lucg

@lucg@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this every time I kill a mosquito or fruit fly but they don’t seem to be getting any faster, smarter, or quieter. Where’s Darwin when you need him?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨94.3° F⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They have fur…

  Our cat doesn’t come to rooms that are warmer until the one she’s in is about 16°C, so I think they only get chilly at or below that temperature. She’s short haired but the winter coat still looks comfy warm to me, like I’m also fine in bed once my blanket is warmed up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Planet 9 a conspiracy theory? Who’s conspiring against whom there :|

  Afaik it was a legit theory since we discovered planet 8 that way and then people tried to use the same method for further planets. Also beyond Mercury there was supposed to be Vulcanus and people reported sightings but nothing added up

  Discovery of planet 8 (Wikipedia):

  unexpected changes in the orbit of Uranus led Alexis Bouvard to hypothesise that its orbit was subject to gravitational perturbation by an unknown planet. After Bouvard’s death, the position of Neptune was mathematically predicted from his observations, independently, by John Couch Adams and Urbain Le Verrier. Neptune was subsequently directly observed with a telescope

  And then Mr Einstein had a thing or two to say about those gravitational disturbances being actually relativity and most things clicked into place (but you’ll still have a discrepancy between the known spacetime curving and observed orbits because it’s hard to know what mass is exactly where in the Kuiper belt etc.). Or something. I’m probably wrong on the details but that’s the broad strokes as I remember them

  We didn’t get planet 9 in school either fwiw but I think it was in magazines or encyclopedia at my grandparents’ place that I heard of it