Mad Science and Grumpy Technology [Archive] - Giant in the Playground Forums

Getting Movie Clips (0 replies)
Science The naming of elephants (12 replies)
Is Chang'e's leg in the air just an accident? (2 replies)
Photocopying old codexes (10 replies)
Help identifying sky phenomenon (10 replies)
Tech Help Strange wi-fi problem. Inability to connect jumps from device to device (7 replies)
How fast can a small black hole eat? (24 replies)
Tech Help Best paper for printing my own playing cards with my printer at home? (6 replies)
Why is it the 3 body "problem"? (13 replies)
Tech Help Is wireless charging bad for phones? (21 replies)
Why don’t we have seedless mangos? (10 replies)
4-d glock (27 replies)
Will science end? (70 replies)
Practicing C++ Templates (2 replies)
Space Near term space industries for a solar syncronous industrial estate (0 replies)
The palm of the hand HAS to be the worst source of blood...right? (14 replies)
The man who saved the internet (4 replies)
Is there a way to change your name here? (2 replies)
How long would the Earth last if the sun became a black hole? (35 replies)
I dunno which game engine to program in Python… ^_^’ (6 replies)
Proposal: Uranus et. al. should no longer be called "plane-ettes". (47 replies)
Tech Help Is there any email app for Android that allows emails to be saved as local files? (1 replies)
It's really hard to land on the moon.... (19 replies)
Coding Godot vs Unity (7 replies)
Trying to remember a piece of cellular automaton jargon (9 replies)
Why would a vacuum collapse event propagate (17 replies)
Do we know the biological purpose of Polyphenol oxidases (8 replies)
Best true compiled programming languages for language processing? (6 replies)
Source Control when developing a website with Wordpress (1 replies)
A different use for a scientific glove box (2 replies)
Recognising an acquaintance in the dark (12 replies)
What's an Instanton? (17 replies)
Not sure if this is even ok to ask as its an.... explosive subject. (22 replies)
How much energy does the visible light from the sun has ? (5 replies)
Why is there no surgery for visceral fat (51 replies)
Is there a word for this (15 replies)
Dyson spheres (164 replies)
Nintendo Switch (6 replies)
led versus incandescent. (5 replies)
How much free space to leave on a disc? (6 replies)
Why do fonts omit the bars on the uppercase "I" but not on other letters such as "T" (54 replies)
Blowing off the roof. (7 replies)
AI image editor? (4 replies)
How hard is it to replace the screen on a laptop? (16 replies)
Are there any modern desktop operating systems designed for personal use (33 replies)
hook up SNES / Playstation 2 to a laptop monitor (12 replies)
Is it possible to make an LCD TV work outdoors by removing the backlight (5 replies)
Value of a single marshmallow (18 replies)
nearby share folder appeared on my device even though I have nearby share turned off. (1 replies)
Rant / Question Benchmark for Baldur's Gate 3? (4 replies)
Tech Help How to fix system files without running CHKDSK (11 replies)
Tech Help is it possible to exctract this type of data from a shared google calendar ? (6 replies)
Tech Help Two-monitor PC setup, OBS studio, and reccording old games. (9 replies)
Accessing memory for fun with c++ (somewhat at random) questions (29 replies)
Non-thermal ways nuclear power can generate electricity (16 replies)
Odd dvd player issue (no solution needed) (4 replies)
The hanging loop that rattles on clipboards. (8 replies)
How much internet does one person need? (13 replies)
Tech Help Computer Issue/Recommendation (The Five-Year Reoccuring Thread) (40 replies)
Does studying neanderthals fall under archaeology or palentology? Or both? (5 replies)
Device that is the "opposite" of a soldering iron? (7 replies)
Poison ivy prednisone question (8 replies)
Why do unpressurized spray bottles have the nozzle at the top? (15 replies)
Tech Help Cleaning up duplicate files? (10 replies)
Chemical behavior of cremated remains (1 replies)
How and with what to efficient make and print double-sided 60mmx83mm cards (8 replies)
AI artwork in Paid Rules? (115 replies)
Tech Help How would I stop getting folders from showing up in start menu. Windows 10 edition (4 replies)
Tech Help Reasons why a computer might not be able to read an SD card? (7 replies)
Tech Help Making 32-bit Steam games work on macOS Monterey (3 replies)
Tech Help How do I test a drive to see if it matches the reported capacity? (22 replies)
Origin of ball vs sphere terminology (54 replies)
SyncThing for transferring files over the internet (0 replies)
Kindle Question (7 replies)
Tech News NAS Thread II (4 replies)
Could the overview effect be the result of hypoxia/hypoxemia and/or altitude sickness (2 replies)
Any Fluid Dynamicists in the House? (4 replies)
How much would the sea level rise if the ice caps totally melted? (27 replies)
(Medical question) Lets pretend someone's windpipe was blocked... (17 replies)
Does oat milk REALLY go bad in 7-10 days? (27 replies)
Coral Reef questions (4 replies)
