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RealityWarCriminal: Aug 10, 2016

if you could go back in time you'd end up floating in space because the earth has moved from where it was in the past

# ? Dec 21, 2021 08:30

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# ? May 5, 2024 01:29

Smythe: Oct 12, 2003

RealityWarCriminal posted:

if you could go back in time you'd end up floating in space because the earth has moved from where it was in the past

# ? Dec 21, 2021 08:52

palindrome: Feb 3, 2020

John Conway's "Game of life" is a very simple rule set that can create unpredictable and complex patterns. You can make designs and watch things happen as the pattern evolves, it's kind of fun especially from a 1970s perspective where it was either this or pong.
https://playgameoflife.com/

However, the Game of Life also happens to be Turing Complete, which you can read a lot about in wikipedia articles and neal stephenson novels. Among other things means that you can program Conway's game of lie within Conway's game of life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8

# ? Dec 21, 2021 10:50

tokin opposition: Apr 8, 2021; The dialectical struggle of history has always, essentially, been a question of how to apply justice to matter. Take away matter and what remains is justice.

The human body is tubes.

If any of your tubes get blocked (digestive system, airway, blood vessels) you will die horribly and painfully. And yet we're the only species with nukes, and every single ancestor you've ever had... is tubes.

https://www.britannica.com/science/human-body/Basic-form-and-development posted:

In general structure, the human body follows a plan that can be described as a cylinder enclosing two tubes and a rod. This body plan is most clearly evident in the embryo; by birth, the plan is apparent only in the trunk region—i.e., in the thorax and abdomen.

The body wall forms the cylinder. The two tubes are the ventrally located alimentary canal (i.e., the digestive tract) and the dorsally located neural tube (i.e., the spinal cord). Between the tubes lies the rod—the notochord in the embryo, which becomes the vertebral column prior to birth. (The terms dorsal and ventral refer respectively to the back and the front, or belly, of an animal.)

Within the embryo, the essential body parts are: (1) the outer enclosing epidermal membrane (in the embryo called ectoderm); (2) the dorsal neural tube; (3) the supporting notochord; (4) the ventral alimentary tube, which becomes the lining of the stomach and intestine (in the embryo called endoderm); (5) the intermediate mass (in the embryo called mesoderm); and (6) a rather fluid tissue that fills the interspaces, derived from the mesoderm and in the embryo called mesenchyme. Everything in the body derives from one of these six embryonic parts

# ? Dec 21, 2021 12:10

ELTON JOHN: Feb 17, 2014

actually, senator stevens, it is you who are a series of tubes

# ? Dec 21, 2021 12:13

Janitor Ludwich IV: Jan 25, 2019; by vyelkin

shower thoughts but with the emphasis on existentialism

# ? Dec 21, 2021 12:32

a few DRUNK BONERS: Mar 25, 2016

tokin opposition posted:

The human body is tubes.

If any of your tubes get blocked (digestive system, airway, blood vessels) you will die horribly and painfully. And yet we're the only species with nukes, and every single ancestor you've ever had... is tubes.

if we were two dimensional we couldn't have any tubes without being split in half

# ? Dec 21, 2021 18:21

Dustcat: Jan 26, 2019

palindrome posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8

# ? Dec 21, 2021 18:31

Stairmaster: Jun 8, 2012

whats the deal with airline food

# ? Dec 21, 2021 19:11

LGD: Sep 25, 2004

https://twitter.com/chipspopandabar/status/1154481437308882945?s=20

# ? Dec 21, 2021 19:15

Victory Position: Mar 16, 2004

palindrome posted:

John Conway's "Game of life" is a very simple rule set that can create unpredictable and complex patterns. You can make designs and watch things happen as the pattern evolves, it's kind of fun especially from a 1970s perspective where it was either this or pong.
https://playgameoflife.com/]

for some reason, life itself likes to make guns that manufacture bullets on their own :pwn:

# ? Dec 21, 2021 19:21

The Voice of Labor: Apr 8, 2020

mawarannahr posted:

it�s kind of weird that people collect stamps

philately, which is a word I only know because of tom lehrer

# ? Dec 24, 2021 01:04

The Voice of Labor: Apr 8, 2020

I don't think I'm smart enough to understand strange anymore.

it's counter intuitive that when shooting a target from a position either above or below that target, you have to aim bellow the target in both cases. I've read the "gravity distance" explanation and I can't reckon it, maybe I need a youtube video with a lot of bright colors and small words or this is one of those things that was discovered empirically and people cobbled explanations and functional trigonometric formula around it

# ? Dec 24, 2021 01:14

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

RealityWarCriminal posted:

if you could go back in time you'd end up floating in space because the earth has moved from where it was in the past

if you can move in time moving in space is trivial

# ? Dec 24, 2021 03:20

Victory Position: Mar 16, 2004

The Voice of Labor posted:

I don't think I'm smart enough to understand strange anymore.

it's counter intuitive that when shooting a target from a position either above or below that target, you have to aim bellow the target in both cases. I've read the "gravity distance" explanation and I can't reckon it, maybe I need a youtube video with a lot of bright colors and small words or this is one of those things that was discovered empirically and people cobbled explanations and functional trigonometric formula around it

it took a really long time, but they proved gravitational waves with laser beams in Louisiana

# ? Dec 24, 2021 03:26

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

thursday

# ? Dec 24, 2021 04:04

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

Corky Romanovsky posted:

A non-rhotic English speaking Brit revived the word gaumless. However because he was in fact gaumless, he spelled it gormless.

glem gormwahl

# ? Dec 24, 2021 04:06

ErrorInvalidUser: Aug 23, 2021; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

The Voice of Labor posted:

I don't think I'm smart enough to understand strange anymore.

it's counter intuitive that when shooting a target from a position either above or below that target, you have to aim bellow the target in both cases. I've read the "gravity distance" explanation and I can't reckon it, maybe I need a youtube video with a lot of bright colors and small words or this is one of those things that was discovered empirically and people cobbled explanations and functional trigonometric formula around it

possibly too weak to hold a rifle???

# ? Dec 24, 2021 04:07

ErrorInvalidUser: Aug 23, 2021; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

tokin opposition posted:

The human body is tubes..

as is the internet

# ? Dec 24, 2021 04:08

tokin opposition: Apr 8, 2021; The dialectical struggle of history has always, essentially, been a question of how to apply justice to matter. Take away matter and what remains is justice.

ErrorInvalidUser posted:

as is the internet

Nice joke grandpa

# ? Dec 24, 2021 04:13

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

Victory Position posted:

it took a really long time, but they proved gravitational waves with laser beams in Louisiana

I remember reading pop science magazines as a child in the 90s that were like gravitational waves are far to weak for humans to detect we will probably not be able to detect them without a huge Lagrange point laser array in space. LIGO is one of the coolest developments of this century imo

# ? Dec 24, 2021 04:28