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  • From my elementary knowledge of chemistry:

    I had to go looking for Mercury and Lead and sure enough they look about right.

    Column 1 reacts with water so you bet that’ll hurt. Hydrogen needs a boost to start reacting with oxygen so no naked flame is recommended.

    Anything in column 7 are desperate to rip electrons away from molecules so yes, permanent damage to your tongue and mouth.

    Uranium is alright if you lick it once. A guy ate uranium cake once on TV.

    The ‘Please reconsider’ lot seem to be a good way to die a horrible death by radiation.

    Tc I believe is technetium which is radioactive and emits gamma rays, perhaps not soluable so stays in your body and you become gamma-man.






  • I know we’d all like some scientific actualisation of Star Wars but I mean:

    • They made noise in space 'cause that’s fun.
    • There was always gravity on pretty much any ship.
    • I don’t really recall any spacewalks so we don’t see any instance of ‘no gravity’
    • There’s hyperspace since lightyears is a bit of a long time.
    • Stormtroopers seem very scientifically and inefficiently accurate

    At this point I think the Star Wars movies (the oldies) pretty much ignored a fair bit of the science.

    But if it was a death star literally put there in our universe, I think there would be a bit of structural considerations for gravity, but not huge due to it being quite hollow. Gravity is pretty strong when the sphere is entirely comprised of dense rock and no air. A mostly hollow sphere of air where air is something close to 1/1000 that of rock (yes, used the density of water lol) is not going to get much of a rollicking from gravity.

    Edit: an interesting ‘expose’ on the moon landings claim one thing: why were the photos so relatively boring? Because they were real and that’s all they could get for all the limited resources they had at the time.


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    4 months ago

    One article suggests that:

    Although the leading speculation for this relationship implicates stressors that are unique to these relationships, the current study suggested that this phenomenon is mostly due to characteristics of individuals with whom those in interracial relationships are more likely to be coupled.

    So the conclusion of the research suggests it’s not a racial characteristic. It’s much more nuanced.

    Link to abstract