I mean this does have a practical application, I think. The relative masses of moons to planets does imply the moons ability to sweep junk out of the way before it hits the planet.
Tectonic activity bends rocks all the time, even hard ones like granite. That takes a ton of heat, pressure and time. It also makes sense that in the right conditions, sheets of rock simply don’t have the room to shatter so they must bend....
Creep is the mechanism you refer to. Yes absolutely scientists can replicate creep in the lab. You too can at home by leaving butter on the counter and watching it bend under its own weight at room temperature after a few days.
At about 1/2 or 2/3 of the melting temp and above, materials start to behave kind of funny.
In physics, it’s common to develop a formula and then stick a constant to explain the unknown. For example, Newton’s theory of gravity uses the gravitational constant G on the formula F = G * m_1 * m_2 / r^2, later on Einstein gave a more accurate explanation with the theory of relativity which does not rely on a constant E...
I think gravity and light work the same on psych majors as it does physics and engineering students…
I kid.
So in biology I know e the Euler number is important. It is used in growth equations (from finance to physics as well).
Statistics is fucking huge in every field. That is how you measure uncertainty. Bell curves and the Five Numbers and all that stuff is how you analysis thousands of widgets coming off an assembly line, or measurements in the social sciences field.
I feel like we are ways out from seeing anything like it. From what I’ve seen non-Newtonian fluids typically take a decent amount of energy to stop something and sound wouldn’t have much energy compared to something like a bullet....
We already have computers that can determine which sounds to cancel out. That’s pretty cool.
Sound isn’t going to be like a bullet or an electrical storm hitting the grid. I don’t think you can just make a material that blocks out sound when it reaches a certain level and allow it below the threshold. Definitely an interesting theory but I am not sure how it would be designed.
I don’t care about the math and statistics. I went looking for visual comparisons, where image exposure is adjusted to show how a sunny day on both planets really compares, but I didn’t find anything....
Mars is 1.52 AU from the sun, or 1.52x further than Earth, so the inverse square law says 43% less sun power. But the atmosphere is thinner and a different composition.
To know how the human eye actually operates on Mars, one would have to get a human eye to Mars.
Amouranth, the Kick streamer, is allegedly brewing beer with her vaginal yeast. It’s an obvious publicity stunt to squeeze more money from her impressionable and “thirsty” audience....
Yes, wild yeast and spontaneous fermentation are things in the beer and wine world. Yes her beer is possible. Also it will be possibly very bad. Or fine.
You could totally make a sourdough by rubbing your butt cheeks in the starter every day and I don’t think your friends would notice.
Its funny, because 200 years ago there were no commercial good products. To make beer you basically had to let it sit out for a couple days until enough wild yeast colonized your food. This is also true of kimchi, saurkraut and a bunch of other ancient foods.
Unfortunately gerrymandering and the electoral college probably means we need to pump those numbers up. Look at how a million Cubans in Florida have exerted sway on foreign policy for decades.
Regardless, the US isn’t actually fighting here. Sure, we can pressure netanyahu.
Maybe we look at the ratio of country perimeter to area? Counting the number of exclaves could also be a factor. And maybe a ratio of the distance to cover all the exclaves divided by their area?
So if a country were a perfect circle it’s perimeter to area ratio would be 2/r, it has zero exclaves and then it’s width would be the diameter.
If a country were two perfect circles of the same diameter, separated by a distance of the same diameter, it’s area ratio would be 2/r, exclaves would be one, and it’s width would be three times it’s diameter.
So now you can imagine a country like Chile, modeled as a really skinny rectangle, has a pretty large perimeter to area ratio, no exclaves, and a width roughly the length of the rectangle.
I guess you’d have to decide if archipelago nations are measured as the geometry of the sea they own, or as discrete islands.
Think “you wake up in the woods naked,” Dr. Stone-style tech reset. How could humans acquire a 1-gram weight, a centimeter ruler, an HH:MM:SS timekeeping device, etc. starting with natural resources?...
Are you asking about how you reinvent the exact same meter? Well that won’t happen. Our units were arbitrary, useful, widely adopted, and then rigorously defined.
The book walks you through it all. You can don’t need to redo civilization exactly the same (the author even suggests some very important things to invent differently, especially in better orders)
It turns out that capitalism literally monetizes everything and not having marketable skills can get in the way of your mental and physical well being.
I think the idea is it’s a counterfactual. “if we buy into this traditional masculinity, then why is eating meat at odds with traditional male sexual performance”
This is a pretty narrow version of masculinity that I don’t think anyone would agree with. Or even find useful.
You don’t show off a boner in public to show masculinity. However if you cannot please a woman with PiV sex via a big and hard penis, yes, this would challenge your sense of masculinity.
Does it make a man feel masculine to have a big bank account? Even if no one knows his salary or net worth? What about underwear? If no one sees your pink underwear in public would it challenge someone’s masculinity to wear it?
So conservatives don’t want anything to change and are doubling down on the Old Ways.
The crisis is then that conservatives don’t want anyone to try any alternatives. They blame the alternatives for economic and social realities. They blame problems on people who think in different ways than they do.
I think the crises are authoritarian conservatism and the failures of capitalism. It’s magical thinking to believe that if you vote republican and laugh at lesbians that men will have more sex than they do now.
I’m doing some research for a post I’d like to make in this community about the crisis of masculinity and I had a question pop into my brain: Why don’t manly men explain the reason for being a man?...
Yeah we have a crisis of masculinity because the patriarchy has decided that manhood is important, but then also anyone with any logical ability notices that gender is a social construct. So men who feel like they benefit from patriarchy and want it to continue must wage a war. Against women and feminists. Against anyone queer. Against any man who doesn’t tow the line that a penis and a sports pendant on the wall of the man cave are like the most important things to ever happen.
xkcd #2908: Moon Armor Index ( imgs.xkcd.com )
xkcd.com/2908...
Have we been able to reproduce the conditions to bend rocks? (Even if in a lab.)
Tectonic activity bends rocks all the time, even hard ones like granite. That takes a ton of heat, pressure and time. It also makes sense that in the right conditions, sheets of rock simply don’t have the room to shatter so they must bend....
What's the equivalent of physics constants for social studies?
In physics, it’s common to develop a formula and then stick a constant to explain the unknown. For example, Newton’s theory of gravity uses the gravitational constant G on the formula F = G * m_1 * m_2 / r^2, later on Einstein gave a more accurate explanation with the theory of relativity which does not rely on a constant E...
Could non-Newtonian fluids be used in the future as a kind of percussive ear protection?
I feel like we are ways out from seeing anything like it. From what I’ve seen non-Newtonian fluids typically take a decent amount of energy to stop something and sound wouldn’t have much energy compared to something like a bullet....
How dark is Mars compared to Earth in a very practical sense?
I don’t care about the math and statistics. I went looking for visual comparisons, where image exposure is adjusted to show how a sunny day on both planets really compares, but I didn’t find anything....
[Mycology] Are yeasts analogous to each other, to the point they can be used in food interchangeably?
Amouranth, the Kick streamer, is allegedly brewing beer with her vaginal yeast. It’s an obvious publicity stunt to squeeze more money from her impressionable and “thirsty” audience....
Poll: US Public Support for Israel Wanes as 68 Percent Call for Ceasefire ( theblankpageofficial.blogspot.com )
How can we define a robust metric for "most discontinuous country" and then rank all states according to it?
More of a classification question, but I’m really curious about what the metric would look like if we try to be systematic about it....
How could SI units be derived from scratch without the use of modern technology?
Think “you wake up in the woods naked,” Dr. Stone-style tech reset. How could humans acquire a 1-gram weight, a centimeter ruler, an HH:MM:SS timekeeping device, etc. starting with natural resources?...
‘There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys’ - Declining male enrollment has led many colleges to adopt an unofficial policy: affirmative action for men. ( www.nytimes.com )
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How financial trauma is affecting men ( www.esquireme.com )
Trump jokes about flying to Russia after bond set in Georgia case ( ground.news )
This might have revoked his bail.
Cowboys and vegetarians: why rightwingers see beef as a birthright ( www.theguardian.com )
An Comparative Essay on Masculinity
Everything below is my perspective on the issue. If you feel I misrepresented something, then let’s discuss. I’m open to learning more....
Why Aspire To The Ideal Man?
I’m doing some research for a post I’d like to make in this community about the crisis of masculinity and I had a question pop into my brain: Why don’t manly men explain the reason for being a man?...
Women in China are telling each other to bring their boyfriends to see 'Barbie' — and to use it as a litmus test for their thoughts on feminism and patriarchy ( www.insider.com )
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/2911882...