starman2112
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- Comment on Don’t forget to regularly check your eyes! 21 hours ago:
You actually gotta triple backslash. The \ is character that prevents the following character from being used for markdown rendering, but since it itself is a markdown character, it needs its own \ to make it visible
- Comment on WOMEN. 1 day ago:
If you live in Oklahoma it actually doesnt take any work, you can just say “Jesus” and you get a degree
- Comment on WOMEN. 1 day ago:
Somewhere in the multiverse, there’s a version of this meme that’s exactly reversed, captioned with a tweet that says “stupid woman thinks she’s smart because she’s a chess grandmaster, but little does she know I graduated middle school”
- Comment on stroke confirmed 5 days ago:
You know it’s fake because he would have used his mugshot
- Comment on Email came out of nowhere 1 week ago:
transohobic company
Yo imma need some blue text about that
- Comment on Email came out of nowhere 1 week ago:
It’s not proof that the higher ups are nazis, but it is literally the logo for the SS, not just stone generic slavic runes.
- Comment on Email came out of nowhere 1 week ago:
Ditto here. If I’d seen it in my own inbox I’d be sending some choice words their way
- Comment on Email came out of nowhere 1 week ago:
It was the fucking logo for the SS
- Comment on Email came out of nowhere 1 week ago:
Fuck Nazis and fuck you
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 1 week ago:
Fun fact! The picture of the girl in this meme comes from this video, (relevant portion about 3 minutes in) in which she’s by far the calmest and most reasonable person involved. She’s not even angry, she just has kind of an expressive face, and she looks like that for all of exactly one frame
Some psycho combed through this video frame by frame to find the least flattering picture of her possible. Rightoids need to die out man
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 2 weeks ago:
The worst part of Anthem was that I couldn’t side with Owen, the real hero of the story. I could canonically decide that my character was afraid of heights, but I couldn’t lend my best friend tbe Colossus I never use? Wtf dude
In a similar vein, Outriders. Favorite video game protagonist. Gonna record a whole play through and make a supercut of them being the best video game character of all time
- Comment on Well said 2 weeks ago:
Fixed it
- Comment on wat 2 weeks ago:
Apologies for the wall of text. I spent an hour and a half trying to find the most concise way to explain this, and there kind of isn’t one…
An attempt at an analogy
A submarine increases its depth by sinking lower in the water, right? Imagine a tub of water 1 foot deep. Put a toy submarine 6 inches from the bottom, and it’s 6 inches underwater. Now add another six inches of water to the tub. Your sub hasn’t moved through the water at all, but now it’s 1 foot deep. The submarine can increase its depth without sinking at all. In fact, if you let the submarine rise slower than you add water, then it can rise upward through the water as it continues to get deeper below the surface.
There are two ways for the distance between two objects to increase
There are two ways for the distance between two objects to increase over time. One of them involves displacement through a medium, and the other involves that medium itself expanding. From our perspective, a galaxy 5000 megaparsecs away is “moving” away from us by about 350,000 km every second, but that’s only because for every megaparsec between us, the space itself is expanding by about 70 km every second. If you ask a guy smack in between us, he’ll say we’re both moving away from him at 175,000 km every second. That galaxy isn’t experiencing any acceleration in that direction; it isn’t moving through space at that speed.
The speed of light is a constant
The speed of light (in a vacuum) is a constant. That is to say, every observer in every reference frame measures every photon (in a vacuum) as moving at 299,792,458 meters per second. This fact supersedes all others. It supersedes time itself. Imagine I’m on a train going 50 mph, and I throw a ball forward at 50 mph. In my reference frame, that ball is going 50 mph. To an outside observer, that ball is going 100 mph. How fast the ball is going depends on your frame of reference. This is not true of light. If I’m traveling on a train going half the speed of light and I shine a flashlight forward, the train’s speed doesn’t add to the light’s speed. You and I will both agree that those photons are moving 299,792,458 meters every second, in both our reference frames. This happens because we aren’t experiencing the passage of time at the same rate. The photons coming out of that galaxy 5000 megaparsecs away are also going 299,792,458 meters per second in our reference frame, even as the space between us grows by more than that in that amount of time. That galaxy isn’t moving faster than light, space is just expanding.
