ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]

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  • You can’t even build a “Good” system once and expect it to provide you with rights by itself. It would still require well-meaning, educated, active, and organized constituents to continuously stand up for what is right, prevent corruption and abuses of power, etc.

    Keep following the train of thought. If a good system requires well meaning, educated, active members to keep it going, then a good system is one that produces those people.



  • Yeah, you’ll notice that your “massive” 22°F is the difference between direct sunlight and no sunlight. Do you think there’s another sun to take away after the first one, to get rid of even more sunlight and drop the temperature another 22°?
    Why don’t you believe that physical materials are capable of holding heat energy? Why did you latch on to atmosphere and ground instead of the biggest energy store on the planet, the ocean (you don’t need to answer that we know it’s because those are the ones I named)? Why do you think that the temperature difference between day and night - sunlight and no sunlight - is the same as the general rate at which energy is lost from the planet? Have you not ever been outside at night to discover the largest part of the temperature drop happens as soon as the sun disappears?

    You’re doing a very good job of the typical liberal application of raw, familiar logic to a new situation, but the only part of it you actually understand is that the sun supplies lots of energy, and haven’t made it any further than that.


  • that article is the peak of liberal honkey reasoning

    Every single government will genocide 99.99999999999% of their population

    I’m gonna be real, I started thinking about responding to the tiny relevent bit at the start (it’s got a big picture to help you understand the interdependence you’re talking about), but your histrionics about justifying the hypothetical are pretty funny. Like sib nobody’s talking about how humanity would survive in the ridiculous hypothetical, we’re just talking about the physics of heat loss.






  • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.nettoScience Memes@mander.xyzGottem. :)
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    9 days ago

    You are also forgetting the atmosphere and ground (and oceans, of course) - It being one huge interconnected energy system is exactly why I’m saying it would take longer. This guy’s calculations reckon we’d lose about 1 degree per 12 hours. January’s global average temperature was around 13°, so that’d be 6 and a half days. July last year it was 17°, so that’d be a whole 8 and a half days. It’s going to be more like a week.



  • Back in uni I discovered I can titrate perfectly. Normally you have to do at least 5 or 6 titrations and average the ones that match closest, but I never needed more than 2; A rough titration to get a ballpark figure, then a second to get the exact volume. Any more after that only ever confirmed the first figure.
    My professor didn’t believe me the first time I came up to her and said my 2 measurements were identical, so told me to do it again in front of her. I produced the same measurement again, and she said she’d never seen anyone do that before, but I’d still have to do at least 3 measurements each time for my coursework.

    Unfortunately I’ve never titrated anything since leaving uni.


  • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.nettoScience Memes@mander.xyzGottem. :)
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    9 days ago

    I honestly think you’re forgetting the atmosphere and like, physical ground under our feet. It doesn’t generally drop to 0C overnight unless it’s already pretty close to 0C because of the heat trapped in the atmosphere and emanating from the earth’s core. It’s going to be more like a week for most places.