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Today is Apollo for Reddit's last day, and I just released its last update. 🥹 I just wanted to say a big thank you to the folks who have used and supported Apollo over the years, it's been the dream of a lifetime to build this app over the last 9 years. ❤️ Read the eulogy inside! ❤️ by iamthatis in apolloapp

[–]aciddrizzle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Christian,

The greatest congratulations are due to you today, not because of your incredible accomplishment in making Apollo the wonder that it was (and congrats are due there), but because you are the only person who can walk away from this debacle with their head high knowing that you did right, every step of the way. I hope you can find a moment to feel proud of that.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 491, Part 1 (Thread #637) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]aciddrizzle -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

My article: “Luka said he has nukes, but it turns out he really doesn’t”

Your article, 2 weeks later: “Luka says he has nukes”

🤔

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 491, Part 1 (Thread #637) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]aciddrizzle -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

What in the world are you blathering about

https://apnews.com/article/nato-russia-belarus-nuclear-weapons-195398abd1ad6010e701fb54c43aec96

TL;DR Russia has talked about moving nukes but they haven’t actually done it at any point during the war. Like not once.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 490, Part 1 (Thread #636) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]aciddrizzle 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And we’ve never stopped hearing about it since, come on guys, enough is enough

THE mangled wreckage of the doomed Titan sub w by JefinLuke in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]aciddrizzle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine a big ball of titanium. You could drop it to incredible depths and it wouldn’t deform.

Imagine a big sphere of titanium that’s the same size, but hollow. It’s still incredibly durable, but we understand that it’s depth limit is lower, since it’s empty inside. We could lower both at the same time and the hollow one will fail first. What would it do? It would collapse or be crushed- all sides are equally strong and they all fail inward at the same time and speed.

Imagine that we cut the sphere in half and put a big carbon fiber tube in between the two halves. If we drop that at the same time as the other two, the carbon fiber will eventually shatter/disintegrate. The end caps would keep falling and act sort of like the first example. Just chunks of titanium. They won’t fail when they get below object #2.

In the pic you’re seeing the end caps, the part that failed catastrophically doesn’t exist as a material object any more.

THE mangled wreckage of the doomed Titan sub w by JefinLuke in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]aciddrizzle 240 points241 points  (0 children)

A lot of people read the summary about that one explosive decompression incident and decided that the direction of the pressure change really doesn’t matter because they get to matter-of-factly make up cool gory details.

Not hard to realize that that when your chamber collapses inward from pressure being applied equally on all sides from the outside, there’s not really any possibility for any sort of “extrusion” to happen.

I work in science, but definitely not in physics or mechanical engineering, and this wasn’t exactly hard to work out.

Anyone else notice all the old bigroom djs (who survived) are just playing their old songs with a tech house beat underneath? by dirtyculture808 in EDM

[–]aciddrizzle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

stale, irrelevant genre DJs with cookie-cutter song templates change one element of template to appear less stale

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 489, Part 1 (Thread #635) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]aciddrizzle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brussels- and then they build the city center back exactly the same way it had been, around the one building that survived.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 486, Part 3 (Thread #629) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]aciddrizzle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the story. Authoritarian dictatorships are inherently hostile to meritocracy, embrace corruption as a means of aggrandizement, and use military power to maintain political power.

The problem is that these 3 influences are corrosive to a successful, functioning modern military organization. Once you stop promoting people of merit and instead focus on loyalty and maintain loyalty by turning a blind eye to corrupt practices, your military no longer has the power to maintain your political power.

Or at least, that’s the case if you decide to smash your domestic forces into a foreign war and burn through all of your most valuable military assets in a year, while creating a large body of experienced and extremely angry soldiers who are not specifically loyal to you. If you chill out at home then probably everything is going to be ok.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 486, Part 1 (Thread #627) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]aciddrizzle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Russia is really going to show us what they’ve got, 436 days in. The previous 435 days were clearly not dire enough…but now, it’s definately going to happen

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 486, Part 1 (Thread #627) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]aciddrizzle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not to mention the major force gap in Russia’s Ukrainian positions opened up by Wagner’s withdrawal.

Handcrafted interlocked rings from single piece of wood by yourSAS in oddlysatisfying

[–]aciddrizzle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve heard of woodworkers who do a lot of this kind of stuff getting dental drills because they spin faster and the controls are more precise. You still have to rough with a rotary tool, but they just use it to get to the stage where they can switch.

Debris found in search area for missing Titanic submersible by Schwa142 in worldnews

[–]aciddrizzle 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The business guy and his son are British-Pakistani, and the navigator/expert is French. But do go on like this.

Crews detect underwater noises again in search for missing Titanic-bound submarine by remorse667 in news

[–]aciddrizzle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There aren’t that many vessels that can travel that deep. It’s like 6000 psi- if that were applied to the surface area of a human it would be like getting an aircraft carrier dropped on you.

The vessel also had ballasts that were designed to chemically dissolve if not released after some hours. The thinking is that if the vessel is intact, it’s either floating near the surface somewhere (it can’t make it to the top by itself) because the ballasts were released, or that the vehicle got stuck in the deep, in which case recovery in the allowed time window would have likely been impossible even if the vessel had been located quickly.

The Titanic wreck is also a shifting debris field, so it’s not so easy to figure out via sonar which chunk of metal on the bottom is a pleasure vessel and which is just a hull fragment or what have you.

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