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Carthag Tuek posted:its weird & cool that the sun & moon have basically the same apparent size from earth probably not a necessary component of human evolution but is 
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If there were hundreds of inhabited planets all linked by faster-than-light travel, spectators would absolutely come to Earth to marvel at our eclipses. They are rare and special on a cosmic scale.
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Apr 19, 2023 11:57
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Never felt so snug about being an Earthling before. edit: I mean smug credburn has a new favorite as of 14:42 on Apr 19, 2023 |
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credburn posted:Never felt so snug about being an Earthling before. All wrapped up in the atmosphere, safe from solar radiation 
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credburn posted:Never felt so snug about being an Earthling before. mrpwase posted:All wrapped up in the atmosphere, safe from solar radiation
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Man I knew Pluto was hosed up, but I didn't realize how much. I say we finish the job and kick it out of the solar system entirely
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Apr 19, 2023 15:42
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Carthag Tuek posted:its weird & cool that the sun & moon have basically the same apparent size from earth It's a temporary effect. Millions of years from now the moon will have spiraled far enough away from Earth that it no longer totally eclipses the Sun. Enjoy it while it lasts!
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Apr 19, 2023 16:05
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Xelkelvos posted:
Why is newton 0 for all temps?
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Apr 19, 2023 19:32
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CainFortea posted:Why is newton 0 for all temps? The scale is less scientific than the others:  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_scale
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Well that's dumb, he sounds like kind of an idiot.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Well that's dumb, he sounds like kind of an idiot. To be fair, he did have some head trauma
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Captain Hygiene posted:Well that's dumb, he sounds like kind of an idiot. Sounds about right for an alchemist
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Fun fact: the reason the colours of the rainbow are ROYGBIV instead of ROYGBV is because Newton was certain there had to be seven. Because seven was the "natural" number for things to be. Such as the planets and the days of the week.BonHair posted:To be fair, he did have some head trauma 
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Apr 19, 2023 20:09
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even as a 5 year old i knew there was no goddamn indigo in the spectrum. i knew it
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Apr 19, 2023 20:27
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It's a spectrum. You should be including more colors, not excluding them.
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Apr 19, 2023 21:21
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There are exactly 256 colours.
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Apr 19, 2023 21:29
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zedprime posted:It's a spectrum. You should be including more colors, not excluding them.
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Apr 19, 2023 21:29
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If purple wants to identify as indigo, it changes nothing about how I see the rainbow.
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Apr 19, 2023 21:51
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There's a legit argument for including cyan as a seventh color but not indigo.
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Apr 19, 2023 21:56
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ultrafilter posted:There's a legit argument for including cyan as a seventh color but not indigo. it WAS the seventh color, basically. In Newton's time the word "blue" was generally used for the color of the sky, which is a more cyan-ish blue, and the darker blue that we currently think of as the default "blue" was what he meant by "indigo." The overall language changed but the traditional ROYGBIV list didn't.
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Apr 19, 2023 22:09
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Yeah we can verify which colors Newton was talking about because he took notes, so you can slap down a prism and just look yourself. His 'blue' is basically our cyan and his 'indigo' is our blue. He also asked a couple other people about where the natural divisions of the color spectrum were so it wasn't 100% just his opinion
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This just came up on SAD, and will be a cross post in several threads of pyf. If you have items that are on imgur you want to keep, now would be a good time. https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1648883351233896448
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tech thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4030290
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Platystemon posted:If there were hundreds of inhabited planets all linked by faster-than-light travel, spectators would absolutely come to Earth to marvel at our eclipses. As an atheist, the moon being exactly the right size for spectacular solar eclipses is the one coincidence in the universe I look at and think, "somebody might have done that on purpose, just for us."
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Sagebrush posted:even as a 5 year old i knew there was no goddamn indigo in the spectrum. i knew it where is it then?
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First of May posted:As an atheist, the moon being exactly the right size for spectacular solar eclipses is the one coincidence in the universe I look at and think, "somebody might have done that on purpose, just for us."
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BonHair posted:The scale is less scientific than the others: That reminds me of the Beaufort scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale#Modern_scale Though I'll defend the Beaufort scale. When you are at sea, you don't give a poo poo about a few m/s here or there. The force of the wind changes all the time. You care about a rough approximation, and it's pointless to go above a certain speed. I prefer bft while sailing. "SE wind 8bft, 10 bft gusts, turning E" tells me all I need to know (to stay in port, because gently caress that) e: I like the description of "Land conditions" turning detailed, then being reduced to a single word at 13 bft Antigravitas has a new favorite as of 22:41 on Apr 20, 2023 |
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credburn posted:Is there a PYF good/funny graphs and charts thread? Platystemon posted:It’s this thread. There I made it official.
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zedprime posted:It's a spectrum. You should be including more colors, not excluding them. I'm colourblind so there are two colours, but both of them could be any colour, they just usually aren't the same colour so that's why there's two of them. Also the closer together two colours are the more not the same colour they become. OwlFancier has a new favorite as of 00:02 on Apr 22, 2023 |
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https://twitter.com/Transgenderista/status/1649500675490066434?s=20
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CainFortea posted:Why is newton 0 for all temps? It's not, the labels are just somewhat misaligned. You are reading one of the guidelines. Newton is the orange line.
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This ignores the possibility of women's sports that involve intentional testicular injury to themselves and/or others. A sufficently motivated women's cricket league should also be able to claim some from the spectators.
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Reduce the incidence of testicular injuries in women’s sports by funding orchiectomies for trans women.
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https://twitter.com/FredSimonEU/status/1649116386457681931 check the size of the bars on Germany vs the values
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"bars show million tonnes of coal equivalent (Mtce) while figures at top of bars show millions of physical tons (Mt)" WHY
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Which makes it even more perverse that the co-chair of the European Green Party literally tweeted about having celebratory sex with her girlfriend to commemorate Germany shutting down its last nuclear power plant. Said girlfriend is part of the Die Grüne leadership, of course, which is neck-deep in the expansion of lignite mining over the past few years.
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At least someone's having fun.
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IYKK posted:It's not, the labels are just somewhat misaligned. You are reading one of the guidelines. Newton is the orange line. Ah, so I was.
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https://twitter.com/alexselbyb/status/1650101850782179333 https://twitter.com/alexselbyb/status/1650178861961826304
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This will come in handy in my astronomy class!
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