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alpine_jim

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alpine_jim 40 points 3 days ago

Iceland shouldn't be on this, it didn't exist until ~20 million years ago. Pangaea broke up ~200 million years ago.

Probably lots of others, like most of Japan shouldn't be labelled either.

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alpine_jim 77 points 16 days ago

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alpine_jim 51 points 15 days ago path: 0 25139003, hotness: undefined, score: 51, children: 5
alpine_jim 25 points 25 days ago

no, there are lots of atoms splitting inside your body every second.

a single U-235 atom's fission, releasing 200MeV, (30 picojoules), in ideal circumstances could maybe nudge a very small fine grain of sand (~ micrograms) enough to see movement (small fraction of a millimetre) under a microscope .

It takes months of refining to make nuclear fuel that's suitable for sustaining a chain reaction.

it's an interesting question, I'm glad I did the research checking that the orders of magnitude match!

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alpine_jim 19 points a month ago

the order is because the fifa world cup has become a custody battle for Miku, that's the meme.

i predict Miku is going to be Argentinian next, then French for the next four years, or at least until the Euros.

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alpine_jim 12 points 24 days ago

Alpha and beta decay are types of fission.

further, if you only want to look at fissions with similarly-sized daughter products, there are several micrograms of fissile atoms in each of us, so random fissions are indeed constantly happening.

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alpine_jim 10 points 23 days ago

extensive use of the "Don't recommend this video > Tell us why > I don't like this video" function, plus removing bad videos from my watch history after I stop watching, has got me a well-trained slop-free recommendations page with interesting new smallish channels.

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alpine_jim 9 points 23 days ago

What's the point, if downvotes are no longer a factor in the YT backend?

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alpine_jim 8 points a month ago

she spent her career on a D'Derrydex class warbird.

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alpine_jim 7 points 16 days ago

this tub is very much not hot.

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alpine_jim 7 points 22 days ago

right, even trains don't need diffs, the conic-slice wheels take care of turns fine without.

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alpine_jim 7 points 22 days ago

How about this insect with a pair toothed gears? Not an axle, but still amazing!

"The juvenile Issus - a plant-hopping insect found in gardens across Europe - has hind-leg joints with curved cog-like strips of opposing ‘teeth’ that intermesh, rotating like mechanical gears to synchronise the animal’s legs when it launches into a jump."

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alpine_jim 6 points a month ago

it's possible, as long as the referee doesn't join in the Argentina side again.

Biggest robbery from Egypt since Howard Carter.

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alpine_jim 5 points 9 days ago

a line of Soar
a bump of Elevate
a pinch of Transcend

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alpine_jim 4 points 16 days ago

yeah the main reason AMD isn't quite as price-gouged is that ROCm isn't quite as in demand as CUDA for non-gaming uses for GPUs.

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alpine_jim 3 points 22 days ago

No, that's what I meant by not an axle.

But, come to think of it, we can swing our arms round and round, more than 360°.

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alpine_jim 3 points 22 days ago

that's reasonable.

bonus fun fact - the etymology is connected - "axle" comes from older words for "shoulder", or "armpit", which survives in some regional Englishes as "oxter" - the connection is apparently that you'd carry a person by putting their arms up and linking at the shoulders, much like an axle is how wheels carry a cart.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/axle

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alpine_jim 3 points 23 days ago

I hadn't heard of that method.

can you show some examples of such images?

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alpine_jim 3 points 24 days ago

i believe there was some early speculation that the unprecedented temperature of the Trinity test might ignite the atmosphere, somehow making the nitrogen burn, but that would be a chemical reaction, not a nuclear reaction.

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alpine_jim 2 points 21 days ago

the "Inglorious Treksperts" podcast just reviewed this episode last week.

one of them recited the whole "these words" monologue from memory - it is the highlight of a patchy episode.

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