Smothsinian

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• Bahnd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If thats actually from the smithsonian in Washington DC, its probably in the recently renovated american history museum. There is a section in the lower levels all about technology and products the changed regulations. So they have an old ipod and lawn darts… Its very odd seeing that stuff be called history.

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  • ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is an old pic from the Smithsonian Natural History museum. The geology wing, I think. It was supposed to be an example of gems refracting light or something.

    On a side note, if you ever get the opportunity to go to a Smithsonian, fuckin do it. People, they had literal meteorites the size of sedans just sitting there with a sign on it encouraging you to touch it. I touched a fucking hunk of metal that had been careening through the void for a number of years my little monkey brain has trouble grappling with. Sorry. It left an impression. Go if you get the chance

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• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Have you ever gotten one of these stuck around your weiner?

  That was an expensive day.

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  • Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    the center hole of a compact disc is 15mm, or 0.590 inches.

    Hopefully you meant the laserdisc?

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I know what I said.

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    • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Laser dick

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• Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s something written to it.

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  • ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So, of course I went down a rabbit hole on this. So far I’m unsuccessful, but I did find out the Smithsonian Institute has a searchable database of all their junk, which is neat.

    My most narrow attempt

    Anyone with Mastadon or Twitter wanna take a swing at getting their attention? The pic was taken August 31, 2019. Definitely the Natural History Museum in DC, pretty sure it was the geology wing? I’m gonna email them, see what I get.

    Also, for posterity, I’m gonna say it’s either Doom or the White Album

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    • Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Damn, good effort. Hopefully someone knows.

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  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This also made me curious... like 40% of the disk is used...so around 250mb maybe?

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    • Hule@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, is it a 650MB one or a 730MB one?

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    • Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How do you know how much of the disc is used?

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  • cheezoid2@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s the Baby Got Back CD single by Sir Mix-A-Lot.

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• ricdeh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, when have you last seen someone use a CD? Exactly.

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  • LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I often buy CDs from used media shops to rip the music in FLAC format to add to my digital collection!

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  • DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That depends on if you work for the government

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    • RustyShackleford@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If they work for the government, they’ve seen someone use a floppy disk.

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  • femboy_bird@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I use them every day (it’s the only way to listen music in my car)

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• ryan213@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That doesn’t look very compact. Is there like a mini one??

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  • Fake4000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s actually a compact disc compared to the previous laser disc. Image

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    • Chocrates@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I finally got rid of my laserdiscs last year. My player broke years before and all the movies I had, I had blue rays of or could get on streaming. It was hard to justify toting around 20lbs of movies I couldn’t play

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  • Godort@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There is, actually.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc

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    • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Dang people don’t know about GameCube anymore?

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  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Minidiscs are why every optical drive had a little divot for the smaller size. I only ever saw 2 disks in 30 years

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    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Minidiscs were different, they’re a proprietary Sony tech that was huge in Japan but never really took off in the US. That divot is for plain old small CDs.

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    • dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I ran into about five, not including game cube games.

      I think one of them was bionicle related

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    • ryan213@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s what I was referring to as a joke. Lol

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• mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What is going on in the reflection? Is that thermostat headed to orbit?

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  • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Looks like the exhibit across is rocks. looks like quartz?

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