- Comment on wat 3 weeks ago:
Wtf is a megaparsec? It’s a million parsecs. Tf is a parsec? A parallax arcsecond.
…Tf is a parallax arcsecond?
An attempt at an explanation for the layperson
Imagine you’re standing outside. In front of you is a tree and behind that on the horizon is a mountain. You move 10 ft to your left, and the tree looks like it moved to the right, but the mountain looks like it hasn’t moved at all. That’s parallax. The closer something is, the more it appears to move when you move. Imagine you are the pivot point on a big protractor. Your field of view can be divided into 360°. Every degree can be divided into 60 parts, called arcminutes. Every arcminute can be further divided into arcseconds. Each arcsecond is 1/3600 of a degree. How do these fit together? There’s one more thing I need to explain. The earth orbits the sun at around 149.6 million kilometers. That’s called an Astronomical Unit. A parsec is the distance that an object would have to be, so that moving one Astronomical Unit would make it appear to shift sideways by 1 arcsecond.
It’s 3.26 lightyears.
- Comment on wat 3 weeks ago:
Preemptive explanatory note: the speed of light, approximately 300,000 km per second, is the highest speed that something can move through space.
The expansion of space doesn’t happen at a set speed. It happens at a rate of approximately 70 km per second per megaparsec. So if you’re measuring two points half a megaparsec away from each other, then every second, the space between them grows by about 35 km. If you’re measuring two points 2 megaparsecs away from each other, then every second, the space between them grows by about 140 km.
If you’re measuring two points 4300 megaparsecs away from each other, then the spacetime between them grows by about 300,000 km every second. That’s not to say that anything is moving at 300,000 km per second, there’s just more space between them every second
- Comment on wat 3 weeks ago:
Good news! We do have a nice big wall about a light second away! Hard to find a laser that’ll make a visible dot on the moon, though
- Comment on long live the queen 3 weeks ago:
You could show me any plant and convince me that that’s what unprocessed sesame seeds look like
- Comment on long live the queen 3 weeks ago:
I don’t reckon I’ve ever seen unground cumin
- Comment on long live the queen 3 weeks ago:
Me trying to figure out what “I’m sesa-me seed” means
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 3 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, I’m fully aware. My own city made national headlines in my country a few years back when bastard pig Justin Rapp shot and killed Andrew Finch. SWATting should be considered attempted murder.
Fun fact! Bastard pig Justin Rapp sued the city when they placed him on leave, and won. Now he’s a detective whose salary is paid by my tax dollars. Fuck the police
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 3 weeks ago:
In fairness, the police don’t have a list of who is in every house at all times. They don’t exactly have X-ray vision. All they know is that they got a call saying that someone is holding someone at gunpoint in this house.
Of course, 20 vans is comically overkill
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 3 weeks ago:
What do you think it would look like from the outside if someone had you at gunpoint in your bedroom?
- Comment on Anon watches redditors talk about bodycount 4 weeks ago:
Hey man, 31 ain’t middle aged
- Comment on Anon watches redditors talk about bodycount 4 weeks ago:
When it comes to women’s health advice, I think modern naysayers are more reputable than any source was in the 1900s
- Comment on Anon watches redditors talk about bodycount 4 weeks ago:
Weirdly, it’s actually the same reason that banks used to refuse to let single women have credit cards
- Comment on Mint 4 weeks ago:
I used to have that. Pretty sure our neighbor planted it to try and sabotage us because our yard was a mess. Fuck you Jerry. On the rare occasion that I’d mow, it smelled amazing
- Comment on References: [1] out of his ass 4 weeks ago:
parallel dimension
Aren’t dimensions by definition orthogonal?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Asking questions and “just asking questions” are two different things in this context. “Why are Jews overrepresented in the media and banking industries?” is a perfectly valid and normal question. If you’re asking it with the intent to understand the sociopolitical context behind this factual statement, that’s good. If you’re asking it to try and push a narrative about Jews being in control of the world, that’s bad.
- Comment on Traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck driving above the speed limit or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. It belongs to an NYPD cop. 1 month ago:
Tbf, it tastes so nice
- Comment on Global Spelling Bee 1 month ago:
