Thorry

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Admittedly and unfortunately, so am I. 🫤⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Is Prince Andrew a leader tho? Leader of the loser society perhaps, but beyond that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Admittedly and unfortunately, so am I. 🫤⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, this isn’t a picture of the Milky Way galaxy, so we are most definitely not there. And even if it was, our Sun is about halfway from the center in the disc part of our galaxy, not all the way on the outskirts. And this isn’t even the right kind of galaxy, our galaxy has a bar in the middle and more pronounced arms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had native-level fluency in a language, and don't talk in that language for a while, can you develop an accent later-on when trying to talk in that language again?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can actually change accents when you move to a different area, even though you are speaking the same language. I’ve even heard peoples accent change because they got a new work from home job, where they talk to people with another accent each day all day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HD 137010 b⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In theory yes, in practice we have absolutely no idea how to actually do that and use the energy in an efficient or practical way. Even just on paper without limitations of technology or costs, we have no idea. Physics simply isn’t as clean or neat like that in real life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HD 137010 b⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think we have the technology or will have the technology any time soon to send a focused enough powerful enough radio signal over 150 light years. As radio is subject to the inverse square law, the amount of power you’d need is gigantic. Like black hole swallowing a bunch of stars levels of energy. Iirc anything over 25 light years is pretty much a no-go for radio as the detectors get ridiculous and the signal to noise ratio makes it indistinguishable from background levels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump audibly loses control of his bowels during a press conference - via Forbes Breaking News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes he is an old man who’s been wearing adult diapers for at least the last decade or so. He shits his pants regularly. Which is totally fine and understandable for old people, it’s not uncommon at all. Often when they get as old as that they have daily help or are in a facility where they can get help quickly. I remember my grandma going thru that when she was 75, as a strong independent woman it was very hard for her.

  Now when it’s the goddamned president of the United States, it’s somewhat more of an issue. He is in rough shape both physically and mentally. Just go watch some clip of the man from 10 years ago and compare it to today. But he has a whole bunch of cronies that protect him. Otherwise there is no way this man would have been allowed to still have any sort of job, let alone an important one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HD 137010 b⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh only a billion tons of anti-matter. Good thing we’ve already made a few nanograms, so in a billion years or so we’ll have plenty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just vibing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So imagine a bus…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers find reducing salt in everyday foods could prevent tens of thousands of heart attacks and strokes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wtf is this headline? The money the NHS saves is the important part? Why is that even mentioned, sure it’s a useful side effect perhaps. But even if it costs more money, isn’t reducing heart attacks and strokes the important part?

  Also “Without the public having to change eating habits” is BS. If you reduce the salt, by definition you are changing the eating habits. And in my experience, food with less salt tastes like shit. In the EU the amount of salt on crisps has been reduced. Which is a good thing for health reasons, however all crisps tastes like cardboard now. My favorite snack have been ruined. I still buy the crisps to enjoy on a Saturday evening with some beer and a movie, but when I eat then I regret it instantly. I know it’s not healthy, neither the the alcohol nor the crisps, but can it at least taste good if it kills me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It always makes news when the "Doomsday Clock" is moved by a second or minute. What would actually happen if it got to 00:00⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d recommend the movie Threads (1984), if you don’t feel like sleeping for the next week or so.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨obesity even kills stars, but the bigger they are, they shine brighter too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of what is left after Jupiter is in Saturn and after that Neptune and Uranus take up a lot of the mass. The amount of mass in the small terrestrial planets, all of the moons, all of the asteroids etc. is less than 0.002% of the mass of the Solar system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is such a thing even possible? Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uhm the Moonmen built the pyramids, why would we need to teach them? Man it’s sure going to be embarrassing if we get up there and proclaim: “Hello Moonmen! We are here to teach you about pyramids” and they are like “Dude, we know all about the pyramids, what else you got?”. Can you imagine how red the astronauts faces would be?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨obesity even kills stars, but the bigger they are, they shine brighter too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And 0.1% is Jupiter, the other 0.4% is everything else…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it like living in 2?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone send this to Randall Monroe, how fucked would we be if we actually created this piece of land?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah wall plug efficiency is much harder since you need to do the power conversion as well, in a small and cheap way for mass production. I’d assume they have a specialized power supply for the big LED in the sky?

  There are super efficient LEDs used in flashlights, the lumen per watt figures these days are absolutely crazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This can very a lot depending on the LED. The average LED is indeed somewhere around the 50% and 60% mark. But there are LEDs out there that can get up to 90+%

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They played us for absolute fools⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oooh that’s what you meant. I was referring to the time horses became obsolete almost over night and their population got reduced to only 10% of what it was before within a very short time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They played us for absolute fools⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just don’t mention the part where 90% of them got killed off because they weren’t useful anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spong Berb Adventures #6⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He must be a great guy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you tho?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mama!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact, we do not just orbit the galaxy in a circle, we also have a motion perpendicular to that circle. We oscillate up and down through the plane of the Milky Way. The Milky Way is super thin, like super ultra thin. If the Milky Way were a pancake, it would only be the thickness of a sheet of paper, a sad pancake indeed. However in terms of human scales it is still huge, so we have a large way to travel. Our galactic orbit is tilted as compared to the galactic plane, so throughout the cosmic year we move up and down as compared to the center. A motion of 100-200 light year, so pretty big. That orbit also has procession, so we move through different parts.

