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jawshoeaw t1_j9cft17 wrote
Reply to Gritting routes are ‘sexist’ says Cambridgeshire highways chief and ‘must change’ by Bald__egg
Wth is gritting is this title gore or regional slang ?
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Reply to Can doctors tell when cancer is caused by something specific, such as smoking or chemicals? by [deleted]
Usually no. There are a few very rare cancers like mesothelioma that are only caused by one thing (asbestos) or the more common squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix which is almost always caused by HPV . But usually we have no idea because cancer is an accumulation of errors. One error could be a diesel truck that spewed exhaust in your face, another error could be a cosmic ray or a random event or a chemical in the water you drank
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Reply to comment by FlightBunny in Which medical specialties are future proof? by MeronDC
Radiology is a carriage return away from being replaced by AI
jawshoeaw t1_j94wu1p wrote
Tried it on a blurry photo of my wife taken in bad lighting. Her teeth were originally a pixelated messy blur. AI somehow drew in her teeth. Everything else was very realistic and didn’t look AI’d to me . Then I realized I had uploaded a “live “ photo from an iPhone. The website showed the before picture as a blurry image when the best frame of the live image was exactly sharp and well defined. So it kind of faked the before and after. That was disappointing. So I turned off Live Photos and picked a blurry frame as the default. This time the AI was able to sharpen it up. But it didn’t look anywhere near as good as the best frame of the Live Photo
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Reply to comment by radewagon in MIT team makes a case for direct carbon capture from seawater, not air by MotorDrive
I’m thinking we pump it into the atmosphere where it can dissipate naturally. Wait ….
jawshoeaw t1_j8h85r6 wrote
Reply to Can 3-D Printing Help Solve the Housing Crisis? - Standard construction can be slow, costly, and inefficient. Machines might do it better. by speckz
No it cannot quit posting this bs. Someday machines might do it better but “3D printing” ain’t it . At best it does the cheapest easiest part of home construction, the walls. Homes are expensive because they are now incredibly complicated and need to last for 100+‘years.
jawshoeaw t1_j8gw48k wrote
Reply to Light traveling through a medium that slows it. Does the same photon emerge? by TheGandPTurtle
First of all, Light doesn’t “slow down” because of absorption and re-emission. This is fairly easy to prove by simply choosing a wavelength of light that isn’t absorbed by that particular medium. It will still slow down or appear to do so. Interestingly you can in fact shoot single photons through a medium and they will do the same thing that millions of them do: change direction and appear to slow down. But what’s actually happening is that the photon is interacting with the electric fields of the atoms in the medium. A photon is still a wave and the wave is altered as it adds and subtracts with the electric fields around it. You can’t label a wave since it’s not a thing. Is the photon that comes out the other end the same photon? Sort of. But not really because light is really more imo a wave with some peculiar particle like properties. And it’s wave like properties are subject to addition and subtraction
jawshoeaw t1_j85eod4 wrote
Reply to comment by Kurtotall in Love of rare liquor lands Oregon officials in criminal probe by Caratteraccio
retail price is the only price it can be sold in Oregon liquor stores.
jawshoeaw t1_j85eaiy wrote
Reply to comment by Sea-Veterinarian3547 in Love of rare liquor lands Oregon officials in criminal probe by Caratteraccio
He's not a sales rep. State owns the liquor. The state employee purchased the liquor at MSRP which is the only price you can sell liquor for in Oregon AFAIK.
jawshoeaw t1_j7a6wg3 wrote
Reply to Diving with a shark by chemistrynerd1994
Is this like that video with a vulture and a hang glider where it turns out to be the dudes pet? That shark looks way to friendly
jawshoeaw t1_j72l3de wrote
Reply to Bryce Canyon, Utah, USA [3653x5371][OC] by henrikbech
Bruh
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Reply to comment by why_rob_y in Discovery of embalming workshop reveals how ancient Egyptians mummified the dead by Magister_Xehanort
I was just on a sub talking about buying a portion of a cow and now I’m thinking of pastrami mmmm
jawshoeaw t1_j6uwrtv wrote
Reply to Discovery of embalming workshop reveals how ancient Egyptians mummified the dead by Magister_Xehanort
The real trick was salt (technically a mixture of salt and baking soda). After removing the organs and brain you’re like a rack of beef. Then they packed you in salt and all the juices drained away. All that bologna about herbs and spices was for odor control
jawshoeaw t1_j5qdu0v wrote
Reply to comment by bikerlegs in Why does hot air cool? by AspGuy25
From the very beginning of the article on Wikipedia:
"Wind chill or windchill (popularly wind chill factor) is the lowering of body temperature due to the passing-flow of lower-temperature air.
