• authorinthedark@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    facts-i-made-up aside, how much of a difference would vanta black actually have on a pools appearance? i figure after a certain point the waters own reflectivity more than makes up the difference

  • DrMoo@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I mean I literally just woke up but it got me until the zombie drug and even that I wanted to look up.

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      The moment he started about “containing the heat inside” I was like doubt, it would be a miracle material used in everything if it did that (aka us mere mortals can’t afford it for something like a swimming pool)

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        I was fully ready to believe that a vantablack pool would boil in direct sunlight. Not flash boil, but I excused that as the author being a bit enthusiastic.

        Wasn’t till the nuke that I was acting ready to call bullshit. The chlorine gas thing felt wrong, but I don’t know enough about chemistry to be confident that flash boiling chlorinated water wouldn’t produce chlorine gas at possibly lethal levels.

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    Here’s my question… does the thermal mass of the water mean nothing in this instance? Or does that merely dictate how quickly and violently it boils away?

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      Bruh THATS your problem with this?

      But yeah that was my first objection too

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      Due to the high temperatures involved the difference made by the thermal mass is so negligible we can effectively model it as zero

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    I was like, “Waitaminute, how come terrorists haven’t caught on to this thing yet if it’s so deadly and why isn’t it already illegal?”

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    I got so little sleep last night that I actually spent the time manually typing in and googling the “drug” name to learn more about it.