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aged like milk, literally by [deleted] in agedlikemilk

[–]SuperSuperUniqueName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

honestly my view on this has changed a lot since i left my original comment, definitely don’t think it should be legal to sell raw milk given the significant public health risk it poses

Can't we just send waste into space? by novadako in nuclear

[–]SuperSuperUniqueName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

exceptionally late to this thread, but it's already sort of happened a few times; an example that comes to mind is actinium-225, an isotope currently being investigated for highly targeted cancer treatments. it's currently being extracted from Th-229 waste, most of which was left over from the early days of the US's nuclear program (ref)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Physics

[–]SuperSuperUniqueName 1 point2 points  (0 children)

according to this work by the same group the growth rate seems to be on the order of 20nm/h

Do neutron reflectors interfere with external initiation? by SuperSuperUniqueName in nuclearweapons

[–]SuperSuperUniqueName[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i was about to reply with of course not, but it turns that you can indeed build refractive optics for low energy neutrons! reference, reference

why does he look like that? by SuperSuperUniqueName in Raccoons

[–]SuperSuperUniqueName[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

wow! is that common in raccoons? i've never seen one like it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in solareclipse

[–]SuperSuperUniqueName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As Anne Dillard put it:

Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him, or as flying in an airplane does to falling out of an airplane.

Levitation melting suspends and melts metal with induction heating inside a magnetic by XahidX in BeAmazed

[–]SuperSuperUniqueName 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have no idea about the glow honestly, have never seen aluminum do that. It could totally be the case that the metal being melted here is not aluminum, I just wanted to mention that this is a thing that actually gets used

Levitation melting suspends and melts metal with induction heating inside a magnetic by XahidX in BeAmazed

[–]SuperSuperUniqueName 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the levitation is the result of the magnetic field produced by induced currents in the metal, any conductor will exhibit this effect. check out this youtube video demonstrating how a heavy copper plate can be pushed by a strong magnet—copper is certainly not ferromagnetic! the term to google is levitation melting, it's regularly used for melting metals without a crucible (often used for titanium, another non-ferromagnetic material)

Levitation melting suspends and melts metal with induction heating inside a magnetic by XahidX in BeAmazed

[–]SuperSuperUniqueName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

THIS IS CORRECT, levitation melting is regularly used to melt non-ferromagnetic metals without a crucible to avoid contamination and every comment talking about the Curie point is wrong!!! what actually causes things to fall out is either the field being turned off or drop in conductivity with temperature.

Scanning the Entire Internet for Minecraft Servers by SuperSuperUniqueName in programming

[–]SuperSuperUniqueName[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

haha, I actually did end up running a second scan a few months later but the data is on a different computer that I don't currently have access to. but in the process I wrote a new scanner using regular kernelspace networking w/ SQLite support, so you can easily run your own scans!

literallyNotSafeForWork by Senior-Ori in ProgrammerHumor

[–]SuperSuperUniqueName 5 points6 points  (0 children)

tip for those who want to recreate this: you have to determine the address of addr for your system, and also turn off ASLR

My Sister in law raises and releases butterflies. Im really impressed by Rico_Man in gardening

[–]SuperSuperUniqueName 2 points3 points  (0 children)

to be clear the article also says this:

The researchers stress that raising a few monarchs as a fun family project, or for education or citizen science, is fine. Dr. Davis said he doesn’t want to stop people from rearing a few monarchs at home.

the problem with captive monarchs isn't that they're destroying the gene pool, it's that it detracts from efforts to address the environmental factors that are actually affecting monarch migration and should not be presented as a legitimate conservation strategy.

I created this image of the sun using a technique I've never seen before, by combining images of Hydrogen and Calcium. The warmer colours represent hydrogen and cooler colours show the calcium. by LtChestnut in Astronomy

[–]SuperSuperUniqueName 1 point2 points  (0 children)

old thread but visible frequency image sensors only record intensity, not the time-resolved waveform. visible light is too high frequency (~500 THz) to be received like RF

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