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Sit on my Jace posted:Most sane American measurement That is actually the British measurement of proof, which is some weird one that caps at 175 proof and involves gunpowder and varies based on temperature. The American system is just 2x the alcohol by volume and has been for the last 170 years or so. So actually it may be the most sane American measurement system now that I think about it.
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ranbo das posted:That is actually the British measurement of proof, which is some weird one that caps at 175 proof and involves gunpowder and varies based on temperature. The American system is just 2x the alcohol by volume and has been for the last 170 years or so. I dunno about the veracity, but I was told that "naval strength" gin was so-called because you could use it to light off your cannons if your powder got wet. I do know it will get you hosed up mad quick in a G&T.
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https://twitter.com/Italian347/status/1783262801005301878
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Elviscat posted:I dunno about the veracity, but I was told that "naval strength" gin was so-called because you could use it to light off your cannons if your powder got wet. I do know it will get you hosed up mad quick in a G&T. Pretty sure that was with rum. Sailors would check it's strength by pouring it on gunpowder the gunpowder would still light (which is 57% ABV or above apparently). It was because they'd get rum rations and this was a way to make sure you weren't getting ripped off by getting watered down rum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_ration#History
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Its a Good image for explaining why everyone hates libs
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What flag is between USA and Saudis?
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dr_rat posted:Pretty sure that was with rum. Sailors would check it's strength by pouring it on gunpowder the gunpowder would still light (which is 57% ABV or above apparently). It was because they'd get rum rations and this was a way to make sure you weren't getting ripped off by getting watered down rum. The caveats, because of course there are caveats, are that I never verified this experimentally, and I learned it in a Political Science class.
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Kennel posted:What flag is between USA and Saudis? The closest thing I can figure is that it's a genericized version of those US state flags that are blue with the state seal on. E: I'm pretty sure the real answer is that the person who made the picture is a moron. Lemniscate Blue has a new favorite as of 04:59 on Apr 29, 2024 |
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Nenonen posted:I don't see anything wrong here Yes, we know you're Finnish
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GWBBQ posted:chaotic mix of nonstandard units, vague estimations, and wild guesses GWBBQ posted:Political Science
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GWBBQ posted:To contribute to the chaotic mix of nonstandard units, vague estimations, and wild guesses, I'm just going to share that I was taught in college that using NIST standard temperature and pressure values for room temperature (68°F at 1atm) and proof=2x ABV, you need 130 proof liquor to ignite a shot with an open flame. I live at sea level, keep my house at or below 68 in the winter, and have lit regular 80 proof rum on fire. I don't remember the specifics because it was not the first rum I poured that evening, but I didn't use anything but a lighter.
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Kennel posted:What flag is between USA and Saudis? Belize maybe? I'm pretty sure it's satire.
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words but this one is worth at least ten thousand and they are being screamed at you at the same time
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I'm not sure I buy the argument that that's bimodal.
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I might agree or disagree, if I could figure out what in the hell is even going on there
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Are they sure it's not one of these situations? 
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Sure, and Earth body 4 corner time equals 4 leg mobility. Earth has 4 days simultaneously each rotation.
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That would mean that if I work out every other day I can work out 56 times a month, right?
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A real scientist would have included a second X axis on the top edge.
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Captain Hygiene posted:I might agree or disagree, if I could figure out what in the hell is even going on there
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ikanreed posted:I'm not sure I buy the argument that that's bimodal.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Are they sure it's not one of these situations? I think that may be why he phrased it "exoplanets measured by the Kepler mission". The graph does show Earth and Venus in the bottom left corner, but I think the smaller/more distant Earthlikes don't tug their suns around enough for Kepler to see.
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"looks like we have just enough left in the budget to make a single graph. how do we prioritize the most important information?" "we don't"
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CaptainViolence posted:"looks like we have just enough left in the budget to make a single graph. how do we prioritize the most important information?" You joke but some journals charge per colour figure. Captain Hygiene posted:I might agree or disagree, if I could figure out what in the hell is even going on there It's basically showing the types of possible planet and how the exoplanets we've detected fit into the range of possibilities. The thick red and orange lines show what the mass vs radius (in terms of earth masses and earth radii) would be for a planet with the specified composition - pure iron, 33% iron 66% ???. Then the purple lines and adjacent lines on the temperature colour scale continue that, for planets of 50% water 50% ???, pure water, 98% water 2% hydrogen?, each at a range of temperatures (300-1000K). Thin dotted lines show what mass vs radius would be for a sphere of constant density. Thick dotted line labelled ‘collisional stripping’ shows the bound for planets affected by collisional stripping, *presumably* that prevents planets being pure iron. I'm a quasar person so can't speak to that. Not sure what M/R 3 corresponds to as well, but it’ll be another bounding process - could be nothing less dense is stable? The closed contours are probably a 2d kernel-smoothed histogram of the observed exoplanet masses and radii, with the kernel smoothed out proportional to the error on the measurements I guess? The marker type shows the way those measurements were taken, RV for radial velocity (detecting a planet from the wobbles it induces in the star it orbits), TTV for transit timing variation (variations in the orbital time of a directly-detected planet explicable by the indirectly detected one, don’t know how that gets the radius?). Not sure how the directly detected transienting planets are plotted, possibly just as grey as a heatmap as the errors are much lower. The flux colourbar probably corresponds to the colour of the exoplanet markers and will be related to the amount of photons used for the detection? But I’m a simulation and modelling guy so the actual telescope counts are a bit lost on me. I prefer to make up my data. Left axis histogram is the number of exoplanets with a given mass detected by the Kepler telescope. Bottom axis is the kernel-smoothed histogram again, projected into radius. Talkie Toaster has a new favorite as of 22:20 on Apr 30, 2024 |
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Talkie Toaster posted:You joke but some journals charge per colour figure. I was guessing page limits myself lol, those things are killer
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Red Bones posted:A real scientist would have included a second X axis on the top edge. It just needs Z axis, actually.
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Precambrian Video Games posted:Not according to this chart:
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September 11, 2001 - $9.99
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I believe the price of a 911 regdate was $9.11
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BonHair posted:I believe the price of a 911 regdate was $9.11 I strongly think we should generalise this. Please set my regdate to 00/00/00.
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Placeholder posted:I strongly think we should generalise this. Please set my regdate to 00/00/00. You're putting a LOT of faith in Radium's code here
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Powered Descent posted:You're putting a LOT of faith in Radium's code here NaN:st of NaNuary, year 0. Surely any competent programmer would have thought of this eventuality.
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Placeholder posted:I strongly think we should generalise this. Please set my regdate to 00/00/00. I wish to set my regdate to 31st december 1000 BC. By the 9/11 example this will cost $-12.31. Please set my regdate to this value as many times as possible every day.
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Placeholder posted:I strongly think we should generalise this. Please set my regdate to 00/00/00. Powered Descent posted:You're putting a LOT of faith in Radium's code here Yeah, they haven’t even gotten around to assigning you a uaername yet!
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Ariong posted:Yeah, they haven’t even gotten around to assigning you a uaername yet! Lol
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