I've always found that little saying hilarious, games are made up of players and if those players are liars, cheaters of just generally shitty people then the game is going to be shitty as well. So yes, hating the player is perfectly reasonable.
And yes, the Government is part of the problem, but if the Government disappeared tomorrow the power vacuum would be filled by the corporations most likely, who are, unsurprisingly greedy, corrupt and don't give two shits about anyone but their bottom line.

We're not talking about a random "beat up this picture" game, or at least, that's not the impression I got (if it IS user-generated, then I retract my statements re Spurr). We're talking about a game specifically about beating up Sarkeesian.

First, it's the old comedy motto... "punch up, not down". Sarkeesian has received multiple, unbelievably vile threats against her. More to the point, those threats are credible. She's not a famous celebrity with an army of bodyguards to protect her. There's a very real chance that someone could just assault her on the street, far more so than Bieber.

Second, the people that want to punch Bieber are doing so because he's annoying. There's really very little malice behind it in almost all cases.

You can't reasonably argue that's the same for Sarkeesian. There is a genuine and widely documented movement of people on the web who have expressed serious hatred of her.

Let me put it this way, if I compared a "Punch Bieber" and a "Shoot Bin Laden" in the head game, which would you say has more genuine ill intent behind it?

When someone did shoot Bin Laden, everyone cheered. If someone seriously assaulted Bieber, even people who are annoyed by him would say that's going too far.

OTOH, if someone seriously assaulted Sarkeesian, there is a sizeable group of people who be delighted by that.

We don't make judgements in a vacuum. We must take what we know of the context surrounding something to decide whether we like it or not.

A game about punching Bill Cosby in the face? We can reasonably assume it's motivated by sexual assault allegations.
Now take the same game, and instead of Bill Cosby, you can choose any black celebrity. Again, you can make a reasonable assumption, except this time we could say it's racially motivated.

Possibly I'm misinterpreting his intentions, but if so, he's not really attempting to correct the public perception of them.

Bullshit.

The government willfully endangers the economy on a regular basis. You think 2008 happened in a vacuum? They stripped the laws designed to prevent such disasters. Now we've seen the damage that happens when companies take advantage of loose regulation, does the government reinstate any of those laws? Nope!

It's the bottom line of the rich and powerful the government won't endanger. They do tons of reckless shit with the economy and ignore scientifically proven methods of boosting the economy (like, say, taxing the rich more and giving the poor a break, or even forcing the rich to pay the taxes they already owe) if it would hurt their friends in high places.

In the opening question she blew it. What if the rock is lava rock, which is LIGHTER than water? That means you can't figure out the answer without knowing the density of the rock.
Archimedes equation is only useful in figuring out weight for things that are buoyant. Anything more dense than water (or whatever medium you're in) will only displace it's own volume in water, not it's mass.
That's why I think the wood block should weigh more in a vacuum. It displaced more air, so was more buoyant, and so had more buoyancy to lose. It seems to me she set it up poorly again, because if they weigh the same in air, but are different densities, they would seem to need to have different masses to achieve balance, but she said they have the same mass, but I think she should have said 'they weigh the same'....just as @Barbar and @Stormsinger indicated above.

Wouldn't it tilt towards the wooden block (meaning indicate the wooden block was heavier) since bouyancy would have contributed more to the larger wooden block?

On the other hand she states they have identical mass (not weight), so in a vacuum they should register even.

Maybe all the vacuum hoses have rotted out?

Sounds like the vacuum advance is unplugged.

The density and sealed-under-vacuum aspects of that one make it more interesting than the previous (Na and K) videos, to me at least. Quite cool!

Good job. I wonder how fast these can go. A pro should be able to make a wind driven water speed record.

He could have saved some weight by using expanding foam instead of wood as the core and using molds to form the pieces. Then the foam supplies both the pressure and heat to cure the resin, so no vacuum bags needed.

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I wonder...if I take viagra....in a vacuum...in space, could I spin like a top?

What about a superconducting magnet being used to suspend a top, both in a vacuum and not?

Similar to this - which is smooth shell/continuous cross section but sadly very short in duration.

That space video from @oohlalasassoon tends to proves you right -- there there is no friction on the pivot point, but the top is still surrounded by air. It isn't clear exactly how long it would take before the air resistance would stop the spin, but it seems like it would be quite a bit longer (orders? of magnitude) even than the top in a vacuum.

I wouldn't have called it that way; the pivot point is so small that it has an very small surface area. And the vacuum chamber would leave that variable close to constant, but still resulted in a lot longer spin time -- so the air resistance (friction with the air instead of friction with the pivot point) clearly does have an effect.

Interesting stuff!

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