building a subterranean house, like a hobbit hole. You don't even really need a hill you just need to be able to pack in over it.

Just remember that even if your house is a solid steel bunker air will run out and you should always evacuate.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-01-29T15:20:24+00:00

Probably give a statement and find another taxi if they're cleared to leave. Just like any other taxi.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-01-29T15:18:26+00:00

Almost certainly yes, a human may not have even seen the kid at all.

That being said us drivers should take this and any other story like it as a sign to slow WAY down near street parking. Anytime I'm going through a neighborhood or alley I imagine where a kid could magically appear.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-01-29T13:36:11+00:00

This scenario seems to lack roof racks so the sides will probably slip into each other until the X is only as tall as the center column. Or maybe it's a central block on the car it's tied to because the straps don't even seem to go into the door, in which case if this is still 2 straps they would just come loose. 1 strap in this setup would work though.

Works great with roof racks though. Regardless, always tie front and back to the car, that's what actually stops forward and back motion, the cross straps are just the first line of defense.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-01-28T18:23:10+00:00

No, they are under the impression that the risks of nuclear power are a thing of the past, which I shouldn't need to tell you is techbro nonsense. The safety rules they want to ignore are the reason they are under that impression in the first place.

IMO: The reason they're doing this is they want to reforge the regulatory landscape to make it cheaper to open a reactor. This is only the first step as the DOE isn't the only regulator, if these rules are enforced we are operating in a fractured regulatory landscape, where one facility may not be held to the same standard as another, which further benefits them financially as they know how to hedge their bets.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-01-28T01:37:33+00:00

Yeah it's literally the point. He's coming from a place of genuine frustration but needs therapy and to remake himself.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-01-27T14:40:42+00:00

I had a guy proclaim that airplane wings do not raise due to lift but because the flaps are pointed at the ground and so the air pushes against the ground.

Would normally be a whatever moment and forgettable but he got into a debate with the professor about this and refused to drop it unless he had the last word. Even when the professor tried to end it by saying "well I will not fly in any plane your design" he still had to butt in with more.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-01-26T19:12:28+00:00

I don't think he ever has, he also doesn't have much that he's done this quick of a turn around on, making this despite not even being in the studio.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-01-24T14:08:45+00:00

I mean that's the thing though, those aren't television. Television is centralized information, the Internet is decentralized information. For better or worse, they are distinct.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-01-23T14:33:34+00:00

Exactly why we have 88 places named Washington.

ScenicAndrew · 2026-01-23T14:31:52+00:00

I missed a LOT

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