Lord of the SCIENCE

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• _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🎵 They’re taking Hobbit-chan to Isengard! 🎵

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Biyakugon!

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      *intense air-slapping ensues*

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• poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I saw a comic about this once (xkcd, probably?) and going by the scene in the movie, where Legolas has human sized eyes, they deduced that Middle Earth must have an exotic atmosphere

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  • Zorcron@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was a Minute Physics video. Only 2 minutes, and a great watch.

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• FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gives any what? Sorry I can’t read that heavily obscured text.

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  • Blum0108@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sounds like you need some anime eyes

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    • FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      From what I’ve heard there’s a serious need to be able to see past tiny censor bars in Japanese media, maybe this explains it

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can he do interferometry and just have a 3rd but normal eye?

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• Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is the unit ‘one league’ used in LOTR (esp in elvish) the same as in our universe. Just asking as nobody here questions the units.

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  • sness@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes. The books are all carefully translated from elvish and would have accounted for unit conversions.

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    • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I thought they were written by Bilbo and Frodo in Westron

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember asking my dad how far a league was when I first read the book, and then repeatedly questioning whether that could be right in the context of the writing.

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• jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Orland-Legolas doesn’t need science to look cute.

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  • flicker@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I forgot that was the actor’s name and for a second thought he’d gotten married.

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    • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think Gimli has a last name. 🤔

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• DharkStare@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I could be entirely wrong about this but isn’t it in universe lore that Elves don’t see the curvature of the world and that’s how they can see so far?

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  • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That would fall under “nonvisual” (meaning not light-based) perception.

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• oxideseven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ✨magic✨

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• tromars@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not a scientist myself, so I’m wondering: shouldn’t that technically say „hypothesis + evidence“ instead of „theory + evidence“? Which is of course nitpicky (if I’m even correct) in the context of a tumblr post, but I’m still curious

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A hypothesis is a theory, one that is being tested.

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• grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  These are the kinds of problems I want our species solving

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