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- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 20 hours ago:
Kinda makes “bye bye” seem a little weird, eh?
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 21 hours ago:
The saying is really about asking god to remove obstacles from your path and facilitate faster travel. A little like “goodbye” is a very shortened “may god be with you.”
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP? 2 days ago:
Others have explained that it depwnds on when, but I want to add this: when a VP becomes pres. through succession, the speaker does not become VP automatically. The new pres. picks whoever they want. Ford chose the governor of NY, for example.
- Comment on Yep, it's me 3 weeks ago:
The disorder can only increase, just like your toys on the living room floor.
- Comment on How can we get to Mars faster 3 weeks ago:
His disdain for NASA’s caution is obvious.
- Comment on How can we get to Mars faster 3 weeks ago:
What a dumbass. If we send people in the quickest possible way (or any way at all, really) and they all die in the attempt, that will set the whole project back decades.
The answer to the radiation problem is better shielding, not a fundamentally unsafe mission.
btw it is not the nuclear propulsion that I’m calling unsafe. It is the idea that we could do without redundancy. That’s just a monumentally stupid idea.
- Comment on NASA Reveals Prototype Telescope for Gravitational Wave Observatory 3 weeks ago:
Telescope is almost a misnomer here. It will be “looking” at other satellites, not astronomically distant objects.
The influence of gravitational waves will be seen in changes in the relative distance to each of the six satellites.
- Comment on Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds 1 month ago:
Exactly. In other words, they have nit been “allowed to infest” the fediverse.
- Comment on Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds 1 month ago:
I have not noticed any threads content in Lemmy.
- Comment on Square! 1 month ago:
This actually has six right angles if you include exterior ones.
- Comment on Citations 2 months ago:
Hah!
But really, anyone who continues along the same line of research for long enough is going to necessarily cite themselves rather than just listing all of the previous results in each paper.
- Comment on We are stardust. 2 months ago:
All of the hydrogen was created at the initial cooling of the big bang. In this case what I mean by primordial, is that it was never part of a larger composite object like a star.
- Comment on We are stardust. 2 months ago:
If that hydrogen was previously incorporated in a star, I think it’s fair to call it stardust. That’s very likely, since our solar system would have formed from a relatively dense cloud of the remnants of earlier stars, with just a smidge of primordial hydrogen mixed in.
- Comment on If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died? 2 months ago:
Let’s give her large majorities in congress, then she can fix the court.
- Comment on Anyone else feel like Trump has a much higher chance to win then Presidency than Kamala? 3 months ago:
Losing any one of those three throws it to Trump.
Unless she win NC or OH. She’s doing really well in both.
I think this is going to be a giant blowout win for Kamala. But, please, no one get cocky! Everyone has to actually vote!
- Comment on 8 Minutes 3 months ago:
Which two event are you talking about being simultaneous? The Sun going out and Earthers observing it? Those things will not be simultaneous in any reference frame, because they are “light-like” separated.
- Comment on 8 Minutes 3 months ago:
The moon might be on the daylight side, so we wouldn’t necessarily observe that.
- Comment on 8 Minutes 3 months ago:
If you can see the moon (if it is “up” at night).
- Comment on I definitely never unsubscribed from a YouTube channel just for that... 3 months ago:
Science can never answer “why.” In your example, the question why is just moved, from “why does it fall?” to “why does mass distort space-time?” In both cases physics just describes what happens.
- Comment on I definitely never unsubscribed from a YouTube channel just for that... 3 months ago:
You mean, as opposed to lemma? I’ve never been confident that I understand the difference between those. :(
- Comment on I definitely never unsubscribed from a YouTube channel just for that... 3 months ago:
In physics we call some results “laws” and some “theories.” The difference has absolutely nothing to do with our certainty in the validity of the results.
Newton’s Laws of motion are called that because they can be written as concise mathematical equations, and allof the content is there. Einstein’s Theory of special relativity is just as valid, and even contains Newton’s Laws as a special case, but the content of the theory can’t be written in simple, concise equations. There are several equations included in special relativity, but they do not represent the entire content. For example, the most important statement of the theory cannot be written in equation form at all: “The measured speed of light in a vacuum will be the same for all observers in inertial reference frames, regardless of the relative speed of their reference frame.”
Darwin’s Theory of Evolution likewise cannot be written in concise statements (mathematical or otherwise), but our certainty in its validity is no less than in Newton’s Laws.
Another important subtlety: I was careful to say that we are certain of the validity. People who don’t know better are fond of saying that Newton’s Laws are wrong. This is a fallacy. Scientific laws and theories can only be valid or not, they can never be true.
- Comment on Octopi 3 months ago:
Thank you! I knew they were all correct, and I knew why, but I didn’t have an authoritative source to point folks to.
- Comment on Octopi 3 months ago:
Also, octopi. They’re all “correct” due to the multiple original languages’ grammar.
- Comment on Revenge is calamari 3 months ago:
When they turn around to bug out, they’re actually pointed towards the whale.
- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 4 months ago:
Hah! Ya got me!
But of course I’m talking about the adjective punk, as in " punk rock," which is an entirely other word than the noun puncke, (or, more modern, punk ) which Shakespeare used.
- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 4 months ago:
I agree that the word punk came to be associated with aesthetics, almost exclusively. But that is very far from where it started, and it is frustrating for those who started it to see it coopted like this. The association of the word with anything other than anti-consumerism is just " branding" at its worst.
- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 4 months ago:
I was a tween when the first version of “punk” came around (yes, that makes me old). I think I can say with authority that the ideals were: anti-corporate, anti-consumerism, and anti-commercialism. Ever since then people have tried to sum it up (and marginalize it) as “DIY.” But that falls well short of what it really was.
Of course, the second it showed any sign of viable popularity, the forces of capitalism, well…, capitalized on it. The obvious examples are bullshit, high production, made-for-tv bands like Green Day getting sold as punk rock. But does anyone remember Urban Outfitters? Holy crap, the open, unashamed corporate pandering!
- Comment on Irrational 5 months ago:
Sometimes we find that obscure pure mathematics does describe reality when no one expected it to. Riemannian geometry is one such example.
- Comment on Which side are you on? 5 months ago:
I need 'em both. Not everything I multiply is a number.
- Comment on Which side are you on? 5 months ago:
In LaTeX? You really are a rebel.