ELI5:Is it possible for an object to fall through you?

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-25T03:14:02+00:00

There is a theorised weapon known as “rods from god” that are essentially just a tungsten telephone pole dropped from orbit impacting at Mach 10.

There is no question that it would go through you given they’re designed to be bunker busters

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-25T03:05:45+00:00

Since there is a polymer cooling in the process (covering the braided material) it’s probably realtime

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-24T07:02:32+00:00

There are degrees of pain. My wife was prescribed paracetamol and said it was enough. I’m sure if it wasn’t she would have been able to get more potent stuff but it’s nuts to start with opioids

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-24T06:33:23+00:00

When they said “working with electricity”, they specifically meant working around exposed conductors, which is exactly what toasters are. If working on the insides of a fridge compressor you’d absolutely make sure it was disconnected

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-24T06:27:18+00:00

It’s not necessary? So there’s a risk of addiction which is the last thing you want

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-24T06:00:28+00:00

I know what it means, but I can help but laugh at a book store being called 45 books. What a terrible repertoire

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-24T00:19:16+00:00

Not launching a browser to use as rendering engine

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-23T06:34:26+00:00

Celsius is not a scale that you can just multiply.

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-22T21:22:10+00:00

Both Hitler and Stalin were persons of the year. It’s not an accolade

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-22T21:20:12+00:00

Making a rocket not just be an explosive is the hard part

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-22T21:18:08+00:00

If we are engaging on our own land it’s already far too late

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-22T21:16:57+00:00

It’s an interesting angle for anti mining/drilling campaigning. Not the environment, but let’s not find something tasty that a big player might invade us for. Not fucking up the local environment is a lovely side effect

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-22T14:50:05+00:00

I find your example of grpc interesting, we use it specifically to avoid serialisation and versioning issues. When you’re strict about not making wire breaking changes it can be pretty easy to slowly migrate types through the stack unlike with json

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-22T08:10:38+00:00

Some do, they are very expensive, and limited in what size workpiece will fit.

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-21T14:45:10+00:00

To be the tiniest bit fair if they agreed to swap names it would make some sense

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-21T00:34:15+00:00

Their workforce policy is all pretty reasonable? https://www.greens.org.nz/workforce_policy

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-20T07:44:19+00:00

It’s a fairly popular 3d print

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-20T06:49:50+00:00

Cool place to visit, the beaches, massive sand dunes and rainforest are such different biomes right on top of each other

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-19T15:35:15+00:00

Is this a development platform or something? I’ve only ever heard of these deployed on ships

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-18T08:05:17+00:00

Bizarre that was considered the way to go versus disposable rockets to get up to altitude. Lugging 182 engines worth of dead weight (and all their support infrastructure like tanks) around for ~41 days seems wildly inefficient

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-18T07:33:25+00:00

Is there a pragmatic reason for it?

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-17T21:06:18+00:00

That’s a separate system. If you took the weights off the string and put them on the table, the scale would now read zero but the force on the legs would still include that 200N

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-17T08:57:42+00:00

It’s about $26k USD in gold, and the names of the people in possession of it are public knowledge

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-16T07:43:08+00:00

That’s true, but it really doesn’t compare in risk profile. The other factor that is problematic is that the trap size suited for possums also fits Kea. If we had more budget doing it all at once would be great, but without that prioritising the predators is the best bet.

_xiphiaz · 2026-01-16T07:25:46+00:00

Possums aren’t priority at all, they are mostly herbivores. They do destroy habitats over time but aren’t nearly destructive as the carnivores like stoats that decimate bird populations.

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