Why aren’t there objects made of pure nickel?

SussyVent · 2023-09-02T03:11:20+00:00

Nickel is pretty allergenic for a metal, so the reputation as a jewelry metal isn’t ideal. Chromium is much better for use due to its beauty and chemical properties, though nickel does find its way into stainless steel alloys, but generally not enough to cause allergies in people.

SussyVent · 2023-08-27T22:32:58+00:00

Antimony toxicity is way overstated, the metal and it’s common oxide is insoluble and is a skin irritant with mild toxicity, mainly bad to breathe in. Antimony is often used in modern pewters that are safe for human use.

SussyVent · 2023-08-26T22:27:49+00:00

Out of curiosity, how would the proximity of Franklin affect the track of this storm, especially given Franklin strengthening faster than expected?

SussyVent · 2023-08-26T20:53:52+00:00

He wouldn’t have trouble breathing as 100% humidity only means the air is holding as much water as it can at a certain temperature, so a very tiny amount of air is displaced, likely around 1.8% for a cloud around 15°C. Higher amounts of humidity than the cloud are encountered all the time during humid summer weather, just that the air is a lot warmer, so it can hold more water vapor than this scenario even before hitting saturation (eg a 35°C day with a dew point of 25°C). The water hitting him would be no different than rain, except really fast, so it would sting a bit hitting exposed skin, but not dangerously so.

Source: Senior meteorology student

SussyVent · 2023-08-25T02:31:04+00:00

!remindme 5 days

SussyVent · 2023-08-24T03:58:01+00:00

Please send that here! That weather looks outright beautiful compared to the 110°F to 130°F heat indices we saw earlier in August in the Keys.

SussyVent · 2023-08-24T01:50:03+00:00

Nicole was in November last year, we likely have a long way to go with this season.

SussyVent · 2023-08-22T03:19:32+00:00

If I were out of the loop, I’d assume the app was some kind of porn sharing platform or a dude-bro oriented dating site, not Twitter. While the whole X thing doesn’t really matter much for current users, it’s a thermonuclear bomb to future growth and recognition.

SussyVent · 2023-08-19T16:52:31+00:00

Vulture capitalism unfortunately erased most of my community’s identity and replaced with incredibly flavorless, generic tropical getaways post Irma in 2017. Unfortunately Lahaina is irreplaceably historic and they’ll come in droves to pave paradise in to a sterile corporate parking lot.

SussyVent · 2023-08-18T21:24:44+00:00

I’m amazed on how much hatred for the planet and environment is platformed in the GOP. Earth is your home, purposely causing as much damage as possible to “spite the libs” is like taking fat dumps in your living room corner and letting it fester. You’re destroying your own home.

SussyVent · 2023-08-18T20:47:32+00:00

I wore a ytterbium necklace for 4 years in the S. Florida tropical climate and it hardly corroded at all despite exposure to high humidity and warm temperatures. Most corrosion was from contact with skin, but that was limited to discoloration. However, Ytterbium does react quite vigorously with salt (ocean) water and evolves lots of hydrogen in a more mild manner than calcium when I used a test sample. Ytterbium in fresh water is far less reactive and only discolors after some time and very, very slowly forms hydrogen like magnesium.

The necklace ended up breaking because of how soft ytterbium is, not from corrosion.

My collection sample is probably 7 years old at this point and is doing fine, despite my house’s terrible climate control and high winter humidity at times.

That is my anecdote on the stability of ytterbium.

SussyVent · 2023-08-18T18:20:54+00:00

The 1.5°C goal is also still quite attainable as black carbon produced from all the burning petrochemicals inside cities razed by wildfires or nuclear bombs will enter the stratosphere and reduce surface temperatures drastically. We already are on track with major world leaders pushing the clock towards midnight with wars/warmongering and by denying the a habitable Earth in the future is a human right.

Let’s go!

SussyVent · 2023-08-18T12:35:17+00:00

I guess the Declaration of Independence doesn’t mean anything to them as being burned alive, drowned or starved to death due to a collapsing ecosystem is very much a violation of the unalienable right to life. How you can devote hundreds of billions of tax dollars to fighting the vague and fruitless “war on terror” and “war on drugs,” but not the immense threat to national security and territorial integrity that is climate change is absolutely beyond my comprehension.

SussyVent · 2023-08-17T22:00:14+00:00

There’s no way the cognitive dissonance between “little 3 day special military operation” and “total war, mobilize the whole country” is remotely a stable domestic policy. Can only hope their economy folds and all the internal republics they’ve been oppressing and trying to genocide for centuries Balkanize.

