BluesF

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[–] BluesF@feddit.uk 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

No, the title is poorly worded. They are testing a technology that could redirect an asteroid, there isn't one that is currently a concern.

[–] BluesF@feddit.uk 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Would any of that really make it heat more efficiently though? You'd need at least two magnetrons, some sort of computer vision system, and a computer to do the necessary calculations. Even if you could practically produce an interference pattern that's better than a single standing wave, I suspect you'd lose more energy than you save.

[–] BluesF@feddit.uk 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I'm happy to accept that I was wrong, in fact this is a very interesting bit of technology! I didn't intend to be rude, unlike you, clearly.

I'd also like to add that beamforming, despite the name, does not actually involve creating a directed beam. As I described the antenna still sends a signal out in all directions - multiple antennae work together to create an interference pattern with a stronger signal where a device is located. While I wasn't aware of this technology, it is not as "directed" as the name implies and wouldn't necessarily have applications inside a microwave oven, especially since the wavelengths used are pretty long, so I don't think they would not have much flexibility to create the kind of precise pattern that cooking something while skipping the empty space would require.

[–] BluesF@feddit.uk -1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Routers? Do you mean Wi-Fi routers? Because they certainly don't pinpoint waves for each device, they send all traffic out in all directions.

[–] BluesF@feddit.uk 1 points 10 months ago

Well then the average is just 1 isn't it. It doesn't make any sense to integer-ise your inputs but leave your output rounded.

[–] BluesF@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago

Bioinformatics is the last door at the end of the hall. Be warned, we put it down there for a reason.

[–] BluesF@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Look I spoke to Bill Nye and he said all scientists can grow cells sometimes, as a treat.

[–] BluesF@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago

A pizza is larger than two of another just before it hits 1.5 times the radius (sqrt 2 times, to be exact, about 1.41). So if the radius is 1.5 times bigger, like in the OP, you always know it's more than twice the area.

[–] BluesF@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago

Wikipedia does explain that Scots and English are sister languages, they both descend from Old English. Neither is a dialect.

[–] BluesF@feddit.uk 40 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

~~Scots isn't just an accent, it's a language in its own right.~~

~~Although honestly I'm not sure how much of this is Scots and how much is just specific to Scottish twitter lol~~

So actually having done some more reading this isn't Scots - I'm fairly sure this is Scottish English which is somewhat a merging of Scots with English.

[–] BluesF@feddit.uk 6 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure that's something I want. It takes days to climb Everest! I don't want to play for days just to climb a procedurally generated mountain that probably doesn't have anything on top of it. Or at best has some random shit that you can find everywhere else.

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