• @authorinthedark
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    192 years ago

    facts-i-made-up aside, how much of a difference would vanta black actually have on a pools appearance? i figure after a certain point the waters own reflectivity more than makes up the difference

    • Fractalfarmer OP
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      52 years ago

      I think we have to try it. And by ‘we’ I mean somebody who is not as flat broke as I am.

      • @authorinthedark
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        62 years ago

        I’ll start the gofundme on the condition that we use Black 2.0 instead of vantablack because I refuse to put money in Anish Kapoor’s hands

  • DrMoo
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    152 years ago

    I mean I literally just woke up but it got me until the zombie drug and even that I wanted to look up.

    • @R05@laguna.chat
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      122 years ago

      The moment he started about “containing the heat inside” I was like doubt, it would be a miracle material used in everything if it did that (aka us mere mortals can’t afford it for something like a swimming pool)

      • awsamation
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        62 years ago

        I was fully ready to believe that a vantablack pool would boil in direct sunlight. Not flash boil, but I excused that as the author being a bit enthusiastic.

        Wasn’t till the nuke that I was acting ready to call bullshit. The chlorine gas thing felt wrong, but I don’t know enough about chemistry to be confident that flash boiling chlorinated water wouldn’t produce chlorine gas at possibly lethal levels.

  • @Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    132 years ago

    Here’s my question… does the thermal mass of the water mean nothing in this instance? Or does that merely dictate how quickly and violently it boils away?

  • @paddirn@lemmy.world
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    82 years ago

    I was like, “Waitaminute, how come terrorists haven’t caught on to this thing yet if it’s so deadly and why isn’t it already illegal?”

  • Flying SquidM
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    42 years ago

    I got so little sleep last night that I actually spent the time manually typing in and googling the “drug” name to learn more about it.