RTX 3070 ti with a ASUS VG278 - did I just mess up? (3 replies)
Linux experience with USB audio interface with MIDI? (4 replies)
Is D&D's Arrowhawk inspired by Microraptor (2 replies)
Tech Help Recommendations on paid NAS software with good tech support? (12 replies)
Putting in lights, need math for proper spacing. (6 replies)
Norsepower Rotor Sails (12 replies)
What is the latest scientific consensus over whether dogs are a subspecies of wolf? (7 replies)
Seeking Headphone Recommendations (2 replies)
looking for a math formula (8 replies)
Is using a portal to an elemental plane of light / a sun a viable method of attack? (21 replies)
Image processing: Expand an image filling between pixels with a set color? (1 replies)
Dark matter around black holes. (5 replies)
Non-euclidean geometry and degenerate conic sections (2 replies)
Has anyone made a colour bliindness simulator? (9 replies)
Trying to figure out how many people in the world are descended from Genghis Khan (40 replies)
If there was going tp be a heat-death of the universe, would that be order or chaos? (44 replies)
Coding Highlighting text on this forum (5 replies)
Why are people ok with calling IR and UV "light" but not x-rays or radio waves (22 replies)
Running Hybrid Games Online + In-Person (8 replies)
The glow-in-the-dark kitty (2 replies)
Space The Big Bang Theory (revisited) (14 replies)
Is a heat pump just a bidirectional AC? (3 replies)
Has the aspiration to Hollywood level materialism slowed down technological progress? (70 replies)
EV with heat pump, CCS, LFP battery, not Tesla? (10 replies)
free adblock for kindle suggestions? (1 replies)
Why isn't there a standard way to securely transfer files directly over the Internet? (76 replies)
The porcine zombie apocalypse is here (12 replies)
What percentage of DNA do apples share with oranges? (2 replies)
My appreciation of the new captcha's (0 replies)
I don’t understand Lunar Laser Ranging experiment. Are the mirrors perpendicular? (4 replies)
ChatGPT in the Playground (182 replies)
Alabama uses SyFY channel as guide for research (10 replies)
Tech Help Has my laptop reached the end of its service? (9 replies)
Ambiguity of saying that a function diverges to infinity (14 replies)
Neural Filters for Gimp? (1 replies)
Tech Help Headphones to wear to bed? (6 replies)
File sharing (12 replies)
The tech tree of reality (26 replies)
Tech Help [HTTRACK] Copying a webpage (11 replies)
Recommendations for a replacement for a MFC-J480W (21 replies)
Tech Help External Hard Drive Advice Desired (7 replies)
Using time travel to force accelerated technological progress (161 replies)
Circles, waves and triangles. (6 replies)
What precisely is meant when it is said that universal expansion is accelerating (6 replies)
Why is dark matter presumed to all be a single type of thing? (16 replies)
Coding HTML Color Codes (3 replies)
Science CERN, Daniel Everett, Nicholas Taleb, and Wanna-Be Rambos of Science (15 replies)
Inbreeding and loss of genetic information (27 replies)
Fusion Update!! (36 replies)
Mad science: changing pi (29 replies)
Would a vacuum airship be viable if it launched and landed from high altitude? (21 replies)
Civilization without privacy (27 replies)
Did any "classic" 8-bit CPUs have an integer multiply instruction? (6 replies)
Science Research: minimum noticable change in % success rate during play? (23 replies)
The effects of having less water (5 replies)
Science Why are there so few single-letter element symbols? (9 replies)
The VR headset that kills (30 replies)
Are graphics cards usually noisy? (4 replies)
Python graphics library with "QBasic" style pixel functions? (6 replies)
Science Strange accoustics of beer bottles (6 replies)
Would this make bubble sort viable (Unlikely Hypothetical Scenario) (14 replies)
Grammarly-like soft, but with commercial license? (13 replies)
Heating and mirrors and lenses (5 replies)
Is there any android app that will work like an oldschool answering machine? (5 replies)
Quick drying pigment ballpoint pen? (1 replies)
Turning a propeller around doesn't change it's direction of rotation. (10 replies)
Coding Natural language parser (3 replies)
Car Brake question (15 replies)
Tech Help Mini USB-C wired keyboard? (5 replies)
Thumping small asteroids (DART). (16 replies)
D&D/Computer science question (23 replies)
What is light? (3 replies)
Tech Help Recommended PC parts for beginner (10 replies)
Does gravity bend differet frequecies of light differently? (9 replies)
Ramjets and Uranus! (7 replies)
How do I copy PDF pages and make them into a new PDF? (5 replies)
How long would it take to get to 99.99+% lightspeed at survivable acceleration (28 replies)
Is there a spherical equivalent to the euclidean/asteroids torus (13 replies)
Not sure this is possible but... (one piece feats) (5 replies)
Tech Help Installing from tar.gz (linux) (6 replies)
First metal cut in orbit. (5 replies)
28000 year bunker conditions. (43 replies)
Fusion Talk (4 replies)
School's out; zoom's down (0 replies)
Cheating in chess (141 replies)
What is review bombing, and how is it recognized? (127 replies)
Twitter sinks (11 replies)
Coding I made a program to calculate the average value of an 4d6k3 :D (8 replies)
Civilization without wood? (41 replies)
Science is about finding out new facts. (55 replies)
What is the minimum test launches needed for safety? (10 replies)
SQLCMD - writing a script that accepts variables from batch command (6 replies)
Which version of Microsoft Windows would you say was best? (7 replies)
AI art generation (67 replies)
The Big Bang is dead, all hail the next big thing. (15 replies)
Tech Help Upgrading SD cards on phone, how do I avoid having to rebuild playlists etc (3 replies)
What are the best 8-bit architectures in current production? (5 replies)
Pi 4 8gb alternative that's available? (4 replies)
Why does everyone always overexplain moles and Avogadro's Number (26 replies)
Coding Programming A Combat Simulator (5 replies)
Unsugared Frosting Substitution question (2 replies)
Aliens in the Oort? one possible explanation of the Fermi paradox. (35 replies)
Lets looney tunes this thing! (10 replies)
AnandTech just disappeared behind a "We value your privacy" (15 replies)
Tech Help Understanding current computer specs (10 replies)
Monkeypox Infection (26 replies)
Weird request: typewriter sounds for chromebook keyboard (3 replies)
Is the speed of sound always less than the speed of light? (13 replies)
Space Images of space at true brightness (13 replies)
Space Webb Telescope Images (3 replies)
Footage of a Mantis Shrimp or Pistol Shrimp's punch creating light. Unretouched? (1 replies)
Space Can a coolant be more efficient than thermal equilibrium? (22 replies)
If birds are dinosaurs doesn't that also mean that whales really are fish after all? (47 replies)
What is/cause cancer? (8 replies)
Do we have any auto mechanics? (7 replies)
Measure distance on Google Maps mobile site? (no apps) (2 replies)
A question about password security (50 replies)
Differences between shockwaves (3 replies)
A bit off topic, but does anyone here know much about streaming? Could use advice. (7 replies)
What was the first time linux forced you into the command line. (22 replies)
Reduce the file size of SQL export to files (12 replies)
Flying disc aerodynamics (23 replies)
Programming question: are you glad it didn't work on the first try? (41 replies)
How do I have a separate PDF page numbering? (7 replies)
Gravity, pressure and death portals to the water plane (23 replies)
How much lighter is a stone in water? (14 replies)
Tech Help [Solved] Google Play app categories: is there still a way to see them? (2 replies)
Can binary be used in an IOT machine for faster communication? (18 replies)
Is there a relationship between quark confinement and electric charge (0 replies)
So the Moon split... (30 replies)
WLUNA cryptocurrency question (3 replies)
The thermal limits of natural selection. (16 replies)
How many people in the 1980s-2000s only supported NASA because the "Space Shuttle"? (5 replies)
Tech Help CPU/Motherboard Issues? (SOLVED) (16 replies)
Seeking a good free music streaming app without audio ads (0 replies)
Battery health while gaming. (4 replies)
Economy and centers of government in the Bronze Age and antiquity (22 replies)
Thermal iimits of solar power. (137 replies)
Ready-made solution to map remote control to desktop streaming sites? (6 replies)
How far does sound travel? (23 replies)
5th dimension; Sideways in time (6 replies)
Big black holes: an alternative formation hypothesis. (31 replies)
Space Least massive Red Giant star (8 replies)
Cold cuts / deli meat made of fish? (15 replies)
I need a vector image of a square grid. Could someone make one for me please ? (3 replies)
Tech Help Need help restoring playlists on VLC android (0 replies)
Questions about Cantor's diagonalization argument (30 replies)
Sell the SLS/Artemis/Orion program to me (151 replies)
Why are pit organs not generally referred to as eyes (3 replies)
Tech Help Vtuber software/hardware combinations and trade-offs? (2 replies)
How would you make a semi-permanent walkway/path to a shower in a dirty basement? (13 replies)
For science and math enthusiasts: what websites do you recommend for AP high school? (8 replies)
Tech Help Installing JDK on Linux (9 replies)
Astronomers of GiTP, what is the current theory on "The Great Attractor"? (3 replies)
Router/splitter? (5 replies)
Tech Help Adding account to Android phone (0 replies)
Cooking a chicken by slapping it (6 replies)
Tech Help Youtube Shorts Help (0 replies)
Fusion, another step closer? (170 replies)
Fireball XL5 (1 replies)
How far away can a human see a human from the air? (5 replies)
what kind of threat is this? (8 replies)
OT/Four tetrated (12 replies)
Coding Why do websites make so many dns requests (12 replies)
What is comet snow? (1 replies)
Coding Suggestions for good cryptographically secure hashing in the browser (2 replies)
Tech News Making integrated circuits in a hobbyist shop. (8 replies)
Black holes might not be singularities (31 replies)
A more concise and intuitive demonstration that 0.9999...=1 (9 replies)