• Bubs@lemmy.zip
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    3 hours ago

    1000°c seems accurate:

    Fun little science fact: Heated objects glow the same colors no matter what they are made of. It’s called Black Body Radiation. The color chart shows what temperatures correspond with various “colors” of glow.

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      Heated objects glow the same colors no matter what they are made of

      True only if light emissions aren’t dominated by chemical effects or filtered by structural effects. Plenty of materials burn at different colors. Although if you wait out the chemical reactions and keep it heated, it does eventually end up with just blackbody radiation too 🤷

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    13 hours ago

    My friend calls pineapples ‘Dragon Eggs’ and tossed one into a bonfire. Pulled it out later to have the most delicious roasted sweet mythical egg ever

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    10 hours ago

    “My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail is a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!..Wait, is that…pinapple skin armour?? Oh, shit, I’m so fucked!”

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    11 hours ago

    I’ve been watching Tech Ingredients search for the best shield material to test their Drone destroying extreme high power laser setup indoors for obvious reasons.

    It turned out to be fruits/veggies. Nothing else came close. So he went with panels filled with thickened water.

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      I’m personally skeptical of laser based weapons, given that they have one wavelength. once one is developed and deployed, it will be trivial to paint drones with a reflective paint specific for that wavelength.

      The results is a nation investing 100s of millions on a weapon, that once deployed will be countered by 1000s $ of spray paint.

      imagine if you could get a t-shirt that could deflect a any bullet. that’s what still happen with laser based weapons.

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        I think that wouldn’t necessarily work once you get to the right wavelengths for it to start interacting with the organic bases of the paints. There’s only so much you can do when someone shoots an infrared laser at the resonant frequency of a C=C double bond.

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          chemist was my weak point at uni. and I’m too tired to look that up, what’s the frequency. I want to check if there are materials that can reflect it.

          the coating doesn’t have to be organic, a thin metallic coating might reflect the laser.

          I’m not giving an expert opinions. but I’m personally betting that any laser weapon will be useless within weeks or days.

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          Wasn’t that 1500 whatever-the-unit-was? Below 1000 whatever-the-unit-was was the fingerprint bands, 3400ish whatever-the-unit-was was the O-H bonds, 3100ish whatever-the-unit-was was N-H bonds, 2900ish whatever-the-unit-was was the triple-to-C-H bonds, etc.

          Ugh. The lab portion for that was so tedious. We would have to sketch the expected resonance patterns by hand for a bunch of different molecules. I loved the simplicity of the hydrogen bond nuclear resonance imaging so much more.

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    11 hours ago

    The pineapple will be just fine the flesh touching the steam on the other side spread all over your body by the pineapple keeping it pressed against your skin on the other hand is going to have a nice chard bbq taste.

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      If the steam doesn’t get you, the enzymes breaking down your proteins would surely give you horrible skin irritation.

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      Ya, it’s all a big lie brought to you by billionaire dragons. They’re just trying to get you to wrap yourself in a tasty garnish so that they get a nice citrus flavor once they are done roasting you.