Vector
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- Comment on The 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners 3 weeks ago:
Sure, I would guess that the same goes for just about any contest that can’t be objectively measured.
At least they’re trying to do fun, interesting, and useful. 🙂
- Comment on The 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners 3 weeks ago:
Not sure if you’re familiar or not with the Ig Nobel Prize (the “ig”is important - it’s not the same as the Nobel Prize), but it’s a kind of parody-but-not of the Nobel prize. It typically covers off-beat or weird science, to “honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.”
It’s about as quirky as the science it covers:
Miss Sweetie Poo, a little girl who repeatedly cries out, “Please stop: I’m bored”, in a high-pitched voice if speakers go on too long
Throwing paper planes onto the stage is a long-standing tradition. For many years Professor Roy J. Glauber swept the stage clean of the airplanes as the official “Keeper of the Broom”. Glauber could not attend the 2005 awards because he was traveling to Stockholm to claim a genuine Nobel Prize in Physics.
Calling each subsequent event the “first” is definitely on brand!
- Comment on Time is relative 5 months ago:
Missed opportunity - the hands on the clock should clearly be at the 6 and 9 positions.
- Comment on Orange Alert: What Caused the Colors on This Snowy Owl? 7 months ago:
Save you a click: nobody knows.
“The department has no plans to try to capture it for any reason,” Ms. Cleveland said, “so we’re unlikely to ever have a conclusive explanation for this coloring.”
- Comment on Just so you're clear on what we're about to watch... 1 year ago:
I’m not sure if this is an obscure reference, but…
🎵 Iiiiiiffff yooooouuuuuu 🎵
*Want to take a picture of the fascinating witches who put the scintillating stitches on the britches of the boys who put the powder on the dawn of the sequel of the prequel of the reboot of the planet of the kingdom of the war of the dawn of the rise of the battle for the conquest of the escape from the planet of the apes… *
- Comment on Thousands of years ago *smoke machine activates* 1 year ago:
I feel personally attacked.
- Comment on Pretty cool fan made intro to a non-existent show 1 year ago:
Neat! Very well executed.
Gives me “The Expanse” crossed with “Picard” intro vibes.