The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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Logan's Run (book):
In the world of 2116
Logan's Run (film):
In the year 2274
How the hell did they get 2500?
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@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The highest boiling point of any element in the universe is tungsten, at 5555°C.
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@Dragoon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Logan's Run (book):
In the world of 2116
Logan's Run (film):
In the year 2274
How the hell did they get 2500?
The "1960" for Dune seems to come from
Where they use it as a reference point of "the beginning of deep space exploration" with the launch of Pioneer 5. Even the prequels take place thousands of years in the future.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The highest boiling point of any element in the universe is tungsten, at 5555°C.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten says 5930°C
What about compounds? Tantalum-hafnium carbide has the highest melting point, but doesn't mention the boiling point (which probably wasn't the focus of any such experiment). One very questionable source says 6521°C.
Still a long way to go.
Paging our resident sci-chem unit... @Benjamin-Hall, @Rhywden
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The highest boiling point of any element in the universe is tungsten, at 5555°C.
What about compounds? Tantalum-hafnium carbide has the highest melting point, but doesn't mention the boiling point (which probably wasn't the focus of any such experiment). One very questionable source says 6521°C.
Still a long way to go.
Paging our resident sci-chem unit... @Benjamin-Hall, @Rhywden
Yeah, that's way outside my knowledge. I did much more with molecular level stuff (collisions). I know that compounds often have radically different boiling points than pure elements or other compounds of one of the elements--CO2 vs C for instance. But I have no clue how to determine what happens there other than by exhaustion...and there are lots of compounds out there.
Also, boiling points are strongly pressure-dependent, while melting points are...also strongly pressure dependent but (AFAIK) slightly less so.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
tungsten
So you could make a sun rover out of tungsten?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Wiki can't even make its own mind.
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
tungsten
So you could make a sun rover out of tungsten?
Afraid not. That's the boiling point - where liquid changes into vapor. Melting point - where solid changes into liquid - is far lower. Also, that's at 1 atm. Surface pressure of Sun is really low (seems strange to me, given the fiery hell and its mass), which means both numbers will be quite a bit lower.
Of course, if you do the rovering at night...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
tungsten
So you could make a sun rover out of tungsten?
Afraid not. That's the boiling point - where liquid changes into vapor. Melting point - where solid changes into liquid - is far lower. Also, that's at 1 atm. Surface pressure of Sun is really low (seems strange to me, given the fiery hell and its mass), which means both numbers will be quite a bit lower.
Of course, if you do the rovering at night...
Just make the bot out of liquid.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Also, boiling points are strongly pressure-dependent, while melting points are...also strongly pressure dependent but (AFAIK) slightly less so.
It depends on what's going on, and compounds can get extremely complex. These things are usually encoded for the purpose of “easy” understanding as phase diagrams, but those may have dozens of phases, some of which may be liquid or gaseous. There's also the problem that you might have non-equilibrium states in there too, which classic phase diagrams don't talk about (because that's an easy way to run out of dimensions on your piece of paper).
I was seriously tempted to study this sort of thing (or surface physics) more seriously many years ago, but I switched to CS instead.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
tungsten
So you could make a sun rover out of tungsten?
Afraid not. That's the boiling point - where liquid changes into vapor. Melting point - where solid changes into liquid - is far lower. Also, that's at 1 atm. Surface pressure of Sun is really low (seems strange to me, given the fiery hell and its mass), which means both numbers will be quite a bit lower.
Of course, if you do the rovering at night...
Put some good cooling in the rover.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Also, boiling points are strongly pressure-dependent, while melting points are...also strongly pressure dependent but (AFAIK) slightly less so.
It depends on what's going on, and compounds can get extremely complex. These things are usually encoded for the purpose of “easy” understanding as phase diagrams, but those may have dozens of phases, some of which may be liquid or gaseous. There's also the problem that you might have non-equilibrium states in there too, which classic phase diagrams don't talk about (because that's an easy way to run out of dimensions on your piece of paper).
I was seriously tempted to study this sort of thing (or surface physics) more seriously many years ago, but I switched to CS instead.
