hihi24522

@hihi24522@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was born after 2000 (though not too long after) and this is actually one of my core memories. I think about the sounds of the static and the sound of the CRT turning off.

  Also, we had a really old tv in our basement till at least 2008 that had no remote, just knobs and I remember messsing with the “hue” dial all the time trying to figure out how it worked.

  The only reason that tv worked so late is that we had a black box connected to the antenna which I later learned was converting the digital signal to analog for the TV.

  Also, you’ve just reminded me that I remember the switch from analog to digital. Specifically, I remember watching Elmo talking with some adult on TV about the change. Now I really want to find that video. I think the guy was wearing a suit had short dark hair and glasses. I also think the background was pinkish purple. I want to know how accurate my memories from so long ago are. (I’ll add the link to the video in an edit if I can find it)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal is plastic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Geologically, ice is a mineral, aka a rock. If lava is just rock heated past its melting point, water is lava.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BEAM⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ANSYS my beloved

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Excerpt from the Kamasaura, an ancient reptilian text on sexuality, eroticism and emotional fulfillment.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨epidemiology⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think chirality is something most people overlook in those situations too. Even if you found a world of beings exactly like you, a perfect earth with plants and low CO2 concentrations, if their proteins have opposite chirality to yours, you’re probably going to die of prion disease.

  “Oh look a perfectly human person on an earth like planet I’m sure I can take my helmet off”. Nope. You just inhaled spores or skin cells or pollen or viruses or literally anything that contains “misfolded proteins” and if any of those get at all digested they could cause your body to produce more misfolded proteins, a cycle that will eventually lead to your demise.

  “Look this plant isn’t poisonous” chirality is harder to check than chemical makeup. So yeah it has vitamin B but is it the kind that could kill you? (We don’t have to worry about this much on earth because basically all life on this planet makes and uses proteins of similar chirality)

  “Wow that alien sex was great” too bad there were skin cells in saliva you both exchanged/ingested (or proteins in other bodily fluids) so you’re both going to die now.

  Worst part is that prions are really slow acting. You could all be chilling in this wonderful earth like home for months until around the same time you all suddenly get sick and die. There’s no cure, so there’s nothing you can do besides leave a warning for the next crew who might stop by.

  Oh and the same dangers go for native life on the planet too. To them you’re made of misfolded proteins so any scavengers who eat you and maybe even predators who eat them have a chance of developing and spreading prion disease. Your bodies are basically bioweapons. Any earth crops or animals you brought with would be biohazards too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨C O L O N I Z E⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was it that one episode of Hannibal where the guy grows mushrooms on diabetics he keeps in comas in the forest?