ShaunaTheDead
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- Comment on 🐊🐓🦖 3 months ago:
I actually just learned this recently, but dinosaurs differ from reptiles in that dinosaurs have legs that are under their bodies whereas reptiles have legs that splay out to the side. So all mammals, and birds, with legs directly under their bodies are probably more closely related to dinosaurs then reptiles.
- Comment on Evidence That Our Names Physically Change Our Faces Over Time (Anton Petrov, YouTube) 3 months ago:
Writers of children's names books are going to have a field day with the data from this study.
- Comment on Science is Magic 3 months ago:
Quantum mechanics unveils the spaghetti code on which our universe runs
- Comment on teen angst 3 months ago:
Mind blown the first time I realized those weird bugs on the left are baby Ladybugs!
- Comment on All jokers fault probably 3 months ago:
Good old redditor take that doesn't explain anything in a snide way.
- Comment on All jokers fault probably 3 months ago:
The problem is wealth inequality which the Waynes directly contribute to.
- Comment on Which one was your favorite guys 4 months ago:
I don't get it, but I assume there's some obscure historical or philosophical joke going on here. Can someone explain?
Or maybe it's "read" as in "read his book" and the drag term "read him for filth" lol I hope it's that one
- Comment on Dark Matter 4 months ago:
Yeah I figured it maybe also had something to do with the distribution of matter throughout the universe. We assumed when we made predictions of the distant past that the supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies were the same mass as they are today, but if they were less massive then it might help explain why black holes didn't gather as much material into it's orbit as we would have thought.
I think you're right though that it has more to do with the negative pressure that space and the black holes seem to exert although I must admit I don't really understand what that means or how you would get a negative pressure from a black hole or from space.
- Comment on Dark Matter 4 months ago:
I saw a paper on here recently that basically said they've explained dark energy through what they called "cosmological coupling" of black holes. Basically, black holes absorb space over time, and since space has a base level of energy and energy is kind of a form of mass then the black holes are gaining mass over time and so they are less massive in the past than they are today. I don't 100% understand why that explains dark energy, but it is a very new paper and as far as I know hasn't been peer reviewed yet, so who knows!
Here's the paper: https://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/2023/02/first-observational-evidence-linking-black-holes-to-dark-energy/
- Comment on Dark Matter 4 months ago:
Light is pretty fucky. Like taking the shortest route to it's target through TIME! What the fuck light?!
- Comment on Dark Matter 4 months ago:
"dark" in scientific terms just means unexplained. We're very, very, very, and I cannot stress this enough... VERY sure that dark matter and dark energy exist, but they will remain "dark" until we discover what they are/what's causing the effects that we see. Aether was just unfounded non-sense that was based on practically nothing.
- Comment on Progress happens with every death 4 months ago:
For example, carbon dating took discoveries including counting tree rings to determine a tree's age, the origins of all the radiation on Earth -- spoiler: it was the Earth itself, but also cosmic rays which was the important bit, nuclear half-lives and creating a chart of specifically useful half-lives for historical dating, the discovery of a rare isotope of carbon which can only be made by cosmic rays (carbon-14) as a near perfect clock for human timescales, how to build a sensor that can read faint carbon-14 radioactivity while filtering out all the radioactive noise from the environment, making another chart of expected radioactive readings based on geographical location including the depths of the ocean, and of course not to mention all of the archeological data used to calibrate all of the charts and devices used in the process.
- Comment on Equality 4 months ago:
The teacher's meaning is clear, which is the purpose of language. Mickey's just being a grammar nazi.
- Comment on Dr Disrespect confesses to sending a minor messages that "leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate" 4 months ago:
Wow real shocker there /s
- Comment on Mythbusters 4 months ago:
Being excited about being wrong because either way it's information
This literally is the basis of science that I think a lot of people misunderstand. Science doesn't prove anything conclusively. What scientists try to do is disprove the leading theory and when they can't, it adds to the pile of evidence that increases the likelyhood of the leading theory being correct. Even things that we're very, very, very sure are correct are still like 99.99999999999...% confirmed.
