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I really want to know what he does in that lab outside of content creation, if anything. I have never been able to decide if his videos are boring or interesting, he seems like he wants everything but the camera. E: oh poo poo uhhhhhh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSorp4TsRMg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpEtHRbXegc ComradePyro has a new favorite as of 00:18 on Mar 19, 2024 |
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His 'Bulletproof Wood' video was very frustrating because he kept getting the solution to only be absorbed by the surface of the wood, had a great cross-section cut that showed it clearly, and then never did anything to work on getting the entire wood to absorb it. Instead inventing superbly elaborate solutions to other parts of his procedure.
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Mar 19, 2024 00:33
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Shoot the wood full of holes to create channels for the hardener.
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Mar 19, 2024 00:39
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Maxwells Demon posted:His 'Bulletproof Wood' video was very frustrating because he kept getting the solution to only be absorbed by the surface of the wood, had a great cross-section cut that showed it clearly, and then never did anything to work on getting the entire wood to absorb it. Instead inventing superbly elaborate solutions to other parts of his procedure. Hear me out: what if you planted trees in hardener , that way the wood would be filled and hardened when it gets harvested.
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Mar 19, 2024 01:06
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Maxwells Demon posted:His 'Bulletproof Wood' video was very frustrating because he kept getting the solution to only be absorbed by the surface of the wood, had a great cross-section cut that showed it clearly, and then never did anything to work on getting the entire wood to absorb it. Instead inventing superbly elaborate solutions to other parts of his procedure. The best thing is this is a solved problem, you vacuum infuse it, which is how you create stabilized wood using heat activating epoxy.
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Mar 19, 2024 02:04
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There’s a better way. You use a radiation-activated epoxy that can soak in over a long period, then put the wood in a nuclear reactor.
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Mar 19, 2024 02:34
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I learned all teh history I know from the dude who wrote The Fault in Our Stars. I learned all the medicine I lmow from Scrubs and House. Don't judge.
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Mar 19, 2024 02:44
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CainFortea posted:That wasn't the question. lol just lol caring about a youtuber this much. edit: also, yes, it is. The point is that no serious person gives a poo poo. Dang It Bhabhi! has a new favorite as of 04:11 on Mar 19, 2024 |
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Mar 19, 2024 04:06
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:lol just lol caring about a youtuber this much. If you think this is caring about stuff a lot, then you must have felt very loved by your parents. Anyway no. That wasn't the question. The question was "Who cares"
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Mar 19, 2024 04:16
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The Lone Badger posted:There’s a better way. You use a radiation-activated epoxy that can soak in over a long period, then put the wood in a nuclear reactor. LOCKWOOD-THE WOOD OF THE FUTURE
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time to post it again! hooray for the academic interlibrary loan systemSagebrush posted:oh hey guess what came in today!
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Mar 19, 2024 08:47
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There's precious little information on it on the internet, which is very sad. The entire GA experiment is loving nuts, literally irradiating things just to see what would happen.
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Mar 19, 2024 09:49
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throwing money at dudes to do random wacky poo poo in hopes something useful pops out is the best kind of science
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I bet you could synthesize small quantities of lockwood equivalents using a microwave oven.
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Mar 19, 2024 13:50
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displacement and heating are different things, all that a microwave can do is heat the material
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Potato Salad posted:displacement and heating are different things, all that a microwave can do is heat the material Shouldn't that be enough when you're using a thermoplastic?
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It's not a thermoplastic, it's a radiation initiated cross linking resin. There's cross linking resins you can trigger polymerization without radiation or even cross linking resins that aren't classically reacting that you can impregnate wood with which is what started the whole conversation but it's not going to have the same properties as Lockwood. Properties including how easy is it to impregnate the wood or what the final product behaves like. Fun fact your toilet paper is held together with a cross linking resin that doesn't exactly reactively bond which let's it dissolve in water over 5-15 minutes so you can wipe your rear end and stop up pee but it doesn't clog your pipes and septic system. Paper chemistry in general sees all the varieties of cross linking between what you can do with cellulose fibers and what you can do with additives and resins. E. Tldr the resin in lockwood chemically bonds with itself, and also the cellulose-lignin structure which is a monumental idea compared to most other wood impregnations you can do. zedprime has a new favorite as of 15:09 on Mar 19, 2024 |
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Ahhh, alright, fair enough. Thanks for the clarification!
