# Pitting Max\_S

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 8, 2022, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074 "2022-02-08T00:26:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/751 "2022-05-24T15:49:52Z")

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Okay, let’s be clear that Max\_S is ignored, and well earned, but again, I repeat, he does actually post content, unlike the be-hatted one. From just a few recentish threads -

> [@When was the last time a product lost trademark protection after its name became genericised?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-a-product-lost-trademark-protection-after-its-name-became-genericised/964484/14):
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> In December the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia upheld a ruling that the Swiss Interprofession du Gruyère and the French Syndicat Interprofessional du Gruyère lost the U.S. “gruyère” trademark due to U.S. consumers not associating the mark with the region (genericide). You can read the USPTO case here, before it was appealed to the District Court: [https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91232442&pty=OPP&eno=18](https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91232442&pty=OPP&eno=18) The District Court upholds the ruling here: [https://storag…](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.496839/gov.uscourts.vaed.496839.106.0.pdf)

> [@Imperial Star Destroyer as a meteorite](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imperial-star-destroyer-as-a-meteorite/964343/7):
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> From this website, I’d guess a density of 750 kg/m³ and an ISD mass of 40,000,000 tonnes As far as the physics goes, I don’t know how to proceed any further than this, and that’s ignoring air resistance: [[image] ](https://i.imgur.com/7LgCLyl.jpg) ETA: I did find an online impact effects calculator. Here is a link where I plugged in some numbers, but I really don’t know how it works. [https://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEarth/cgi-bin/crater.cgi?dist=480&distanceUnits=1&diam=1&diameterUnits=2&…](https://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEarth/cgi-bin/crater.cgi?dist=480&distanceUnits=1&diam=1&diameterUnits=2&pdens=750&pdens_select=0&vel=2.8288&velocityUnits=1&theta=90&wdepth=&wdepthUnits=1&tdens=2750)

When Max was willing to stick to factual information, without editorializing or before they showed the underlying lack of affect, they were able to provide useful information.

Hope that helps @MrDibble - and again, I’m not defending his entitled ass for anything he’s said in this thread or many others: just that he wasn’t a zero-value poster like some that can’t go 4 posts without a reference to ‘the hive-mind’.

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