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* UmbralRaptop
stares at other survey architectures. I can probably get relative properties of GMT and TMT, but what's a good 2.4 or 2.5 m telescope?
<UmbralRaptop>
(I suppose the Isaac Newton telescope, which I might be able to use to get weather info for the Canaries)
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<SilverFox>
could we make power plants from controlled sodium-water explosions?
<UmbralRaptop>
As a very silly exercise, probably
<UmbralRaptop>
It would be completely impractical, but that may be the point
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<B787_300>
SilverFox: I mean yes. Just make a vessel that has a pool of water in it that can get to high pressure and just drop sodium in at a known rate and refill water at the rate of loss through the turbine and let it get up to a pressure and exhaust that pressure through a turbine
<B787_300>
Essentially you use the sodium water reaction to heat the water to boiling and use the steam and the byproducts of the reaction to drive a turbine
<B787_300>
Probably terribly inefficient
<egg|cell|egg>
!wpn whitequark
* galois
gives whitequark a stratocumulus adult scheme with a kinase attachment
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<UmbralRaptop>
Future low effort Halloween costume idea: defence contractor polo and a lanyard
<galois>
title: Rain 🚱: "> but as any good Unix tool, it can be abused for…" - Cybrespace
<UmbralRaptor>
"Our science merit function has units of science/time, so that comparisons are straightforward.."
<UmbralRaptor>
What is one (1) science? A paper?
<SilverFox>
UmbralRaptor, Sexy Einstein
<UmbralRaptor>
So, Erdős was responsible for the most science™?
<SilverFox>
Yes
<SilverFox>
was that the really handsome/beautiful greek dude that basically seduced everyone and had orgies all the time, followed by political conquest via his looks?
<UmbralRaptor>
?
<SilverFox>
fuck what was his name
<SilverFox>
he was in the assassins creed game because he's absolutely legendary
<UmbralRaptor>
If this was actually a Macedonian, Persian, or Roman, I'm going to be annoyed
<SilverFox>
im 80% sure it was greece
<SilverFox>
Alcibiades
<SilverFox>
from Athens
<UmbralRaptor>
> Peloponnesian war
<UmbralRaptor>
whelp
<SilverFox>
he legit fought the spartans
<SilverFox>
the +99 charisma roll is pretty powerful
<SilverFox>
and then he defected to sparta
<SilverFox>
and then had sex with the king's wife, whom got pregnant from it
<SilverFox>
really taking from granddaddy zeus there
<SilverFox>
he then did some shenanigans, and came home to athens, to a hero's welcome, despite defecting to an opposing army
<galois>
title: Grave Robbert McNees on Twitter: "Do you see? No matter how far you zoom in it's all sharp corners. Every finite stretch along the x-axis opens up into a terrible mouth full of uncountable teeth. Mathematicians were aghast.… https://t.co/tETJbdCTqx"