Amuletta

@Amuletta@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3199: Early Arthropods⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I for one am thankful that the creator of Spiderman did not make him too spider like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3199: Early Arthropods⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Some spiders still don’t spin elaborate webs. I see a lot of crab spiders in my back yard. Their hunting strategy is just to sit motionless in the middle of a flower and grab pollinators, which why they come in floral colours like yellow or white.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long would you survive with no DNA?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  On a similar note, when the Covid vaccines were introduced in 2021, Facebook was full of people loudly proclaiming that there was no RNA in their bodies and never would be because they weren’t gonna be “jabbed”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3197: Cost Savings⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A trebuchet, but made with modern materials.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3196: Aurora Coolness⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ideally you want to be out in a rural area, far from city lights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3196: Aurora Coolness⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same in Saskatoon. We seem to miss all the good night sky experiences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3196: Aurora Coolness⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My best aurora experience took place in August, oddly enough. It was a warm night, so I went out on the deck and laid on the chaise lounge, my big cat of the time flopped out on my chest. The moon was about 3/4 full and for some reason a small prop plane was circling overhead (there’s a flight school out at the airport, probably it was from there). Then I saw the ghostly curtain of an aurora to the north. Very poetic experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3194: 16 Part Epoxy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is only too true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3192: Planetary Alignment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something with a bad case of gas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3187: High Altitude Cooking Instructions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely not as much as half a cup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3187: High Altitude Cooking Instructions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to live at 3300 feet. Cooking times increased slightly over what most recipes recommended, sometimes more baking powder was needed, but I don’t remember having to add more water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3176: Inverted Catenaries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The month of Catenary is always a dreary one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3172: Fifteen Years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who is peeling onions in here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3163: Repair Video⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I will watch an instruction video on YouTube and say “Nope, that’s worth paying a professional for”. Other times it’s very useful, such as when the flame sensor in my furnace needed to be cleaned. It’s a wonderful resource, really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3162: Heart Mountain⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🎶 I keep doin’ the Roomba baby, can’t seem to quit If my mama catches us doin’ the Roomba, my mama would just have a fit I… Can’t help myself, it’s much bigger than me If I were you, I would hang onto, a Roomba girl like me 🎶