Sup chapos, thought I'd share here cos I don't have many people to celebrate with.

If anyone wants to know more or has any questions, or just wants to call me a filthy lib then hit me up

  • a_jug_of_marx_piss [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Congrats! Battery research is honestly one of the good ones, it's really important and about as far from bombing people as you get in physics.

    • EatTheLibsToo [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Thanks man! And yeah truly, the booklet of projects when I was picking my masters research was full of weakly masked military-esque shit like "tracking individual birds within variable flock dynamics".

      Luckily I got mine on 2D materials (focused toward graphene) for use in supercapacitors, and I had a GREAT comrade of a supervisor who let me switch focus to go full-on sustainability, and also encouraged me while I unionised my workmates of a bar I worked in lmao. Nature is full of ways to help science out if we just take the time to look.

      • Multihedra [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        That’s the wildest paragraph I’ve ever read in my life, absolutely insane that you can do cutting edge physics with literal garbage and waste material. Good on ya

        I feel like decadence and recycling is very much in the zeitgeist and has been for a while; I realized that’s the weird future Star Wars envisions, with empires building extremely resource-intensive structures while rebels living a basically feudal lifestyle salvage broken and abandoned tech to build their own tech. A non sequitur, but that’s kind of the vibe I get given how hard it is to find funding with a lot of science

        • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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          4 years ago

          "But how are you going to defend the revolution against a massive army with cutting-edge modern tech?"

          We won't need to; if we can sit back sustainably enough, we will watch it fall apart on its own.

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      I just tried to imagine hitting someone with a solid state bomb and I came up with dropping anvils on people's heads like a Looney Toons character

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      There are some parts of astrophysics that I think are also reasonably far from bombing people, but also, you're not really helping them either.