Carchomatic

7785 pts ยท January 20, 2014


Took me too long to get this

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well I wouldn't be so polite about him, but yes that's the one!

2 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Someone has been watching Landman

2 weeks ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh huh. Guess it's been a while since I've been there. Are Metrocards gone?

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What is an omnicar?

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

NATO's Article 5, the collective defense clause, has been invoked only once in the alliance's history, following the September 11, 2001. While I try to be hopeful that Europe will band together in defense of Greenland, somehow I doubt it

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Police training includes NEVER stand in front of a car. I'm also sure it also says something about not holding your fucking phone in one hand while pulling your pistol with the other. Not that ICE douchbags get any training.

2 months ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 4

Well he did cover Hurt by Nine Inch Nails

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Well he did cover Hurt by Nine Inch Nails

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

IT'S PRONOUNCED IMGUR!!

2 months ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

You were obligated to share

4 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Ok I like the bottom one obviously, but these two pics are taken from different places. Find the orange cylinders on the top pic. Is it so different fo real?

4 months ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 4

Here's what I'm thinking, assuming it is real. If the camera is travelling to our left (clockwise), then we could see the outer moon moving faster. We also know that Jupiter rotates counterclockwise at 43,000 km/hr at the equator. As long as the craft is travelling more slowly, Jupiter would appear to travel clockwise as it seems to be here. Throw in some zoom and who knows, this could track

5 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I find this hysterical too, but don't forget that Obama didn't really deserve the prize either. Droning the shit out of Afghanis and Iraqis is not so peaceful.

5 months ago | Likes 62 Dislikes 5

As for the "slow" part, it depends on what you mean. If you mean that there are only a few pewpews per second, different radioactive elements will decay at different rates. Let's assume this is a chunk of Uranium, which happens to decay VERY slowly, so we'd expect to see few pewpews.
If you mean the actual speed of the individual little bullets, well alpha particles fly out at around 5% the speed of light. Slow compared to electromagnetic radiation, which is just various forms of light.

5 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

So what we're watching is most likely alpha decay, and is one type of nuclear radiation. This happens when you have an atom which is too big for it's own good and is unstable (barely holding together). Eventually it can't hold and flings a small chunk of itself off (decays). That part is completely random, we can never tell exactly when a specific atom within that sample will decay. It seems random because it very much is :)

5 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

If you're talking about electromagnetic radiation like radio, microwaves, visible light, gamma, etc, then you are not wrong. While they can be focused into small points for directional use, they are often just broadcast in all directions like a constant ever-expanding (and weakening) bubble of energy. What you are seeing here is called Alpha Decay, and is a one type of nuclear decay/radiation.

5 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Almost forgot. What you are seeing here is called Alpha Decay, and is a one type of nuclear decay/radiation.

5 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If you're talking about electromagnetic radiation like radio, microwaves, visible light, gamma, etc, then you are not wrong. While they can be focused into small points for directional use, they are often just broadcast in all directions like a constant ever-expanding (and weakening) bubble of energy.

5 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Copy/pasting from a different response. "Radiation" just means to move out from a center point. Light from a bulb, bicycle wheel spokes radiate from the hub, etc. Here the Uranium atoms are unstable (very shaky) and occasionally fling off a small chunk of themselves, which we call an Alpha particle (2 protons + 2 neutrons). Once that's done, that particular atom is no longer Uranium. But there are so many gazillions of Uranium atoms in a sample that size that the decay will last for a LONG time.

5 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

"Radiation" just means to move out from a center point. Light radiates from a bulb, the spokes on a bicycle wheel radiate out from the hub, etc. In this case the Uranium atoms are unstable (very very shaky) and occasionally fling off a small chunk of themselves, which we call an Alpha particle (2 protons + 2 neutrons). Once that's done, that particular atom is no longer Uranium. But there are so many gazillions of Uranium atoms in a sample that size that the decay will last for a LONG time.

5 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

In 2018 I think it was, Trump doled out 12 billion for farmer relief. Then another 16 billion. You think these farmers are voting against their interests? They voted for him BECAUSE he hands out money to his voters. They're just waiting again for the big cash dump. This of course applies to the rich farming companies. Small farmers, well they'll get something

5 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I would buy that comic in a second.

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But what is actually doing teh detonation? Nuclear explosions are a very specific thing. You want a fission bomb? You need to split Uranium or Plutonium, in VERY specific ways. You want fusion? You need very specific types of hydrogen. Otherwise the only energy transfer here is kinetic (the clap) to heat

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah I hear this a lot and I don't get it. Thanos is just more powerful than the Hulk...full stop

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Not sure what energy is released without air, maybe heat? Even with air, its still omnidirectional. No way he can direct that with any precision whatsoever

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You don't think that's reaching just a bit? I get it, comics ignore physics, but really? A clap in space?

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wow, the excuses here are epic. Hydrogen atoms????

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

You didn't rage-post this to some rightwing account after just reading the title. You got nothing to worry bout

6 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0