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#logic #reason #skepticism
battery1979
#1 good ole percussive maintenance.
MekktheMightyMage
#8 rub magnets together
Pilgrymm
#2 my toddler loves water and will refuse to leave the shower. I am a tiny bit concerned about the tail he's sprouted and about his breathing issues whenever he's out of the water, but I'm sure it'll all sort itself out.
friendsofsandwiches
#11
cousteau
#10 For example, the CO2 concentration has grown more in the past 6 decades than it did in a span of 6 *millenia* at the end of the last ice age. And that got mammoths extinct!
sonnuvah
#1 one of the unwritten rules of engineering, use what ya got
cheshiredat
#4
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
#4 Am I neither of them? I'd pull it with a rope the next time, because I'd be wondering if I was what completed the circuit.
Fuckimgurcunts
#2 lol I read ANTIVAXXER wants you to kill MOUNTAIN LION and my brains racing to understand why this lioness must die for this Nurgle worshipper
FireArrow
#19 Programmets wear sANDelse
UnicornsToxicRainbowFart
R programmets doll engrs? :3
StillScreamingIntoTheVoid
#10 As a (hopefully) former moron, I can say that all of the above is very true.
ExTechOp
Not all of them are morons, there are also people who get paid for not to believing it.
WackyWavingInflatableArmFlailingTubman
#4 you know there was a study that showed if given a taser there is a near 100% chance that the subject will tase themselves when no other stimuli is present
dunkum09
#11 not again
Nerdy0ne
FINALLY! I had to scroll to find somebody with class!
Clayman8
#19 that would explain why construction workers wear cats.
GoblinTit
#2 how are you sure a toddler isn't homocidal?
cousteau
Or an anti-masker takes baths?
MrHappySmiles
#5 one does not pass a crayon without indulging in a bite… *
ReturnWinchester
#7 Always bothered me that "hypothesis" was taught as a required part of the scientific method. Like why isn't "I have no fucking clue what, if anything will happen, but doing the thing will give me data" a valid "hypothesis?"
friendsofsandwiches
#6 This guy also plays the trumpet while his kid bangs the oven door.
brownribbon
#4 repeatability and reproducibility are important concepts in science.
bekkayya
you dont know the metallurgy. you dont know the physics. you probably do know that spiny magnet near iron sends a current down copper. that, and the knowledge that pursuing it would eventually work, would be enough to seriously propel electrification forwards. It would not be enough, however, to make you a celebrity which is what you actually wanted
tclothingw
#18 is true. ADN is DNA in Spanish.
ácido desoxirribonucleico
Dyamonde
That might be true, but #18 has DNA and AND, not ADN.
cousteau
Must be one of the few acronyms that aren't exactly reversed when spelled in Spanish (or French or other similar languages). NATO/OTAN, EU/UE, UAE/EAU, AI/IA, UFO/OVNI…
TemporarilyEmbarrassedThousandaire
#1 percussive maintenance
7qd26tttv7
#8 everybody knows you don't MAKE electricity...you HARNESS it.
cousteau
You do make electricity, only not in useful amounts other than to make your body work.
ToasterDent
My grandpa made electric harnesses out of leather back in the day, I don't know how these ai kids do it these days.
Filanwizard
#8 The big challenge is that each technological thing requires certain baselines. If you go back too far to use the electricity example, you would not be able to build the parts needed for even a simple dynamo.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Right like you couldn't even tell people to wash their hands after pooping if you went back to before soap.
ToasterDent
Soap has actually been around a very long time (2800 BC in Babylon) - it's made from animal fat, ash from a wood fire, and water, all boiled down.
tinydog
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Timmy79
#12 Can you, maybe. Should you? Fuck no
Bugbladder
Syovere
With how close that runs to Antarctica, I'd be worried about icebergs. And not the diarrhea kind of iceberg.
tinydog
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MuffinProof
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ToasterDent
https://imgur.com/f0e2hqx
WoodORama
#9 for Xmas 1953, my dad got a Zippo and a carton of cigarettes. He was 12.
Iplaybadguys
Smoke up Johnny!
ToasterDent
https://imgur.com/UEgkK99
TheSlouchOfBethlehem
He should've drunk more ovaltine
WoodORama
He would have just shot his eye out. Lung cancer is more efficient.
BenderRodriguz1010
Ho. Ho. Ho.
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
I have a gun
ionicseraph
#2 Im reasonably sure a mountain lion has better hygiene and takes regular baths
cousteau
I also have issues with the anti-masker being excluded from the "resists taking a bath" region.
Terran81
You’re just thinking about them swimming in sewage or raw milk 😜
MrStealYourGiF
#20 Alien leans out with a load hailer "Don't overthink it, you're the frog, it's the diamagnetic trick basically."
cousteau
Wouldn't diamagnetism repel diamagnetic objects, not attract them?
MrStealYourGiF
Who said the magnet was above, the dual lenticular shape of a typical saucer could project a real image under the target. or put induce a toroidal magnet all around them in the ground... but if you want the real skinny, go see if anyone has posted Plieidian Type IV saucer operations manual on War Thunder forums yet.
Morg729
But that would act on everything, including dirt and bats
cousteau
Now I'm curious if the diamagnetic frog levitation experiment would work on dirt. I understood it worked on frog because of its water content, water being diamagnetic, but on rock… well, I guess it depends on the rock.
Grimmrog
No time to explain, hop in.
RetrogradeLlama
#12 - But oddly enough, that straight line is probably not the shortest flight path / distance.
cousteau
Yeah it might be the other way around.
EverNotRelevant
No, the currents of air and sea would have a lot to say about that path
Daraanel
It looks pretty close to a Great Circle, so should be the shortest distance, but the atmospheric winds would not be kind. Also a good reason why the initial settlers from England didn't go that way :)
cousteau
A path that goes through a great circle is not always the shortest distance. It is the shortest distance if you travel less than 180° around it; otherwise you're going the long way :)
UpvotingtheHotButton
Came here to say this. Sailing is almost never in a straight line, and you would be constantly adjusting course especially going SSW along S America’s coast
ToasterDent
The direct line through the Earth is fastest, but the tickets are expensive.
Terran81
You mean like if they flew south and came around the other way? Is there a path by sea that’s possible that way? 🧐
RetrogradeLlama
Here... I hate this web site, but they seem to have the best diagram of why this is true: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-European-flight-paths-to-the-U-S-go-via-the-UK-and-not-just-straight-across-the-ocean
RetrogradeLlama
No, but due to the earth's curvature, it's shorter to fly in a low arc semi-circle that reduces the hump in the middle than it is to go direct.
cousteau
Nah, I'm pretty sure that line in #12 is a proper "straight" line as in a great circle, not as in a Mercator projection (rhumb line, or loxodrome). Otherwise it wouldn't get near Antarctica and then away from it; it'd just spiral around it going further and further south.
Terran81
Going to be honest and admit I don’t understand any of this. I will just trust you guys lol. My intelligence is in other spheres. 😅
cousteau
If you're interested, I think this explains it quite well and in an easy to understand way. https://gisgeography.com/great-circle-geodesic-line-shortest-flight-path/
cousteau
If you have a globe around, grab a piece of string and stretch it from New York to Madrid. Or to Beijing. You'll see that if you pull tightly it doesn't go along the 40°N parallel (despite all those cities being in the same parallel) but instead it bends north. So the shortest path isn't "going east all the way" (which would draw a straight line in a map projection), but instead it combs towards the north/south pole.