Draconic_NEO

@Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fascinating fasciation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw dandelions like that a few times before. I never knew what it was called or what caused it. I think I only ever saw it 3 times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨snow isn't real⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That would raise the sea level almost as fast, and probably more than if the polar ice caps just melted on their own. Also didn’t it come from a comet? Last I checked comet ice isn’t the cleanest ice, it’s full of fun stuff like ammonia, cyanide, and formaldehyde.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forensic Poetry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah before people in America made a big stink about it and said it’lll turn you crazy or into a mexican, or whatever racist unscientific garbage excuse they made to start a moral panic to make it illegal, people smoked or otherwise consumed cannabis. It was just normal. The same way people consume drugs like coffee today, yes coffee is a drug.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nigri irl⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, the phrasing was poor since many arthropods easily beat this guy in terms of small size.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lmao⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or it’s likely a mini-Neptune type planet with more atmosphere than ground and therefore likely won’t have complex life at all. Or complex life able to try and do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lmao⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You would need to get into orbit first to start the process of making it. It could make it easier to get into orbit once you have it but it doesn’t eliminate the burden of needing to get into orbit at least once before it’s set up. Likely more than once since failed attempts will require you to start over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you do?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the most important part, especially when teaching math to children. The practical aspects of math (beyond arithmetic counting with basic addition and subtraction) are not going to be fully realized until one is an adult, so they aren’t going to be a motivator for learning math.

  It needs to be fun and engaging for them to want to keep learning and engaging with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I’m not even sure it’s possible at that distance. Planets reflect very little light compared to stars, and that already minuscule amount of light gets scattered across an insanely huge area due to the inverse square law. So that tiny amount of light gets spread over an insanely huge area (light years in size).

  I feel like to get a clear picture your telescope would have to be light years across in size to get a clear image with fine details in it. The light is just too spread out to get a clear picture of it with anything you can build at a human scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The hard part is that the stars create so much glare and planets are so small and faint that it’s really REALLY hard to zoom in on them. Even with very powerful telescopes. It’s probably straight up impossible actually. Like you can see them and get an idea of what they’re made of (light spectrum analysis) but you’re not going to be able to make out fine details like what the landmasses look like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because one of them (Earth) is based on reality, and the other is a poorly done conceptual render because no human actually knows the shape of the landmasses on that planet on account of having never been there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Trippy" Reality⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t surprise me that much honestly, even on Lemmy there are a lot of right-wing people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't worry, be happy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Those dumbasses build their houses right on the beach, they will ultimately be hit very hard by climate change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨h8ers gonna h8⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Potatoes are also pretty easy to grow. I think a lot of people grow them as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨send thoughts and peer review⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s really shitty, just another shitty aspect of capitalism protecting businesses and not people. Actually actively screwing people over for money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's how the world works.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that people should definitely keep a good store of non-perishable foods in case of hard times, but you also should try to grow food as well. I don’t think anyone is trying to say it’ll be easy, like anything at first it is difficult. It’s definitely worth trying though, if you can and have the space. Like I said, don’t go all in as your only option, keep non-perishable foods on hand, like canned goods, or dried goods. If you’re able to grow your own food you get fresh fruits and veggies, and you won’t use up as many canned goods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨send thoughts and peer review⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And even with prosthetic limbs, access might be limited based on profitability.

  Let’s also not ignore the fact that many modern prosthetics just kind of suck in general. They’re getting better but they still aren’t great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨send thoughts and peer review⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean holes in ears healing and closing up is one thing, entire limbs regrowing is another, and we already know from salamanders and lizards that things can go wrong:

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  Who’s to say a regrown human arm won’t have similar issues, possibly even internal issues only humans would notice due to having opposable fingers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And often have to work there too, which is even worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an industrial district, I don’t think they offer housing there. And if they do it’s only for those who work there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨so cozy 🐟⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nom <3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨so cozy 🐟⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re like puppies of the sea, just with stingers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boxelder bugs are relentless lil critters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They are friendly little bugs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boxelder bugs are relentless lil critters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting argument, mind backing it up with a source?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boxelder bugs are relentless lil critters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hot take: These guys never bothered me. I know some people are strongly bothered and annoyed by Boxelder bugs but they don’t annoy me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought they peaked during the Triassic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fascism bad.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Crazy that they boast about having an overactive amygdala but deny it when people say they are acting crazy and paranoid.

  Also, side note: conflation of liberal and leftist as if they’re the same is kind of a pet peeve of mine. They are very much not the same thing. Those who know know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We should be banning, or more accurately, phasing out combustion engines for all vehicles including government and emergency vehicles. If anything should be EVs these should be it. Also consider that American fire trucks are massively oversized compared to ones in the rest of the world. They don’t need to be that big, and thus more compact European-style ones could easily be replaced with electric equivalents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also there’s a specific type of reactor that is optimal because it allows for more easily recycling the spent fuel to use it again, and unfortunately these have not been built as much as the other type of reactor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next round on you!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks more like Sushi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artist Depiction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair it’s a chicken which is 12 meters tall, if you’ve ever seen chickens killing and eating bugs it seems cute but if they were that big they would not be cute at all, it would be terrifying. Little birds are only cute and unintimidating because they’re small.