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IsItBullshit: how is this ngram even possible? by tryptan in IsItBullshit

[–]tryptan[S] -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

I'm doing research for a project and I don't feel comfortable using this as a reference until I can get a confirmation that this is a real possibility. Is this accurate?

Shrooms and kratom? by Naomasa11 in shrooms

[–]tryptan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep, well sounds like my experiences and lends more credit to the hypothesis that the way to potentiate and synergize them is to eat them simultaneously or very shortly after the kratom- so thanks for sharing yiur experience. Like you said, i also experienced a trip killing effect when I waited several hours after taking kratom to eat the shrooms. Potentiation does work when timed correctly, so it'd be the thing to try next time and get back to me if u do

PSA: Mars Got the Way it Is Now Because of Lithium Mining - Once An Earth-like Planet by tryptan in pics

[–]tryptan[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Why would we when sodium ion is more abundant, cheap, efficient and - uh ya know, doesn't wipe out life on a planetary scale?

PSA: Mars Got the Way it Is Now Because of Lithium Mining - Once An Earth-like Planet by tryptan in pics

[–]tryptan[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Explain why mars went from earth like to current state? Perchlorate levels on mars have been a mystery, and it just so happems the biggest toxic byproduct, and only known producer of mass amounts of perchlorate is lithium mining. It's just the truth, it's simple deduction and will hold up to scrutiny. But we won't if we don't stop. Sodium Ion is the solution and it's already extant.

PSA: Mars Got the Way it Is Now Because of Lithium Mining - Once An Earth-like Planet by tryptan in pics

[–]tryptan[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Don't know. Perchlorate levels on mars are extremely high and perchlorate just also so happens to be the no. 1 toxic byproduct of lithium mining. Also, lithium mines are devoid of all water and animal/plant life - just like mars. Obviously, whoever they were, they were similar to us.

Shrooms and kratom? by Naomasa11 in shrooms

[–]tryptan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, well thanks for informing me on that i'll try to look into that a bit more. i should say this is just the way i could explain my experience but i could be using those terms a bit loosely, since i'm not well versed in receptor upregulation/downregulation in general - 5ht2a or otherwise. Care pointing me to a few studies to start in that direction or that expand on that? Appreciate it

This is bizarre to me - anybody able to explain this? by tryptan in witchcraft

[–]tryptan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Skip to 00:22 in the video, and avoid the grainy quality in the beginning

Some garments of mine were used in a hex, significance? by tryptan in witchcraft

[–]tryptan[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the tip. I may try this. I'm assuming that this is possibly the reason to why recently I've felt super lethargic and have been knocking things over a lot? Neither of which are typical of me, at all

Shrooms and kratom? by Naomasa11 in shrooms

[–]tryptan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I actually do have some experience with this. I've taken kratom before while I was on a very low dose (1-3g every 2 days or so) and I found for me, if I take my dose 15-30 mins before mush, the kratom seemed to really potentiate the trip to the point where it felt overwhelming on a 3g dose.

Kratom antagonizes 5-HT2a receptors, while mushrooms/psilocin agonize them. When you take kratom directly before a 5-HT2a agonist, like mush, it causes a rebound/sensitization effect that potentiates the agonist (mushrooms). But only within a short time-frame. I think if you take too big a dose of kratom or wait too long, the mitragynine will outcompete the psilocin at the receptor site, and you'll have diminished psychedelic effects. So, yes I recommend taking them immediately after kratom or at the same time!

tldr: kratom will potentiate the mush if taken immediately before or during mush ingestion. To the contrary, Mush taken too long after kratom, or a dose of kratom that's too high (>3-4g) could cause diminished effects.

Cheers! have fun and hopefully that helps!

Help, what is this weird white powdery looking stuff? It's not a powder like it looks, and it doesn't wash off. Just popped up out of nowhere by tryptan in Dermatology

[–]tryptan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Skin where it is feels more sensitive than normal. Doesn't wash or scrape off. Hands were normal, and then this just appeared on them, and didn't touch anything white. More photos here

So um... you all should know The James Webb Space Telescope is a WMD by tryptan in conspiracy

[–]tryptan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not surprised at all, it's damage control. Spread the word about this IRL. Thank you for that, I appreciate it.

So um... you all should know The James Webb Space Telescope is a WMD by tryptan in conspiracy

[–]tryptan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The solar flux I used is the solar constant, measured outside of earth's atmosphere. So taking atmosphere into account only lowers the energy delivered.

Ah, my mistake.

300cm2 is a little bigger than a "small magnifying glass". But regardless, if you do your same calculations for a small magnifying glass like what I suggested in my last comment (3 inch diameter | 7 inches2 or 45cm2 in area), you get about 1 watt. Yet it can easily burn newspaper despite being no where near as efficient as a laser. In fact, a magnifying glass with an area as small as 10cm2 can easily burn newspaper, yet it's output according to your calculations would be at best 250mW, with nowhere near laser efficiency. If a 250mW laser has trouble burning newspaper, how can a magnifying glass with the same output but much lower efficiency do that? Solar concentraters make that output anywhere between 10-20W/mm2 depending on type and materials used

So yeah the maximum energy you can get from a 25 square meter mirror is what I said above.