  The galaxy itself is also moving, although at that scale it’s easier to thing of the galaxy to be stationary and other galaxies moving towards or away from us. In general we are all moving towards a galaxy cluster known as “The Great Attractor” as it is the most massive (except for your mom).

  It’s also often forgotten that our sun isn’t the only star moving in the galaxy. All of the stars orbit the galaxy in a lot of different orbits. And some don’t orbit at all, instead moving with escape velocity to get flung outside of our galaxy. Some have their own orbit in companion dwarf galaxies that in turn orbit our own galaxy. It’s easy to think of a galaxy as a fixed thing, with all the stars in the same place moving together like on a disk. But this isn’t the case at all, stars aren’t bound together and can follow their own path. Over time their relative positions change and the constellations we know won’t exist anymore.

  The structures we see in galaxies like spiral arms for example are only structures in the same way a wave in the ocean is a structure. It is clearly a thing that exists, with properties we can at least somewhat constrain (like size for example). But the water inside that wave is just water like everywhere else. At one point it’s part of the wave and then at some point it no longer is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A complete tier list for our solar system⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ew humans

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, this is also very noticeable in media. They can have some kind of aliens in a future sci-fi universe that somehow have a legal process and trial that exactly mirrors the American way of doing things. For Americans that’s just normal, not realising this is absolutely not the norm in the rest of the world. Same thing with malls, hospitals, roads and many more things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember I had a Voodoo card at the time of GTA2. Playing the Glide version of that game (if you could get it working) was like being transported into the future. The resolution was higher, the framerate was higher and more smooth, the lighting effects were insane. Especially on a large CRT with vibrant colors that game looked absolutely amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a real danger of quantum computing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Skill issue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hacked mars!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Plants actually use O2 themselves a lot of the time, so we would still need to truck in a whole bunch of that stuff in. Also the amount of plants needed for just a single human is huge. Most plants are rather bad at producing O2. Most of it actually comes from algae living in water, not potted plants. The YouTube channel Joel Creates did an experiment with how much algae you would actually need to breathe. It’s like a lot, a lot a lot really. Building some place on Mars or even in orbit that such a large amount of algae could happily live is pretty hard. Hell it’s pretty hard on Earth, where you don’t need to worry about temperature and pressure going out of spec or stuff like radiation. These days we do have pretty effective LED grow lights that prevent the whole thing from becoming too hard. From movies people think space is cold, but getting rid of heat is a big problem. With that much light blasting into the water, the temperature rises and the algae will die from that at some point. So radiating away all that heat is a must. On Mars or the Moon this is easier as the surrounding rocks could be used as a heat sink. The actual real hard part is not just building this, but building it in a way that can support human life for a long time. Systems such as these are chaotic in nature and often suffer from cascade failure modes. If a little thing goes wrong and some of the algae dies, it often cascades into a full failure where all of it dies off. So there would need to be many smaller systems, isolated as much as possible to prevent cascading failures. The system would also need to be modular enough so it would be easy to disconnect a module, completely clean and sterilize it and put it back into use. With staggered phases applied as to not have large swings in output. As these systems would be rather large in scale and have many different complex parts, a high level of automation is required. And we haven’t even touched on getting all of this constructed somewhere and have it bootstrapped with enough water, with the right stuff in it and none of the wrong stuff. Enough reliable energy and nutrients to feed it all and transport living algae there to kick it all off. As far as I know nobody has ever gotten close to anything like this on Earth, let alone in space or on a place like the Moon or Mars. It would be a project that rivals the original Moon landings.

  It might sound like a simple enough concept and it is how we are currently living on this planet, so it should be possible. However keep in mind our planet has had huge swings in temperatures and atmospheric composition. There were many many times in Earth’s past where humans could not survive the conditions and we evolved here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you change your towels?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, but I ensure it’s fully dry before putting it in the hamper. So usually a couple of hours later, or just before I next need a towel I replace it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beans aswell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do people actually leave spoons or knifes in the honey? I just open the jar, scoop out what I need with my knife and spread it on my bread. And a lot of honey also comes in squeeze bottles, that way you can just squeeze it directly on the bread or waffle or whatever. But even with those I still use a knife to spread it around.

  And most utensils are made from highly corrosion resistant materials right? As they get wet and exposed to all sorts of stuff all the time. And what about that Nilered video about the taste/smell of metal?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? How does that work? I’ve never heard that before