Tlaloc_Temporal
@Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
- Comment on We lost Keanu 3 days ago:
There’s a difference between sharing information and a river of glorification.
Not all the WWII history shows glorified it, but lots of them did and did often. I’ve heard too much about the brilliant tactical minds that ensured the fall of Nazi Germany and paved the way for democracy and freedom. Too many tank battles are called great, and not enough called tragic. Famines and desyruction of infrastructure ate often mentioned for their strategic effects, and rarely for the rapid destruction of society they cause.
- Comment on SKUNK 3 days ago:
Wow, this episode is really experimental. I was not expecting the twist, but it’s quite good!
- Comment on stacked 3 days ago:
Not even /s, there are signs of posts planted upright nearby, a so-called woodhenge.
- Comment on Oxygen 1 week ago:
Fire gets it’s energy from fuel+oxygen. Most life does too. Plants (and other photosynthetic organisms) can also get energy from light but that requires you to sit in the sun doing not much for a long time. There’s also chemosynthesis, where energy is obtained from a chemical reaction, but that’s usually not nearly as powerful as oxidation.
Put another way, a car with NOS is way faster and more powerful than one without. So too is life that uses oxygen more powerful than life that doesn’t.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 weeks ago:
Top half? 0-50°C is the top half. The bottom half is -50-0°C.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 weeks ago:
Even better, I don’t even feel a fever until it’s 104°F. I’ve just looked it up, and that’s exactly 40°C. Even my body likes round centigrade numbers.
- Comment on Blood Meal 3 weeks ago:
Would that make invasive species unnatural? When does a disrupted ecosystem become natural again?
- Comment on i will never understand scientific fraud 3 weeks ago:
Trust the process maybe? This post is about the process of science correcting errors after all.
- Comment on i will never understand scientific fraud 3 weeks ago:
These are fantastic documentaries BTW, highly recommend if you liked Mayday, NOVA, Life, or any long form investigative journalism.
- Comment on Anon casts a healing spell 3 weeks ago:
That is one big advantage of being divine, yes.
Even then, curses can complicate matters, and a pantheon without an applicable power will need to endeavor to make a change.
A Greater Foe could argue for a saving throw, especially if it’s against their will. A Gift might not even be enough if the deformity affects their divine soul, which sounds like a good quest hook.
- Comment on Anon casts a healing spell 3 weeks ago:
I think the refractory period is a hormone response and not tissue damage/fatigue. It could be ‘healed’ in a similar way horniness, PMS, pregnancy, tiredness (but not the need for sleep), hunger, and moods can be ‘healed’.
It could also be a peripheral autonomic feedback response, in which case it could be ‘healed’ in a similar way to suppressing automatic breathing, bowel movements, automatic reflexes, and possibly the fine tuning of balance.
Such a spell could porobably exist, alongside a suite of other weird spells that were likely developed first, like Calm Emotions or unnamed but almost guaranteed to exist contraceptive spells. Some debuff spells of a unique variety could be quite interesting too, with breathing suppression being the rare effect that would require an intelligence save.
A potion would probably be the cheaper option though; plain old erection juice should suffice.
- Comment on The Three Kinds of Scientific Research 4 weeks ago:
We have made some amazing discoveries with full-sky maps and analysis of the CMB. The human genome project has also yeilded a wealth of discoveries.
- Comment on Magic Mirror on the Wall, who has the smallest p of them all? 4 weeks ago:
Especially considering that PDFs can be just a few Mb, and I doubt people will care if they’re not cached locally.
- Comment on little hopper 4 weeks ago:
Well if we want to get pedantic, every unique thing passed around and spread is a meme. Jokes, art styles, idioms, words, greetings, most social behavior really. And you can go a step further and say diseases, species, even all of life is a meme.
And if there ever was a place to use this definition of meme it would be… LinguisticMemes, but this is a good second place.
- Comment on I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt. 4 weeks ago:
᚛ᚑᚌᚆᚐᚋ ᚔᚄ ᚐᚃᚓᚄᚑᚋᚓ᚜
Ogham is awesome
I’ve used it for cryptic languages in TTRPGs before, alongside a few other runic scripts like ᛖᛚᛞᛖᚱ᛫ᚠᚢᚦ︍ᚨᚱᚲ.
My favorite is Gallifreyan, which doesn’t have unicode, is far too niche and homebrewed to have unicode, and how the hell would unicode even work?
- Comment on That's a big burger 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on That's a big burger 4 weeks ago:
d = r/sinΘ
Human FoV is about 210° with both eyes. Thus Θ is 105°.
The radius of the sun is 695,508 km.
Thus, d is 695,508/sin(105) → 720,043 km
720,043 - 695,508 = 24535 km away from the surface of the sun.
However, because the FoV is greater than 180°, this is actually below the surface of the sun, and any distance below the surface is enough to fill your vision.
To completely fill your field of view with the Sun, you’ll need to take a Parker Bath and dip into the sun.
- Comment on That's a big burger 4 weeks ago:
There’s actually a trip to Antarctica to see the midnight sun funded by globe earthers planned soon. Many flat earthers were invited, but most have chickened out and the rest are hedging their positions with “24 hour sun doesn’t mean anything, even if we see it, it doesn’t matter”.
- Comment on We WALK 4 weeks ago:
What separates species? Oh boy, do I not have an answer for you! We usually don’t have enough fossils to ask that question, and now that we’re cataloging so many fossils it’s starting to bring up questions like this.
We clearly have two gropus of T.rex skeletons, gracile and robust. Are they different sexes or different species? How about proposed Spinosaurus species, are those just interspecies variation? What about homonin fossils? We can’t even agree on the genus, let alone the species.
Well forget fossils, what about living species? Plants have shown an amazing ability to hybridize between very distinct groups, and animals can form ring species where two populations can’t interbreed, but can share genes through a string of other populations! How do you classify that‽
Great yt video on the concept of species if you have 15 minutes.
- Comment on Alas Moths 4 weeks ago:
That means we see snakes similarly to the way their predators do.
From a different perspective, the bee mimic orchid only vaguely looks like a bee to us, but it still successfuly tricks bees, so image accuracy isn’t the only factor. Both mimics can give us interesting insughts into how other animals see the world.
- Comment on God of Death 4 weeks ago:
And my mates Ceres and Sedna! And Orcus, Makemake, Haumea, Eris (which started this whole deal), Gonggong, Quaoar, Salacia, Leleākūhonua, and at least 40 undiscovered Sednoids. Vesta, Pallas, Hygeia, and Interamnia probably counted at one point too!
At some point it stops being gatekeeping and is just another kingdom entirely.
- Comment on Alas Moths 5 weeks ago:
The ones whos wings looked like what their predators think a snake looks like survived more often.
- Comment on God of Death 5 weeks ago:
Millions of asteroids would like a word…
- Comment on Dolphins is whales. 5 weeks ago:
Sperm whales? Beaked whales? Also several river dolphins!
- Comment on I definitely never unsubscribed from a YouTube channel just for that... 5 weeks ago:
I think that time will lose its sense of unidirectionality at some point
I actually have no idea how to conceptualize this. Every theory about the far future I’ve heard has assumed that time will move forwards, even if there’s hardly anything happening. Would a point where time changes flow back propagate to cause universe destruction before that happens? Would dark energy just rip everything apart? Is time driven by dark energy? Would everything just stop? Would some component of space become the new time? The Lorentz diagrams, they do nothing! Penrose can’t save me now!
- Comment on Go already 5 weeks ago:
It’s like a pressure wave! The boat is gone, but the wake is still causing you problems.
- Comment on Spaceships 5 weeks ago:
This interpretation leads to interesting terminology around EVAs.
- Comment on Basalt Baddie 5 weeks ago:
It’s as bad as England’s football signs!
- Comment on Crystals 5 weeks ago:
Ignorance? As you defend pink salt and radioactive bracelets as the next frontier of science?
I’m well aware of the radical changes to known science in the past, from the ultraviolet catastrophe to the Michelson-Morley experiment to phebotinum and even to expanding earth models.
Yet for every folk remedy that yeilds an asprin, there are a dozen colloidal silvers, for each inoculation there’s several ear candlings, and for each acupuncture, several Non-Contact Therapeutic Touchs.
A rock from walmart doesn’t have access to any cancer curing or anti-aging energy powers, no matter how hard to believe science to be blind. Are there scientifically undiscovered remedies in use today? Certainly. Is dried turtle brain going to cure your ED? No!
Come back when the next xbox can cure cancer wirelessly and detect ghosts.
- Comment on Pigeons 5 weeks ago:
They do, but that paper shows they also use sight, with paint on their face causing them to get attacked and paint on their backs not causing agression in other ants.