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Correct me if I'm wrong, but from my understanding, it's only impossible for an object with mass to accelerate to the speed of light. If something was magically accelerated to above c, it wouldn't break any rules to stay above c.

So what would happen in a collision between a slow object and something moving faster than c?

Like, I understand the water cycle, it comes and it goes, y'know, ezpz, but the shit that fucks me up though is like...what is a river? How? How does infinite water pour through corporeal crevices carved into the bosom of the Earth to thunce flow endlessly and forever?

Like, you can't tell me that a gajillion gallons of water is flowing from the precipice of Mt St Fuck You in all directions at a continuous pace because global warming be evaporating a blanket of non-stop rain free falling back onto itself to predicate the whole situation forward another peg!

But, what the fuck? It rains sometimes, and that's how rivers work? What is this shit? Now, I'm playing in character because obviously we all know that the Earth isn't real and we are each experiencing our own, unique parallel reality as a monad in a monadic nodal communication system, obviously, and that water's in your head dear but, really, how tf does the average person believe this insane bullshit about how rivers are a natural feature formed from simple erosinal fluid dynamics? It is insane to me how unthunkable these mouth breathers are.

Hi everyone,

A few years ago I tried to melt aluminium using an old steel fire extinguisher as crucible. This was done in a homemade foundry using coke as fuel.

Me having no patience, I tried getting the temperature up as fast as possible and a hole was melted in the crucible, producing a very bright light.

Could the molten aluminum have reacted with the rusty steel fire extinguisher to produce thermite?

(I’m not advocating violence against worms. I like and protect them, they’re good for my garden. This question has been bugging me for a while and it doesn’t make sense. )

Or is it about the same, as the distance I'm traveling vertically remains unchanged?

I have a cold sore on my lips right now. Normally I would sleep on my own when that happens, but I'm going away for a while, so my girlfriend wanted to sleep together, even though she really doesn't want to catch the herpes virus. Unfortunately she got too close to my pillow and it briefly touched her face. She panicked and had to get up, saying she can feel her skin tingle and dry up. I was really confused, because I'd been pretty sure that it takes much more time than that for any infection or immune reaction to develop that would have a perceivable effect, so I thought it was perhaps psychological, but she got cross with me, like I'm denying something obvious.

What happens when your body gets into contact with a virus? How does the infection start? Can you feel them on your skin?

Like this scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qav7NJIsKL4

Hello! I have a question!

I've been just skimming about Carbon Capture and Sequestration, and how scientists research naturally occurring CCS as it pertains to photosynthesis in plants.

I wanted to ask what sort of discoveries have been made in this area! It seems really interesting. I wonder what research is being done to maybe combat climate change through bio-engineering, like, really really carbon-hungry plants? Or maybe Reforestation efforts in order to make big forests that eat up carbon!

In addition, I'm wondering if we've seen any natural reaction to climate change in this area. Part of my (rudimentary) understanding of natural adaptation is that we will sometimes see things adapt to the circumstances that humans have caused, like the new fungus that eats radiation in Chernobyl, or new microbes that eat plastic that we've seen.

Have we seen any sort of natural reaction to increased carbon in the atmosphere? Have we seen any cool plants or little fellas evolve to munch carbon more effectively? Or maybe we've seen much faster growth or bigger plants on average because there's so much carbon for them?

I'm just kinda in an excited mood and wanted to ask about cool stuff. Please share all your cool stuff.

I just learned, while in a Wikipedia rabbit hole, about the Ashley Treatment, part of which involves pre-emptive closing of growth plates.

He was killed by, if memory serves, a foot infection, being unable to properly fight it as a direct result of his height. So, you can see where I'm going with this.

And yes, I know it wasn't invented until like 40 years after he was born.

If this is not true then what is the supposed light caused by? Or does the brain just say, "fuck it one more blast and i'm outtta here"?