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<SilverFox>
egg, I know the french word for candy is bonbon, but is a bonbon a specific thing? I bought these candies and they were just labelled as blackcurrant bonbons
<egg|cell|egg>
It's just the word for candy
<SnoopJeDi>
huh, never thought about how it's a reduplication of 'bon,' but that makes a lot of sense
<SilverFox>
yeah get that goodgood
<SilverFox>
egg|cell|egg, thanks, wonder what these would be actually called then, they're hard but somewhat chewy
<SilverFox>
SnoopJeDi, is your first language english?
<SnoopJeDi>
SilverFox, it's close enough to my _only_ language
<SilverFox>
lmao multi-lingue masterrace
<SilverFox>
if you actually get interested in other languages you can find lots of neat stuff like that
<SilverFox>
basically every language will have quite a few things that will make you say "huh, that's pretty neat"
<SnoopJeDi>
Err, I didn't mean to imply that I'm not interested
<SnoopJeDi>
But yes, I'll agree that there are all kinds of linguistic treasures, and they're often more obvious in a less familiar language
<SilverFox>
indeed
<SilverFox>
there are also things that can greatly piss one off, like I'm still mad koreans call a steering wheel "handle"
<SilverFox>
just "handle"
<SilverFox>
and of course, korean isn't english, so english words aren't quite right
<SilverFox>
"steering wheel" is one of those "makes sense" things in english, the name is very descriptive in what it does and what it's for
<SnoopJeDi>
My delight in 鵞 stems from learning that Untitled Goose Game has a subtitle in Japan: ～いたずらガチョウがやってきた！～ (roughly: "mischieveous goose is coming")
<UmbralRaptop>
nice
<SnoopJeDi>
and you could write ガチョウ as 鵞鳥 which is just funny to me
<UmbralRaptop>
something bird
<SilverFox>
probably "asshole bird" because that's accurate
<SnoopJeDi>
鵞 is basically 鳥 plus some, and I'm not *exactly* familiar with the way radicals work but jisho tells me one of them is "spear" or "halberd"
<SilverFox>
is there a process, biochemical or otherwise, to turn glucose into energy, either a burnable substance, or electrical?
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<UmbralRaptop>
I mean, you could set glucose on fire, boil some water, and run a turbine
<SilverFox>
I mean, that is one way
<SilverFox>
sounds a tad inefficient
<SilverFox>
we need some electron shuffling
<SilverFox>
from copper wire or something
<SilverFox>
but copper is a natural biocide so rip
<SilverFox>
is titanium even electrically conductive?
<SilverFox>
wonder if we can make something that binds one end to copper, other end to some chloroplast-level stuff, we could have enviro-friendly solar panels that go carbon-negative
<SilverFox>
so it'd be 2-step
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<SilverFox>
light + CO2 on chloroplast -> glucose + 6O2 on mitochondria with Shenanigans(tm) -> Party Rock Electrons = power
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<SilverFox>
I really wish i knew more about the atomic shenanigans of how copper wire transfers energy, if its just electron going down the tube basically or some other quantum stuff I don't know
<UmbralRaptop>
electrical stuff is pushing a tube full of electrons. Thermal is IIRC mostly phonons but also a few electrons
<SilverFox>
if it's a few electrons, wouldn't that make thermals susceptible to magnetic fields?
<SilverFox>
sucking out thermal energy from anything living, while keeping it at living operating range sounds rather difficult, even at the theory level
<SilverFox>
proteins start breaking down at 50C
<SilverFox>
the Krebb's cycle is nothing to laugh at, it's a masterpiece for what it is and the situation it came to be in