▲ 26 r/AskScienceFiction
[Star Wars] How likely was it that there were multiple Sith master/apprentice teams throughout the galaxy, each knowing nothing about the other(s)?
reddit.comu/NeonGreenMothership — 6 hours ago
[Alien] How did Dallas and Lambert manage to pull an incapacitated Kane back up through the entrance of the "cave" on the derelict alien ship and walk more than a mile back to the Narcissus?
reddit.comu/NeonGreenMothership — 6 hours ago
[Batman Begins] What did Bruce typically do from day-to-day after he joined the League of Shadows?
It seems like he personally trained with "Ducard" and was being reared as a general for the League. But was there any social aspects? Celebrations? Group fighting lessons? Philosophical discussions?
BONUS: when did Bane join, and what was his day-to-day life like in the League?
u/NeonGreenMothership — 4 days ago
▲ 15 r/AskScienceFiction
[Star Trek: TNG, "Encounter at Farpoint"] How strong was Q's force field, and what was it composed of?
Can the force field bend or be punctured? Can it be torn or compressed? And what would be its chemical composition?
u/NeonGreenMothership — 19 days ago
▲ 2 r/homestead
Can anyone please interpret what this comment on natural water purification means? I'm new to water purification and would like to start off accurately as possible.
This clip (link at bottom) has a comment that says, "11:04 the solar disinfection (SODIS) method employed by the UN and international relief agencies specifies using PET containers between 1 and 2 liters for disinfecting clear water. They specifically recommend against using glass containers because they can block UV light. Food jars are sometimes produced with additional UV blocking to better preserve food quality. If the conditions are partly cloudy, then a full 48 hours is required f9r sterilization in a PET bottle.
"The observed difference between e coli and total coliform after UV exposure has been studied by various organizations. E coli and other coliform pathogens that have developed antibiotic resistance do so by producing additional proteins. It turns out that these proteins afford significant UV resistance, as well. Different coliform pathogens have varying UV resistance to begin with. Thus, the observed residual of e coli and total coliform after UV treatment demonstrates the effect of uv blocking by that specific jar, exposure to less than 48 hours, and the likely presence of antibiotic resistant coliform as a fraction of the original sample population.
"Take away: boil water and/or use chem disinfection when possible. Use PET for SODIS for at least 48 hours, tho IMO 72 hours is the way to go."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bOKlW3M7vFY&lc=Ugxt5OeIxSOpvcwa3ZF4AaABAg&si=GbFv2UN2mabcSweR
u/NeonGreenMothership — 2 months ago
▲ 21 r/AskScienceFiction
[John Carpenter's The Thing] Say Norris-Thing was x-rayed before he turned. What would the X-ray reveal?
Would he still look like a normal human?
u/NeonGreenMothership — 2 months ago
Learning formal logic and tackling Russell's Paradox.
I understand that elemental to the paradox is set theory. From what I know, a set can contain a set of itself, and a set can contain a set that does not contain itself. Is there a practical way to understand this?
As for the paradox, a set such that all sets x cannot contain themselves seems, on the surface, plausible. But I think I'm missing the "aha" understanding, and I'm curious to see if there is a suggested way of going about comprehending it in full.
Someone in a past post gave the example of a teacher saying that there is an exception to every rule. The student took her rule of exceptions as a rule that can carry an exception, which contradicted the original rule (i.e., by all rules having exceptions, such a rule cannot have an exception), creating a paradox: the rule invalid only if the rule is valid.
Is this an apt analogy?
u/NeonGreenMothership — 2 months ago