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if you could engineer an inner-atmosphere orbit with a very gradual degradation, that could be considered a fall
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There has to be an easier way to kill a squirrel
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flavor.flv posted:It is very clearly false, because that would put it well outside Earth's atmosphere and it would die in about 30 seconds from a combination of oxygen deprivation and internal rupturing from exposure to vacuum. I will not stand by and let you ignore the possibility of a squirrel in a space suit. Danaru posted:There has to be an easier way to kill a squirrel If you know one I'd love to hear it, making all these tiny space suits is getting loving tiring.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Finally a use for that set of portal guns I bought from AliExpress. Shoot the portal holes 10 feet from each other, end up at the core of Jupiter That's the AliExpress guarantee
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I realized that he would probably die of dehydration before starving, and squirrels apparently need water every day, so assuming he doesn't hit any rain on the way down it would probably be more like 1,600 miles (two days of falling the distance from the north pole to jamaica)
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Dec 3, 2021 21:34
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I bet I could beat a squirrel in a fight.
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With an atmosphere that thick, there might be a point where it gets crushed by the pressure first?
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If the squirrel can start this thought experiment already at terminal velocity, then we could probably reduce it to 300 miles or the thickness of Earth's atmosphere. If the squirrel's starting from a standstill, then add however much distance it would take to accelerate to where it'd burn up on reentry.
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Danaru posted:There has to be an easier way to kill a squirrel This is in fact the only way to kill a squirrel
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Dungeon Ecology posted:if you could engineer an inner-atmosphere orbit with a very gradual degradation, that could be considered a fall That's silly. Just drop him on a treadmill.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:If the squirrel can start this thought experiment already at terminal velocity, then we could probably reduce it to 300 miles or the thickness of Earth's atmosphere. If the squirrel's starting from a standstill, then add however much distance it would take to accelerate to where it'd burn up on reentry. Mach 5 is the transition point to hypersonic flight and is typically when you would expect something to “burn up” due to air compression heating. The speed of sound varies based on a host of atmospheric factors so Mach 5 at sea level does not equal Mach 5 at the Karman line. Speed of sound at sea level is about 340 m/s and at 100 km up it’s 285 m/s. Mach 5 = 5 * 285 = 1425 m/s Let’s teleport a squirrel into space above the Earth and let it fall from rest until it hits the Karman line at Mach 5. V = a*t a = 9.8m/s^2 V = 1425 m/s t = 145.4s X = 1/2a*t^2 + v0 v0 = 0 X = 103,592m = 64 miles So you teleport your squirrel 64 miles above the atmosphere and gravity pulls it in and before it can deploy its elaborate drag devices it hits the air like a bullet and ignites.
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Ahhh yeah, that's the stuff. Thank you space uncle
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space uncle posted:Mach 5 is the transition point to hypersonic flight and is typically when you would expect something to “burn up” due to air compression heating. 
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I just jumped into this thread, so apologies if this was posted earlier! https://twitter.com/BlackKnight10k/status/1466817299290243076  D-Pad posted:Edit: Just stumbled on this classic. I would tip this dude so much money.
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https://twitter.com/lolennui/status/1466931994974031872 https://twitter.com/jpbrammer/status/1466862896550400003 https://twitter.com/ja_labrecque_/status/1466872000396369928 https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/1466777448062853122 https://twitter.com/RealSardonicus/status/1466919897670332416
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I've seen a squirrel fall out of a tree and be killed from the fall. The dead squirrel was in the same spot for about a week. I guess squirrel math doesn't really account for rocks strewn about the forest floor.
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PYF Tweets: squirrel math
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That wasn't squirrel math that was TREE LAW
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To return to the whole "bees shut off when the lights go out", even though a bee wouldn't be killed at terminal velocity (although apparently a squirrel could), there are plenty of things that a bee could be killed by when it lands, like a body of water, or quicksand, or fire/lava, or one of those plants that traps and eats flies
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:To return to the whole "bees shut off when the lights go out", even though a bee wouldn't be killed at terminal velocity (although apparently a squirrel could), there are plenty of things that a bee could be killed by when it lands, like a body of water, or quicksand, or fire/lava, or one of those plants that traps and eats flies do you live in a super Mario level
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I mean if they kept flying they'd have to worry about Bullet Bill and that fella in the cloud so it's a wash really.
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the bee could fall into a perfect anti-matter replica of itself destroying itself and its hive
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Paper Tiger posted:https://twitter.com/steph_mcca/status/1466840223686430724?t=NQnbWAeJryTRgjQ3OqF_Uw&s=19 Also governments "Yes this is the AUSTRALIAN TAXATION OFFICE with a VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE in your SPECIFIC GOVERNMENT INBOX that we cannot send straight to your email because REASONS" Then you open it and it's like "tax tips for small businesses" which I am not nor ever have been.
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This was probably just sorted out with a signature on a piece of paper that said "I transfer the rights to this thing which didn't happen before because our lawyers missed it first time 'round" but with the replies to this being like "yeah I sold an apartment in Paris once that was three different lots" and "yeah I bought a place and it turns out the previous owner still owns the half of the living room that has the entrance and the heater in it" I'm not so sure.
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Fools Infinite posted:I've seen a squirrel fall out of a tree and be killed from the fall. The dead squirrel was in the same spot for about a week. I guess squirrel math doesn't really account for rocks strewn about the forest floor. Yeah I’ve also seen this happen a couple times and found dead squirrels who were ostensibly killed by a fall. They might not be heavy but they’re still squishy little mammals and pavement is hard. My coworker and I were walking across campus a few years ago and found a freshly dead (still warm) squirrel under the branch it fell off and we were looking at it when a guy walked up and was really concerned. He asked if we should call someone and when I said “No man, there will be a crow here soon,” he was not satisfied.
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Fools Infinite posted:I've seen a squirrel fall out of a tree and be killed from the fall. The dead squirrel was in the same spot for about a week. I guess squirrel math doesn't really account for rocks strewn about the forest floor. Obviously that was a squirrel that fell from 4800 miles up.
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ultrafilter posted:There are limits on the complexity of the behavior you can get from bee brains, that almost never happens outside of a lab setting, and hitting the ground at terminal velocity is no big deal for a creature that small. Possibly, but what is terminal velocity for a bee? Surely it takes more than just the few metres of that box to fall far enough to reach it
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Hyperlynx posted:Possibly, but what is terminal velocity for a bee? Surely it takes more than just the few metres of that box to fall far enough to reach it
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as someone who has moved a beehive in the dark I can assure you that bees can fly perfectly well in the dark and are not loving happy about it.
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To be fair if it was nighttime and I thought some loving goon was trying to steal my house I'd be pretty pissed off too
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El Mero Mero posted:as someone who has moved a beehive in the dark I can assure you that bees can fly perfectly well in the dark and are not loving happy about it. ....?...?? Why were you moving bees in the dark?
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Tree Bucket posted:....?...?? They enjoy the buzz
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