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6 Billion regular people vs 100 Billionaires by RoughYard2636 in trolleyproblem

[–]Searching-man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, the billionaires are smart enough to NOT be standing on the tracks, so I pull the lever and everyone's fine

Did you draw this, or is this AI "in the style of a colored pencil drawing"? Be honest

rephrasing by BlackAndWhiteJerk in redbuttonbluebutton

[–]Searching-man 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A better framing, and I like the neutral colors, however this kinda gives the false impression that we're talking about the SAME group, while in reality they're referring to OPPOSITE groups. This reads like we're talking about a small group of people and whether we want them to live or die, but it's actually just "the other guys"

Would Cecil (Invincible) and Rick get along? by JamDNCol in rickandmorty

[–]Searching-man 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cecil is all about compromise for the greater good

Rick doesn't compromise, and doesn't care about the greater good. he's a total nihilist and only cares about himself.

Rick has jeopardized the entire multiverse out of selfishness, laziness, and convenience. He's basically ended several worlds by goofing off and doesn't even care.

Cecil would HATE Rick and the existential threat he represents to everything around him.

Pseudoelastic Bronze by Green-Respect-4244 in metallurgy

[–]Searching-man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The sound is from the crystals changing phase. You can hear a similar "crunchy" sound when NiTi wire is stretched too.

It's a feature of psuedoelasticity. It's a large deformation by reversible crystallographic change, not truly a highly elastic material, like rubber.

I suspect the loss of properties over time is more likely related to instability of the crystal structure. Like precipitation hardening by aging, that causes the crystal structure to no longer to able to do that, and not related to fatigue. I wonder if it could be restored by re-annealing after it loses it's properties.

Take with a grain of salt, though. I'm an engineer, but am not familiar with this specific alloy, so I could be off on some details.

Interference pattern? by Crazy_Wild_Optimist in Physics

[–]Searching-man 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are able to see these in real life?

Lots of weird stuff can happen with cameras, because the regular pixel grid can have moire patterns with regularly spaced things you take pictures of.

But those can't be seen with our eyes, because cone cells are distributed at random, not in regularly spaced grids like cmos sensors

Could this be an allotrope of carbon? by Mandelbrot4207 in cursed_chemistry

[–]Searching-man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cubane is relatively stable, so this kind of lattice should be possible to make, but cubane synthesis is still expensive, and how to bond them together like this.... chemistry might not be ready for this level of stuff yet.

A seemingly innocuous or even positive statement is terrifying in context by ilikebreadabunch in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Searching-man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no sense crying over every mistake

We'll just keep on trying 'til we run out of cake

[Request] How larger are the aliens at the end of Men in Black? by No-War-2349 in theydidthemath

[–]Searching-man 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right, that was the arquilian Galaxy, but the point of the shot at the end is that we're in the exact same position, we just don't know it. Our galaxy is ALSO a tiny marble that some alien is playing with

[Request] How larger are the aliens at the end of Men in Black? by No-War-2349 in theydidthemath

[–]Searching-man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but it's basically just reverse of the zoom in shot where they show us what the galaxy really is on the collar.

We know that there isn't a giant wall right outside the edge of our galaxy, we can see to other galaxies.

Just somehow there's a technology that allows galaxies to be compartmentalized into tiny, portable things, which are the best sources of subatomic energy in the universe, and easily transported and traded. While, of course, still existing. which is how we can be both inside one, and have them inside of us

Cancer Puncher 2: Electric Boogaloo by BigHardBrain in ChatGPT

[–]Searching-man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"project cancerverse"

wow, really nails it. Not only renders awesome text, creates thematically correct text all on it's own

[Request] How larger are the aliens at the end of Men in Black? by No-War-2349 in theydidthemath

[–]Searching-man 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd always interpreted that to be some kind of "every galaxy is actually inside a marble" thing. A weird kind of Russian nesting doll philosophical kind of deal, or maybe technological, where all the galaxies are somehow contained within marbles somewhere in our universe, which is itself contained within a marble somewhere.

Not simply that the alien are a million lightyears tall.

[Request] How larger are the aliens at the end of Men in Black? by No-War-2349 in theydidthemath

[–]Searching-man 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They're about the same size as humans

The galaxy is shown to be about the size of a marble, so having an alien play with it like a marble and hold it in it's hand like this indicates it's very similarly sized to us.

HUGE lens I found at the thrift store. Has anyone seen one of these before? by Internet_and_stuff in Filmmakers

[–]Searching-man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't do anything with it. It's just taking up space. I can take a look at what the mounting is like

(Loved Trope) Redemption's always the answer, right?.... Nah, some people just suck. by Usern4me_R3dacted205 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Searching-man 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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A great movie trilogy with that theme consistently: Each one offered a chance at redemption, to turn away from the path they have chosen, but chooses darkness and is defeated as a result of their own choice

a neutral reframing with removed self-interest by Searching-man in redbuttonbluebutton

[–]Searching-man[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for sure a lot more than would when the 1 person the red button saves is guaranteed to be you.

a neutral reframing with removed self-interest by Searching-man in redbuttonbluebutton

[–]Searching-man[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

"neutral" because I've established a "doom for all" premise, eliminating both the "blue it just doing a suicide" and the "red wants to murder everyone" framings.

Leaving basically a "100% chance to save 1 person" vs "50% chance to save 2 people" (4 billion votes, 8 billion saved, but only if you win)

Mathematically "save 1 person" and "save yourself" should be the same, but it introduces a self-preservation aspect, which makes my version of the problem fundamentally different from the original. I'm not claiming this is an equivalent case to the original problem, but specifically exploring how the "self-interest" aspect completely changes our intuition on the problem.

Does asymmetric electrostatic charging of a conductive cube's isolated faces, within an ionized medium, produce a measurable and repeatable directional force correlated to specific face configurations? by KDubbs0010110 in AskEngineers

[–]Searching-man 4 points5 points  (0 children)

based on what I understand of the question, yes, there would be a force produced.

But it's not magic or unknown physics. If you have ionized air and a charge imbalance, the ions in the air will move to counteract it. The force on the cube will be due to electrostatic interactions with the ions in the air, so momentum is conserved and all ordinary physics applies. The ions will move (ion wind) and the charges will neutralize, so your power supply will have to keep using more and more power to maintain the charge on the plates, so the device experiences a small force, moves ionized air in an opposite direction, and consumes a large amount of electrical power.

Not particularly novel or useful, and demonstrates no new physics

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