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people are always asking me, “what’s a flowchart for your process?” and i am always saying “Thhhank yoou foorr heellppinngg… I neeedd 2 moorree ffoodss… 1 hour and 59 minutes. Please hurry! Ghostkersandwich and Almost Gummy Rat (Lime)”

tumbleweed takeover at nevada national security site

the tumblr iceberg

lume dali exhibit jumpscare in the music tag. like hey i was just there

trying to explain the genshin reactor to this twitch streamer but he keeps making leon dbd sounds at me and i’m on the magnesium compounds wikipedia page because there’s more oxygen by mass (65%) in the human body than water by volume (60% at minimum, but if you’re more hydrated this increases the difference since the majority of the oxygen content is molecularly bound as water) and thermolysis of water occurs at temperatures 45 thousand times lower (2200c) than operational tokamaks (100m c minimum)

so the residue they would have to scrub off after you jump in and immediately quench the superconducting magnets would probably be magnesium carbonate or oxide (this depends on temperature upon contact, i think, but magnesium is what stellar fusion does to oxygen) maybe with a bit of neon (from the carbon), or deuterium and tritium (which would at that point be indistinguishable from fuel fusion products) and honestly, by either volume or mass, more than anything, this would generate occupational health and safety paperwork. if i had to guess

actually my real guess is “there’s not a hatch for that, you’d have to deconstruct the magnet assembly to get inside at all, and if there was it would quench as soon as it lost vacuum. you’d probably still melt (in the sense of thermal debonding to constituent elements). it would be a race over a matter of seconds to burn to death before the fairly extreme coolant saps the residual heat, but due to the negative pressure from the vacuum accelerating your descent, the heat would probably win. in truly realistic practice, the fission canard applies: you would get shot by a security guard long before you ever approached the reactor”

anyway if you wanted to fact check the genshin reactor you would have to dig into chinese financial disclosures for either mihoyo or energy singularity in fiscal years 2021-2023 (announced in 2022, i don’t know which year they recognized the expenditure) but as far as i can tell they really did invest in that, and i don’t know why you would lie about it when it’s a comparatively milquetoast investment for the 21st century

due to yuan-to-dollar exchange rate they’ve already “lost” millions of dollars – the amount they invested is worth less when converted to USD than it was 2yrs ago. this does not consider whether they bought stock or whether its price changed, but i think they invested in the form of venture capital. it seems premature to conject about loss due to currency conversion before it becomes clear whether the dollar is crashing, but i would also not call fusion a wise investment unless you’re planning to ride the hype and sell before Q>1 (net energy gain)

as a minor note, this has been wrongly stated as “a $65m investment” (2022 dollars, $55m 2024 dollars), but in truth it was a 400m yuan funding round “led by” mihoyo, with a handful of other funders including nio, sequoia, and bluerun (mihoyo did not front all 400m yuan, just an unspecified majority of it). this has also been wrongly reported as billions in a couple places, unless i’m wrongly reporting millions