#danielx9

[pocketramblr]

How would BNHA change if all might couldn't buff up?

As in, he can still use strength for 3 hours a day, but there's no physical sign of him buffing up?

That'd be interesting, because two parts of Toshinori would conflict- the part that says if he's physically able to, he must help people, and the part that says a perfect symbol is more needed, more dire. Either he can continue to help people with his waning appearance, or he can retire and ensure the symbol of peace is never seen weakening.

Toshinori is first faced with how temporary a solution his symbol was. That is something that, frankly, he did not think he'd have to deal with in his life.

Then, he is faced with the somewhat comforting reassurance that he will not waste the strength he has left but will have to save people- as many as he can still. more than he can still, even if it hurts.

Finally, he is sure he can save more- do both, do the impossible.

He retires, as All Might, from the public field. I'm not sure how, i'm not sure if it's quick, or slowed, him deliberately pulling more heroes in to smooth the transition. But he tucks All Might away, so that by the time he's physically unrecognizable (and has no way to buff back to that) he's not appearing publically anymore.

He's still fighting though, and saving people. Usually faster than the others can blink, no one even able to report the tall, lanky vigilante with wild yellow hair and a thin smile.

[koshercosplay]

According to midrash, adam wandered the earth naming creatures, what do you think he thought when he first got to australia?

god received a lot of "hey you mind explaining this" emails

[sciencesideanswers]

I was bouncing around tumblr late last night and came across the term "a mole of bees" besides the fact i doubt there is a mole of any living thing on earth, how much space would this take up?

Well,  it actually depends. The definition of mole is:

The mole, symbol mol, is the SI unit of amount of substance. One mole contains exactly 6.02214076 × 1023 elementary entities. This number is the fixed numerical value of the Avogadro constant, NA, when expressed in the unit mol−1 and is called the Avogadro number.

The amount of substance, symbol n, of a system is a measure of the number of specified elementary entities. An elementary entity may be an atom, a molecule, an ion, an electron, any other particle or specified group of particles.

See: Definition of mole (The International System of Units, page 134).

The problematic part is that last one: “any other particle or specified group of particles”.

So… what’s the elementary unit for bees?

Option 1: Elementary particles for bees is a single bee

I think this is the option you had in mind.

If that’s the case, then a mole of bees is 6.02214076 × 1023 bees.

For their size, they vary a lot, so let’s take the minimum and maximum sizes: 2 mm / 39 mm. Let’s assume they are cylindrical to a ratio of 0.25/1, meaning that we would have a minimal bee of 2 mm long and 0.5 mm in girth as a minimum bee, and a maximum bee of 39 mm long with 9.75 mm in girth.

Since we know how to calculate the volume for cylinders (V = r2 × π × h), we can now run some calculations.

Volume of our minimal bee: πr2 h = π · (0.25 mm)2 · 2 mm ≈ 0.3927 mm3

Volume of our maximum bee: π r2 h = π · (4.875 mm)2 · 39 mm ≈ 2,911.8146 mm3

Volume of mole of minimal bees: 0.3927 mm3 · 6.02214076 × 1023 ≈ 2.36 × 1023 mm3 ≈ 236,000 km3

Volume of mole of maximum bees: 2,911.8146 mm3 · 6.02214076 × 1023 ≈ 1.75 × 1027 mm3 ≈ 1,790,000,000 km3

This means that we could fill 55 Grand Canyons with a mole of our minimal bees, or 450,000 Grand Canyons with maximal bees!

Option 2: Elementary particles for bees are organic molecules

This one is a lot more boring. I don’t have good numbers because I could not find any analysis on the chemical composition of the bee body. But because the Avogadro’s constant is meant to equal the number of molecules with their atomic weight, we can make these deductions:

If a bee was made of a single “particle” of Hydrogen (atomic weight ≈ 1), then a mole of bees would be about 1 gram.

If a bee “particle” was made of two atoms of Hydrogen (atomic weight ≈ 1 + 1), then 2 grams.

If two Hydrogens and one Carbon atom (atomic weight ≈ 1 + 1 + 12), then 14 grams.

Let’s say that the “average” bee particle is then 3 H, 2 C, 0.5 N, 1.8 O. (These are totally made up numbers!) In a case like this, the average atomic weight of a bee “particle” would be 50.4, making a mole of bees 50.4 grams.

At that point, you can imagine that a mole of bees would probably be about a fistful of bees.

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[wearepaladin]

If the mute paladin is using 3.5 there are 2 feats that should come in handy, The silence spell and the nonverbal spell metamagic feats.

It’s not so much “we need a feat” as “hey, this rule is kind of exclusionary. Let’s fix that.” 

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danielx9 replied to your post “Venture Capital Taken In divided by Annual Revenue”

please explain more?

Basically every tech startup makes its money not by starting with a small amount, slowly making profits by selling small things and using that money to develop their business (or taking out loans or stuff), but instead by getting huge amounts of money from Venture Capitalists, with the goal of becoming Huge, and only after they are Huge do they start futzing with things (usually adding more ads, selling user data, etc.) to actually make a reasonable profit.

Most of the time this doesn’t work, and so to go along with this, the Venture Capitalists expect many times the amount back to consider it “successful”, further driving the need to Get Huge.

So the specific math I did was look at the Venture Capital money taken in, as a rough indication of how much it “needs to do” (although that number is probably off by a factor of 10 to 30), compared to where it would be if it didn’t have that obligation and its current way of managing itself was stable (its annual income). And specifically, how long it would be at this rate to make a reasonable sided dent in the money that went in, if it had been anything approaching a loan.

[werewolfbneimitzvah]

danielx9 replied to your post “my coworker, a librarian, who works at a library, yelling from another...”

i beg to differ, there's never enough book.

on friday we received 11000 new items at our location. all of them were successfully unboxed & shelved that day (we specifically closed the library to do it), but cascade effect or whatever, it led to a bunch of extra work & dealing with a lot more books than usual yesterday, & probably today as well if i had to guess. sometimes, there’s too many books.

[probablybadrpgideas]

Try to run a 3.5 artificer with a vow of poverty.

[incorrectmercythompsonquotes]

What 'id like to see is a Kitty Norville/ Mercy Thompson crossover, got any suggestions?

I did not know this series before you mentioned it ! So I can’t answer you, sorry  =/

For me, the ideal crossover would be with the Dresden Files books. I love them so much, Mercy and Harry are crazy similar and I think the logistics could work. Plus, Patricia is a fan of the books herself (she even named her dog after Harry’s). I actually talked with her assistant about a crossover, and she said she’d like that too ! But I don’t know if it will ever happen (P. is already frisky about a crossover between the Alpha and Omega series and Mercy Thompson, so with a whole other series from a different author...) But who knows ! Maybe in a side story ?