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Move over tripropellants, there's a new terrifying rocket in town.
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I guess dimethylmercury wasn’t toxic enough 
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Good loving God.
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Have there actually been serious rockets that used fluorine as their oxidizer? My impression was that even "just" elemental fluorine is so temperamental that nobody wants to use it.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Have there actually been serious rockets that used fluorine as their oxidizer? My impression was that even "just" elemental fluorine is so temperamental that nobody wants to use it. A question to send half the thread scrambling for their copies of Ignition
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Someone did build the insane tripropellant engine, but only for an on-the-ground test series; I don't think anyone actually got around to flying it.
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Thread is a flat circle. Behold: Flox Methane Kazinsal posted:Winchell Chung's "Atomic Rockets" site updated recently, with one of the additions being a section on a 1966 study by Rockwell on a capsule-style Mars lander that ran on a delicate balance of liquid almost-FOOF. zedprime posted:Quoting original post from 7(!) years ago for posterity. The links have moved around a bit so the FLOX explanation for the Martian Excursion Module is here now http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/excursion.php#rockwellmem and the IMIS mission profile is better accessed from http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns.php#id--Boeing_IMIS. And yeah, most fluorine oxidizer rockets never left test sizes because getting enough fluorine in one place is a big engineering challenge.
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Yeah, I knew they'd been tested, the potential for high specific impulse is too much for rocket scientists to resist. But for actually delivering payloads to orbit (or to targets on/above Earth, anyway), I wasn't aware of any examples.
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My layman's understanding is that about 99 times out of 100 fluorine oxidizers don't offer enough additional performance to outweigh their downsides in almost every other respect like toxicity, difficulty in handling, volatility...
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:My layman's understanding is that about 99 times out of 100 fluorine oxidizers don't offer enough additional performance to outweigh their downsides in almost every other respect like toxicity, difficulty in handling, volatility... Yeah luckily it turns out "just throw more kerosene+LOX at the problem" is a good-enough answer for most things that need to be shoved into space, that even if it doesn't have the best efficiency it's relatively cheap and simple
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Speaking of the tripropellant engine, there's an hour-long YouTube video by someone who isn't an irritating bazinga about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX-0Xw6kkrc Quick teaser: Asbestos insulation is one of the least dangerous substances involved in the apparatus. Vincent Van Goatse has a new favorite as of 16:55 on Mar 19, 2024 |
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Elviscat posted:There's precious little information on it on the internet, which is very sad. I think my acquiring that article from the 1965 Lockheed quarterly and posting it here on Something Awful is the most in-depth information on LOCKWOOD that is available anywhere on the internet. ComradePyro posted:I really want to know what he does in that lab outside of content creation, if anything. I have never been able to decide if his videos are boring or interesting, he seems like he wants everything but the camera. Ammonia and bleach makes chloramine, not mustard gas. It's still poisonous but nowhere near as deadly as mustard gas and it's important to be correct when posting scientific information 
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Sagebrush posted:Ammonia and bleach makes chloramine, not mustard gas. It's still poisonous but nowhere near as deadly as mustard gas and it's important to be correct when posting scientific information That’s why you post unscientific misinformation. In that case, it is not important to be correct.
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Platystemon posted:That’s why you post unscientific misinformation. In that case, it is not important to be correct. Correct, see thread title.
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Chemistry by Howtobasic All that’s missing is the screaming
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Whoforthenwhat posted:All that’s missing is the screaming Solid thread title, imo.
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Platystemon posted:That’s why you post unscientific misinformation. In that case, it is not important to be correct.
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Zopotantor posted:Apparently NMR is affordable enough for YouTubers now. (Mind you, he also spent multiple thousands of dollars on a candy roller for this specific video.) lmao when he breaks the stool with the meat tenderizer I need to know how much he spent on the candy coating machine that he didn’t even use. Platystemon has a new favorite as of 09:35 on Mar 21, 2024 |
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Platystemon posted:lmao when he breaks the stool with the meat tenderizer you could probably 3d print a candy roller. It wouldn't last long but it would work.
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