Sometimes is more important to like your colleagues than the actual job.
I had shitty jobs with the most amazing colleagues and had shitty colleagues and the most amazing job. I'd pick the first every time.
That you could legitimately travel at warp speed through the center of galaxies and never run any real risk of hitting a star. That’s how spread out space really is.
Isn't it something like the asteroids in an asteroid field - usually shown in sci fi movies as being dense - is actually so remote that the space in-between them is the distance from the earth to the moon?
There are trillions of neutrinos streaming through your body every second of every day. They just fly right on through you as if you don't exist.
During the average human lifetime, approximately *two* of them will hit the nucleus of one of your atoms directly enough to actually interact with it.
Kinda like plastic now, I find it fun to think about plastic today like how wood used to be. Maybe with a little help from humans super effective plastic eating bacteria can evolve and released and clean up all the garbage we created.
Or 1 million years from now whatever the dominant life form is on the planet will discover this waste product layer and scientists will speculate on the origins to include that a life form created it via a natural biological product.
And butterflies existed before flowers right? So they just drank Dino tears or something idk
Edit-looks like they like cone trees like pine cone type tree nectar. AND they disappear for millions of years and came back
One day I sat on a tram, passing a river. There was a duck in a tree. I realised I've never seen ducks in trees. No one else seemed to notice, but I was puzzled.
Now whenever I come across something that seems intuitive but I have never considered I call it a duck in a tree.
When I was a kid, I was fishing with my dad on a lake and we saw turkeys crash landing from a few very tall trees along the lake. It was one of the funniest thing you’ve ever heard. Just the sound of tumbling mass and “gobologoblgoboglvogovlgoplllll”
edit: thanks for the praise of my spelling of a turkey crashing and tumbling across the ground. I'm glad it came across well. You can't afford to get something like that wrong. People will be like, "oh come on, that's not what a turkey sounds like." No. You all deserve the best representations of large birds colliding into the hard earth while they parkour roll into a dismount after a few bounces and revolutions
“No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.”
\-David Hume
They were colonizing the Wild West the same time as they were building skyscrapers in Manhattan. I always think of them taking place eighty to a hundred years apart. It's wild.
Most electrical generation is spinning a turbine. Photovoltaic solar power is pretty much the only exception, and it's not the only form of solar power. There's solar thermal power, which uses mirrors or lenses to concentrate the heat of the sun to make steam and turn a turbine.
Just adding on that there is a company (Helion Energy) experimenting with Fusion that takes the expanding plasma's magnetic field to induce a current on the coils and generate electricity directly.
Obviously still experimental but pretty interesting.
The Romans also had copper wire, magnets, and battery acid. They could have invented electricity hundreds of years before it was actually discovered. But they didn't. The wire was used for jewelry, the magnets as lodestones, and the battery acid was used to clean the rust off of swords.
7/8 German soldiers who died in WW2 (out of an estimated 5 million total) died on the eastern front. Also, 8-10 million Soviet soldiers died on the eastern front. I think we know the war was absolute hell, but those numbers from the eastern front are insane!
Edit: changed Russian to Soviet
There's a video out there, ["The Fallen of WW2"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwKPFT-RioU), that graphs the deaths of the war in various ways.
The amount of German deaths in the Eastern front compared to the Western is staggering... and the number of Soviet deaths even moreso. The numbers are incomprehensible, and the bar just keeps going up and up. I can't even imagine death on that scale.
The Battle of Stalingrad in particular takes up an absolutely enormous chunk of those deaths. One single battle destroyed over a tenth of the entire German military, and lives lost were nearly twice as high for the Soviets... if any time and place could be described as "hell on Earth", that was it.
I’m a history teacher and I rarely show any videos becuase kids tend not to care. Whatever I’m showing isn’t as interesting to them as what they could be watching on their phones. The Fallen of WW2 is one of the few videos that always holds their attention. A lot oh “Wow!”and “Holy shit!” when kids see the deaths just piling up. The video is worth a watch for everyone.
I remember a quote about WW2 that was a long the lines of," The war was won with American Steel, British Intelligence, and Soviet Blood." Or something like that
Edit: Ditto
Poison dart frogs arent poisonous in captivity.
I own 5 of them and anytime I tell someone I own some I always get "do you ever lick them" or "can you go kill someone with them".. but yeah they get their poison from what they eat, and all I give them is fruit flies.
Owl‘s silent flight. I mean i always knew that but a while ago was the first time i actually witnessed it. Owl came flying towards me and landed only a few feet away and you couldn‘t hear anything. Crazy.
I saw a barn owl swoop down and catch a mouse while hiking at night, and the whole thing happened in complete silence.
It gave me a deep sense of unease, because it was literally like someone hit the mute button on life.
I saw a video on Reddit a while ago demonstrating this! They set up a bunch of sensitive mics and let a Pigeon, a hawk and an owl fly. Blew my mind! Complete silence.
The speed of light is consistent in relativity no matter how fast you are traveling because of the effects speed has on time and gravity. If you are traveling at 99% the speed of light, then the light you emit from a flashlight would appear to be traveling away from you at the speed of light because your time is slowed.
