niktemadur
@niktemadur@lemmy.world
- Comment on crypto investment 5 hours ago:
Ritzcoin?
- Comment on well? 3 days ago:
But then there’s the guy who added all the mass and energy of the observable universe, calculated its’ Schwarzschild Radius, and came up with 13.8 billion light years.
There’s also how our observable universe’s Hubble Horizon acts like a black hole event horizon, the way in which even the speed of light is insufficient to escape beyond.
A lot of the math inside a black hole is eerily similar to the math of our own horizon, as traced by the age of the universe plus the speed of light.
- Comment on How Coldplay actually sounds 3 days ago:
Coldplay is for people who think they enjoy high art because they watch period costume dramas about the Victorian Age. Because that’s what high art is, isn’t it? Stuffy settings and dialogue, delivered in a bygone accent.
- Comment on salty child 4 days ago:
Take it one level lower on down, when you’re the size of an electron, orbitals are wild, turbulent places, sometimes sharing electrons which also often get zapped by light, so they jump to a higher orbital, then they randomly spit out that photon and reappear back down… all the orbitals of a molecule violently jiggling all the time.
Take photosynthesis. Simply put and to oversimplify but it’s essentially accurate, a photon hits an electron bullseye in a leaf molecule, which sets off a wave of energy in motion, breaking up molecules, reassembling them into sugars and waste product (oxygen).
A red photon raises an electron one orbital up, that sets off one process at a certain level of energy. A blue photon raises an electron two orbitals up, that sets off another process at twice the energy level. - Comment on Orb 5 days ago:
T H I C C Mitochondria!
- Comment on In the cave 6 days ago:
This was originally a Warhol idea, wasn’t it?
A six hour film of the Empire State building, as the day goes and the lighting changes, I think it was meant as like a window from an apartment or office right in the thick of Manhattan.Truth be told, I don’t hate the idea. Currently, it could be a framed digital screen on a loop, or showing a webcam feed. Why not a live view of Istanbul, or of the Moroccan desert?
- Comment on Dik Piks 1 week ago:
Why don’t you please tell us how you really feel?
The burn is so hot, it’s gonna cost several thousand in ER fees. - Comment on Every time 1 week ago:
Don’t you wish there was a way to quit enabling these shit-kickin’ shitheads. To let them actually live what they preach, in isolation without their shitwater splashing and spilling around everywhere else.
None of their politicians asking for handouts behind closed doors and under the table, too embarrassed to admit to the voters that yes, indeed, a collective government IS extremely useful AND convenient when you need it the most, and not only when YOU need it but also when OTHERS need it, too.
But one might as well try and explain quantum mechanics to a goddamned brick wall.
- Comment on oops 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s sooooo funny… it’s heeeeeeel-larious! I don’t know about you, but I for one can’t stop laughing!
The way language is used or abused creates patterns in the mind.
I strongly suspect that this way of using language is not healthy at all, for an individual nor for a community. - Comment on Viewers like you 2 weeks ago:
Then there is also all those mediocre non-voters who empowered by default the motivated-by-hysteria, toxic dregs of society, up and down Main St. and deep within their communities and suburbs.
- Comment on Not for me, tho 3 weeks ago:
What time is it?
It’s Beer O’clock! - Comment on It was all a lie, wasn't it? 3 weeks ago:
Wainscoting. Sounds like… a little Dorset village. Wainscoting.
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 4 weeks ago:
…unless you heat them up first, to kill the bacteria; two minutes on HIGH ought to do it.
- Comment on How streaming changed the way you watch TV 4 weeks ago:
The moral of the story is: no rusty banal or shitty memory is banal or shitty enough, for these postmodern kids nowadays to NOT commoditize it as “nostalgia”. EXACTLY like their boomer parents with their own rusty banal or shitty items in their memory bank.
“I look around me, and the horizon seems to be at the same distance everywhere I look, therefore it must be obvious: I am at the center of the Universe.”
- Comment on Oranges? In this economy? 4 weeks ago:
Orange-shooting Man!
- Comment on Why is cottage cheese the only cheese defined by some relationship to a building? 5 weeks ago:
Queso Casita
- Comment on Yes, in my back yard: people who live near large-scale solar projects are happy to have more built nearby 5 weeks ago:
Here’s a strange idea that just occurred to me, to further push YIMBI-ism:
Make electricity free for all those who live within a certain radius of the solar arrays. - Comment on Suggestion 5 weeks ago:
Chuckables.
Guffawfables. - Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 5 weeks ago:
He might have won the very first Nobel Prize, had he not passed away just a few years prior, and much too young, wasn’t he in his late-30s or early-40s?
In fact, I believe that had Hertz remained alive and won his prize, the Nobel Committee would not have felt obliged to give it to Marconi a few years later.
Marconi was a back-stabbing asshole who became one of the wealthiest men in the world by abusing the gentlemanly trust of others, and coasting on someone else’s technology - particularly the way crystals oscillate, and some of them serve nicely as a sort of “translation point” between electromagnetic waves and the physical apparatus that transmits and/or receives the signal.
- Comment on Peak male form 1 month ago:
Some of these guy are packin’ some serious heat!
- Comment on magnum pi 1 month ago:
Euler and Gauss… the lads.
- Comment on Stop this tomfoolery at once 1 month ago:
Hey Farva! What’s the name of that restaurant you like?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Imagine a sci-fi world, far in the future, where there are enough old unearthed pennies to be used as currency, but they are scarce enough to acquire great relative value.
“Hey, that must have cost a small fortune!”
“A hundred and twenty five pennies, to be exact.”
“Damn!” - Comment on demon named racecar 2 months ago:
The Majorana Superhero!
- Comment on My playlist, everyone 2 months ago:
Baby Shark & Wild Stallyns. Party on, dude!
- Comment on My playlist, everyone 2 months ago:
What’s the matter ese?
Don’t you know I’m goth-o? - Comment on Nice place to shop but sometimes gets sticky 2 months ago:
Food Lion
Citi Trends
Shoe Show…Yeah, this has the feel of some bizarro trickle-down generic capitalism alternate universe.
- Comment on Mouse 2 months ago:
And why is there Jennifer but no Jerryfer? Or Johnnyfer?
- Comment on Pico de gallo is fruit salad 2 months ago:
Pico de gallo is also the name of a fruit cocktail in my town in Mexico.
Chunks of jicama, orange and… there’s another one I’m forgetting.You sprinkle salt and powdered chili on top, then squeeze the juice of a large lime on top. It’s all eaten with a toothpick, you spear the chunks of jicama, orange and the other one.
- Comment on Everyone knows what first aid is, but what is second aid? 2 months ago:
The blues singer character Mississippi Gary from The Kids In The Hall comes to mind:
I got the blues so bad, I can’t even shut my eyes… I gotta call a friend on the phone and tell him - “Buddy, come over and shut my eyes for me, I got the blues”.