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On Monday, I finished The Winter of the Witch, the last in Katherine Arden’s Winternight Trilogy - it was absolutely fantastic from front to back. Last night I picked up The Time Traveler - I got a physical copy for super cheap from a second hand book store. I’ve never read it, so I’m excited to see how it reads. So far, it’s pretty good - a bit pretentious in some of the word choice, maybe, but I suppose that’s kind of to be expected.
I’m not super sure. If I recall correctly, we’ve known for a while that something was going on, because surface hearing alone couldn’t account for all of the water evaporating from oceans, but we couldn’t tell what. In defense of humanity here, the concept of photons interacting with something as comparably massive as molecules is kinda wild. We were caught way off guard when the photoelectric effect was announced, and that’s photons interacting with whole atoms instead of just elementary particles. The idea of the photomolecular effect is thus even wilder.
I finished The Bear and the Nightingale a bit ago, so moved onto the rest of the series. I pretty quickly pushed through the second book, The Girl in the Tower, and have just started the last book, The Winter of the Witch. It has thus far been a fantastic series, and I’m very much looking forward to a certain character finally getting his well deserved comeuppance (and it had better really hurt…)
I recently started The Bear and The Nightingale by Katherine Arden. Its the first book in a trilogy, and while I’ve read - and loved - this book, I haven’t read the rest of the trilogy yet. I’m quite excited - my wife blitzed them and said they were very good.
The oldest system I have would be the NES. My brother received it sometime before I was born. I’m just holding onto it for him, though - it doesn’t get played right now. I actually intend to clean it all up and retrobright it before sending it back to him… eventually… The oldest system I have that still gets occasional use would be my Gameboy Color, which I received, with Pokemon Red, for Christmas when I was 8 or 9. Unfortunately, I need to find a better plastic polish, to take some light scratches out of the lens, and until I do, it will remain disassembled… I’ve also been contemplating using the board for a complete boxypixel overhaul, but there’s something about still having my full original GBC that I’m having a problem getting over…
I NEED IT!!!
Very impressive breakdown, and it looks like you’ve built an awesome foundation. I’m excited to see where you might take this going forward - different ship wreck types seems like an obvious next step, but I can see the potential for a whole lot more. Maybe this system could be used to improve things like trail ruins and other archeology related structures? This is very cool. Kudos
If you read the article, it’s pretty clear. Instead of the energy of the photons being used to heat the water molecules to state change, that energy is used to break the molecular bonds between small groups of water molecules, and those groups are small enough to then be picked up by the air and evaporate. This way, the energy contained in a photon is converting much more liquid water to water vapor than if that same amount of energy was actually used to excite the water molecules, as in a microwave.