StellarExtract
@StellarExtract@lemmy.zip
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 5 hours ago:
“America’s favorite cat?” I didn’t vote for him!
- Comment on Caption this. 1 day ago:
The wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube man can be characterized as a 3D slice of a conscious, four dimensional entity (with balls)
- Comment on I ate: Arby's Steak Nuggets 1 day ago:
This is the longest thing I’ve read today, and I don’t regret it. I laughed, I cried, and I learned a thing or two along the way.
- Comment on I would give my life savings for something that eradicates them from my apartment 😌 1 week ago:
Just chiming in to represent the small minority of people who strongly dislike spiders in our houses
- Comment on Saw this on a hike and immediately thought "Morning Wood?" 1 week ago:
Saw it on a hike through social media, maybe
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That sounds like it’s going to get real messy real fast
- Comment on Hurr hurr hurr 2 weeks ago:
Look how they massacred my boy
- Comment on Purrfect Diagram 2 weeks ago:
OR IS IT??
- Comment on Do we have a deal or what? 3 weeks ago:
Transaction complete
- Comment on No wonder she was leaving the party in great hurry 4 weeks ago:
Did it just get warmer?
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 5 weeks ago:
It seems maybe you’re actually misunderstanding. As I mentioned above, both you and the other commenter are certainly correct that the surrounding atmosphere (water in your case) exerts force on the objects as they fall, with varying effects depending on object density. However, if you take two objects that have vastly more density than the water (let’s say a big tungsten rod and another tungsten rod that has a hollow core), they will drop at approximately the same rate in the water even if their density vs each other varies. The greater the difference of their density versus the density of the medium, the less the effect of the medium. Is there still technically an effect? Sure, but that effect is negligible from a human perceptual perspective.
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 5 weeks ago:
While that is true, two properly selected objects (such as the ones mentioned above) can reduce the effect of air resistance to levels negligible to human perception, demonstrating that heavier objects do not intrinsically fall faster.
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 1 month ago:
Gozz is correct. You’re misunderstanding the nature of a digital signal. What the author did was convert a digital signal to an analog signal, store that analog signal on a bird, then record that analog signal. Whether it was redigitized after the fact is irrelevant. It is not a digital process end-to-end. This is the same as if I were to download a YouTube video, record that video on a VHS tape, then redigitize that video. Not only would the end result not be a bit for bit match, it wouldn’t be a match at all despite containing some of the same visual information, because it would be the product of a digital-analog-digital conversion.
- Comment on don't trust cowboys or people doing cowboy voices 1 month ago:
For a shitposting community, it’s amazing how many people here don’t understand shitposts at all.
- Comment on Bro wake up it's 1997. 2 months ago:
The only videogame my dad has ever gotten into (other than Pong) was NFS II SE. He wouldn’t race, he just liked driving around at 35 MPH and looking at the scenery. He enjoyed this so much he bought a wheel and pedals for it. I loved this game as a kid, and the fact that I could play it with a wheel. The song “Headless Horse” off the soundtrack is pure 90s cool as well.
- Comment on Hong Kong beef balls and boiled hotdog with chilli sauce 2 months ago:
Feces from a hiney, assuredly
- Comment on Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks 2 months ago:
That kaleidoscope is awesome! I kinda want to make one.
- Comment on the unseen worlds 3 months ago:
Technically no, this photographer is putting flowers under a blacklight and photographing them, resulting in a picture of basically what a human would see IRL in that scenario (aside from things like contrast/exposure variances, etc). It’s not really the same as what UV sensing animals would see. These photos are of regions of the flower converting UV light into human-visible visible light (via fluorescence, same thing as a blacklight poster). UV sensing animals are seeing actual ultraviolet being reflected by the flower as well as visible light, so it’s not the same thing.
- Comment on Financially rewarding and you will always have a job 3 months ago:
That same house in my area costs at least 10 times that amount. I was lucky in that I had “only” $80,000 of debt from my bachelor’s, a housing situation via marriage, and a career path with solid pay (after going back for an associate’s while working in a low-paying job post-graduation for 7 years). I only finally paid off that debt 2 years ago and I graduated in 2008. I don’t know how a lot of people manage.
- Comment on Financially rewarding and you will always have a job 3 months ago:
College graduates (PhD or otherwise) drowning in debt and not being financially able to pay it off is common enough here in the US that it’s a trope, and likely the basis for this “joke”.
- Comment on Our dancers have infinite curves 3 months ago:
Damn, that’s poetry
- Comment on The soil, I crave it 4 months ago: