Comment by herodoturtle

3 days ago

> we use the apparent rate of mug deterioration to estimate the proton supply required by a simplified corrosion model

Damn I love HN.

There's more out there in nerd-land https://what-if.xkcd.com/

The running gag for "what if" is that the Earth is destroyed and everybody dies along with the solar system in a cataclysmic disaster, in even the simplest of proposed scenarios

  • Man, sometimes I miss Quora's "Everybody Dies™". I loved to hear all the creative ways people came up with for how various things would end all life on the planet.