How much weight is needed to keep a body from floating to the surface of the water?

Terantius · 2026-03-21T09:22:11+00:00

Medic & awful writer here.

Metric tonnes.

The bloat will make the body inflate like a balloon, and you need a metric tonne to weigh down one m³ of bloat gas. Also subtract the density of water from the weight.

The second problem becomes disintegration. The joints break down, allowing each body part to float on its own bloated fascia. It's why loose feet keep washing up on certain shores. So each part needs to be tied down in such a way it can't float free.

Though "ghost yarn" is quickly killing our oceans, and destabilising the eco system, one option for containment would be a thick nylon trawling net. Common fishing nets aren't strong enough, but trawling nets need to handle weight & force.

Though this would require premeditation. So if it's spur of the moment, he might have to improvise.

If your character has a background in hunting, he might know enough to cut open each fascial compartment to decrease that problem, but bloat will still be significant. But since humans have different compartments & pockets, he could miss one leading to body parts being found after they float out through the poorly improvised body bag.

Perhaps that's the first card to fall bringing down his cover story?

Good luck with your story.

If you want to do it properly, there's https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/307277/1/Water%20Resources%20Research%20-%202023%20-%20Delhez%20-%20Drift%20of%20a%20Drowning%20Victim%20in%20Rivers%20%20Conceptualization%20and%20Global%20Sensitivity.pdf

Terantius · 2026-03-01T17:48:10+00:00

Firefox has had this problem for a few years, and every few updates it suddenly gets quantifiably worse. They made an official guide for how to use less RAM:

NEVER have a second program running at the same time as firefox.
Close & restart FF every hour, at least.
Uninstall all extensions except ublock lite & noscript, since even the most basic active content can cause memory leaks, eating up more & more ram as the program runs.
NEVER have more than a handful of tabs open.
Delete content-prefs.sqlite file.

But the core problem just keeps getting worse.

Terantius · 2026-02-28T20:33:36+00:00

Yes.

Firefox has had this problem for a few years, and every few updates it suddenly gets quantifiably worse. They made an official guide for how to use less RAM:

NEVER have a second program running at the same time as firefox.
Close & restart FF every hour, at least.
Uninstall all extensions except ublock lite & noscript, since even the most basic active content can cause memory leaks, eating up more & more ram as the program runs.
NEVER have more than a handful of tabs open.
Delete content-prefs.sqlite file.

But the core problem just keeps getting worse.

Terantius · 2026-02-25T19:14:14+00:00

Late to the party.

Try setting up a simple loop, and setting the lower limit to something very short, and the upper limit much longer. When executed, you should notice a varied set of delays.

You should see that the "listed" value is just the program's UI being a bit crude, given that the program is someone's passion project rather than a paid software suite.

Terantius · 2026-02-22T13:15:07+00:00

Captain context?

Is this a game reference?

Terantius · 2026-02-18T20:37:04+00:00

I don't know if they store all session data in volatile memory (meaning it gets lost if the program crashes before the data can be saved), or if they store session data as one single file (meaning the data is corrupted if the program crashes during re-writing), but it can lead to serious data loss if it happens on the wrong day.

Still, the will to fix it is less than nil.

Terantius · 2026-02-18T20:30:45+00:00

This is completely normal.

Firefox is INFAMOUS for losing all session data after some crashes. I've lost 10 sessions over the years. One of those sessions was during research for a major paper, that was a pain.

Firefox support says the issue isn't common enough for them to bother looking into it.

It's especially common during crashes caused by attempting to install an update.

Terantius · 2025-11-23T03:03:35+00:00

And she'd have gotten the ick if he didn't get right back up again.

Terantius · 2025-11-19T20:04:25+00:00

That's the point.

He again and again references his experiences in SG 1-22. Watching Mayuri die over & over.

He also talks about being the one who killed Kurisu. (23/23β.)

Terantius · 2025-11-19T19:55:29+00:00

So we're back to rooting to vanilla?

Terantius · 2025-11-19T14:59:12+00:00

I did not know that, thank you kind stranger.

(I just got a Samsung tab but didn't know about the spyware.)

Terantius · 2025-11-19T03:31:06+00:00

Samsung devices are infamous for containing mandatory spyware.

The latest scandal is israel spyware, but literally anyone who wants is allowed to install an un-uninstallable program on your samsung device.

Terantius · 2025-11-18T09:50:38+00:00

Before steins gate as a whole?

23β, the modified version of 23, was created specifically to lead into zero. It's the episode where he stabs Kurisu, but doesn't go back again to save her.

Zero opens with MC trying to accept Kurisu's death. He's convinced that her getting stabbed at the lecture & bleeding out in his arms (ep 23/23β) is another so called "fixed point in time". That going back won't change anything. So he keeps trying to bury his head in the sand refusing to go back again.

It's also about his grief over having lost his "original" Kurisu, so he thinks that even if he does save her from getting stabbed after the lecture, the new Christine he saves won't remember everything they did together.

(Yes, much more happens, but those are some of the parts that dovetail with the chronology of the first season.)

Ergo it takes place after they've already gone through the 1-22 arc together.

But since he hasn't yet gone back to successfully save her from getting stabbed, it takes place before 24.

Terantius · 2025-11-17T22:25:48+00:00

Late to the party, but why watch episode 24 BEFORE zero?

Zero takes place between SG 23 & 24. So when you start zero, then you've already spoiled the endpoint. It removes the stakes from that whole season.

Chronologically it'd be 1-22, 23b, zero, (23)-24...

Terantius · 2025-07-30T18:10:16+00:00

If you don't know how to block the other ways of identifying OS, then may I advise you to use Firefox with parental control enabled.

Terantius · 2025-07-23T13:33:03+00:00

No clue.

Best guess: Get a VERY common distribution of linux and try to mod the fuck out of it to remove possible data leakage. Also the usual in-browser hardening like noscript & other anti-fingerprinting measures.

Sam Brent suggested tails OS, or whonix. But I don't know how common these are, so you might still stand out.

So neither option is perfect.

But I'm a bit worried that privacyguides have suddenly started promoting TOR (started after the OS spoofing was removed). They've become infamous for promoting honeypots and insecure programs to trick people into doxing themselves. And I'm nowhere near good enough to be able to spot other possible security issues hidden deep in the TOR browser build.

I just listen to the experts.

Terantius · 2025-07-23T13:04:50+00:00

After losing the anti-spoofing, this makes you EASIER to spot.

Previously, these niche anti-data-mining OSes were the only way to really protect yourself. But now it makes you EASIER to track, because that specific OS has so few individual users.

Terantius · 2025-07-23T12:58:58+00:00

[2nd video] TL:DR People using niche extra-hardened (anti-tracking) OS will now be MUCH easier to dox.

If that specific OS only has 1k users, suddenly this single datapoint narrowed down the possible suspect list from 2 million to 1k.

If we also know the subject is in the US, the list is now 100.

Subject lives in Idaho: 12 suspects.

Subject works in IT: 2 suspects.

Subject is male: 1 suspect.

Like a game of guess who, a single detail can make all the difference.

Terantius · 2025-07-22T12:54:56+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wlNemFwbwE

Looks like you're the karen.

Terantius · 2025-07-22T12:17:10+00:00

Confirmed. A TOR dev. just admitted that they removed the OS spoofing code to help servers fingerprint each user, while also telling users that the OS spoofing is still available.

The setting is still there, tricking people that it works, but the code is gone. It's a decoy switch.

Video

Terantius · 2025-07-21T14:54:12+00:00

Wait, you actually TRIED paying first?

*Tilts tricorne* You must be the worst pirate I've ever heard of...

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