Draconic_NEO
@Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz
- Comment on nigri irl 2 hours ago:
I agree, the phrasing was poor since many arthropods easily beat this guy in terms of small size.
- Comment on Lmao 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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:
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] 4 weeks ago:
And often have to work there too, which is even worse.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks 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 🐟 5 weeks ago:
Nom <3
- Comment on so cozy 🐟 5 weeks ago:
They’re like puppies of the sea, just with stingers.
- Comment on Boxelder bugs are relentless lil critters 5 weeks ago:
They are friendly little bugs.
- Comment on Boxelder bugs are relentless lil critters 5 weeks ago:
Interesting argument, mind backing it up with a source?
- Comment on Boxelder bugs are relentless lil critters 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks ago:
I thought they peaked during the Triassic.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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! 1 month 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.
- Comment on Artist Depiction 1 year ago:
That’s a good idea, have several different interpretations.
- Comment on Artist Depiction 1 year ago:
Of course it’ll be wrong, my point is to try making it look more like a living thing than a living skeleton. When comparing skin wrapped designs to living creatures (even mythical ones) they just look wrong. Most creatures don’t look shrink wrapped. Really imagining what prehistoric animals is more art than science, you use science to try and know roughly what they looked like but that’ll only get you so far, you need to use imagination or creativity.
I mean we can create depictions of mythical animals that have never lived and will never live, why not use some of that skill to try and depict prehistoric creatures in a way that’s more life-like, because the shrink wrap technique isn’t more accurate, it’s lazy, not believable, and also aesthetically unappealing.
- Comment on Artist Depiction 1 year ago:
I think that many of the people who do depictions of prehistoric creatures lack imagination so they do the bare minimum they possibly could to “imagine” the skeleton as a living creature. Imagination is absolutely required to get a good depiction of them that looks lifelike and not creepy and unrealistic.
