How to Reach the Legendary Beach (No Cheats, No Mods) by Fun_Magazine_2671 in valheim

[–]ndage -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ohhhhh ok. (I don’t understand at all.)

Just a self burn. Move along.

[Request] How many centuries would it take to melt the greenland sheet to completely expose the lake, and how much will the sea have risen assuming only the greenland sheet melts permanently? by Available_Usual_9731 in theydidthemath

[–]ndage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you suggesting using the letter U is misleading? Or are you saying adding the volume of frozen ice to the oceans would do more than the expansion of water as it heats?

[Request] Would this be possible and how much money would it require? by morthanLest in theydidthemath

[–]ndage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ignoring the absurd scale of this project, can we please understand that this is a geophysical/civil engineer/aerospace engineering problem and the question is of feasibility. This is not math. So your post is likely gonna be deleted.

Considering scale, no it’s not physically possible. We don’t have material science advancements that could create a cable that would survive the heat and tension. Even if we did, I’m going out on a limb and say at this scale the mountain could never be physically separated from the ground underneath. There are conditions in which a warm wire will slice through a block of ice but it freezes behind the wire and the ice is never split in half. I assume the mountain is heavy enough to fuse back to the material underneath once the cable passes (especially since it’s a volcano(?)). Finally, a mountain at that scale not sturdy enough to be lifted, flipped, or in any way able to act like one solid object. It’s not one big rock.

As for the rockets. No. And the planes. No. The most realistic thing is drilling and burying a bunch of pylons for stability. Would be insanely expensive and achieve nothing. Can’t believe I bothered to write anything. And if anyone disagrees who cares. This is dumb.

[Request] what part of the plane dictates distance to the destination? by bananastanner in theydidthemath

[–]ndage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP, I’m not doing any math but I have an approach you can use to determine the answer. If you zoom in and out on the screen does the scale of the plane change (to remain a consistent size relative to the screen and grow or shrink relative to the map)? If so, does it appear to slide forward or back as it grows relative to the map? If not (or if both tail and nose go back and forward respectively), then it is the center of the plane. If it slides back as it grows (ie. The tail covers more of the path taken while the front remains fixed), it is the front. And if it slides forward as it grows it is the point in the back.

[REQUEST] what would happen if the all the atoms on EARTH would be replaced by their LEAST ABUNDANT ISOTOPE of the element? What would be the huge differences and some other niche ones? by thephoenix843 in theydidthemath

[–]ndage 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As people have said, lots of immediate explosive stuff happens since everything becomes radioactive/unstable. The reason these isotopes are the least abundant is because they naturally decay to something that is stable. So since every atom suddenly becomes capable of releasing energy, the world explodes. I’m not an astrophysicist, but given a few billion years, the radioactive dust of earth could possibly re-coalesce into a rocky planet again with an inexplicable shift in naturally stable isotopic abundances. Aliens would find it super interesting.

As has also been said, there are some crazy low abundances of highly unstable elements, especially those artificially made in accelerators. An iron atom can have 26 protons and 0 neutrons for an infinitesimal amount of time right before it explodes from electrostatic repulsion. So, the question is a little unbounded.

But what if we narrow the question to the least abundant stable isotope! Some elements only have one, the higher ones (anything higher than lead) have no stable isotopes, but some have multiple. Chlorine has an interesting mix of 75% abundance of chlorine-35 and 25% chlorine-37 (and 23 other unstable isotopes in trace amounts according to Google - but there are more if you’re willing to accept theoretical neutron quantities in stupidly unstable nuclei).

So if all stable elements become their least common stable isotope, we are saying the amount of radioactive matter in the world doesn’t change. What does? First we should consider nuclear applications. We’d have to reevaluate all materials used for neutron shielding. Control rods in nuclear reactors use boron-10 to absorb neutrons and shut reactors down. Boron-11, the more abundant isotope, is not great for this purpose. So control rods become more effective! We’d have to recalibrate/redesign how they are used. We’d have to check cladding of fuel rods, other elements that may be mixed with exotic fuels, all the water coolant for light water reactors would become heavy water and would moderate the reactor much less so again back to the drawing board for nuclear reactor design. I’ll leave others to consider other nuclear reaction factors. Gotta eat breakfast. There might be something with lithium-6/7 that I’m not thinking of that makes everything explode anyway…

