Tom Vaid

materials chemistry, electrochemistry, batteries.

3 degrees of Kevin Bacon

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@erikphoel We need a total and complete shutdown of the social sciences until we figure out what the hell is going on.

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@JankoWa28734531 @VeryBannable @VaibhavSisinty Radiation, not conduction or convection.

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@JNicholsonInDC Telemarketers broke that social contract, starting in the 1980s. They would often call at dinnertime. Extremely annoying.

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@Mlambm @kitten_beloved @cremieuxrecueil No, they will be in a high-altitude polar orbit, so they are in constant sunlight.

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@kitten_beloved @cremieuxrecueil Apparently we don't, at least not fast enough for Elon. The turbine blades in gas power plants are some crazy specialized single-crystal alloy that are long back-ordered right now.

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@kitten_beloved @cremieuxrecueil Solar cells are significantly more efficient up there, where the light doesn't have to travel through the atmosphere. And in sunlight 24/7 if you use a polar orbit, so no batteries needed. It's all about the power supply.

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@OskarLeonetti @fermatslibrary Compare that to changing the measurement unit from the Planck length to a light year. That changes the same exponent by 169. Just nothing by comparison.
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@OskarLeonetti @fermatslibrary Let me explain it this way. The big number is not exact, it's just an estimate. Let's imagine the exponent is 10^119.0001 instead of 10^119. The difference between those two numbers is 2.3 x 10^115. Unimaginably huge. (And that's the change in the number in the exponent!)
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@n0123456790 @fermatslibrary No. You don't seem to have understood what I wrote.

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@Hockyluv21 @avidseries They certainly took off on Twitter.

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@nyttypos @katrosenfield @BovyMaltz What a bad faith comment. You understand very well that both the book and the op-ed are not about the "concept of heterosexuality," but about contemporary women's attitudes about being straightforwardly "straight."

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@SokobanHero @Michael_Druggan @ludwigABAP @littmath Prescient, well done. (It took a couple of extra months, but close enough.)

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@HenriDeMarsay @timecaptales You can hear this very performance live!
https://t.co/dbIEFR9wEE

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@timecaptales This mix isn't what actually played on SNL. The girls were wasted and the sound mix was awful on the real show.

Here's a link to the REAL performance (not studio track over the top)
https://t.co/grcO2NXgGl

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@AndrewZywiecMD @SwipeWright @ValidScience Are you laughing at me? Very weird. I wrote a PhD thesis, supervised some as an advisor, and served on the committee of others.

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@SwipeWright @ValidScience Those are not coauthors. Those are just his PhD advisor and the members of his PhD committee, as almost always listed in a thesis. He is the sole author.

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@joelwatsonfish @psychiel You're using a professional mathematician's notation and jargon. Of course it's true, but we're looking for some intuition for non-mathematicians.

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@CaitlinPacific @GerkenB They wanted a second, larger flag, but it wasn't a staged event.
https://t.co/DdNW44Uk0I

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@mmiliard @DominoRxxx @daveanthony Time After Time was my least favorite song.

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@LukeHosey @unixandthings @JDHamkins Significant figures

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@HarryHole6 @fermatslibrary That is incorrect, it is a real quote.