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Note to start, that "our existing laws don't punish corporations enough" is a very different complaint than "our existing laws wouldn't... -
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In Post #17, I calculated the change in internal energy U in scenario 1. In this post, I will should that this matches the work done by... -
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Pleased to see my favourite, Hofstadter's Law, in-the-wild... -
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I'm sure someone else has mentioned it but Earth's Roche limit is about 18,000 km, as is your Venus-size planet's Roche Limit. The... -
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That is also an isobaric compression, requiring more work. Do you mean like an isothermal expansion? Where both work is released and... -
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Why wouldn't it be? The direction of the pseudovector in whatever reference frame we pick provides all the information about the... -
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So, back of an envelope, that's approx. 250 times the tidal forces of the Moon, at its closest approach, which would rapidly decrease on... -
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It looks like they are called "Spiral Shank Nails", and the grooves afford superior holding power for the nails: I don't think the...