Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I was having a conversation today with a friend, who I have known for 25 years, when it was revealed she didn't know the sun is a star, and stars are suns. I'm not sure which of us was more shook by the revelation.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
edited April 10
Fuck, that's such a cool thing to learn as a grown-ass adult. Can you imagine the sensation of that shift in perspective? I bet it's like doing a big stretch where three of your vertebrae you don't hear much from pop all at the same time, but in your goddamn brain.
Anyway, I hope your friend enjoyed it and hasn't been driven hopelessly mad in the process.
Jedoc on
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
I was having a conversation today with a friend, who I have known for 25 years, when it was revealed she didn't know the sun is a star, and stars are suns. I'm not sure which of us was more shook by the revelation.
i mean both orbit the earth so lol not like either really matter
Fuck, that's such a cool thing to learn as a grown-ass adult. Can you imagine the sensation of that shift in perspective? I bet it's like doing a big stretch where three of your vertebrae you don't hear much from pop all at the same time, but in your goddamn brain.
Anyway, I hope your friend enjoyed it and hasn't been driven hopelessly mad in the process.
I was 31 years old when I learned why a number to the power of 0 is 1 within the ruleset of maths, and the answer blew my mind.
A number squared is a number times itself, a number to the first is a number times nothing, and a number to the 0 is a number divided by itself. It made me feel like an idiot more than it felt like a really satisfying adjustment, though.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
That just seems like a cheat by mathematicians who are scared of black holes, though.
Fuck, that's such a cool thing to learn as a grown-ass adult. Can you imagine the sensation of that shift in perspective? I bet it's like doing a big stretch where three of your vertebrae you don't hear much from pop all at the same time, but in your goddamn brain.
Anyway, I hope your friend enjoyed it and hasn't been driven hopelessly mad in the process.
I was 31 years old when I learned why a number to the power of 0 is 1 within the ruleset of maths, and the answer blew my mind.
I was in my 40s when I found out quinoa isn’t pronounced “kwinowa”
I was having a conversation today with a friend, who I have known for 25 years, when it was revealed she didn't know the sun is a star, and stars are suns. I'm not sure which of us was more shook by the revelation.
Wait till you explain Cthulhu and the other things that lie between the stars!
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
So I tutor kids for work, right.
One day I got off on a tangent and started talking about the science of black holes I understand and mentioned spaghettification.
You will not believe what their new favorite word is.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I was having a conversation today with a friend, who I have known for 25 years, when it was revealed she didn't know the sun is a star, and stars are suns. I'm not sure which of us was more shook by the revelation.
Wait till you explain Cthulhu and the other things that lie between the stars!
The conversation somehow moved on to densities and how water boils at different temperatures depending on your elevation, which she also didn't know and got quite angry about.
She's really smart but her interest is all social history stuff (she works in a museum) and has just never been curious about science, I remember her hating the subject at school.
Hmm, I should probably double check she knows the earth is round next time I see her.
The Theia theory is my current favorite science nugget to enthuse about to vaguely befuddled people who are nodding politely while they humor the giant nerd.
One day I got off on a tangent and started talking about the science of black holes I understand and mentioned spaghettification.
You will not believe what their new favorite word is.
Is it mustard?
Tangent, doy.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I actually do word of the week with the kids and have been willing to hand out prizes to any kid who tells me the words and its definition before snack time on Friday and so far zero kids have done it, though a few were cognizant of the word at least when I reminded them of the game.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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MorninglordI'm tired of being Batman,so today I'll be Owl.Registered Userregular
How does stuff falling into a hole count as an explosion?
Because as it falls in it accelerates, and very fast moving gas particles will bump into each other, slowing down a bit and releasing a photon as the kinetic energy is converted to electromagnetic radiation, part of which will be in the visible wavelengths. Sufficient amounts of light can create not only radiative temperatures, but can actually create pressure. Expanding pressure waves, high temperatures, and extremely bright...sounds like an explosion to me!
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MorninglordI'm tired of being Batman,so today I'll be Owl.Registered Userregular
edited May 12
It accelerates to unimaginably ridiculous speeds, also. This ain't no water gurgling down the sink.
Black holes eating gas and such produce ridiculous amounts of energy from all the gas and dust swirling around it, this is just....much much bigger.
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The Theia theory is my current favorite science nugget to enthuse about to vaguely befuddled people who are nodding politely while they humor the giant nerd.
Picture a Tyrannosaurus rex, that ferocious yet one of the most beloved dinosaurs. Most people will probably imagine a scaly giant with enormous fangs, visible even when its mouth is closed.
This is the image of toothy predatory dinosaurs that popular culture has perpetuated for over 30 years.
But our new study, published in Science, suggests that even the giant teeth of Tyrannosaurus would have been sheathed in scaly lips.
So, TV's Dinosaurs had a more accurate depiction of a T-Rex than Jurassic Park, is what I'm getting from this
I'm sure they mentioned 30 years specifically because that's when Jurassic Park came out, but until recently that's been the image of T-Rex since it was first discovered (which was in 1902 it turns out!)
T-rex did not have lips. T-rex did not have feathers. T-rex was an apex predator that traveled the plains alone, on a quest for cool vengeance. Every T-rex had a cool scar across one blind eye. T-rex had tons of T-rex Sex.
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Anyway, I hope your friend enjoyed it and hasn't been driven hopelessly mad in the process.
i mean both orbit the earth so lol not like either really matter
I was 31 years old when I learned why a number to the power of 0 is 1 within the ruleset of maths, and the answer blew my mind.
A number squared is a number times itself, a number to the first is a number times nothing, and a number to the 0 is a number divided by itself. It made me feel like an idiot more than it felt like a really satisfying adjustment, though.
I was in my 40s when I found out quinoa isn’t pronounced “kwinowa”
Wait till you explain Cthulhu and the other things that lie between the stars!
One day I got off on a tangent and started talking about the science of black holes I understand and mentioned spaghettification.
You will not believe what their new favorite word is.
The conversation somehow moved on to densities and how water boils at different temperatures depending on your elevation, which she also didn't know and got quite angry about.
She's really smart but her interest is all social history stuff (she works in a museum) and has just never been curious about science, I remember her hating the subject at school.
Hmm, I should probably double check she knows the earth is round next time I see her.
I believe it's called a snooker ball in England.
Is it mustard?
Tangent, doy.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/12/astronomers-capture-largest-cosmic-explosion-ever-witnessed
A fireball 100 times the size of the solar system.
Been going on for three years now with no sign of stopping.
During that time it has produced 100 times the energy output of the suns entire 10bn year life cycle.
Every time humans try to imagine up a titanic explosion in a story the universe is just like hold my beer I got this.
Frictive combustible material (the gas) + unimaginably strong friction (the pull of the black hole) = big bada boom
Because as it falls in it accelerates, and very fast moving gas particles will bump into each other, slowing down a bit and releasing a photon as the kinetic energy is converted to electromagnetic radiation, part of which will be in the visible wavelengths. Sufficient amounts of light can create not only radiative temperatures, but can actually create pressure. Expanding pressure waves, high temperatures, and extremely bright...sounds like an explosion to me!
Black holes eating gas and such produce ridiculous amounts of energy from all the gas and dust swirling around it, this is just....much much bigger.
I like that this simulation has both planets basically liquify each other.
So, TV's Dinosaurs had a more accurate depiction of a T-Rex than Jurassic Park, is what I'm getting from this
Stop it, Science. Just because you have Neil DeGrasse Tyson doesn't mean you have to take it out on the things we love.
These are facts that are in the Bible.
No more goofy ass teeth, but plus to suave murder looks.