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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To deter predators...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh wow! Mouth dry! Mouth dry!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to Help⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually watched that episode last night, so that post was kinda jumping at me. What are the odds…

  Sagan, a real teacher. Not only smart, there are quite a few smart people. But also able to make something complicated easily understood. To make something abstract sound straight. To make something minds can’t grasp comprehensible. A beautiful ability!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who all wants a silent spring?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently read somewhere that it’s actually just very few bee species that die after stinging, among them honeybees. They have a barbed stinger that gets stuck while most bees have flat stingers and can sting repeatedly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Undulating 🐍⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not any snake, but some species that are adapted to living on trees. It’s also not really flying. Gliding would describe what they do better. As they jump, they flatten their body and make slither movements through the air, gliding maybe at a 45 angle downwards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finds the secret to losing weight⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone, who ridicules people for some characteristic while they are in the process of improving that characteristic, have understood so little about life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too many looks.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren’t these changes, because there are just have bones to look at, so skin properties etc are a guessing game?

  But how did that jaw bone double in length in 2001? Was the skull a missing part until then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mand got big hands!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it had a stable orbit before and then slowed down, I thought it’ll get a more elliptical orbit, being both closer and further, or fall into Earth.

  My logic was that a stable orbit closer to the center needs higher speeds to counter higher gravity and vice versa.

  So if the moon would get hit in a way that makes it slow down and get pushed further away from Earth at the same time, it could keep a roundish orbit, or not?

  What’s with that specific timeframe? Is it due to the orbit never being perfect? Or random slight influences from other not too far, heavy objects?

  Thanks for the explanation, the moon being a little fast for it’s orbit and therefore slowly spiraling out of Earths gravity makes sense to me now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mand got big hands!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know you’re right, have read it elsewhere before. But I can’t figure out why that would happen. I doubt Earth is loosing mass. Does the moon slow down over time due to impacts or what causes this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Science is Magic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally agree. I just witnessed my sister delivering her baby a few days back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can whistle at the speed of sound⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious. What happens to the medium? Does it simply get pushed aside? Or pushed along? Or will it eat up some energy and react to something else?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an anthropologist⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was because proper farming.

  Like being able to support larger groups of people, where individuals could specialize in other things than hunting, gathering and whatever else was keeping the early humans busy.

  On the other hand I’ve heard we’ve been possibly farming long before 10,000 BCE.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bet y'all are very familiar with this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah thanks! So you use thin metal posts. I still use self cut wood like a caveman an whack the shit out of other things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bet y'all are very familiar with this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually thought this was a police tool for breaking in doors.

  So according to comments it’s a post driver. So far I dug holes and put my poles in. This tool seems practical for soft soil, but what do you do when living somewhere with rocky soil or with dry clay soil?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't argue with that logic⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And more. Major river discharge can raise the sea level in the area. Then big circular currents similar like when you stirr your cup of coffee or tea. Or chocolate milk 🤤

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Irresistible⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  😁 whooopsie! Haha. Yeah, it’s somewhat 6000 km I mean. Sorry for my stupidity here today… Thank you very much for explaining my dumb mistake instead of making fun! Time to sleep now, I guess. Thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Irresistible⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am fairly sure Earth’s radius is somewhat 6 km, so something with an 48 km radius would be 42 km above Earth’s surface, where we experience 1 G.

  Can you explain please, where I made a mistake?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Irresistible⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not OP. What would evaporate?

  I think we don’t anymore what’s going on with Richard. I believe he would consume Earth almost instantly, including all satellites and maybe the moon.

  Didn’t do the math myself, but internet says 1 G would be at about 48 km radius.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Volcel says what?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Comment includes heavy slurs

  spoiler

  "Today I want to tell you peasants, that there is no place for racism, sexism and patriarchy in our church. We embrace all human beings. And also faggots and niggers and mullahs. We especially embrace beautiful nude small boys!" - the Catholic Church, probably

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about human history⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is true for older technologies.

  Like combustion as you said, we used it a lot and pretty much designed it the best we can with the materials we know and have. But there will be completely new technologies opening up, like maybe fusion. Or solar we know already since a while but made major improvements the last decade and will probably improve it even more.

  I was more thinking about how we had this technology rush. I think it is mostly due to the use of fossil fuels and therefore “incredible cheap” energy which also led to humans reproduce a lot. (incredible cheap in quotation marks, because we will probably have to pay the real price which is environmental damage and a modified atmosphere)

  When you have a world with 3 times (random number based on nothing) more people you also have 3 times more great artists, scientists, etc. Of course only, if society stays more or less the same. Imagine how many great works we could have if the majority of great minds wasn’t preoccupied paying for food and a place to stay like in a hamster wheel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about human history⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s true for only a planet with indefinite resources. We haven’t really hit many caps yet, but I believe things will start to slow down within a lifetime.