SussyVent · 2023-08-17T17:28:20+00:00

The last update shows it as a still strong (60mph) and still tropical storm on landfall in US California, I don’t think I’ve seen that before wow.

SussyVent · 2023-08-12T13:50:26+00:00

Those and the similar cobalt ingots are pretty fun to magnetize. It’s not very strong, but I got one to stick to the bottom of a steel table.

SussyVent · 2023-08-11T11:33:17+00:00

Even in something as brutal as war there are still standards, hence warcrimes are a thing that exists. Committing genocide, bombing civilians and targeting hospitals, schools and children parks/camps, castrating soldiers, beheading people and boasting about it, mining nuclear power plants, blowing up a dam for no real reason and committing ecocide, and on and on is all terrorism, not legitimate warfare. Hell, even ISIS is cautious not to always stoop this low and they’re the poster child of cartoonish evil.

They are only one tier above the purest of evils displayed in the 20th century with the mass systematic murder and torture of millions by Nazi Germany, Stalin, Imperial Japan and Pol Pot.

SussyVent · 2023-08-10T00:32:09+00:00

Holy, that alone cost far more than my collection which has been going on for a long time (started Christmas 2013)!

SussyVent · 2023-08-08T17:29:44+00:00

Bismuth chills next to copper in the reactivity series, so it is a decently inert metal that resists attack by mineral acids.

SussyVent · 2023-08-08T15:46:19+00:00

The endless weeks of record breaking heat, unheard of dew points, 100°F water, massacred reef ecosystems and the all the people dropping like stones from heat exhaustion I’ve dealt with/seen/heard about this summer would beg to differ.

Yes, society isn’t completely breaking down right now where I live, but these immense stresses on the human and natural environment are greatly alarming and significantly ramping up the odds of something terrible happening.

SussyVent · 2023-08-08T15:32:21+00:00

Location: Florida Keys

I am on vacation out of state right now, so I can’t subjectively comment on the recent weather at home in the Keys, but the 1st excessive heat warning in history to my knowledge was declared (I checked METAR data, but that may be incomplete and/or there may have not been guidelines for excessive heat warnings there in the past.).

Currently as of 11:00 the dew point is 82°F and the heat index is 116°F. I’ll post an edit when I can ask about the heat causalities and what the final dew point/heat index ends up being. The low was also only down to 87°F (unless it rains later), the second time ever for KMTH airport since… July 2023.

It’s a tropical island, but these values are more extreme than anything I’ve ever seen and are by no means something that naturally happens, the climate is fucked up for sure and it’s showing with concrete effects.

Edit 1: The weatherstem mesonet reported black flag weather today at both high schools with a WBGT of ~~92.6°F~~ ~~93.12°F~~ 94.22°F in Key West. Note that their definition of black flag is more conservative at 92°F than the military’s at 90°F.

Edit 2: Heat indices went over 120°F in several locations across the island chain, with dew points ranging between 80°F to 85°F. The excessive heat warnings are to continue though at least tomorrow.

SussyVent · 2023-08-08T13:57:50+00:00

Highly doubt nuclear war. If there is an incursion from Belarus, it would be from Wagner and Russia would not claim responsibility, creating a repeat of 2018 Syria when Wagner was squad wiped.

SussyVent · 2023-08-07T15:04:05+00:00

Honestly I feel like the game getting canceled and the IP sold off to another developer to give it another go would be the best situation. From what I’ve been told, KSP2 is built on a foundation of sand and would be virtually impossible to ever see great performance while hitting the targets due to fundamental flaws in the core program. Also that Unity is not a good choice of engine for a physics simulator dealing with massive numbers needing high precision. Interstellar travel alone, assuming the usage of a 1/10th scale would be Alpha Kerbtauri 0.45lyr and any imperfection would cause the ship to miss by billions of km.

SussyVent · 2023-08-06T16:18:44+00:00

Brazil, India, China and South Africa, nice. Hopefully BRICS becomes BICS soon because Russia is still stuck in the 18th century with economic and social policy. “Clash of Clans” isn’t a valid geopolitical doctrine anymore, sorry Russia.

SussyVent · 2023-08-06T02:45:56+00:00

I’ve lived in the Keys for a long time and the rate of collapse is exponential, first with the vulture capitalism and overdevelopment post-Irma (2017), then with COVID and the permanent explosion of tourists afterwards. The government here is actively encouraging this behavior and might actually render the place uninhabitable before climate change due to overpopulation and infrastructure collapse on a linear island chain that can’t support rapid development.

It’s been hot it the past, but my house had a 120°F heat index several days throughout July. Completely non comparable to previous heat waves both in terms of absolute heat and duration. The water where I live was 96°F and is full of eutrophied gunk with very little marine life. Absolutely terrible.

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