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Those poor tardigrades would be killed by all of the dangerous radiation coming from the phone. Just kidding, they'd be killed by the dangerous conduction from
by labster 10y ago
Those poor tardigrades would be killed by all of the dangerous radiation coming from the phone.
Just kidding, they'd be killed by the dangerous conduction from the phone. The little guys can't handle the rapid heat changes caused by the battery and CPU.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoReally? I seem to recall these organisms being almost indestructible. They can withstand temperature ranges from 1 K (−458 °F; −272 °C) (close to absolute zero) to about 420 K (300 °F; 150 °C) Battery and CPU heat output of a phone couldn't be more than 40 degrees C in variation, at a guess. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoNo one ever reads the article. > It turns out the myths about tardigrades — how they’re indestructible — are true, under the right circumstances. “They go into cryptobiosis. They shed up to 90 percent of their body water, turn into a little grain of rice, and that is the thing that survives in space, and that’s what survives in ice cores for 300 years, and you add water and they revive. Cryptobiosis requires very narrow environmental ranges in order to begin,” said Feehan. But a sudden change in temperature? Lab-bred tardigrades are no match for that.
- jwilk 10y agoFrom the HN guidelines: Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article.
- andybak 10y agoHow does that guideline apply if someone asks a question that is directly and clearly answered in the article? Is it OK to point out that the article covers that as long as one is polite about it? I'm not sure I understand if the rule is "you're allowed to correct people using information from the article as long as you don't tell them it was in the article" which is obviously silly - or "just don't be a dick about it" which seems covered by the general rule of "don't be a dick".
- grzm 10y agoThe guidelines include an example of how to do this: "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- andybak 10y agoThanks. How ironic that my question about how to handle "not reading the article" comments could have been resolved if I'd read the article on how to handle mentioning reading the article. I'm just off to dive into a singularity of self-reference. See you later.