Rhaedas
@Rhaedas@fedia.io
- Comment on Know your place 1 day ago:
Perhaps. At least I'm nice to people.
- Comment on Know your place 2 days ago:
Another great example of both scale and speed. Even the near stars are far.
- Comment on Know your place 2 days ago:
The problem is that the human mind can't easily grasp the whole thing at one time, or some parts of the scale aren't relatable enough. Like in your example, we know the Earth-Moon distance is huge abstractly but can't hold it in our mind like we can the marble and building, or even a mile distance, as those we can see. Or in The Epic Spaceman one, all we can understand is that the US is a very large expanse of land and yet our system is small even at that scale. But we can't put the two together easily.
When one gets that brief moment of awareness, it's both awesome and frightening. The last time it happened to me out of the blue was as a kid, looking up at a dark sky with a meteor shower. For a second I had the sense not of looking up at the sky with meteors falling, but of the reality of being on the surface of a rock that was flying around running into a debris cloud. And if I'm in a dark sky area and look long enough at the dense star field I can almost feel the sense of insignificance.
- Comment on Know your place 2 days ago:
Epic Spaceman on Youtube had a great scale realization method. If out galaxy was the size of the United States, our solar system would be somewhere around the city of Denver. The neighborhood stars we can individually see with our eyes would be the area of the Denver city lights. The Sun would be the size of a red blood cell, and the solar system's expanse would be the size of a fingerprint.
- Comment on Know your place 2 days ago:
So it's a message from the future specifically for Elon Musk.
- Comment on Rust 3 days ago:
Of course, it's got oxygen in it.
- Comment on Yesterday, in a galaxy far far away 5 days ago:
This is canon to me now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx1PBvkP2Xkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx1PBvkP2Xk
- Comment on Yesterday, in a galaxy far far away 5 days ago:
"Yub nub"
- Comment on Not trying to disparage first responders on 911. Why aren't nurses included with fire and police departments? Did we not take care of people on the backend of the rescuing? 5 days ago:
This is why right here. Had hospitals and makeshift medical areas been swarmed with patients, nurses would have responded and been praised for it, as they should. But there weren't survivors, which highlighted how bad it was.
- Comment on Shhh 5 days ago:
It's been less than 24 hours. It took me a second to get this. Shows how important the subject was in the long run.
- Comment on The Music Community Right Now 6 days ago:
NSYNC - Bye Bye Bye
- Comment on THE LEFT JUST DESTROYED THIS BEAUTIFUL FAMILY 6 days ago:
Who knew leopards were in the crowd?
- Comment on THE LEFT JUST DESTROYED THIS BEAUTIFUL FAMILY 6 days ago:
Nah, you have the right to be intolerant, homophobic, and speak your mind about it. Just expect others to speak their mind and oppose it. Maybe that's what you're not a fan of. Charlie shouldn't have been shot, but boy he sure was helping to stir up the environment that causes violence. Remarkably he is on record for not being all that concerned about others being shot.
- Comment on If fossil fuels aren't vegan that would mean almost nobody is actually vegan. 1 week ago:
So they only use algae-only oil. Still doesn't change the point.
- Comment on If fossil fuels aren't vegan that would mean almost nobody is actually vegan. 1 week ago:
This is shifting blame. Fossil fuels are vegan in the sense of origin, however the harm done to the biosphere in using them is not vegan. Therefore a vegan using fossil fuels in a dependent society is to blame.
Sure. It's not the much higher percentage of people participating in this, it's the vegans. At least they're making attempts to change, unlike the rest of us.
- Comment on Just had a hospital group employee tell me to simply email medical information 1 week ago:
I don't know if it's still a thing as generations move on, but I remember when people objected to putting their credit card info into a web form even if it was HTTPS, yet they'd gladly read their card number over the phone.
- Comment on xkcd #3139: Chess Variant 1 week ago:
In some aspects this results in situations that the original Star Trek 3-D chess has with its movable platforms. The issue with chess variants is always how it adds while not unbalancing the game, and that's a difficult thing to test since chess by itself is complex even with its simple rules.
- Comment on Cinderella's Millennium Falcon 1 week ago:
Did Cinderella use that as a cargo pusher, or have it modified to do smuggling runs?
- Comment on Cinderella's Millennium Falcon 1 week ago:
You should have seen what us 70s kids did pre-specialized parts with the basic LEGO. Like our computer games they were blocky, but they were awesome.
- Comment on Meowposting 1 week ago:
Whoever labeled this as a cat churning butter never had a cat. We know what they're doing. Anything makes a good scratching post.
- Comment on [Eagle screech] 1 week ago:
I think Ford or Chevy would be a better brand match, but definitely the truck is the biggest problem with this image being accurate. The grill must be bigger because that indicates the owner's size (inversely).
- Comment on Good luck! 1 week ago:
Given the current world my first impulse was to see if this was AI generated as it makes no sense. Then I thought that even AI might take such a prompt and reply "no, that's ridiculous." So definitely human made.
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 1 week ago:
Must be diesel. If you can get it to combust under high air pressure, a diesel will probably run off it.
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Young artist who is a big fan of Twin Peaks 1 week ago:
I'm old, and I remember this from early grade school. Some things persist over generations.
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 1 week ago:
Algae?
- Comment on How do phone scammers work? I get them trying to get another persons money. But how do they get all the info and now can do voice fakes. I highly doubt they just pick a random person and say fuck them 2 weeks ago:
Very automated. I've been having regular calls for a while now from all sorts of different state area codes, same exact script about a loan offer almost complete and just lacking some income info. I let any unknown number go to voice mail, and find it entertaining to see which AI voice I get this time. For a while there it was a friendly woman that had a convincing tone, but the one guy's voice they tried sounded like he needed a vacation and was over his job.
- Comment on Fly, you fools! 2 weeks ago:
It's a trap!
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 2 weeks ago:
"It's the same picture."
Always has been. The only difference is what they're selling.
- Comment on The longer you live, the harder it becomes. 2 weeks ago:
True, the implied was "if you can".