It's a non-scientific term with no agreed exact formula and has nothing to do with inanimate objects.
Edit: Of course wind cools things - didn't mean to be nit-picking, I just don't like "windchill" because it's poorly defined. I mean there could be moisture on inanimate objects, that could be removed by dry air and cool further.. but there are good terms for those phenomenon such as evaporative cooling, convective, etc.
jawshoeaw t1_j5qd1il wrote
Reply to comment by bikerlegs in Why does hot air cool? by AspGuy25
Windchill is a human experience and does not apply to physical objects like a computer. No matter how fast the wind is blowing over your dry computer, it cannot reduce the temperature below the temperature of the air making up the "wind". What it can do is reach an equilibrium temperature faster. At least in my experience (and wikipedia) this phenomenon is called "air cooling your computer" and not wind chill.
edit for clarity: wind definitely cools things off faster than no wind :)
jawshoeaw t1_j5qcc6n wrote
Reply to comment by TommyTuttle in Why does hot air cool? by AspGuy25
That's correct. Windchill annoys me. It's often misused and confusing. There are Reddit posts saying things like "Here I am in Michigan in a T shirt, it's -60F today". but it's actually 0F with windchill of -60F. And yes, wind does not cool things below ambient unless they are wet (or unless the wind itself is bringing in colder air)
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Reply to Moon tilt illusion? by ThatFlashCat
It’s because we look at a 3D world with 2D retinas and our brains do a lot of processing to try and make everything look straight and rectangular. Which is nice if you are living in a box. But when there are no straight lines for reference, your brain can’t make sense of it. That nice “straight” horizon you’re looking at is actually a circle which stretches behind you. Your poor brain is trying to process this raw data projected onto our retina (which btw is also a portion of a sphere ) . The whole thing is a mind fck tbh. It forces you to accept that in many ways the “reality” we perceive isn’t real. I hesitate to even call this an optical illusion…we are experiencing a constant illusion and when we look up and see curved lines in space connecting the moon’s terminator with the sun we think something is broken.
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Reply to Does the immune system have a limit on memory for vaccines? Can we vaccinate against any and all microorganisms if we wanted to? by AdiSoldier245
Interestingly there is a limit to the bloods ability to transport proteins and it’s viscosity. Too many cells make the blood too thick and too may proteins make the blood too thick. And having antibodies doesn’t work if you have like one molecule-there’s a minimum amount required to work. That said, I’ve never heard of someone maxing out via vaccines.
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Reply to comment by OhMyGoth1 in A vulture decides to rest his wings and hitch a ride with a paraglider by Chadyaronkr
What about talons
jawshoeaw t1_j3dg2oo wrote
Reply to comment by semistro in A vulture decides to rest his wings and hitch a ride with a paraglider by Chadyaronkr
Somewhere lol
jawshoeaw t1_j3dfny7 wrote
Reply to comment by Camarao_du_mont in A vulture decides to rest his wings and hitch a ride with a paraglider by Chadyaronkr
You clearly don’t know Clarence my pet vulture. Wild is his middle name!
jawshoeaw t1_j2v43nv wrote
Reply to This morning in Edinburgh by persianprez
This is terrible !! Or wonderful. Had to check if this was a climate sub. Is Edinburgh flooding? Or beautiful?
jawshoeaw t1_j2v3z85 wrote
Reply to comment by BinaryToDecimal in This morning in Edinburgh by persianprez
Bro it’s Edinbra
jawshoeaw t1_j2cosd4 wrote
Reply to comment by belligerentunicorn1 in Green Hydrogen - Not The Fuel Of The Future by Realistic-Plant3957
I could see nuclear powered hydrogen generators yeah. Batteries do have some dirty components but they are finding ways around them. And lithium may someday be sourced more cleanly, and if we’re dreaming , from seawater . I’m excited about lithium - sulfur (that’s still in the lab ). But right now they are already starting to build iron batteries and iron salt flow batteries for grid scale storage , and if they live up to the hype I could see wind/solar finally scale up to base load.
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Reply to comment by jackity_splat in when a limb gets amputated, how do they stop the flow of blood? by EnchantedCatto
That’s not how blood works. The blood at the terminal end of a clipped artery will quickly clot