Igneous rock lover enters the chat!
(Waiting to be shot down for my geological ignorance!)
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Cake day: January 21st, 2024
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Prepostosaurus more like…!
2·14 days agoI guess the man’s hair makes her fingers look more pointy. If you’re eternal and out to drink blood, you’ve got pointy fingers y’know.
Is that leadership or just breeding and/or social dominance though? Do they tell others where and when to hunt e.g.? I’m not so knowledgeable about seals of any species so a genuine question.
I’d argue that parents are different to a ‘leader’ as we perceive them, or as I read was suggested in the comment. Children will stick with their parents, up to the point at which they’re ready to start their own family, like you say, but is that leadership in the same sense?
But yes, I agree, pack = family is accurate.
Dogs don’t need a leader - the whole alpha male wolf thing has long been disproven, by the original author none the less. Dogs are highly social and live in groups, yes, but there’s no boss dog. Very few animals have a concept of a leader. In fact I’d argue that none do and it’s a totally human idea.
I like your cat/dog thinking idea though. Cats very much think ‘me me me’!
He’ll be coming soon, I can hear him approaching…
My middle name is applius
Oh it so is! Regards, Alistaire Jeremy Tarquin Smithe Smithe-Walmintrop.
No problem. I’m just gonna shove another doghnut in my chops and be done with it. I’ve got something tasty! That’s the power of sugar, people!
10·1 month agoIt’s as if someone has been telling a tale that there’s been some kind of 50-50 conflict over the past 80+ years…
Not heard of them, thanks for the recommendation, that’ll be tonight’s listening sorted!
Listening to Tool right now, love 'Maiden but enjoy pre Bruce as much as the rest… NIN, Anthrax, Sick of it All, Type O Negative, Paradise Lost, Sepultura…must be some kinda metal chameleon circa 90s-00s!
And here I am sat drinking beer, watching tv. The pinnacle of the evolution of the universe.
Thank you, and goodnight!
Oh that’s Muffit! Enjoy a tipple on me! ;)
If you’d like to hear about the versatility of the word ‘fuck’ click and enjoy some Wildhearts at the same time :)
You may want to skip the last minute…on the original cd it was waaay longer!
1·3 months agoThanks for that, much appreciated :)
“White and his team fired a powerful laser at a 50-nanometre thick sheet of gold for 45 quadrillionths of a second…”
As a rank amateur I don’t understand the other discussions here, but my thinking is that if a material is heated up for such a short period of time, and also only in a very small location (“The laser was focused to a spot approximately 100 µm in radius”), not across the whole mass, then the energy will dissipate across the mass of the material without building up enough to break the bonds and melt.
For me, what’d be more significant to know is how long it’d take for melting to occur/what’s the tipping point.
So I’ve skimmed through the journal article and:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09253-y
“Notably, the temperatures exceed the proposed limit of 3Tm in both cases for over 2 ps. This time is approximately an order of magnitude longer than the characteristic phonon oscillation period and, thus, much longer than required for homogeneous melting”
So the gold did melt, just not instantaneously!
“Our experimental findings raise an important question about the ultimate stability limit for superheating.”
Right so both news articles avoid stating that melting occured so far as to suggest it didn’t and that was what was significant…oh well, reading the journal article was interesting at least!
One question of mine I didn’t see was answered is, what significance do the xrays have on the temperature and time taken to melting?
I took it as turning the discussion around - I.e. what to do if your neighbour behaves as above? If so, it sounds like a good way to get people to think about respectful behaviour.