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It’s not really relevant, just a comparison to show how little energy that few kilojoules is.
It’s not really relevant, just a comparison to show how little energy that few kilojoules is.
It likely only takes a few kilojoules to etch each avocado which is essentially nothing (for comparison, an avocado has around a megajoule of energy).
Would be interesting to set up email servers on some of the more popular instances and see how much traffic they’re actually getting.
Yeah they can’t really be seen through clouds aside from maybe the clouds looking slightly brighter.
Go out anyways and look north, there’s a good chance you’ll see something.
NOAA’s predicting a Kp index of 8.33, hopefully we’ll get some good auroras tonight!
Both “color” and “colour” are valid spellings.
Would be a bit hard to notice if you’re dead, but yeah (assuming you’re magically spared or something).
The main question is unanswerable as it couldn’t happen without fundamentally changing physics in some way. However, the other one is a lot more interesting.
On a large scale, one in ten atoms vanishing would decrease both the density and mass of most objects by 10%. This would also decrease their gravity by 10%, resulting in all orbits becoming significantly more (or less) eccentric. I imagine the changes would be enough to destabilize some solar systems, potentially causing planets to perturb each other’s orbits until they collide or end up being ejected from the system.
The change in density also means that gravitationally bound objects that are held up by internal pressure (like planets and stars) would collapse slightly as their internals are re-compressed to their original density. The collapse would release a lot of energy, heating up planets significantly and (just guessing here) maybe causing a burst of fusion in stars as they’re temporarily compressed past their equilibrium point.
All of that is pretty bad news for life on Earth, but the worst is what happens chemically. Some molecules are just going to become different molecules when one or more of their atoms disappears. Take water, for example; a water molecule has an 8.1% chance to become a hydrogen molecule, an 8.1% chance to become a (highly reactive) hydroxide ion, and a 0.9% chance to become a (highly reactive) single oxygen atom. 18% of nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the atmosphere would also become single atoms and promptly react violently. These molecular changes would instantly kill all life on Earth (and anywhere else). There’s simply no possible way for an organism to survive so many reactive molecules being introduced throughout itself. Not to mention that all DNA would be irreparably damaged from the random deletions too.
I’m sure there are some other effects that I haven’t thought of, but those are definitely the most noticeable ones.
Don’t fat-shame the acids!
Is that safe for the plasticy synthetic ones? I’d try but I don’t want to melt or burn it.
Nice shot! Totality was a true sight to behold, but partial eclipses are really awesome too.
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Only if someone was born in Kiribati in the first hour of Jan 1. According to Google in 2000 its population was only 89000 and its birth rate was 31 per 1000 people per year. That gives an average of one person being born every 3.18 hours. I’m not sure what the population of the countries in GMT+13 is, but I think they’re also a likely candidate.
SSHing into my less powerful machines takes a good few seconds, so I’m not sure if I’d notice an extra 500ms. For the more powerful ones that are basically instant it would be much more noticeable.
Always a relevant xkcd.
The sportswear manufacturer Mizuno has developed a special fabric it says will deter voyeurs from secretly using infrared cameras that produce a “see-through” effect.
The fact that people do this enough to warrant a special fabric to prevent it is absolutely disgusting.
I had to pipe dd through gzip over SSH recently to locally image a disk on a cloud server. That was fun.
I second this. Use a tool like ValiDrive to test whether that’s the case; if it is, anything you’ve copied to the drive is unrecoverable.
As an actual human, can confirm I use my human fingertips to press the upvote button on the posts and comments I enjoy.