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[โ€“] m532@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It is possible to get access to nitrogen in antimatter chemistry before entering the nether.

spoilerSulfur can be gotten through colors.

Gears with a casting table, thermal pipes, and the alchemistry liquefier.

And finally, the pulverizer can make niter out of sandstone

[โ€“] zymagoras777@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] m532@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago
[โ€“] mjhelto@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you stare at the elbow of someone you are high-fiving, you'll never miss the high five.

[โ€“] meekah@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I don't think that's esoteric. It's just ergonomics at plat

[โ€“] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Zoop@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

Wow. From everything I could find that he wasn't able to nuke, he sounds like a trip!

[โ€“] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I'm Western esotericism, names have power beyond simply being signifiers for the thing they represent- they embody some part of the thing they represent. The word "fire" contains some intrinsic "fire-ness" but not the whole picture. After all, everyone has different names for the same thing. It is thought that everything has a "true name" that perfectly encapsulates all things about it in their entirety, and this true name could be found by intense study, meditation, or etymology. The Bible pays a lot of attention to names in this way. Adam, the first man, names all the animals. Genesis pays a lot of attention to the names of places, and a lot of stories in Genesis are essentially folk etymologies of locations. God's own name is of special importance, and its meaning was revealed to Moses by the Burning Bush. Even today Jews believe that even saying God's name is powerful and dangerous and that only the High Priest would be allowed to say it once every year during Yom Kippur. Jewish folklore says that even this name is merely a part of God's true name, and that Moses pronounced a longer more complete form of The Name to part the Red Sea, and some systems hold that there are even longer and even more complete forms that have been known to rabbis in the past.

[โ€“] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Okeely-dokelly

[โ€“] mugthol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, so that's where Christopher Paolini got the idea of true names for Eragon!

[โ€“] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's a very old concept and used in fantasy even before Eragon.

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From an old edition of the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge:

An airplane's tire will hydroplane at a speed in knots equal to 9 times the square root of the tire pressure in PSI. So if your tires are inflated to 36 PSI, sq.rt 36 = 6 * 9 = 54 knots. If there is standing water on the runway, you will have no braking authority or steering control from the wheels, you will have to maintain control of the aircraft with the flight controls, and you cannot rely on short field stopping figures from the POH if it requires applying brakes above 54 knots.

I got that out of the 2003 edition; I don't know if it's in the current issue.

[โ€“] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 5 points 11 months ago

I mean I've spent time studying occult stuff, so I guess pretty much the trope codifier.

Turns out they mostly just like to do the macarena. ยฏ\_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

[โ€“] hbar@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Mammals generally get 1.5 billion heart beats in their lifetime regardless of size.

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Everything you learn from being active on Tumblr from late 2012 to now

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