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Laittakaa meemejä tänne.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (6 children)

hear me out: tungsten chainmail blanket

[–] Agent641 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Depleted uranium blanket. My sleep paralysis demon is a plutonium sphere.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Even though the radioactivity would be negligible, it would still be toxic as a heavy metal. Tungsten is definitely the way to go here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unless it’s thoriated tungsten anyway.

Thorium->Radium->Radon->Polonium->Lead (I think?)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Why would tungsten be thoriated? Is it an impurity which is hard to remove, or is it intentionally added for some specific purpose?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s used as electrodes for TIG welding torches. It was originally specified for aerospace and nuclear welding jobs because it’s really durable and handles heat well. And then it became popular everywhere else for the same reasons.

Now it’s supposed to be used less, but a lot of guys still like it for its consistency. If you don’t grind it to sharpen it it’s pretty safe to handle. So you can get pre ground electrodes for high end welding work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cool, TIL! How much is generally added? Is it a trace amount or a substantial fraction?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
[–] CptEnder 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Magnesium chainmail if you're sleeping on the surface of the sun or next to my tiny girlfriend

[–] shalafi 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'll say this for the thick girls, they're cool on the outside and don't bitch about freezing. Meanwhile, my 95lb. wife, permanently frozen and shedding heat like a hummingbird.

First thing in the morning, sweating my ass off, legs glued together...

"Babe! Let me embrace you!"

"Get OFF! pant, pant, pant

[–] Anticorp 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is this a feature of small women? My wife puts off heat like an oil furnace under the covers.

[–] Kyyrypyy 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, fat is insulant, so it helps to keep the heat energy inside the body. Fat, therefore, also provides some protection against cold. On the other hand, if you live in areas with higher ambient temperature, it is more comfortable to be able to exhaust that heat, instead of storing it.

So, yes, it is a feature?

[–] Anticorp 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I meant small women, not fat ones. The original comment was "my tiny girlfriend".

[–] Kyyrypyy 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And I meant, that as fat has insulating properties, the lack of fat, ergo "tiny body" does not have insulating properties. Thus, a tiny body exhausts more heat, and therefore 1) feel cold more easily and 2) heats the surrounding area.

So yes, tiny bodytype tends to exhaust heat under a blanket.

[–] Anticorp 1 points 10 months ago

Gotcha. My experience indicates you're right! It's like sleeping with a space heater.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Haters will say it's too hard to machine

[–] Anticorp 5 points 10 months ago

That wouldn't have the same heat transferring capacity, but it would be heavier.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Could even be a heated blanket that glows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Isn't tungsten kind of brittle? And radioactive?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

The brittlenes apparently depends on the form it takes (polycrystalline or single-crystalline). And while there are some radioactive isotopes of tungsten most of them are synthetic and only made in a lab. The vast majority of the tungsten found on earth is stable.