[-] birbs@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

5 years is also the maximum sentence for illegally selling firearms, violent disorder, performing female circumcision, assault, abandoning young children and some cases of sexually assaulting a child.

Basically the same as planning to block a road /s.

[-] birbs@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

I think my lungs just failed.

[-] birbs@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

thank mr skeltal

[-] birbs@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I program for a living and I think of it more as doing the interesting tasks all day, rather than the mundane and repetitive. Chat GPT and GitHub Copilot are great for getting something roughly right that you can tweak to work the way you want.

[-] birbs@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

There are companies trying to bring airships back. The Airlander 10 is expected to be flying flights over Spain in 2026.

[-] birbs@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

I just started playing MGS for the first time! When I was a kid MGS was one of those "grown up" games I couldn't play. I picked up a copy from a retro game store a few weeks ago and finally sat down to play at the weekend. I see what all the hype is about, it's like diving into a 90s espionage thriller. Looking forward to playing further!

[-] birbs@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

Best of luck, get well soon

[-] birbs@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

I'm British, visited an anthropology museum last week and left feeling angry. Give it all back.

[-] birbs@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Human terminal velocity is roughly 56 m/s. Let's say our superhero wants to decelerate the person at 10G, which should be survivable for a short period. That would be 0.6 seconds of deceleration over 48 m. That's a short time but quite a long distance, let's slow down faster:

20G -> 0.28 seconds, 24 m.

30G -> 0.19 seconds, 16 m.

50G -> 0.11 seconds, 9.6 m.

100G -> 0.057 seconds, 4.79 m.

200G -> 0.029 seconds, 2.45 m.

5000G -> 0.0011 seconds, 3.6 inches.

A 40 mph car crash in a modern car into a solid wall gives around 15G.

F1 driver David Purley survived a 180G crash in 1977.

In short, I don't recommend catching someone with 3 inches to spare.

[-] birbs@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago

Comments like this are why I like Lemmy, y'all are good people.

[-] birbs@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

The book is Sacred and Terrible Air, it was written in Estonian but there are a couple of English fan translations. I enjoyed it. https://www.reddit.com/r/DiscoElysium/s/iVcX04yIRV

[-] birbs@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

This headline is sensationalized. Only the blood flow to the brain was isolated from the rest of the body, and the brain was not removed during the procedure (it was removed post-mortem to study how the procedure affected the brain).

The main purpose of the study was to separate blood flow to the brain from the rest of the body to make it easier to test the effect of drugs on the brain, without having the rest of the body's response to the drugs interfere with the results.

Since the process is similar to the heart lung bypass which is already used on humans during heart surgery, this research may eventually lead to better heart lung bypass methods. The current methods can cause problems in the brain for a few reasons including differing blood flow, air and particles getting into the blood, and the body's inflammation response.

Source: PhD in this area.

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