Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

HCGLNS

HCGLNS

@Li3n said:
Wouldn't you just pass out ?
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Really depends on the state of the craft.

No power = they quietly freeze to death in the dark. No pain, little anxiety.
Limited power = CO2 scrubbers can't keep up, they hyperventilate to death in agony, high anxiety.
Full power but stuck = o2 runs out slow painless death with high initial anxiety followed by quiet stupor.
Rupture = they never knew it was coming and death was instantaneous, horrifying to us but faster than the human brain can process to them

Like this,


but temperature in the millions of degrees Celsius.
 
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PatrThom

PatrThom

Think of it like this, too. Imagine what it would be like to be trapped inside of a subway tunnel between stations. Now imagine two trains collide with you in the middle, except that the trains weigh 8 million pounds each and slam into you at about 110MPH. Oh, and they’re actually made of below-freezing-yet-still-liquid water. The interior volume of the sub (and everything in it!) would be indiscriminately crushed until its internal pressure matched that of the outside. The solid metal bits wouldn’t shrink, but anything easily deformable (plastic, rubber, …flesh) would be explosively crammed into/between anything that had space to hold it, like crushing a limo with 5 people in it, except with 3x the force and 1000’s of times the speed.

—Patrick
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

GasBandit said:
But in a submarine or spaceship, usually the oxygen is replaced by carbon dioxide, which triggers the hypercapnic alarm response. You die gasping, panicked, and in agony.
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Right, CO is teh one that kills you without noticing...

Apparently CO2 needs a concentration of 30%+ to kill you fast.

GasBandit said:
In comparison, a sub implosion at 4000m kills you faster than it takes the neuron impulse to reach your brain.
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TIL, master Ultra Instinct before going deep sea diving...
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Some of my relatives think Godwin's Law still means the first person to mention Nazis loses the argument. I'm putting this here so I can remind them next time they have the audacity that Godwin's Law is a quaint relic of the before-times, when Nazis were still ancient theoretical hollywood boogiemen, instead of a resurgent domestic threat.

 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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This absolute fool, dummkopf that he is, assumed that Bob was working a mere 40 hours a week (530.27/40=$13.26). There is every indication that Scrooge worked him Sunup to Sundown, 12 hours a day, 60 hours a week. Which means Bob was making 530.27/60 = $8.84/hr.

... which is still higher than the federal minimum wage today.

 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

You know that old saying "Anyone under 35 voting GOP has no soul and anyone over 34 voting DEM is an idiot."

Is the rise of racism currently just the boomer bubble?
 
blotsfan

blotsfan

HCGLNS said:
You know that old saying "Anyone under 35 voting GOP has no soul and anyone over 34 voting DEM is an idiot.
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For what its worth, while millenials hitting that age are turning conservative on the aggregate, its happening at a significantly smaller rate than in previous generations.
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

I would guess that has to do with the fact that at that age is when people get to the "I got mine, and no one else should get a dime of it!" mind set, except that Millennials never got any to begin with.

One would hope it would have to do with the bigotry, racism, misogyny, etc., but let's not kid ourselves.
 
Tress

Tress

It also has to do with evolving social norms. People’s views on social issues don’t necessarily change that much as they get older. I think that often the things that were liberal when we were younger become commonly accepted when we’re adults (ex: gay marriage), meaning that it doesn’t feel especially progressive anymore. Then, when you get to your senior years, the things you believed in your younger days are now old fashioned. You turn to the party that caters to your now old-fashioned sensibilities (like the GOP).

Of course this is just an overall trend and will not be true for every individual.
 
Dave

Dave

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And there goes affirmative action. We are truly living in the worst timeline with the most regressive idiot imaginable running things.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Good news, though. It’s only RACE-based Affirmative Action that was struck down, so you can still enroll people who speak different languages, are from different socio-economic strata, are affiliated with different political parties/religions/sports teams, etc.
…just so long as they’re all White.

—Patrick
 
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