Amuletta
@Amuletta@lemmy.ca
- Comment on xkcd #3162: Heart Mountain 4 days ago:
The Ordovician period was 485.4 to 443.8 million years ago, so there may have been fossils in that layer that were long dead and turned to stone 400 millions years earlier, and then another 50 million years after that, there are modern humans speculating about the cause of this slippage.
I sort of get why some people are attracted to creationist beliefs about earth being only 6000 years old. Those time spans are dizzying to think about.
- Comment on xkcd #3153: Hot Water Balloon 3 weeks ago:
Oh, I don’t know. Waterbeds had a certain reputation back in the day, nudge nudge, wink wink. That’s probably why my oldest brother kept his so long, and why he and his wife had so many kids.
- Comment on xkcd #3144: Phase Changes 1 month ago:
I have seen photographs of this, but have never seen it in person. I wonder what special conditions are necessary for this to happen?
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 1 month ago:
Interesting. We found some 3/8" drywall in the 1913 house, dating from some renovations that appeared to have been done in the 1950s or 60s. We also found a mummified sandwich.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 2 months ago:
Modern lumber is planed, so some of that difference is because of losses from that. If you open up the walls of a house built 100+ years ago, you see these thick rough wall studs that never went through a planer. Even with shrinking, it’s close to being actual 2" x 4".
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 2 months ago:
At one time a 2 x 4 really was 2" x 4". Very old houses will have these in the walls, not planed and quite rough and splintery. I think I still have splinters from the 1913 bungalow I renovated more than 30 years ago.
- Comment on xkcd #3133: Dual Roomba 2 months ago: