Literally, right after I posted I said to myself what the fuck are you asking people on the internet for like a kid ya fucking bum? and went to my new boss. They were chill and understood where I was coming from and are going to see what they can do.
Honestly my biggest problem with the rebuild movies is that they change way too much important character development stuff for the sake of time.
Spoilers for NGE
Misato already knows all about Lilith hanging out in the basement by the time they shoot the sniper rifle.
Will extending article 50 mean that we can still use Google+ until we actually leave?
If you combined the power of all the refrigerator magnets on earth, how strong would it be?
It depends. Are we simply gathering them all in one spot, or are we talking about the additive power of all thsoe magnetic fields combined into one super-magnet?
The second will probably be more powerful, but the former will probably be more interesting and hilarious. I imagine an entire landfill of nothing but weak magnets.
For that, I imagine not much more than a few times one fridge magnet. The fields would add up, but theyād be too spread out to constructively add up after a point, I imagine.
Not much will happen, as the flux density will remain the same. If you take a single fridge magnet and supercool it, the magnetic strength may increase.
Or if you take all the refrigerator magnets, then take every single bit of copper there was on the planet, form a very dense coil, ask Zeus to throw the slug of refrigerator magnets through that, you might generate a large enough electric current to charge an iPhone.
Hmm. What if we went in space with a giant copper coil. A BIG one. Space big. Put that shit in orbit. Then put a giant powerful magnet in orbit also. The magnet occasionally goes through the coil and generates some juice. It canāt last forever, due to the laws of nature, but with such low friction in space it might generate a good amount before it stops.
Iām pretty far from an expert here, but from what I know about the stuxnet cyber attack PoCs against physical infrastructure whatever load you put on that power generation would serve as the resistance.
So like, assuming you werenāt powering anything with your orbital contraption, it would run for almost ever with any energy generatedā¦ radiating away as heat?
Whereas if you actually put an iphone in it to be charged, or something else, say you tried to power your apartment. The load would serve as resistance, slowing down the giant orbiting magnet every time it flew through.
Yes, thatās how it works. You could still fill up some hella battery or something, though.
Iām imagining basically building a giant ring around the Earth that is a ring shaped copper coil and an asteroid belt of magnets orbits inside it an opposite rotation to the ring.
This is the part where what I say next is only marginally related to what weāre talking about but I say it anyway.
This concept is what makes the stuxnet PoCs so cool/terrifying. Itās software that runs controllers that control like generators and all it does is disconnect the flywheel from the load for likeā¦ half a second then connect it back. In that half a second the generator builds up a bunch of spare energy then smashes into the static load like a car hitting a wall.
What do you do with that when everything stops and now thereās just a stationary ring around the planet full of rocks?
I have a plan. You get a maverick demolitions crew, and train them rapidly to be astronautsā¦
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Thatās essentially what these are
but on a large scale, you will run into inefficiencies at the quantum level (Iām imagining), where to produce enough electrical current, you need such extreme speeds of the rotor, it may just destroy itself or the stator.
To get a system that works on that scale you may as well just have reinvented a star. In which case what you really want to build is a Dyson sphere.
Black Hole Dyson power ftw.
Anyone had success with nicotine gum? Iām not interested in quitting nicotine but I am interested in quitting smoking.
Anyone used Campfire Pro, or something like it, to help with their writing? Iām considering trying it out after a few people I know recommended it, though theyāre people I typically only trust with writing advice and not advice on stuff to buy. This is one of the few times my trusting their writing tips has intersected with something to buy.
Iāve tried to use WorldAnvil, which seems similar, to help with my writing. It hasnāt really stuck.
But this is writing advice weāre talking about here, so the answer is probably deeply personal. I use a Google spreadsheet to keep track of Proper Nouns in my stories, have a document thatās basically a scrap pile full of my brain-storming, ideas, and my outline.
I say this to just articulate thatās how I write, so the fact that I canāt recommend it only matters because my writing doesnāt work with what theyāre presenting here. I have an old deck of character concepts and basically do a tarot reading to design my characters, so the detailed biographical fields are useless.
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