Yeah. I much prefer working at the level of individual molecules. Or gases. Or fields. Condensed matter (solid state + the messy liquid phase) physics was my least favorite. And surface stuff is even worse than just bulk stuff. <shudders at the memory>
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
These things are usually encoded for the purpose of “easy” understanding as phase diagrams, but those may have dozens of phases, some of which may be liquid or gaseous.
clear as mud.
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@Dragoon And those solid lines? They're lies. There really isn't a nice clear boundary between phases, even between solid, liquid, and gas.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Dragoon And those solid lines? They're lies. There really isn't a nice clear boundary between phases, even between solid, liquid, and gas.
Yeah, I really want to make a pressure chamber just to mess with supercritical fluids.
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@Dragoon One of my favorite days when teaching various sciences was when I got to tell them "everything we've taught you? It was false. Or really only partially true." (leading in to a discussion about models, assumptions, and how there's really a lot more complexity we're hiding from you to make the intro stuff tractable). Always caused a bunch of mental fuses to pop in the students, leading to wonderful looks of panic, confusion, and "but but but but..."
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You mean that electrons don't neatly circle proton/neutron balls in nice concentric circles?
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@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I am in this post, and I don't like it. Except the part about "really like"; I mostly don't like any celebrities younger than me.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
dozens of phases, some of which may be liquid or gaseous.
Until you get above the critical temperature, where the answer is just "yes".
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https://i.imgur.com/8SgcX0N.jpg
Fun History Fact: If Anne Frank and Martin Luther King were alive today, they would both be 92 years old -- 7 years younger than Betty White.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
dozens of phases, some of which may be liquid or gaseous.
Until you get above the critical temperature, where the answer is just "yes".
I once took a quiz where one of the questions was "what is it called when water exists in three states all at once?"
They were looking for "triple point".
I had to fight off a powerful urge to answer "Lake Mead".
(Actually, the point I was thinking of was a bit further south.)
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
a supposedly attraction-boosting deodorant
If you want real attraction-boosting, add magnetic nanoparticles.
(The terrible suggestions thread is or should be…)
So, instead of aluminum oxide, as found in most deodorants, you'd want to add magnesium oxide?
I think both of those are paramagnetic, if at all.
Hmm... Could you give me a non-toxic ferromagnetic substance that doesn't get immediately oxidized by sweat and atmosphere when in the form of finely ground dust?
Fe2O3?
You didn't say it needs to look good
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@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Coming from Portuguese (where years=anos) I've made that mistake quite a few times in Spanish.
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Has anyone seen @mott555 around lately?
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@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That's just caused when a Fahrenheit temperature was transformed to a Celsius temperature. Using a Pentium TM processor, such minor calculation hickups may occur every few million years by chance.
On the other hand, you could upgrade your computer to something more modern than Tsaukpaetra's typical hardware.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
On the other hand, you could upgrade your computer to something more modern than Tsaukpaetra's typical hardware.
It's not my fault my shit isn't considered antique enough to be collectible yet !
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Anyone who watches Brandon Sanderson's livestreams will know about his pet parrot who's always grabbing at buttons, pens, microphones, etc. So someone came up with this:
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I am in this post, and I don't like it. Except the part about "really like"; I mostly don't like any celebrities younger than me.
#metoo
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
If the student wins, who'll adjust his grade, the professor being deceased?
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@Zecc Well, it was captioned “The absolute worst way to re-create a family photo”.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc Well, it was captioned “The absolute worst way to re-create a family photo”.
Now that you mention it, I did see it last night.
And I remember the faces weren't blurred. So I'm okay with the image being gone.
Sucks for the people who missed the photo thought.
So let me paint a picture with words: left side was a little girl sitting on her dad's lap while he lay on a couch. Right side was the recreation, with the girl not being so little and the photo taking a very different meaning.
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@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Actually, they can't call it "almond milk" because the FDA has decided that "milk" can only apply to the lacteal secretions of a bovine animal. They can't even call it "goat's milk" or "mother's milk" because goats and mothers aren't cows.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
mothers aren't cows
Some of them are.
Pick your own meaning
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Looks like you forgot one.
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