thedarkfly
@thedarkfly@feddit.nl
PhD in aerospace engineering from Wallonia.
- Comment on You can pry these high voltage lines from my sizzling dead fingers 5 weeks ago:
Does anyone know the artist?
- Comment on Shrimps 1 month ago:
We need a comedy necromancy community
- Comment on Anon compares himself to his brother 5 months ago:
Thanks, the nm were useful
- Comment on If only it was like that 5 months ago:
I checked for others who, like me, are too European to understand the joke: 50°F is 10°C.
- Comment on Ooooo lights 6 months ago:
It’s actually a very reasonable behavior if cars were normal predators: wait for the last moment before jumping out of the way so that the predator has to do a 180° and you’ve already left.
- Comment on we need better hobbies 6 months ago:
I think that was a Calvin and Hobbes joke, wasn’t it?
- Comment on How do you get the dry boogers out if you don’t pick your nose? 8 months ago:
Here’s the secret: you pick it with a handkerchief on your finger.
- Comment on How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it? 8 months ago:
Thanks! I added “some nebulae” to remove any misunderstanding
- Comment on How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it? 8 months ago:
When we look at the sky, there is a line where there is way more stars than usual. This line goes all the way around the sky. This was called the milky way by the Greeks because it was like a road sparkled with milk drops. At some point, we deduced that we were in a group of stars arranged in a flat disk. Later, we realized that weird space clouds (nebulae) were much further away than we thought and were actually other huge groups of stars like our own that we named galaxies, still after milk.
There are more details me course. Even along the line in the sky drawn by the milky way, there is one side where there is much more stars and dust than the other. We deduced that we were at the edge of the disk and the bright region was the center of our galaxy. Also, the amount of gas and dust that block certain types of light that teach us that our galaxy has arms.
- Comment on quatre-vingts 10 months ago:
I’d actually be down for huitante, in ordre to keep the latin root like other numbers instead of the greek one
- Comment on Part of a balanced diet 10 months ago:
If you have the occasion, try a fresh olive picked from the three. You won’t regret it ;)