I imagine that a Pharaoh might have some servant or priest to look after the royal, and therefore holy, dildos.
Also, I'll bet heating up a dildo a bit and having a dildo that has been chilled for quick, agonizing, wonderful swapsies like people do with glass ones these days is something that a servant or priest would be in charge of.
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valhalla13013 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered Userregular
Could one of you fine people explain to me why there can't be green stars? I've read what info I can find, but I don't understand it.
Could one of you fine people explain to me why there can't be green stars? I've read what info I can find, but I don't understand it.
This image might help:
From what I'm gathering from wikipedia, the way black bodies (which a star almost is) work is that in order to release that green light, you also need to release both red and blue? Which would make the star look white, and thus, no green stars.
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Tynnanseldom correct, never unsureRegistered Userregular
Could one of you fine people explain to me why there can't be green stars? I've read what info I can find, but I don't understand it.
The short version is this: objects emit light corresponding to their temperature (blackbody radiation). Hot objects, like stars, emit light across a wide range of wavelengths including the visible spectrum. So every visible star emits some amount of light in every visible wavelength.
When our eyes interpret color information, we receive that information through three filters: red, blue, and green. The relative intensity of light through each filter determines how our brain identifies the color. There is no star that emits a great majority of its light in green wavelengths, and so our eyes don't perceive any star to be green. There are stars that emit more blue, or more red, as they are hotter or cooler respectively, but stars in between those will appear white.
Our sun actually has a peak emission near green, but that peak isn't sufficiently greater than the other visible light the sun emits, so it appears white.
Could one of you fine people explain to me why there can't be green stars? I've read what info I can find, but I don't understand it.
This image might help:
From what I'm gathering from wikipedia, the way black bodies (which a star almost is) work is that in order to release that green light, you also need to release both red and blue? Which would make the star look white, and thus, no green stars.
I think this image is better for visualizing the effect at work here:
Our sun is somewhere near the 6000 Kelvin line, in the center. So it emits more-or-less evenly across the whole visible spectrum and therefore its light is interpreted as white by our visual system.
I wonder if any of them pharaohs went in for a solid gold dildo
I bet a solid gold dildo would be pretty good
It'd be bloody heavy, especially if it was a real big one.
Hmm, is gold as antibacterial as silver is?
Should be. Probably not as good as brass, silver, or copper though.
Note: Don't stick anything made of brass or copper in your orifices. Your body is pretty acidic, and the copper, zinc, or lead that can leach into your body can be dangerous.
I wonder if any of them pharaohs went in for a solid gold dildo
I bet a solid gold dildo would be pretty good
It'd be bloody heavy, especially if it was a real big one.
Hmm, is gold as antibacterial as silver is?
Should be. Probably not as good as brass, silver, or copper though.
Note: Don't stick anything made of brass or copper in your orifices. Your body is pretty acidic, and the copper, zinc, or lead that can leach into your body can be dangerous.
I wonder if any of them pharaohs went in for a solid gold dildo
I bet a solid gold dildo would be pretty good
It'd be bloody heavy, especially if it was a real big one.
Hmm, is gold as antibacterial as silver is?
Should be. Probably not as good as brass, silver, or copper though.
Note: Don't stick anything made of brass or copper in your orifices. Your body is pretty acidic, and the copper, zinc, or lead that can leach into your body can be dangerous.
But I've been told I'm pretty basic
That just means you need to stop watching Friends.
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I wonder if any of them pharaohs went in for a solid gold dildo
I bet a solid gold dildo would be pretty good
It'd be bloody heavy, especially if it was a real big one.
Hmm, is gold as antibacterial as silver is?
Should be. Probably not as good as brass, silver, or copper though.
Note: Don't stick anything made of brass or copper in your orifices. Your body is pretty acidic, and the copper, zinc, or lead that can leach into your body can be dangerous.
But I've been told I'm pretty basic
That just means you need to stop watching Friends.
This forum and Friends is like a hyper speed Ragnorok cycle.
I wonder if any of them pharaohs went in for a solid gold dildo
I bet a solid gold dildo would be pretty good
It'd be bloody heavy, especially if it was a real big one.
Hmm, is gold as antibacterial as silver is?
Should be. Probably not as good as brass, silver, or copper though.
Note: Don't stick anything made of brass or copper in your orifices. Your body is pretty acidic, and the copper, zinc, or lead that can leach into your body can be dangerous.
But I've been told I'm pretty basic
That just means you need to stop watching Friends.
I wonder if any of them pharaohs went in for a solid gold dildo
I bet a solid gold dildo would be pretty good
It'd be bloody heavy, especially if it was a real big one.
Hmm, is gold as antibacterial as silver is?
Should be. Probably not as good as brass, silver, or copper though.
Note: Don't stick anything made of brass or copper in your orifices. Your body is pretty acidic, and the copper, zinc, or lead that can leach into your body can be dangerous.
But I've been told I'm pretty basic
That just means you need to stop watching Friends.
I never watched Friends
I’m not saying I don’t believe you
but I don’t believe you.
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
I've been listening to A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. A thoroughly entertaining layman's review of our scientific history including some absolutely hilarious tidbits, and a few utterly horrifying ones.
I asked them how much warning we would receive if a similar hunk of rock would come towards us today.
"Oh, probably none," said Anderson breezily. "It wouldn't be visible to the naked eye until it warmed up, and that wouldn't happen until it hit the atmosphere, which would be about one second before it hit the earth."
