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JnnyThndrs posted:Holy poo poo, I ran one of those when I was like 18-19 years old. It was incredibly ancient even back then in 1985-86, we just used it to knock down large pieces of steel to sizes close to what we needed, then the pieces would go to the precision mills and CNC’s. That thing ran a full 5" deep x 1" wide cut through steel and the motor didn't even notice it. What a beast.
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Gromit posted:That thing ran a full 5" deep x 1" wide cut through steel and the motor didn't even notice it. What a beast. Yeah, it’s amazing. I don’t think I ever even took a cut deep enough to come close to taxing the motor, it made a 5hp Bridgeport look like a wimp. The one I used had a huge long handle on the right side that engaged a conical cork clutch which gave you rapid table feed, so you could run the table back and take another cut. It would fling the big-rear end heavy 3 foot x 6 foot table around like a gum wrapper.
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central dogma posted:Regarding astrophysics chat, I saw a video recently that I can't find anymore. It was a bit lengthy. Basically the narrator took some liberty to suspend disbelief and let us travel in a ship capable of reaching lightspeed. He talked about all the time that would pass on earth the faster you travel. How after a certain time, earth would be unrecognizable if you were to return. Eventually you reach a speed (or distance) where its impossible to even go home because the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light. In fact, you reach a point to where the universe is expanding faster than light in all directions relative to you, so you are, in fact, forever isolated from everything else in the entire universe. Was it Cosmos? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPoGVP-wZv8
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And The Duck tore the gates asunder, and strode forth across the land heralding the Doom of this Earth and all that reside.
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central dogma posted:Regarding astrophysics chat, I saw a video recently that I can't find anymore. It was a bit lengthy. Basically the narrator took some liberty to suspend disbelief and let us travel in a ship capable of reaching lightspeed. He talked about all the time that would pass on earth the faster you travel. How after a certain time, earth would be unrecognizable if you were to return. Eventually you reach a speed (or distance) where its impossible to even go home because the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light. In fact, you reach a point to where the universe is expanding faster than light in all directions relative to you, so you are, in fact, forever isolated from everything else in the entire universe. I gotta watch this
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verbal enema posted:I gotta watch this Yes please
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Proteus Jones posted:And The Duck tore the gates asunder, and strode forth across the land heralding the Doom of this Earth and all that reside. https://twitter.com/drjclau/status/1402023835923206170?s=21
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Phy posted:This is why the action you take to get out of their way is named after them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvjJcaVJlH0
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central dogma posted:Regarding astrophysics chat, I saw a video recently that I can't find anymore. It was a bit lengthy. Basically the narrator took some liberty to suspend disbelief and let us travel in a ship capable of reaching lightspeed. He talked about all the time that would pass on earth the faster you travel. How after a certain time, earth would be unrecognizable if you were to return. Eventually you reach a speed (or distance) where its impossible to even go home because the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light. In fact, you reach a point to where the universe is expanding faster than light in all directions relative to you, so you are, in fact, forever isolated from everything else in the entire universe. PBS Space Time has done vids on these topics: https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsspacetime/videos
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Like a decade ago Nova did a cosmos like thing with NGT that sounds like what you describe. Not sure how good it is since I bounced off it after less than an episode. Maybe check it out if Neil doesn't annoy you too much.
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Cocaine Bear posted:Like a decade ago Nova did a cosmos like thing with NGT that sounds like what you describe. Not sure how good it is since I bounced off it after less than an episode. Maybe check it out if Neil doesn't annoy you too much. Motherfucker it sounds like you don't know about the Carl Sagan Cosmos
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I do and it's excellent and it holds a place on my heart. Probably why I bounced off the NGT version so hard.
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Cocaine Bear posted:I do and it's excellent and it holds a place on my heart. Probably why I bounced off the NGT version so hard. The NGT version occasionally brushes up against Real Cosmos, his story about meeting Sagan is amazing.
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Panfilo posted:Why do I hear boss music all of the sudden? A party of tourists is about to wipe.
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BooDooBoo posted:The NGT version occasionally brushes up against Real Cosmos, his story about meeting Sagan is amazing. Interesting! Maybe I'll give it another go.
