If you don’t care about precise size, balls can be made cheaply by dropping drops of metal down tower where they are cooled by air as they fall, and then by water after they solidify. Then just sort by size

they do that anyway, there’s a lot of ground. balls have lowest drag per mass for randomly oriented tumbling object

you can just pour balls in but any other shape has to be arranged one by one

They could state it’s Saudi right in the title

i think that you give them entirely too much credit, they really are this deeply steeped in technolibertarian nonsense

you’re on lemmy which means you’re around non-idiots a bit more often than usual. normal people don’t use adblocks and treat chatbots like literal magic, you have to lower your expectations

not hard, but it easily becomes classified info leak source which is what it looks like it is investigated as here

the waste heat comes from cryogenics system that keeps all of this helium at below 3K. turns out you need to spend a lot of energy to cool down things to temperatures this low

it’s easier for dear leader to blame americans for any and all problems (not an exaggeration, first example i found https://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2009/11/02/Irans-IRGC-blames-US-for-problems/32571257206055/ it was stated on iranian state media verbatim recently, i’ll add it when i find it) than to accept responsibility for their oppression, corruption and inefficient governance.

yeah mate nixon personally descended from heli to brainwash khomeini into making basij a thing. every irgc grifter is a mossad agent actually. i bet that cia shat their pants too

i guess they just found some spare attention to give for people whose every fifth sentence is “death to america”

americans export oil it’s not 70s anymore

polymarket is just gambling for people who don’t want to admit they have gambling problem and have delusions of propethood think that their supreme rationality allows them to predict future

Fuck this clickbait title. It’s no secret that no tears will be shed in Riyadh if something would happen to islamic republic leadership, and Saudis made this known recently https://www.axios.com/2026/01/31/saudi-us-strike-iran-kbs-trump

if you believed that “no saudi land or airspace will be used to attack Iran” was genuine i have a brigde to sell you

there’s nothing wrong with 3rd party batteries, if it’s worn down so badly that it no longer does the thing that it is supposed to then replace it, idk why it’s a question. I replace mine when they’re at 60% of original capacity

Your best bet is to just not engage with them when topics like that come up

real soon it will include any topic

if sun was orange, it wouldn’t be orange, it would be just precieved as regular white light, and new-orange would be even more oranger than what we know today

you can’t turn a gas into liquid by compression alone if temperature is above critical point, you also need to cool it down. separation is done by fractional distillation, but the reason it’s done is mostly about oxygen (medical and steelmaking among some other uses). for nitrogen it’s somewhere about -150C. first air is stripped of water and carbon dioxide, then it’s turned into a liquid, then it’s separated into oxygen, nitrogen and argon, and some large specialized plants also separate xenon, krypton and neon

if you don’t actually care for it being a liquid, there’s another method called pressure swing adsorption that separates gases based on how tightly do they bind to porous surfaces under pressure. this is how medical oxygen concentrators work

making liquid nitrogen is pretty efficient these days, as in not much more energy is used than is actually needed

Yes. You would get tracked by your phone

this is just a really extravagant heater, physics forbids antenna this small to have good radiation resistance. for your contrived below noise communications scheme, you need more bandwidth that is physically possible on hf, yet you choose antenna design that is even less wideband than regular dipole. 40m of wire is for 80m band, which is usable more often in this configuration, ignoring everything else

As for throughput: a channel that is 9 KHz wide is supposed to transfer 9.6 kbit / s

5500kbps in extremely favourable conditions is your peak attainable speed, bandwiths in normal radios are narrower

A reasonable detection avoidance technique might be broadcasting from a depressed location or an urban canyon with tall ground clutter

if you don’t want anyone to hear you

launch your guerilla transmitter on a free flight balloon, and will have plentiful line of sight.

with what power source? better study for and get your license, start using radio and stop embarrassing yourself

you super stealthy nvis signal might not be noticed by anyone, including intended recipient, but your antenna farm made form 40m long wires certainly will

yes i know how spread spectrum schemes work, but this is not really practical or relevant here

for spread spectrum things to work you need some wide bandwidth, this works great for microwaves where you can spread your 90GHz band signal so that it covers 5GHz, you can’t have a signal centered on 5MHz that is 5GHz wide; HF is relevant because while microwaves work with this microwaves are line of sight only and most people’s line of sight still terminates in their own country. if you live on a lone hill next to border good for you, but the rest would need to use HF to get out, and there’s simply not that much bandwidth available in the first place, which would make any scheme like this extremely slow if at all viable. and you can still jam it

i don’t assume that satellite repeaters would be a viable option because satellite, or any other receiving party for that matter, would need to be aware of modulation scheme to receive it in the first place, so it only works if your international contacts are pre-arranged, and even then you need radio that has much larger bandwidth that is usually available. yapping on LSB or narrow digimodes will get you heard within continental range, but also it will get you noticed, but if you hide from your adversary you also hide from everyone else not in the know. and even then, you can still get noticed, because it’s under noise level only at some distance from you

also some of these schemes require precise time to be known, and if you have gps jammed you’ll get extra problems from that