#science posting

[chime-mime]

Chemistry is so fucking weird. Why the FUCK does it do that.

[rockstar-vamp]

Ok holy fuck let me ramble about something cool. I was driving the other day and thinking about time and space, and here’s the thing: you know how there is that scientific theory that if you could travel at the speed of light, heading away from earth, then you looked back at earth with a super advanced telescope, you could technically see the dinosaurs?

Well here’s my newfound thought (and keep in mind, I study astrophysics as a hobby): but if you traveled at light speed a particular distance away from earth (but not far enough to see the dinosaurs), you could technically see yourself at five years old; you could see yourself five minutes ago; MEANING: in terms of light speed and distance, you are living out your entire past and present SIMULTANEOUSLY depending on a viewer’s distance from earth.

ISNT THAT INSANE !!!!!!!

[courtofparrots]

Luis is the only motherfucker in the whole cult that knows how to store chemicals

I'm being so serious right now, thanks to @geddy-leesbian and her screenshots I've learned the hazardous waste management in the Los Illuminados labs is ABYSMAL.

Now the game doesn't put a ton of variety into the chemicals that can be found in the lab, it's most often two different things: Iron chloride and hydrochloric acid. You shouldn’t leave random chemicals out anywhere, but especially hydrochloric acid is DANGEROUS and these bitches leave bottles EVERYWHERE!!! Look! Out in the open! On the concrete floor tipped over! RAWDOGGING IT

But Luis Serra Navarro knows better. He's an Umbrella-trained scientist. He keeps his shit locked up correctly AND he stores his hazardous waste collections in a proper containment area (in the states at least it's required that we have them in a bin so we don't risk it falling off the counter, and then all dangerous chemicals currently in use get locked into cabinets.) Look at Luis's chemical storage area:

Gorgeous. Immaculate. All chemicals in a cabinet and waste collection bottles in the yellow tub. He does lose some points for the castle lab tho where he has some HCl sitting on the shelf

But all in all Luis's lab is a breath of fresh air after seeing the rest of the island facilities, and I thought it would be fun to draw attention to.

Also for extra funsies here is the waste containment corner in my own lab as a comparison. Note how similar our chemical bottles are to the ones in game UGH I love the detail it's so cool. The little side handles and everything!

(The bottles in front of the bins don’t have anything hazardous in them it’s just ethanol)

all RE4R screenshots by geddy-leesbian!

[alllelements]

Earthset

Artemis II lunar flyby

[knees-and-bees]

Look I love the PHM fandom so so much, but there is one thing we have to get completely straight: the atmosphere humans live in is NOT mainly/majority oxygen. On earth it’s around 78% nitrogen and ~21% oxygen, with ~1% being other gases (ie: CO2 In a 0.04% concentration iirc). Most dive suits are also not equipped with pure oxygen either. Even on dives in which oxygen tanks are used, the O2 concentration rarely exceeds 40%, and even then that’s mostly enriched nitrox tanks, since oxygen toxicity is a very real thing. Most diving tanks thus have an oxygen concentration ranging between 22-40%. Similarly, pure oxygen is not used in space stations either, with a 79-21 nitrogen-oxygen composition being used by NASA in their official space vessels. So for the love of GOD stop saying that the majority of grace’s atmosphere is oxygen. Because it’s not. That’s a fire hazard. Grace’s atmosphere is an oxygenated environment, but it is not mainly nor majority comprised of oxygen.

[troythecatfish]

[endlessnightskyshoutsback]

i wish it was socially acceptable to announce to your physics degree classmates that if you were left unsupervised in the proximity of a radioactive element you would at LEAST TRY to take a little nibble on it. like just for Science. has anyone tried it. how would the bajillion calories it has change your metabolism . remember: IT'S FOR SCIENCE!!!!!;?!+((_?"!???!!!!!!