8akesale

radio astronomer

you cannot keep me off zhe telescopes
late 20s
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ΘΔ, you know how it is wizh spaghetti

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7x9000
@7x9000 asked:

Favorite type of Sci-Fi spaceship? Fighter, Frigate, Destroyer, Cruiser, Captial, etc.
And any one in specific? (For example, I honestly love how bullshit the [SUPER REDACTED] from Starsector is.)

god i'm a SLUT for a hybrid exploration/research vessel. token armaments, optimized for small crew operations and large FTL range, bristling wizh scanners, and a king size bed + full wall external window for zhe chief science officer (me)

nozhing specific zhough, i don't zhink i watch/read enough spacefaring sci-fi to have encountered anyzhing like zhat



SomeEgrets
@SomeEgrets asked:

okay so, nuclear physics is not really my thing...

a couple days ago, you mentioned that iron doesn't fuse into heavier elements - i remember reading this is because that's the point where the nucleus becomes heavy enough that fusion no longer releases net positive energy

so what's the deal with heavier elements? are they using the energy released by remaining lighter elements to provide the energy to fuse heavier-than-iron atoms? or something else?

so zhe deal wizh iron being a starkiller is zhat zhe star needs to be constantly producing energy to prevent gravitational collapse.

zhe zhing about supernovae is zhat zhere is just an ABSURD amount of energy present, and zhe vast majority of it is pure excess.

Abyzz

a yinglet wearing a lab coat, talking with ears raised

wizh all zhis extra energy around, zhe energy-consuming fusion pazhways have absolutely no issues finding zhe energy zhey need to fuse all zhe way to uranium