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Does the human body rapidly discharge into air or something?
Does the human body rapidly discharge into air or something?
Okay, so you’re insulated from ground. The generator charges you up. You are at the same charge as the generator. You let go of the generator. Why is there a potential difference?
Thing that confuses me is that when you let go, you should have the same charge as the generator. No charge difference, no arc. Unless I’m wrong about something, which I probably am (hence my confusion).
Why wouldn’t the electrons go to ground through your body while you’re touching it?
Typically it does flow better, but I have a little mental stumble every time someone uses “woman” or “women” as an adjective. I know why they’re doing it and I can’t really fault them, it just… feels off.
It’s so long, especially if you get turned around. Which is easy to do, since it violates one of the core rules of combat level design: have a clear path forward. And it’s interspersed with “puzzles” that are really just exercises in frustration.
There’s a specific command to skip the ocean house, but I didn’t mind that. I wish I could skip the damned sewers.
We started deploying malaria vaccines!
Mallory Chipman is wonderful.
We actually got more energy out than we put in recently, but that was in a research reactor and it will take some time to make it actually large-scale feasible. Fission would be completely sufficient on its own if not for the politics. Greenpeace has more blood on their hands than the captain of the Exxon Valdez.
I just fell off the couch.
Maybe just because we don’t understand it, but the ancient Sumerian bar joke:
A dog entered into a tavern and said, ‘I cannot see anything. I shall open this one.’
This would indeed result in no more war, at all. I fail to see the problem. (Besides that it wouldn’t work, of course – but it’s a nice fantasy.)
Does it actually annoy people? Wow, that makes it even funnier.
Habits can be adaptive, but addictions are more about external drugs hacking the brain. And highly refined and addictive drugs didn’t really exist in the ancestral environment. (Alcohol was first refined ~9000 years ago, which isn’t enough time to evolve an anti-addiction mechanism.)
Rimworld is awesome. But I guess I was thinking in terms of “all crops” being one type of food source. In Rimworld, you can’t get multi-year droughts that make growing anything almost impossible. In real life, you can.
Interesting! I didn’t know that, but it makes sense.
I would suspect a correlation more with climate. If it’s temperate, you don’t shower as much as when you’re hot and sweaty all the time.
Also, geothermal power exists.
The Romans were really, really good at making concrete. Like most “ancient secrets”, it’s been overblown by sensationalist pop-historians, but they were still really good at it. IIRC they figured out that if you mix volcanic ash in with your concrete, it becomes stronger when exposed to water, not weaker.
edit: exposed, not exposed
Deathists I guess?
I see. Would there also be an arc if you put your hand near the generator while it was running, then?