Recent content by russ_watters

That one annoys me a bit too - since in sci-fi there's necessarily a lot of inaccuracy and suspension of disbelief, it's an easy one to get right/accurate. It was done well and was useful as a plot point (as opposed to throw-away technobabble) in Project Hail Marry, where the characters tell...

Dukes of Hazard? Looked more Knight Rider to me.

Not really physics job advice (I'm an engineer so others can answer on that), but if you're desperate and doing DoorDash to make ends meet, that's "get a job, any job" territory. Can't that "any job" be a high paying management job in your old field while you continue looking for your place in...

No, I don't think so. Inertia (mass) could be considered resistance to acceleration due to applied force via a=f/m. I'm not even sure what "resistance of a force" would mean physically/mathematically.

Yeah, I guess they were hoping to re-task them to AI and it didn't pan out.

The missing piece here is how much pressure you can exhert or hold from inhaling. Without a hard seal around your face and forcing air in, humans can exert an inhalation pressure of up to about 74 mm hg (0.1 ATM / 10 kPa). Any more than that and the air forces itself out.

What widespread integration into society? I haven't seen that. My expectation is that the bursting of the AI bubble will be similar to the bursting of the tech bubble in 2000. It will be a major stock market crash for indices heavily invested in it, but will have very little impact beyond...

By my read, they didn't do that and aren't claiming they did. They converted electricity from plasma - the plasma was not created/sustained by fusion (there was no fusion claimed).

Did you actually measure the density of the ice in the plastic bottle to rule out an unusual deformation?

Sorry for the late reply. I'm not sure I see a relationship between them. Did you have something in mind?

Isn't it always the math? :nb)

That's what I was going to say, and to add; convection(and heat transfer in general) might be a fairly simple concept, but it gets pretty complex pretty quickly.

Yesterday, yes - thanks!

From my wedding.

I know this thread is locked, but I'll answer this anyway: The link @pinball1970 posted answers you fine. It says: "Methane (CH4) is estimated to have a GWP of 27 to 30 over 100 years." This doesn't contradict the 84-87 over 20 years: Since CO2 does not decay and methane does, yes, the GWP...