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- Comment on pew pew 2 days ago:
As humans, our eyes contain 3 different types of cones (red, blue, and green). With these we can see around 1 million different colors.
But Mantis Shrimp have 16 different types of cones in their eyes! And with those 16 cones they can see a whopping… 16 colors.
While our brains allow us to mix and match the different bands of light our eyes detect in order to “see” a wide variety of colors, Mantis Shrimp lack that ability. What they detect is what they get, there’s no neural post processing, or at least not any that allow the perception of mixed colors.
- Comment on pew pew 2 days ago:
Probably in the top 10% of fun animal facts people like to share, so I’m pretty sure plenty of people bothered to tell you about it.
- Comment on BIOMES 2 days ago:
Cliff
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- Comment on But yes. 6 days ago:
The only truly new method of power generation we’ve made in the last 100 years has been photovoltaic cells. Everything else is just finding new ways to make turbines spin.
- Comment on Oh fuck no 3 weeks ago:
Because self-censorship is done to avoid getting filtered or demonetized on certain platforms due to policies put in place by those platforms to attract advertisers. It is not done because of the person’s moral or ethical beliefs. It’s basically willing compliance with internet enshittification to whitewash everything and make it advertiser friendly.
- Comment on I hate that that happens 3 weeks ago:
You can create a sentence with an infinite number of “police”
Who polices the Police?
Police Police police Police.
Who polices the Police Police?
Police Police Police police Police Police.
And so on…
- Comment on xkcd #3001: Temperature Scales 4 weeks ago:
Yes, but if you have to convert from Fahrenheit to another scale anyways, why in the hell would you not just go straight to Kelvin?!
- Comment on Mom of the year 4 weeks ago:
Sadly I think there are people out there like this
The only sad thing is how much brain rot people like you have gotten from the internet to believe shit like this exists anywhere in reality. You’ve built up examples in your head of awful people doing awful things, except all those examples are fake bullshit like this.
- Comment on Intel releases one last microcode update to fix high-end desktop CPU crashes 1 month ago:
So glad I got a 12900. Apparently they beefed up the reliability of the 12th Gen since it was the first gen with the new framework, but crapped out on the subsequent gens. Looking like it’s going to be the best CPU for quite some time.
- Comment on Uniting for Internet Freedom: Tor Project & Tails Join Forces | Tor Project 1 month ago:
I thought Signal was the big one?
- Comment on xkcd #2990: Late Cenozoic 1 month ago:
If you go to a museum and see an impressive skeleton of a dinosaur, you’re not actually looking at dinosaur bones. And no, I don’t mean because they’ve calcified and become “rock”. I mean the real bones are in a drawer somewhere, if they even exist. What you’re looking at is plaster, often with many of the pieces wholly created from scratch in order to produce a full skeleton.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
Who’s claiming Atlanteans were white?
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
Ok but that’s the thing I’m trying to get at. 15k years ago there was no such thing as Europeans. There weren’t Africans or Asians or Indians. Thats so far back that there are zero ties to modern races. It’s meaningless to try and connect them. It cant belittle one group of people while praising the intellect of another because human migration has made any resemblance to modern humanity from that far back a moot point. Any races from that long ago no longer exist.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
The colosseum isn’t 10000 years old
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
I don’t get the racism argument. Claiming there was an ancient civilization existed that taught early civilizations isn’t racist. That an ient race doesn’t exist anymore. The early civilizations they claim to have taught don’t exist anymore. Modern day Egyptians have as much to do with ancient Egyptians as they do with modern Polynesians. At a certain point, we have to recognize that we’re talking about so long ago that race is out of the equation.
Like, don’t get me wrong, his claims aren’t scientific and he definitely seems like someone with a theory in search of facts. But I seriously do not get the racism claim. It doesn’t belittle modern societies because no modern society can really claim ownership of shit that happened over 10,000 years ago. It’s insane to think otherwise.
- Comment on Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way! 1 month ago:
In war, civilians lose.
- Comment on Pamphlet advising on protection against a nuclear attack (1963-1967) UK 1 month ago:
Does that account for the rise of ultra-modern construction which is basically cheap plywood and petroleum?
- Comment on Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way! 1 month ago:
It’s war
- Comment on Bees 2 months ago:
Do the flowers get pollinated? That seems like the important part.
- Comment on Bees 2 months ago:
Arent those conflicting statements? How can they be taking up all the pollen AND be worse pollinators?
- Comment on Beans 2 months ago:
Don’t rabbits also have toe beans?
- Submitted 2 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on Snow Leopard 2 months ago:
Perhaps you could compress the image further into an even shittier format? I can still make out the snow leopard from this one.
- Comment on Non-language-using animals must think humans are the worst songbirds ever. 2 months ago:
Why songbirds and not other vocal mammals like squirrels? Do you think they know that some bird calls sound annoying as shit? Do you think animals cannot differentiate other animals apart?
Go back in the shower, this one needs more time to cook.
- Comment on Biology Class 2 months ago:
Be better about recognizing fake shit.
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 2 months ago:
No such thing. Even if you were walking on a surface with no change in elevation, the acceleration due to gravity would cause your path to be curved as it followed the curvature of the planet.
- Comment on Thank you! 2 months ago:
Half-and-half is for cowards. Either cut the cream entirely or get full cream.
- Comment on Shock & Awe Dick Slithers Out Of His Neocon Lair To Endorse Kamala Over 'Depraved' Trump 2 months ago:
They only hate him now because he’s endorsed Kamala
- Comment on Educational 2 months ago:
Haven’t the schools been closed for several months now? There shouldn’t be any civilians in there, let alone kids.
- Comment on Was Elvis Presley a pedo? 2 months ago:
At least one of the fathers openly endorsed it. I don’t think fathers cared as much about it as you think.