Astrealix

@Astrealix@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Divide and rule⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I read “brutish” as “british” on first glance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re on the Earth — how do we see the Earth? By seeing other parts of the Earth that aren’t ourselves. The same is somewhat true for the Milky Way. And like on Earth, you can’t see the whole thing without leaving it, because we only get to see the stuff that isn’t blocked by other things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gay in 2007⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact from the same Wikipedia page: he actually picked the name Gay as a translation from Fröhlich, meaning “happy”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg).⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Cuz the gram came before the SI system and the kilogram is a much more useable unit. The original m-g-s are based on physical things, like m being a subdivision of the length from the North Pole to the Equator going through Paris, and s being related to the time of a pendulum with certain length swinging or smth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg).⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I’d be very worried if 2023 wasn’t smarter than 1970 no matter the location.