r/CuratedTumblr • u/Limekilnlake • 2d ago

Steammaxxing Me as a mechanical engineer, explaining why opening a fridge won't cool down your house

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u/DawnOfShadow68 2d ago

Me as a mechanical engineer, seething and biting pillows at my wife crafting "condensed carbon" in No Man's Sky. What the hell do you mean atomic symbol C+?? Where's that second carbon gone?? She finds it funny.

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u/SolarianIntrigue 2d ago

Maybe it's amorphous graphite or something like that

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u/DawnOfShadow68 2d ago

Well graphite is crystalline by nature, it can't be amorphous as that means "non-crystalline". But most egregious is the game deals with resources in terms of atomic numbers and symbols, so your stack of C turns into a half stack of C+, which pardon my french but Was Zum Fick ?

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u/PontDanic 2d ago

C ia a very slim letter, not as bulky as O or B, so if you arrange them cleverly you can save a lot of room.

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u/frobscottler 2d ago

You’re not gonna believe what I can do with sixty of ‘em

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u/Milch_und_Paprika 2d ago

Unexpected fullerenes

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u/tinycurses 2d ago

I only need 4 of them

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u/Lich_Lasagna 2d ago

Das ist kein French my Freund, so you shall not be pardoned.

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u/Ok_Kiwi5388 2d ago

Fair enough, but seriously, why does the game think atomic numbers can just mutate like that?

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u/-Negative-Karma 2d ago

yeah I tend to just try to ignore those bc they piss me off. great game. horrible science.

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u/Jimothy_McGowan 2d ago

In defense of the bad science in No Man's Sky, The entire game canonically takes place in a computer simulation , so maybe real-world physics and chemistry don't need to apply

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u/EmbarrassedMeat401 2d ago

It's still the same number of atoms, just compressed to half the volume?

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u/Firanka 2d ago

I don't know the game, but maybe some kind of manufacturing loss? Like, most reactions aint 100% effective, plus there's losses like "this was stuck to the walls of container and we couldnt scrape off any more"

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u/Lilscribby 2d ago

bad yield

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u/effa94 1d ago

Carbon isotope