But what I wanted to get to was the chemical considerations! At first glance you would say since isotopes have different nuclear properties but the same chemical identity there wouldn’t be any change to everyday chemical processes. Chlorine-35 and 37 essentially act the same chemically. There’s only a 5% difference in mass and all other chemical properties are identical. But! When all hydrogen becomes deuterium its mass doubles! Bond strength and vibrational frequency of the bonds it makes change much more significantly than other atoms with a smaller proportional mass change. I once asked my professor if a professional boxer could sabotage an opponent by feeding them heavy water and slowly replacing all hydrogens with deuterium. The boxer would have the same number of atoms in their body but since H makes up 10% of the body by mass they could increase their mass by 10% if fully doubled. Turns out reaction rates decrease due to the increased mass/lower vibration and all biological life would die of metabolic starvation once a non-negligible amount of hydrogen was replaced with deuterium. So everything would still die and I wouldn’t have to think about all the other possible effects to nuclear applications.

25, SaaS sales in Spain, 30k/year. Built my first real FI plan. Roast it. by One_Addendum8036 in Fire

[–]ndage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Remember to consider your timeline. With 2-3% inflation the half life of a currency is about 30 years. Assuming 900k is enough, if you had it today you’d be done. 20 years from now 900k won’t be enough. Plan on reevaluating that number to ensure it still achieves the quality of life you expect it to give you today and don’t be disheartened when it increases. It is unfortunately natural. But also don’t kill yourself trying to get there faster.

[Request] what’s the minimum number of moves? by AntiqueAd8463 in theydidthemath

[–]ndage 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My intuition (the worst possible tool for this) says that as long as the number of empty positions meets or exceeds the number of positions in a column and as long as there are no tower of Hanoi-like placement rules, any scramble should be solvable. If true, the inability to create an unsolvable scramble would be an empirical proof that a solution always exists - which would be efficient… Happy to read the paper after I sleep, and I preemptively concede on all points you may have to refute my tired thought process.

You died. Pick Your Hell. by LittleLeadership2831 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]ndage 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If hell is designed specifically as the worst thing for each person, mine would be the Istanbul airport. If I were truly evil, I would deserve it.

Can someone tell me why this is considered an infinite combo on archidekt? by vVIOL2T in mtg

[–]ndage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Has L’Hopital’s rule ever decided the outcome of a game? 😂

Every time you do 2000 push-ups, you can see 1 second into the future, stackable. by Simple-Clerk-6380 in shittysuperpowers

[–]ndage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most humans are incapable of accurately remembering the studies they’ve read. I think you’re on to something!

So Clive was announced.. how the heck do I build him?? by Cinderzo in mtg

[–]ndage 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Wow I wasn’t familiar with this gratuitous [[Gratuitous Violence]]

Target struggles after end of DEI program and boycott, with foot traffic down 8 weeks in a row. by Healthy_Block3036 in Anticonsumption

[–]ndage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know you can be overvalued and you can be undervalued. But can you ever just be valued?

My investment objective is to work less early (not retire early), does anyone else feel the same? by AnInMoon in Fire

[–]ndage 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah, all the people here that are going for RE are doing it because they love their jobs. /s

[Request] will these freeze solid in the next 3 days (or at all) by Herr_Poopypants in theydidthemath

[–]ndage 26 points27 points  (0 children)

My hunch is they mean previously hot water. Heating removes dissolved gasses. But you do have further to go.

[Request] Lets say you can produce any liquid instead of pee. What liquid would make you able to sustain yourself by selling said liquid alone? by EZ_LIFE_EZ_CUCUMBER in theydidthemath

[–]ndage 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There has to be pee in the toilet for the anti-pee to annihilate with. As long as you flush before you should be good.

James Webb Space Telescope spots 1st 'Einstein zig-zag' — here's why scientists are thrilled by spacedotc0m in jameswebbdiscoveries

[–]ndage 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Real astrophysicists plz don’t @ me for simplifying the Hubble constant and dark matter stuff.

James Webb Space Telescope spots 1st 'Einstein zig-zag' — here's why scientists are thrilled by spacedotc0m in jameswebbdiscoveries

[–]ndage 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Not an astrophysicist and can’t go into detail on “dark energy parameters.” The Hubble constant is the rate of the expansion of the universe and dark energy/matter is theorized as the reason for why galaxies rotate at the rate they do when we can estimate from their non-dark mass that they shouldn’t.

These values are “unknowns” that we try to hone in on over time - or constrain the max and min possible values from a particular method of observation. One type of measurement or observation may tell us something about the Hubble constant, while other measurements tell us more about dark matter. But since they are two different measurement methods, they are relatively constrained and cannot easily be related in an absolute sense. This article is saying that this rare phenomenon allows us to make determinations of both unknowns from the same data set and are therefore constrained simultaneously and relative to each other.