Re:The Best Timed Shot in TV History (Probably)
by Infernal on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @07:57AM
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Can you help me understand why air is (relatively) more viscous the smaller you are? Does it have something to do with the volume (mass) of an object growing faster than the surface area available to support it in the air? Or is it something else?
Re:The Best Timed Shot in TV History (Probably)
by FiatLuxDave on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @09:13AM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_number
Read down until 'similarity of flows'
Re:The Best Timed Shot in TV History (Probably)
by somat on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @10:48AM
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Here is an interesting paper on the topic.
https://cooperlab.wustl.edu/PracticalAdvice/Purcell%201977.p...
Re:The Best Timed Shot in TV History (Probably)
by jstanley on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @02:15PM
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I have similar thoughts on Robery Murray-Smith, however I remain subscribed because "Rule Thinkers In, Not Out"[1]: he says enough things that are new to me that I find him worthwhile to listen to, even if I have to subsequently think hard about it and verify it before I trust it.
[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/u8GMcpEN9Z6aQiCvp/rule-think...
Re:The Best Timed Shot in TV History (Probably)
by fho on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @04:30PM
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He is definitely entertaining enough that I still consume his (thankfully short) videos.
In think some of his videos are directly inspired by pages like https://507movements.com/mm_100.html ... So you might like that too :-)
After watching his videos every day for months now I am still not sure where on the "technical genius" to "free energy advocate" spectrum I should place him.
I mean most of his builds are technically correct (e.g. most of his generators produce a voltage), but he often glosses over details that in practice make the idea unfeasible (e.g. a voltage does not help you if the generator can not provide enough current).
Other times he is just wrong ... just because whales and "tree-spinning-things" have similar "wings" does not mean that you can blow up the same shape to a wind turbine size. (The reason behind that is that the smaller you get the more viscous air becomes (relatively) ... flies and other small insects literally swim through the air because of that. Imo that could be an explanation why the tree-spinny-things have a similar shape, they are just small enough that they "swim", too.)