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What is the One Ring Made of?

In The Fellowship of the Ring Gandalf drops the ring in the fire to reveal its hidden writing. Before depositing it in Frodo's hand he assures him that the ring is quite cool. This means that the one ring either has a very high or very low heat capacity. Either it's very low and when the ring is dropped in Frodo's hand, much like tinfoil, it has so little heat energy that it dissipates harmlessly. Or it's very high and even though it absorbed a tremendous amount of thermal energy from the fire it was not enough to raise its temperature significantly.

We also know that the one ring is incredibly dense, as is shown when Bilbo drops it on the floor of Bag End and it thuds to the ground instead of bouncing around like a normal gold ring.

So those are the criteria, the one ring is made from an element, or alloy, that has an incredibly high or incredibly low heat capacity and is at least twice as dense as gold.

#physics #chemistry #lord of the rings #the one ring #material science #fantasy

A 10mm Wrench

I witnessed something today, a burial at sea. His last wish was to have his ashes scattered at sea from the ship he spent twenty years on as chief engineer. His widow, or some other family member, dropped off his ashes and we were told by the captain that between taking mud samples and monitoring whale calls we'd be having a little ceremony. According to the current chief engineer engineers everywhere can never find a 10mm Wrench, so he tied one to the bag of ashes to make sure that he would always have one with him. We all had a good laugh. The ceremony was a mix of maritime tradition and modern convenience. The ashes were scattered while Amazing Grace played over a tinny Bluetooth speaker, then 8 bells were rung before a moment of silence was observed. None of us knew him, he'd retired while most of us were still in grade school, so no words were spoken other than what was written in the official burial at sea procedure and the mood was one of respectful curiosity. The ceremony was quickly forgotten once we got back to sampling mud and listening for whales.

I witnessed something today, a tradition older than humankind. Our ancestors, sometime between when we were apes and when we were people, buried their dead with their tools. Stone hand axes and wooden spears, things essential for their survival during their life. Ancient Mesopotamian kings were buried with everything they'd needed to rule, precious jewels, fine clothes, sometimes even their servants. Ancient Egyptian peasants buried their loved ones with jars of their favourite preserves, farming tools, bedrolls, housewarming gifts for their farm in the next life.

For longer than we've been people we've witnessed our loved ones cross the veil between life and death, and for longer than we've been people we have been trying to send them into the next life well prepared. So now when I imagine the afterlife, I see ancient man hunting with stone tools and wooden spears, kings ruling in all their splendour, farmers tending their fields, and a chief engineer with his 10mm wrench.

#ancient history #poetry #maritime #marine life #mariners #maritime transport #death #burial at sea #engineering #burial rites #original poem #poem #funeral services #funeral #life after death #10mm

foone

There should be a comic or manga about a maid who is very annoyed with her coworkers because she's trying to clean the mansion and make sure dinner is served on time and all the linens are put away, but she's the only one who is here to do all that. She's an actual Victorian-style housemaid, but the rest of the maids are maids in the hentai/erotica sense.

So she's going to check and see why the paintings in the east wing haven't been dusted, and walks in on the maid responsible getting eaten out by a scullery maid on a pile of dirty laundry. She's like "sigh, just try to do your duties when you're done?"

She's having to work late into the night mopping the kitchen floors because the maids who are supposed to do that have been tied up in the dungeon by the lady of the house for like four days now.

She never gets involved in all this hankypanky. She's way too busy for any of that, since she's having to do all the tasks that are getting interrupted by all the damn sex.

She has to do the grocery shopping herself because everyone else she's tried singing just comes back with alcohol and whipped cream and condoms and that's not going to help with Thursday's lobster bisque dinner, now is it?

She did try to ask the head chef what ingredients they needed for the meal but he just listed off every aphrodisiac food he could think of. She sighs. "The French", she thinks while rolling her eyes.

She is very overworked and sighs a lot. I kinda love this character and she's only existed for the duration of this post. Ace maid!

only-love

The City that Fun Forgot

I've made a Community for Ottawans! Please join if you live here!

Apparently Communities are by invite on right now, so if you want to join, please interact with this post, and I will invite you!

pinballjizzard-official

Re-open 99 Rideau!

cannibalchicken

remma-demma

pinballjizzard-official

Four wangs

hg-aneh

i have no excuses

planetapolilla

Trashy maid collab MAGNE X POLI !!!

@bingus-enjoyer

cannibalchicken

Ancient mariners believed that inscribing these runes on their vessels would ward off danger and protect them from the wrath of the sea.

#solas #ancient history #magic #witchcraft #safety #sailing

I know I removed the thumb drive before ejecting it safely, that's just how I role baby.

#thumbdrive #usb #tech #computer

remy

How is anyone supposed to be normal after that. G-d looked back at me for a minute

animentality

pinballjizzard-official

I wonder what the dyke percentage limit is for a straight man. Probably like 50? I’d find that study

#gay math #lgbt #queer #shitpost #study #academic

preservationofnormalcy

I feel confident enough to post these now. A collection of all the existing posters after some edits from the other post that got 13k notes! These are full size/quality. Go nuts.

You may use them for wallpapers, tabletop campaigns, whatever. Consider tipping me (do people use kofi for that or tumblr's built in system? Let me know what you prefer) or buying a print or sticker here! If you do use them, let me know what for, or send pictures!

escuerzoresucitado

charlesoberonn

Sumerian Veteran: *has severe PTSD but doesn't know it because the term won't be invented for another 5000 years* I fight the same battle in my dreams every night and my relationship with my family has fallen apart.

Sumerian Healer: *saw hundreds of veterans with the exact same affliction before* You're cursed by desert demons.

mr-elementle

actually we have recorded texts of sumerian warriors describing symptoms that closely match ptsd, and the diagnoses was not desert demons, but rather "Those dudes you killed are still attacking you with their ghosts because you killed them"