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Gryphon

02:22

Does anyone know if it's possible to see how many bounties/how much rep in bounties a user has placed without getting into SEDE stuff? Is there a place under the users tab or on people's profile page or something?

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Feeds 4026

04:05

A: Sandbox for Proposed Questions

How does a 38 metres tall girl live in a modern setting She is a 14 years old girl. She lives in a big south-eastern Asian city like Hanoi, Bangkok, or Kuala-Lumpur. She made a wish to grow up fast, and had her wish granted magically, in an unexpected way, and as suddenly as a few seconds. The e...

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Gryphon

14:15

Hey @James, you might be interested in this: worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/141001/…

Smock

14:37

Are questions on WB limited to real world physics? or can they ignore certain physics rules if they are inconvenient?

and to follow up - do the answers need to be real world physics considered if the question doesn't specify?

AndyD273

@Green hey, you do a lot of stuff with Azure right now, yes?

Mike Nichols

15:29

@Smock Imaginary physics are perfectly fine for questions, they just have to be well-described and consistent enough for there to be an answer. I think if a question doesn't specify that it wants imaginary physics the default assumption is that they want an answer that fits reality as we know it.

Smock

15:47

ah ok, that's fair enough

Feeds

15:58

It's so sad how almost no one alive today can remember seeing the galactic rainbow, the insanity nebula, or the skull and glowing eyes of the Destroyer of Sagittarius.

AndyD273

@Smock Yeah. Considering that we can have questions involving magic, real world physics need not apply. The chosen tags will often give you hints. [Hard-Science] means they only want real world physics with math to back it up. [Science-based] is basically soft sci-fi, popular science, and a bit of pseudo science, so long as it sounds good and has internal consistency.

Green

16:32

@AndyD273 I don't personally but what's your question? I know lots of smart people.

AndyD273

@Green Ah. We have some in house apps that we publish with click-once, and apparently there is a goal to move them to Azure, both for installation and database access... but I don't know much about how to secure that kind of connection so that not just anyone can install the apps and get access to our data.

I couldn't remember if you were working with that kind of stuff with your new job or not

I wonder if you'd get the No light pollution image if you were on Gough Island and the power was out?

Gryphon

@AndyD273 I can actually get fairly close to that on a good night near my house. Depends on whether the neighbors have their pole-mounted light on and whether I can convince everyone else in the house to turn all the lights off.

AndyD273

16:49

I really wonder what his definition of "Very Remote Areas" is... It would be cool to get an image of the Insanity Nebula.

Green

@AndyD273 that's an area I work near and have some ideas about how to go about doing that.

Mephistopheles

17:29

Q: How could my hard telekinesis work?

So, in my setting, telekinesis is divided into two sub-fields: Soft telekinesis allows for precise manipulation of objects but doesn't pack a punch. Newton's third law is negligible for this type. Hard telekinesis is a quick burst of force that can accelerate an object in a certain direction, b...

This one's tough

James

17:46

@Gryphon Why in the world would you want to quench a sword in the most toxic ....ugh

AndyD273

18:10

@James heat transfer?

assuming you have extremely good ventilation...

James

19:06

@AndyD273 and a hazmat suit

Hosch250

@James Mr. Dutch is saying the quenching is the last step.

I think you need to correct him.

Mephistopheles

19:27

Can we now talk about telekinesis?

Hosch250

@Mephistopheles Fine by me!

Mephistopheles

@Hosch250 The question is up there

How much force do you actually need to permanently paralyze someone?

Ya know, like damage to the spine type.

AndyD273

@Mephistopheles depends on where it is focused

I don't think it takes all that much to snap a neck, if you have the right technique.

But punching someone with TK is kind of a silly thing to do

Hosch250

Sounds less powerful than a cannon shell burst.

Those things will vaporize you.

Mephistopheles

@Hosch250 I thought that was the .50 bmg

But that just makes your head go

AndyD273

19:34

I mean, you could take a volume of air, compress it, and then hit things with it if you had the strength of mind to pull it off

Hosch250

No, I was reading about a battle in Korea.

AndyD273

But it would be much easier to just crush someones heart in their chest.

Hosch250

Shells were flying everywhere, one landed under a group of soldiers, and they got vaporized.

Mephistopheles

So, a .50 bmg makes your head

bones head explosion.wmv

►

OUCH

Hosch250

There are also several stories about that from WWI.

Mephistopheles

19:37

@AndyD273 But Kiryu never kills. I need to cripple someone!

Hosch250

Crippling is worse than death, IMO.

Mephistopheles

@Hosch250 But never kills

Hosch250

/shrug

AndyD273

Then just squeeze the vertebra instead of the heart. People can survive a lot of force. If being thrown is going to paralyze you, it's probably from the impact, not the initial blow.

Hosch250

@AndyD273 It's actually pretty sensible.

Mephistopheles

19:40

Okay, enough Yakuza 0 references. How can my 89 kg boi fly for 4 meters then crash into a rock bad enough for some permanent damage? How many Joules?

Hosch250

They might not be able to punch back.

@Mephistopheles I'll try to calculate that after work, if someone else doesn't.

It's essentially the same as "throw an 89kg ball 4 meters at a 45 degree angle.

When you land, you'll be permanently damaged without some totally serious healthcare, and possibly dead anyway.

Mephistopheles

@Hosch250 Thanks I'll go back to dragon flight muscles. 100 kg seems enough (double of the Quetzy's)

James

20:33

@Hosch250 I need to create a post it note with the steps in the forging process for quick reference and copy/paste.

AndyD273

21:19

@James Maybe a community wiki, so the info is easily accessible to the whole site?

James

@AndyD273 I could just put it in the tag description I suppose...

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Hosch250

23:54

@Mephistopheles I have some work on it done.

Initial velocity (Vo): 6.29m/s

Initial X velocity (Vx): 6.29m/s * sin(45) = 4.45m/s
Initial Y velocity (Vy): 6.29m/s * cos(45) = 4.45m/s

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distance = Vx * time

V = Vo - g * time

Using this, we can get the time until it stops rising:

0 = Vy - 9.81m/s^2 * t
0 = 4.45m/s - 9.81m/s^2 * t
4.45m/s = 9.81m/s^2 * t
t = 0.45s

Total time = .90 seconds until it hits the dirt again

distance = 4.45m/s * .90s = 4.01m

Now I just need to figure out how how to calculate the force to accelerate 89kg to 6.29m/s.

Which is provided handily by "F = m * a".

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