Draconic_NEO
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- Comment on To deter predators... 5 days ago:
Well it will make them cold if you put it down there.
- Submitted 1 week ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 31 comments
- Comment on There is only 1 choice 2 weeks ago:
Would Anomalocaris actually do well in the modern world. I feel like they probably wouldn’t do so well in the modern ecosystems of much more evolved marine creatures. Would get out-competed very quickly, and likely face plenty of other challenges. Being out-competed is likely the reason they went extinct in the first place.
- Comment on Pringhouls 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately reality doesn’t always work out the way maths intended it to. Almost all the ones I’ve gotten had many of them broken. Makes for slick marketing though.
- Comment on Chemistry of Pumpkins 3 weeks ago:
I think the only thing that is really pumpkin about pumpkin spice is the association with pumpkin pie. Pumpkin on its own doesn’t have much flavor though so it would taste like whatever you put on it. If the combination weren’t used in Pumpkin pie as much as it is, it probably wouldn’t even be called pumpkin spice.
- Comment on bitey 3 weeks ago:
It’s averaged out, the real values are in a range, they just took the average between them.
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 3 weeks ago:
All 3 states exist at the same time, rapidly alternating between them.
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 3 weeks ago:
Don’t fluids conform to the shape of their container? In a sense they would all be conforming.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
Was going to say exactly that, not all lead came from radioactive decay. So this kind of ruins their debunk, Earth’s age has been measured by the amount of lead.
- Comment on ... 3 weeks ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on ... 4 weeks ago:
Let’s also not forget that Scientists are also humans. Humans with their own beliefs and biases which do get transferred into studies. Peer review can help reduce that but since peers are also humans with their own biases, but also common biases shared amongst humans it’s not bulletproof either.
There will always be some level of bias which clouds judgement, or makes you see/think things that aren’t objectively true, sometimes it comes with good intention, others not so much. It’s always there though, and probably always will be. The key to good science is making it as minimal as possible.
- Comment on ... 4 weeks ago:
I mean those things didn’t change, it was just about how research was manipulated by money and human biases.
- Submitted 8 months ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 14 comments
- Comment on high rise 11 months ago:
It does seem nice but I hear the association fees there are insane.
- Comment on What does a PhD mean? 11 months ago:
People can make dents in the outer shell of human knowledge without having PhDs though. As in to discover something new and revolutionary, plenty of great scientists have and likely many more will continue to.
- Comment on Nuclear power? That's just steam power with extra steps! 11 months ago:
Well Rotating a rotor on a generator is the most convenient way to make electricity with parts that last a long amount of time. Also doesn’t help that we use AC power while other sources like photovoltaic produce DC power which needs to be converted to be used.
- Comment on fly like paper get high like planes 11 months ago:
I’ve never seen one up close before, it’s interesting how much their find look like feathers, though it shouldn’t be that surprising given their purpose.
- Comment on I dunno, still might be aliens with this one. 1 year ago:
Just goes to show how much the universe is a chaotic and cruel place, hopefully we won’t end up joining them in the cold dark void in our future.
- Comment on wave em like you just don't care 1 year ago:
It’s a similar story with Fungi since mushrooms are the reproductive part of them.
- Comment on My first sunflower, grown from seed. Seeing it bloom with its deep yellow petals makes me irrationally happy. I love plants. 1 year ago:
I unfortunately haven’t been able to get the ones I grow to be very tall. They never grow taller than about half a meter even in a big pot.
- Comment on My first sunflower, grown from seed. Seeing it bloom with its deep yellow petals makes me irrationally happy. I love plants. 1 year ago:
Yeah sunflowers are awesome.
- Comment on A really nice Lions Mane is fruiting! 1 year ago:
Don’t feel too bad, that person is a troll who’s been known to start trouble with others over very little or stupid things.
- Comment on i stg 1 year ago:
I’ve actually never had catfish before, I’ve heard people say it’s good though.
- Comment on I dunno, still might be aliens with this one. 1 year ago:
“Planet” in my book is anything that’s too big to just be a large lumpy rock. Something with sufficient gravity to pull itself into the shape of a sphere.
The idea of planets needing to orbit in eliptical orbits on a plane, or clear their own paths is a bias from living in a stable planetary system, but much of the planetary systems and indeed much of the universe doesn’t have the stability that exists in this local area, it’s especially the case in younger planetary systems as well as much older ones.
Also many planets in the universe don’t even have stars, they are rogue, scattered throughout the darkness between the stars.
- Comment on I dunno, still might be aliens with this one. 1 year ago:
How can anyone say that an Alien archeologist would make the same minimalist assumptions that humans have made as opposed to making their own assumptions about the muscle and cartilage structures based on the creatures they’re familiar with or current creatures alive on earth at the time.
- Comment on JAPANESE KNOTWEED 1 year ago:
I mean it’s already there and isn’t going anywhere, might as well make the best of a bad situation and get some good out of it.
