Lord of the SCIENCE

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• _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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  • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    🎵 They’re taking Hobbit-chan to Isengard! 🎵

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Biyakugon!

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      *intense air-slapping ensues*

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• poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I saw a comic about this once (xkcd, probably?) and going by the scene in the movie, where Legolas has human sized eyes, they deduced that Middle Earth must have an exotic atmosphere

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  • Zorcron@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    It was a Minute Physics video. Only 2 minutes, and a great watch.

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• FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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  • Blum0108@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Sounds like you need some anime eyes

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Can he do interferometry and just have a 3rd but normal eye?

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  • socsa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Legoland actually vibrates very very quickly and is actually performing synthetic aperture Interferometry, multiply the size of his effective optical aperture.

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Also he’s transmitting and recieving imagery from other elves, using the very long baseline kept in his pants

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• socsa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  It depends on the atmosphere. On earth, the average 'size' of the atmospheric distortion experienced by a photon over 15 miles would far exceed the angular resolution of any pupil-sized aperture. This is a very simple explanation which groups a number of propagation effects broadly under the term "distortion." Even without atmospheric distortion, there is a limit to the "information" a given aperture can resolve due to purely thermal noise. In theory, of you have an aperture temperature of absolute zero, the thermal resolution is infinite, but also then there is no process by which information can be generated by an I cident photon.

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• Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Is the unit ‘one league’ used in LOTR (esp in elvish) the same as in our universe. Just asking as nobody here questions the units.

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  • sness@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Yes. The books are all carefully translated from elvish and would have accounted for unit conversions.

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    • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I thought they were written by Bilbo and Frodo in Westron

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I remember asking my dad how far a league was when I first read the book, and then repeatedly questioning whether that could be right in the context of the writing.

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• jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Orland-Legolas doesn’t need science to look cute.

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  • flicker@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I forgot that was the actor’s name and for a second thought he’d gotten married.

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    • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I don’t think Gimli has a last name. 🤔

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• tromars@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Not a scientist myself, so I’m wondering: shouldn’t that technically say „hypothesis + evidence“ instead of „theory + evidence“? Which is of course nitpicky (if I’m even correct) in the context of a tumblr post, but I’m still curious

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    A hypothesis is a theory, one that is being tested.

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    • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      A theory in the scientific world/literature/common understanding is significantly stronger than a hypothesis.

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• DharkStare@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I could be entirely wrong about this but isn’t it in universe lore that Elves don’t see the curvature of the world and that’s how they can see so far?

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  • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    That would fall under “nonvisual” (meaning not light-based) perception.

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• oxideseven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  ✨magic✨

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• grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  These are the kinds of problems I want our species solving

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