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I mean, I guess I already knew our civilization could at any time be wiped out by an asteroid, but there's something about the speed that makes it viscerally terrifying. If you happened to be looking up you would have just enough time to see a fireball that filled the sky, but no more than that. No Majora's Mask-style last day on earth, just brief terror followed by annihilation.
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Tynnanseldom correct, never unsureRegistered Userregular
edited July 2018
Maybe someone can correct me on this, but doesn't that quote assume an albedo of zero? Which doesn't typically happen, even with very dark extraterrestrial objects?
Also it would still be emitting, just not in the visual range. So you could still pick it up with an appropriate telescope.
Also also even if that guy is right and we'd have zero warning of the apocalypse, if it's not possible to prevent or prepare for then there's no point in worrying about it.
Maybe someone can correct me on this, but doesn't that quote assume an albedo of zero? Which doesn't typically happen, even with very dark extraterrestrial objects?
It doesn't take a very large meteor to wipe out all life on earth, making detection before impact unlikely. We could certainly see it before impact, but it's far from guaranteed.
The state of our current meteor surveillance may be a lot better today than when the book was written, of course.
Maybe someone can correct me on this, but doesn't that quote assume an albedo of zero? Which doesn't typically happen, even with very dark extraterrestrial objects?
Also it would still be emitting, just not in the visual range. So you could still pick it up with an appropriate telescope.
Also also even if that guy is right and we'd have zero warning of the apocalypse, if it's not possible to prevent or prepare for then there's no point in worrying about it.
The rock that caused the crater was about 1.2mi in diameter. Detecting it with the naked eye from the ground may be very difficult regardless of albedo.
We have detection and tracking of meteors and asteroids, but they're relatively limited, and while there's some overlap in different detection networks we don't have anything like a coherent defense structure to deal with it. We could definitely detect and deal with such impactors (provided they aren't going at galaxy-escape-velocity speeds), but it requires a system we don't have in place right now.
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Should be. Probably not as good as brass, silver, or copper though.
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The lesser known sequel to the Maltese Falcon.
there are steel ones
they are probably much easier to clean and sanitize too
I have to question just what temperature a solid chunk of gold would end up in a society without ready access to climate control.
Waiting for it to get just right...is that the real origin of the Goldilocks story?
It'd be ambient temperature. It'd only take a few minutes in close contact with your body to reach equilibrium with your skin's temp.
Yes, gold has excellent thermal conductivity and a relatively low heat capacity, especially compared to (mostly water) people.
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Also, I'll bet heating up a dildo a bit and having a dildo that has been chilled for quick, agonizing, wonderful swapsies like people do with glass ones these days is something that a servant or priest would be in charge of.
If I was an ancient pharaoh I'd keep all my golden dildos together and have a priest sit on em like a hen with eggs
This image might help:
From what I'm gathering from wikipedia, the way black bodies (which a star almost is) work is that in order to release that green light, you also need to release both red and blue? Which would make the star look white, and thus, no green stars.
The short version is this: objects emit light corresponding to their temperature (blackbody radiation). Hot objects, like stars, emit light across a wide range of wavelengths including the visible spectrum. So every visible star emits some amount of light in every visible wavelength.
When our eyes interpret color information, we receive that information through three filters: red, blue, and green. The relative intensity of light through each filter determines how our brain identifies the color. There is no star that emits a great majority of its light in green wavelengths, and so our eyes don't perceive any star to be green. There are stars that emit more blue, or more red, as they are hotter or cooler respectively, but stars in between those will appear white.
Our sun actually has a peak emission near green, but that peak isn't sufficiently greater than the other visible light the sun emits, so it appears white.
I think this image is better for visualizing the effect at work here:
Our sun is somewhere near the 6000 Kelvin line, in the center. So it emits more-or-less evenly across the whole visible spectrum and therefore its light is interpreted as white by our visual system.
Note: Don't stick anything made of brass or copper in your orifices. Your body is pretty acidic, and the copper, zinc, or lead that can leach into your body can be dangerous.
But I've been told I'm pretty basic
That just means you need to stop watching Friends.
This forum and Friends is like a hyper speed Ragnorok cycle.
I did, however, stop watching after like, season 5 or 6.
But that was when I had cable and Toonami was a thing, so why would I ever not be watching Cartoon Network?
I never watched Friends
I’m not saying I don’t believe you
but I don’t believe you.
Fuck me
Fuck me
I mean, I guess I already knew our civilization could at any time be wiped out by an asteroid, but there's something about the speed that makes it viscerally terrifying. If you happened to be looking up you would have just enough time to see a fireball that filled the sky, but no more than that. No Majora's Mask-style last day on earth, just brief terror followed by annihilation.
Also it would still be emitting, just not in the visual range. So you could still pick it up with an appropriate telescope.
Also also even if that guy is right and we'd have zero warning of the apocalypse, if it's not possible to prevent or prepare for then there's no point in worrying about it.
It doesn't take a very large meteor to wipe out all life on earth, making detection before impact unlikely. We could certainly see it before impact, but it's far from guaranteed.
The state of our current meteor surveillance may be a lot better today than when the book was written, of course.
The rock that caused the crater was about 1.2mi in diameter. Detecting it with the naked eye from the ground may be very difficult regardless of albedo.
We have detection and tracking of meteors and asteroids, but they're relatively limited, and while there's some overlap in different detection networks we don't have anything like a coherent defense structure to deal with it. We could definitely detect and deal with such impactors (provided they aren't going at galaxy-escape-velocity speeds), but it requires a system we don't have in place right now.