Tar_Alcaran

… buddy, have you tried it? Get up, walk to a mirror and test it. You’ll find that the picture shows you what happens

it was a joking reference to the battle of Khasham. There are very much russians in Syria.

This but unironically. Society would be SO much better if we just did the whole “gender doesn’t matter” thing that started in the 90s instead of the “be whatever gender you feel like” thing from the late 10s.

You’re on yiffit, so the odds are very much against it.

One of the famous ones is laminar flow in a tube or pipe. There’s a very nice physics formula to compute Reynolds number, and when it’s over 3500, flow is usually turbulent, and below 2000 it’s usually laminar. And anywhere in between? Eh, it kinda depends. Unless there are bends in the tube, then it depends even more. Oh, and when your flow is not in a tube, the values wildly vary even more.

There’s a concept of “angle of repose”, basically at what slope will loosely poured materials sit. There are super complex modern models to compute that, based on grain size and shape. But there’s also a half-page table listing anything from asphalt to coffee beans, which is literally the law in a lot of countries. That table is older than the age of sail in most cases and zero maths went into it.

And then there is the hilarious official ways to determine the characteristics of concrete and asphalt. The flow test, for example includes the highly scientific steps of “pour into a specific cone and poke 25 times with a two by four, then measure the circle on the floor”. This number is then used in several calculations.

I was technically in Czechoslovakia for the Velvet Revolution, but I was at the time slightly preoccupied sorting my shapes and colours and potty training.

Glad to see I’m getting a second chance.

Calculus is a specific field of mathematics, mostly to do with limits, integrals and derivatives. Those all feature very heavily in working out loads and stresses.

But it’s unfair to say the Roman didn’t have calculus. It wasn’t formal calculus, but they absolutely had mathematics, and the Greeks worked out the exhaustion method a century before the Via Appia was even started.

You don’t need calculus to do some very impressive building, you can go very very far with experience, rules of thumb and basic maths. Hell, ask any civil engineer and they’ll gladly show you some common formula that makes physicists cry.

Ok, visualize it like this:

Draw yourself, with a small mirror at head height, a meter away. Draw your reflection at the same distance from the mirror on the other side.

Now do that again, but place the mirror 10 times further. Then draw lines from your eye, to the edge of the mirror, and to the reflection.

You’ll reach the same point on your reflection.

Edit: or let the BBC do it for you; https://www.bbc.co.uk/bang/images/dallas_mirror_diagram_large.gif

but its a liberal right

excuse me? It’s only “liberal” in that everyone has the right to kill muslims.

Yeah, most early communism was VERY egalitarian for women (not really sure about homosexuals, those don’t tend to feature much in 19th century writings), but that got rapidly stomped into the ground later.

And as much as tankies love to preach you need to read the source material, they mostly don’t.

I love that “the right” is someone wearing a mask.

People just don’t understand mirrors.

I did a horrifying experiment in uni with a mirror on the wall, and asked people to point at where they thought they could see their reflection . The obvious answer is of course “when you’re next to it”. A terrifyingly large number of people at a University assumed they could see themselves at a 45 to 60 degree angle, so several step before they actually reached the mirror.

Some of them were even shocked when they walked along it.

Uhhh no, that’s not how angles work.

The further you get away from a mirror, the “further away” the reflection is. You will never see your whole body in a hand mirror, even if you put it on the moon.

As long as it’s perfectly flat.

Most dangerous thing anywhere is cars, tbh.

We already HAD a desert storm 2 in 2003. subtitle: “Iraqi Freedom”

Iran uses russian missiles?

What russian missiles?

Anduril?

Well, this is going to be the first time a fantasy writer’s estate is going to sue the shit out of a defense producer.

“There are no russians in Syria!”

Time for my favorite quote in project Pluto:

The missile would be moving too quickly to expose any living things to prolonged radiation needed to induce radiation sickness.