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  • psud@aussie.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzBurning Up
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    The words you are looking for are that Fahrenheit is more precise. But it’s not as there are an infinity of numbers between any two integers.

    My thermometer at work which I use for health and safety stuff reports temperature to two decimal places. Had we wanted more precision we could have gone with twenty decimal places. In too big or too small metric units we use multipliers - metres are too small for long distances so we use kilometres (thousands of metres), metres are too big for construction so we use millimetres (thousandths of metres)

    Where Celcius degrees are too big, people (scientists, since whole degrees or a single decimal is enough for everyone else) use milikelvins


  • psud@aussie.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzunwatchable!!
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    We have proteins in our diets that our body could use intact, however our digestion breaks those down and we absorb the amino acids and rebuild the needed proteins.

    No protein survives digestion. It’s really quite surprising that some prions do survive and fuck us up



  • psud@aussie.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzBurning Up
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    The high end of 0 to 100 is nice for boiling, when I’m making beer at the boiling stage the number on the scale goes from somewhere below 25 to 100 and so the end point is obvious

    We boil water quite a lot, though we often aren’t tracking the temperature

    Most of the time the temperature scale that’s best is the one you know. I don’t know of any case where Fahrenheit is objectively best (like Celcius is when water is involved) but I think the best argument for Celcius is it is used in science, so American scientists start a step behind all the others by having to learn a new system. Given neither have any great advantage I reckon it’s worth America changing to make things better for American scientists



  • psud@aussie.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzunwatchable!!
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    3 days ago

    With the sucking venom out of a bite memes they always warned that you needed good mouth health as the venom getting into your blood through a cut or sore would be dangerous, suggesting that venom could be safely ingested

    Our digestive system is pretty good at talking apart proteins




  • psud@aussie.zonetoMemes@lemmy.mlDecision time
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    Linux + postfix (SMTP) + dovecot (IMAP and POP3) + SPF + DKIM on the host

    Point the MX record for your domain to your IP address

    Contact your ISP and ask them to set the PTR record for your IP to your hostname

    Mail can be handled by a very low end computer, a raspberry pi can handle email for a small number of users

    If you have a specific mail machine you would forward the ports you use to that host on your router.


  • psud@aussie.zonetoMemes@lemmy.mlDecision time
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    I self host email. Email is easy. I went a tad overboard with database configuration, a configuration/password change program, a few virtual hosts so I can renew six different names, but a single domain on a Linux box (any flavour) is easy

    It makes it easy to make a bespoke email address for every entity you interact with, or show them the respect they deserve by giving your valid email spam@your.domain.tld

    It is a bit of a hobby though. You need to keep up with email security if you want to send to anyone.








  • psud@aussie.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzBurning Up
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    Can you feel the difference between 23.5° and 24? I can’t. You don’t often need precision to tenths.

    In Australia most weather providers give you whole degrees, the bureau of meteorology gives you to one decimal in reports and whole degrees in forecasts

    My coffee and beer boilers can hit high precision temperatures to variously 0.1° or 0.5° precision. The beer boiler gives 3 digits - hundredths below 10°, tenths below 100°, whole numbers 100° and over

    You can choose the precision of thermometers you wish to buy for yourself

    I have seen fahrenheit thermometers which are hard to read to better precision than 5 degrees



  • psud@aussie.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzLaunches
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    Picture going for a very tight periapse in a highly elliptical orbit. Now make the periapse lower. Lower still, within the atmosphere or below the surface of the thing you’re trying to hit. If you don’t plan on arriving alive it’s much cheaper to arrive like a meteor


  • psud@aussie.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzLaunches
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    So you have ~30km/s in a near circular orbit. You interact with a gravity well to point your vector at the Sun (a highly elliptical orbit). Sure you’re carrying enough energy to come out of that with a very high aposol, but with the perisol within the Sun that energy will convert to heat

    You don’t need to kill all your earth orbit speed to hit Earth, just enough to aerobrake

    You don’t need to kill all your lunar orbital energy to hit the moon if you’re happy to lithobrake

    No one is talking about reaching the surface of the sun alive