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Cocaine Bear: how come you haven't posted in this thread about the Cocaine Bear?
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The Zombie Guy posted:Cocaine Bear: how come you haven't posted in this thread about the Cocaine Bear? Because it's our 9/11 and we take it very seriously. Cocain Bear Nine Eleven.
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Flakey posted:PBS Space Time has done vids on these topics: https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsspacetime/videos PBS Spacetime is in general very good and worth subscribing to on YouTube.
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PBS Eons is also great, just in case anyone wants to watch some neat videos on dinosaurs and evolution and whatnot.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:PBS Spacetime is in general very good and worth subscribing to on YouTube. Lady Disdain posted:PBS Eons is also great, just in case anyone wants to watch some neat videos on dinosaurs and evolution and whatnot. 
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PBS Terra is great too if you want to feel that certain dread about our planet
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Lady Disdain posted:PBS Eons is also great, just in case anyone wants to watch some neat videos on dinosaurs and evolution and whatnot. I love Eons, but I can't watch it too often, it can freak me out because HOW IS TIME SO BIG!?
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BooDooBoo posted:I love Eons, but I can't watch it too often, it can freak me out because HOW IS TIME SO BIG!? You don't have to smoke so much weed before watching it.
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Time is a dimension, that's right just like height and width. Now consider how every dimension is limitless and you'll understand why time is too.
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Inceltown posted:You don't have to smoke so much weed before watching it. No, I don't HAVE to, but it's so rewarding.
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By popular demand posted:Time is a dimension, that's right just like height and width. The furthest star we can see with only our eyes is V762 Cas, and it's 16,308 light-years away, so it's 16,308 years ago, right now, and that weirds me the gently caress out. Deep Time is just mind-boggling to me, it's containing *everything* and is as old as *everything* and we're not even a gnat's fart on Jupiter in comparison! I can't explain it better than that, and I fully accept it's not a great explanation.
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BooDooBoo posted:I love Eons, but I can't watch it too often, it can freak me out because HOW IS TIME SO BIG!? humanity is younger than deep-time by most of it, but Fall of Civilizations is great for learning and feeling quite a bit closer to literal ancient peoples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B965f8AcNbw Incredible series of podcasts with video supplements, talking about different peoples' golden ages and collapses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAcUZ3my6E0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWVA6TeUKYU Speaking of ancients The Greeks were so good at geometry they almost found calculus. The Antikythera device was an example of ancient ingenuity.
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BooDooBoo posted:The furthest star we can see with only our eyes is V762 Cas, and it's 16,308 light-years away, so it's 16,308 years ago, right now, and that weirds me the gently caress out. Now go look at the Andromeda Galaxy, two and a half million light-years out there. The unaided eye cannot make out individual stars in it, but from a decently dark site, the galaxy itself is visible as a luminous area five times the width of the Moon.
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Wasabi the J posted:Speaking of ancients The Greeks were so good at geometry they almost found calculus. The Antikythera device was an example of ancient ingenuity. Archimedes specifically, he calculated approximations to pi by bounding a circle with inscribed and circumscribed regular polygons. He probably would have discovered calculus if that f*cking pigheaded Roman soldier hadn’t killed him (against orders, even).
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Platystemon posted:Now go look at the Andromeda Galaxy, two and a half million light-years out there. And it gets a little bigger and a little more visible every day!
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BooDooBoo posted:The furthest star we can see with only our eyes is V762 Cas, and it's 16,308 light-years away, so it's 16,308 years ago, right now, and that weirds me the gently caress out. It's more like it's constantly throwing photographs at your eyes and it takes them 16k years to get there.
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Wasabi the J posted:humanity is younger than deep-time by most of it, but Fall of Civilizations is great for learning and feeling quite a bit closer to literal ancient peoples. If you like History/Science etc then I’d really recommend the BBC Radio 4 series In Our Time. The format is Melvin Bragg gets on 3 experts on a specific topic and they talk about it for a bit. They’re really great primers for seeing if you are interested in a topic or not. They’re released as podcasts as well so you can get them on Spotify. Aramoro has a new favorite as of 09:20 on Jun 10, 2021 |
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