My mistake with the wording, I will say though infrared light raspberry pi or no, still would not be enough for that. You need serious lab equipment. Like advanced cooling methods to achieve this sort of thing. That’s why I chose this range. With your method I could see possibly being able to do a percentage of a degree in keeping it stable with no outside forces, but accuracy within a millionth I think is a stretch
My man… You cannot achieve temperature stability within accuracy of a micro kelvin with “an infrared lamp and some maths”
Could be, I tend to find things rather fascinating
Well think about this, are you able to manipulate temperature within one degree? Sure. Get a stove. How about one one millionth of a degree? Is that easy to achieve? Its not. Same on a cosmic scale, changing things by one million degrees? Easy as pie, one degree? No way. Sure, you have done it a million times to get to a million degrees but you didn’t do it with precision.
That’s what I think is amazing, our precision only capable at this level because of our size and capability in this universe
Well think about it, an asteroid just a mile wide hits a planet, the impact plume would reach about 20,000k, or 35,000 F, but on a planet wide scale even those numbers are meaningless, a statewide scale? Forget about it. We may think we’re hot shit when we can raise our ovens up to 500⁰ or melt steel, but, in the grand scheme of things we’re playing with grains of sand on the beach of energy manipulation
Oops, I’m 230 pounds, I guess I sat down on this strange toilet too hard
I do think it would be fun, I would also love to just have a bit of tech that is “all my own” in a way
This is why I love Lemmy, I can ask this obscure, unrealistic question, and people will still answer it with the “yeah you probably shouldn’t but here’s how you could”
Oh don’t worry, knowing me, I would create it, use it for a single drive and never touch it again. Its the fun of creation that counts. Also, I quite like my wife.
Seeing for what these go on eBay, I’m not surprised, the owner has a habit of collecting old shit and just keeping it in the warehouse, the rich bastard.
Lmao either he had this one and is selling it, or more likely bought it with plans to fix it up a bit
A hero amongst mortals
I dunno, it made me chuckle. Long jokes have this way of pulling you in without you realizing it. They start plain, maybe a conversation, maybe some forgettable errand, but then the teller keeps adding layers—too many layers. Suddenly you’re hearing about a cousin’s neighbor’s side job, or why the bank closes ten minutes early on Thursdays, or how a guy once swore he saw something unbelievable but no one else did. None of it feels like the point, but you keep listening because surely there is a point, right?
That’s the trap. You get invested, you start connecting dots, thinking it’s all building to a twist you’ll never see coming. But it doesn’t tie together. The punchline isn’t crafted, it’s blunt. After all the wandering and detours and wasted patience, the whole thing just crashes into the dumbest, most sudden ending possible.
And in that moment, after all that setup, the only thing left to say is that it came out to about tree fiddy.