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JDługosz
JDługosz
00:07
One mol/second of free neutrons would be quite a weapon. Calculating… 21 megawatt-hours of power, each second, released from the neutron decay.
Shalvenay
Shalvenay
00:21
@JDługosz one mol/minute puts us at 300kWh of power, which is still quite sizeable from a benchtop apparatus, but not nearly as unreasonable
JDługosz
JDługosz
00:54
@Shalvenay If you can harness the energy to run the apparatus, you only need to make up the under-unity portion. But, you are using the neutrons, and this will eat some of that power. Your in-story narrative could note that the stuff starts getting hot as the input element is consumed, and that’s how they monitor it.
@Shalvenay I wonder where you’re getting the concentrated duterium?
Shalvenay
Shalvenay
@JDługosz background takes care of that -- the char in question could basically buy it from the corner store haha
JDługosz
JDługosz
@Shalvenay I thought this was a steampunk kind of thing.
Shalvenay
Shalvenay
@JDługosz haha, no. more "far-future ET" :) but I forgive you for that -- lab apparatus tends to take on a slightly steampunk appearance no matter what the era :P due to how much of it has to be custom-fabricobbled for the job at hand
JDługosz
JDługosz
@Shalvenay Just from what I recall skimming the discussion earlier.
Are you interested in Peking Opera?
Shalvenay
Shalvenay
@JDługosz not an operatic type
JDługosz
JDługosz
01:00
My current project is distilling the photos and video from Saturday.
Shalvenay
Shalvenay
@JDługosz (backgroundwise -- the char in question comes from a society which got fusion to break-even long ago. fusion reactors for them are probably as common as a portable genset in our society :)
JDługosz
JDługosz
And a society docile enough to allow such power in the hands of the unwashed masses?
Shalvenay
Shalvenay
@JDługosz or that said character might not be so low-status despite their appearances...
JDługosz
JDługosz
Here’s a photo before the show. My wife’s the one playing the pipa. photos.dlugosz.com/2017/2017-Nov-18-UTD/i-mgXJ3JQ/A
 
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JDługosz
JDługosz
05:49
Anyone help explain the Sagnac effect? worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/98266/…
 
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Mithrandir24601
Mithrandir24601
08:50
@JDługosz I can (I still remember the difficulty of building a sagnac interferometer...) but no guarantees it'll happen until this evening
 
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Green
Green
14:10
@Shalvenay Hey!
 
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Universe Factory
Universe Factory
20:51
Universe Factory - Medium: The Juggernaut — Chapter 6
posted on November 21, 2017 by Monty Wild

Marine One, New Jersey & Pennsylvania As the group of Marine One helicopters continued on their way to Camp David, Captain Louise “Barbie” Roberts of the USAF and Julie Winchester, leader of the lower house and future First Lady, renewed their friendship, catching up on years of gossip. “They hung the call-sign ‘Barbie’ on me, Ju,” Louise was telling her old friend. “They considered callin…

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