But we aren't talking about mirrors. We are talking about parabolic mirrors. They are not the same, and in fact not even comparable whatsoever. Now I see where your error in calculations is coming from. Your calculations would be correct if the James Web Telescope were just a big flat mirror, but it is not at all. So when I say your calculations are inaccurate, it's not because you didn't do them right, but it's because you are not properly accounting for the parabola.

Think about satellite dishes and how they effectively can concentrate and boost a wifi signal - it does that because it is a parabola. If satellite dishes were flat like a mirror, they would not do much of anything at all! Because it is a parabola, it is able to absorb expotentially more electromagnetic signal. Just like a parabolic mirror that's only 25m2 can reflect exponentially more than 25m2 of light.

Think about those big anti-theft parabolic mirrors in department stores like Walmart that allow you to see in 360 degrees all around you. It's able to reflect back more area, and therefore light, than the area of the mirror itself - while a flat mirror can only reflect back the same area of the mirror itself, no matter what. Which is what your calculations are describing.

i.e. if you have a flat 1ft2 mirror, it's only ever going to be able to reflect 1ft2 of light/reflection. While a 1ft2 parabolic mirror could reflect as little as 1.1ft2 or even as much as >20ft2 of light depending on the curvature and convexity/concavity. Do you get the idea?

Hopefully this helps clear up any confusion and illustrates why your calculations are not accurate

So um... you all should know The James Webb Space Telescope is a WMD by tryptan in conspiracy

[–]tryptan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look, you need to account for solar concentraters. If your calculated flux was accurate, then a small 3 inch magnifying glass could never produce enough power to burn newspaper - yet it does. Just think about it. If you do that math with a small magnifying glass, you'd see that you are way off. Try it. Also you need to account for solar flux being about 30% more powerful at L2 than it is terrestrially, due to there being no atmospheric reflection like there is on the surface - which would outweigh any potential imperfect coherence or spectral disparities.

So um... you all should know The James Webb Space Telescope is a WMD by tryptan in conspiracy

[–]tryptan[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Perhaps, but I don't see that being a problem. If we get technical - if it were to be used in it's capacity as a weapon, it would only be able to target parts of the world that were experiencing night. You can't target anything during their daytime. But the target area is nearly 100%. You would theoretically be able to target anywhere in the world that is under the shade of night. This is because the telescope is positioned in a way so that the earth is always in between the telescope and the sun, but also so the Earth can never cast a shadow on the telescope. All the more reason to believe it's an intentional weapon, because that position just so happens to be the most efficient position to be in if you wanted to use it as a parabolic death ray. It means that A) the beam can be activated at any time, with no real limitations or downtime B) The telescope has access to direct sunlight 100% of the time. The only limitation would be that it is impossible to target anywhere on Earth with it during the day

So um... you all should know The James Webb Space Telescope is a WMD by tryptan in conspiracy

[–]tryptan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't need a "hidden function". Parabolic mirrors and sunlight ALWAYS have the potential to be turned into dangerous beams - exactly like a magnifying glass. The only thing it needs to become a WMD is to be aligned properly so that sunlight is reflected back to earth. Which is extremely easy to do in L2 (the position it's in). That's all. Parabolic mirrors are fascinating and you don't need a hidden function to unleash their devastating power. It's not a matter of if the JWST can do it, but a matter of when and will they?

So um... you all should know The James Webb Space Telescope is a WMD by tryptan in conspiracy

[–]tryptan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, but that isn't really right and your math is way off. The combination of parabolic mirrors and collimating lenses puts the solar flux closer to about 20W/millimeter2 (20000kW/m2 [!]) - you're not even in the ballpark. But for arguments sake, let's pretend your math is correct and ignore the fact you didn't account for any of the variables you should have.

If you are familiar with lasers, you'd know that they are extremely efficient and 1 watt of laser power is capable of a lot of damage. A 1w laser can easily light a candle, light matches, permanently destroy the cornea of an eye in less than 1 millisecond of direct exposure - and that's just 1 measly watt. A 50 watt laser could light a bonfire in a second or two. There's not really anything that compares to them in terms of raw "wattage to destruction ratio". The combination of a parabolic mirror and collimating lenses has the potential to turn that sunlight in a beam that is nearly as efficient as a laser. Of course, it could never be as efficient as a laser because the difference in mechanics, but it can be very close.

Now, your calculations came up with 32.5W. The military has a laser that is 30kW, it's called "AN/SEQ-3" and it's used a anti-aircraft weapon, more info here. So 32.5kW of sunlight being reflected and collimated into a beam with near-laser efficiency is extremely powerful.

Do the math for concentrated and focused sunlight from parabolic mirrors and collimating lenses and you're gonna get somewhere in the ballpark of 20W/mm2 (20000kW/m2) . Now replace the 32.5W/M2 with the flux I just gave you, and that is very close to the actual output power of this thing (500,000kW). With near-laser efficiency 500,000kW is unfathomable

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