Random Thoughts XIII - Radioenergopithecocracy

[Valka D'Ur]

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All I can see there is a source of (a lot of) food; the thing looks like a living burger.
Google says that riverhorse meat is pretty tasty.

Baby hippos are cute.

Hippos are the land mammal that whales are related to the closest, evolutionarily speaking.

Crossbows can shoot stones.

I've watched several videos about crossbows on the medieval practical history YT channels (not SCA or Ren Fair; these are people who do actual research and demonstrate the use of each different type of crossbow). Not one of them mentioned crossbows shooting stones.

 

[Kaitzilla]

Are we living in a baby universe that looks like a black hole to outsiders?

The inside of every black hole leads to the birth of a new Universe. Could our Universe have arisen from one?

bigthink.com

But our Universe has a very curious property that not everyone appreciates. If you add up the mass and energy of all the particles contained within the visible Universe, you can ask the question, “How big would the event horizon of a black hole with this mass be?” And the answer, perhaps surprisingly, is very close to the actual horizon size of the observable Universe


I think my favorite thing about the universe is how it constantly trolls and teases our understanding.

Like we could live forever with cryogenics, but water expands when freezing so no.

Or here is unlimited energy, but fusion is just a bit out of reach.

Or the universe has a speed limit, but not really time just dilates.
If you can accept that and still manage to get deep enough into going fast enough, the glow from the big bang will cook you to death.

Antimatter blows up when it touches any of the regular stuff, really?

Make electronics really small, but quantum leaping screws up its function.

It goes on and on.

 

[Birdjaguar]

t goes on and on.

Science on the edge of magic!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Baby hippos are cute.

The angry mother hippo who takes offense to you petting the baby hippo is probably a bit less cute...

 

[Takhisis]

The angry mother hippo who takes offense to you petting the baby hippo is probably a bit less cute...

*Hippo playfully bites off aimee's nearest appendage*

 

[AdamCrock]

I only came here for the Farm Boy's song , and as always this prooves that American Farm Boys are the best !

Diogenes was operating in his own, privately owned 'tube' :/

barrel

Ancient Greeks were sometimes weird like that .

All right rhe concensus is : Sugar is bad

 

[amadeus]

If it’s rated R, Joe Pesci is hurting people.

If it’s rated PG, Joe Pesci is the one getting hurt.

Think about it!

 

[AdamCrock]

"You say I am a shoe shine"

 

[Sarin]

If it’s rated R, Joe Pesci is hurting people.

If it’s rated PG, Joe Pesci is the one getting hurt.

Think about it!

And if it's rated RPG, Joe Pesci is getting blown up. Or blowing people up?

 

[amadeus]

And if it's rated RPG, Joe Pesci is getting blown up. Or blowing people up?

RPG to me is more like Dragon Warrior.

 

[Sarin]

RPG to me is more like Dragon Warrior.

Or maybe Soviet Warrior...

Spoiler :

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The angry mother hippo who takes offense to you petting the baby hippo is probably a bit less cute...

Adults usually are less cute than babies, but many never lose being cute.

That said, I know better to get between any wild mother and her babies.

 

[Takhisis]

If it’s rated R, Joe Pesci is hurting people.

If it’s rated PG, Joe Pesci is the one getting hurt.

Think about it!

PG for Patriotic Garbage as they say on GTA?

 

[amadeus]

PG for Patriotic Garbage as they say on GTA?

Parental Guidance.

This gets me on a small rant about how movies have been tailored to meet ratings standards: from its inception basically there were 3 ratings, G which meant “General Audiences,” PG for “Parental Guidance” and R for “Restricted.” PG-13 came later (I think Red Dawn was the furst) to fill that supposed gray zone between PG and R. There was briefly an M for “Mature,” but this didn’t mean pornography—Woody Allen’s Take the Money and Run was released during this window of “M.”

Anyway, over time the whole thing has turned into rather a rating system for content and more about marketing—G for little children, PG for … children who are less little, PG-13 for teenagers, R for everyone else, and NC-17 for movies that want to lose money. But what’s to stop a courtroom drama from being PG or even G? Then there are those reboots of movies like RoboCop that get “watered down” to fit those coveted PG-13 criteria.

I guess if movies were better and not crap this would be less of a problem.

 

[Takhisis]

I remember those. In other countries the ratings have been according to idealised ages, e.g. ‘for kids aged 12 and older’ instead of all the word salad you posted above.

 

[Kyriakos]

Reflect on you crazy diamond

 

[Takhisis]

I am trying to secure an appointment to have some X-rays taken. So I start by entering the X-Ray centre's webpage. There is some useful information, but then I am told that further information is available if I call their hotline. So I call the hotline. I navigate the automated answering system and end up being told that a) I can get more information at their homepage! or b) I can call their number, which is the number with which I am currently engaged in a call.

 

[Hygro]

I once read a story that had a character named 'Titbottom'

Lit

 

[Kyriakos]

Diversion and other treachery, while front and center in literature, is also very easy to do in math.
A good example from the other day, when you see an absolute value, say [x-y], you can't help but immediately think that its primary purpose is to secure the outcome is always a positive number.
But then again, what if x,y have a particular relation, that ensures x-y (or in a different case, y-x) is always positive already? Why then also have the [] there?
Because it is meant not to secure a positive outcome, but force the same outcome regardless of whether you subtract x from y or y from x (because only one of x,y has the property allowing x-y to be always positive, but you don't know which one). So the absolute value of x-y was there not due to the absolute value, but x,y.

 

[amadeus]

Am I the only one who would not have a problem replacing the Statue of Liberty with the waitress from Breakfast in America?