A good example that's often used to show how it's more important to try to disprove a theory rather than trying to prove it is the existence of black swans. It was long thought that all swans were white and every time someone saw a white swan, that idea was reinforced. But when someone actually went out of their way to go looking for a black swan, they found a bunch of them!
- Comment on Subsets are a thing in biology as well. 4 months ago:
The easiest way to tell the difference is that monkeys have tails and apes don't. Chimps are definitely apes and I'm not sure what OP is getting at.
- Comment on Planetary travel guide 4 months ago:
Every other planet looks like shit. Another W for Earth, the best planet in the universe! (as far as we know)
- Comment on Automation 4 months ago:
Reminds me of an early application of AI where scientists were training an AI to tell the difference between a wolf and a dog. It got really good at it in the training data, but it wasn't working correctly in actual application. So they got the AI to give them a heatmap of which pixels it was using more than any other to determine if a canine is a dog or a wolf and they discovered that the AI wasn't even looking at the animal, it was looking at the surrounding environment. If there was snow on the ground, it said "wolf", otherwise it said "dog".
- Comment on Some conservative talking points really grind my gears 4 months ago:
Reminds me, I drive a school bus part-time and my bus has a malfunctioning sensor in the transmission and so on the screen on the dashboard it says "CHECK TRANS". So every morning I'm like looks down at crotch "yup, still trans!"
- Comment on Some conservative talking points really grind my gears 4 months ago:
lol holy shit that was really funny!
- Comment on Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise 5 months ago:
Star Trek really has 2 different genres, there's action/adventure and there's real hard sci-fi where philosophy is at the forefront. Voyager generally appeals more to the action/adventure fans, whereas the previous iterations appeared like the entire series was heading in a more philosophical direction with TOS to TNG to DS9 increasing in their thoughtfulness. VOY was seen as a huge backslide to people who were tuning in largely for the philosophical aspect of the show.
Considering there was and still are very few popular philosophical and thought provoking shows that challenge the viewer's world view and biases, I think it's fair to be upset that the new direction of the show is to dumb down everything and focus more on the action.
Of course, that's not to say that Voyager was completely devoid of any philosophical debate, but I don't think anyone can make the case that it's equally as intelligent as TNG and DS9.
- Comment on What the actual fuck Google? I just wanted linguistics pronunciation of /A/. 5 months ago:
What is /A/? You mean like the letter A?
- Comment on Drop it! 8 months ago:
Oh a time for me to share my specialized expertise! So I was a dog walker for almost a decade and I've learned an amazing trick that has worked on 100% of dogs I've tried it on and is very safe from the human if done correctly.
- Get your hand ready, you're going to use your middle finger and your thumb to pince together so get your other fingers out of the way and get just the middle finger and the thumb ready to pince.
- Stand kind of behind and to the side of the dog, with the dog on the side of whichever is your dominant hand (right if you're a righty, left if you're a lefty).
- Move your ready to pince hand up behind their head and up to their muzzle.
- Like an arcade claw machine game you're gonna lower your hand down over their muzzle and slip your thumb and your finger behind their canine teeth MAKE SURE YOU BRING SOME OF THE DOG'S LIP WITH YOUR FINGERS!!!
Side note here: I know this seems like you're going to get bitten by putting your hands in a dog's mouth between their teeth but this is VERY CRUCIAL you MUST grab some of their lip with your fingers and bring their lip down into their teeth with your fingers so that they feel like if they bite down then they're just going to bite themselves. And don't put too much pressure or you'll hurt the dog.
100% of the time as soon as the dog feels their lips slip between their own teeth, their mouths will just open right up. They might start struggling a bit to try to break loose of your grip, but keep your pinced fingers firmly in place while with your other hand you remove the object from their mouths. You might not even have to reach in there because they sometimes drop what they're holding as soon as your slip your fingers in there. And if it feels like the lips are slipping out or the dog is going to break free, just get your fingers out of there and try again when the dog calms down.
Also just don't try this on a dog you're not familiar with, an unfamiliar dog might just turn around and bite you as soon as you get close. If there's some level of trust between you and the dog, there's no chance they'll bite you if done correctly. I've probably done this to like 40 different dogs in my life and it works 100% of the time.