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The science of Monkey Island: can grog dissolve a metal mug that fast?

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  1. herodoturtle · · focus · HN ↗
    > we use the apparent rate of mug deterioration to estimate the proton supply required by a simplified corrosion model

    Damn I love HN.

    1. ButlerianJihad · · focus · HN ↗
      There&#x27;s more out there in nerd-land <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;what-if.xkcd.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;what-if.xkcd.com&#x2F;

      The running gag for &quot;what if&quot; 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

      1. LoganDark · · focus · HN ↗
        Man, sometimes I miss Quora&#x27;s &quot;Everybody Dies™&quot;. I loved to hear all the creative ways people came up with for how various things would end all life on the planet.
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