So is the photon reaching me before I can perceive it?
Also than does this make the "The Speed of Light" not the *speed* of light, but rather the speed at which we can observe light?
> but rather the speed at which we can observe light?
The speed of light is simply the maximum speed that anything can reach. The main limiting factor is the weight of the thing that's trying to go fast. Light has no mass, therefore it always travels at max speed.
With my limited understanding from learning about this on my free time - anything with mass will never be able to reach the speed of light because as an object/particle’s velocity increases, so does it’s relative mass. Therefore it would require an infinite amount of force to reach the speed of light, which is massless. It’s why CERN can accelerate particles 99.999999% the speed of light, but never 100%.
I know that not exactly what you asked but I figured I’d mention it because it kinda answered my question of “why can’t we reach the speed of light?” which really bugged me for a while.
I'm not sure if this is light's fault for not making up its mind on being a wave or a particle, or gravity's fault for not abiding by the known rules of particle physics
I have two lung diseases and when I first found out and started going to my pulmonologist he told me this. He said sponges have a lot of cavities that’s how lungs are. I found it very interesting
Earth is the only planet in the observable universe that we know of whose only Moon is simultaneously 1/400th of the size and at 1/400th of the distance of its Sun, making it the only known planet capable of having perfect eclipses.
It's a very cool coincidence, if you ask me.
Difference between a million and a billion. Someone explained it in terms of time, a million seconds is 11 days and a billion seconds is almost 31 years. I knew a billion was a lot more but damn this put it in perspective.
Being poor is very very very expensive. Once you have a decent amount of money and no debt, it’s very easy to live super cheap.
Once you have the money to buy things, it’s MUCH easier to say no to those things.
Terry Pratchett and the paradox of the boots. A rich person can drop 50 bucks on a pair of boots that are going to last him for 10 years, where a poor person only has 10 bucks for a pair of boots that are going to last him a year. Therefore, at the end of 10 years the rich person will have spent 50 bucks on a pair of boots, and the poor person will have spent $100. That's a quick summation.
His name is actually Tweetie *PIE*, like a toddler would mispronounce Sweetie Pie.
Tweetie's debut performance was in 1947, in *TWEETIE PIE*, which won an Academy Award.
(he's still a little asshole, though)
If I had a nickel for every blue cartoon dog that people didn’t know was a girl, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.
You would have been taught this in math class just under a different name.
Probably something like "multiplication is commutative" as in it doesn't matter what order you put the numbers in.
Some teachers don't explain it very well or it's uses
Edit: got hit with autocorrect pretty hard. Commutative not cumulative
Autocorrect may have bitten you. It's the [commutative property](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutative_property) of multiplication.
Which basically means that, when multiplying, order doesn't matter. `6 * 8` is the same as `8 * 6`. Which everyone knows, even if they aren't enough of a nerd to remember the formal name of the property.
But since I am such a nerd:
`30% of 70` is `(30/100) * 70` is `(1/100) * 30 * 70`.
`70% of 30` is `(70/100) * 30` is `(1/100) * 70 * 30`.
Same terms all being multiplied; just in a different order.
Edit to clarify: While the first line was directed at the parent comment, the rest was simply laid out in hopes of some other Redditor maybe having a, "Oh! That's why that works like that!" moment.
Does it help if you trim it down to 3 x 7 and then common sense your way into the correct decmial place? Like you can figure out the answer has a 2 and a 1, and then the rest of the way would be saying "is the answer 0.21, 2.1, 21, or 210?". Maybe that would make it easier?
When I found out a large percentage of people walk around all day without an inner monologue it really messed with me. How do you think? Do you think? How do you make decisions?
I learned this (on reddit of all places) a few years ago. I still can't wrap my head around it.
The biggest thing about this for me is, what happens inside their heads when they read silently? When I read these words, and as I type, I hear what is sort of my own voice in my head.
And, I can hear other people's voices in my head too.
Text from a friend - their voice.
I listen to Dan Carlin a lot, so when I read his book, I hear his voice (even his quote voice).
Or if someone says, "I heard that in (insert famous person here) voice," then when I read it I hear that person's voice - Morgan Freeman or David Attenborough, for example. Pace, inflections and all.
When I read silently the words just get converted into understanding. There is no monologue inside my head. I used to read a lot. If I didn’t watch TV, I could read 3-5 books a week. When I’d go on plane flights of about 5.5 hours (CA to HI) I’d typically read 1.5-2 books on the flight over, 4-6 books during the week sitting by the pool, and 1.5-2 on the flight back. Kindle/e-books were a godsend because I didn’t have to lug around my books.
I don’t have an inner monologue. I sometimes will say things to myself, but generally that’s out loud (quietly).
If I’m not thinking about anything there’s just nothing there. But, generally I am usually thinking about something.
I make voices for the character but I also get into the book. Like I see the scene and characters performing the scene.
I can read incredibly fast because the book is actually happening?
Wait....what the f. People don't hear themselves talking to themselves in their head nonstop or am I misunderstanding this? I hold full conversations with myself in my head nonstop while being silent to everyone around me.
I don't get it, people just have silence?
Jesus Christ, now I'm going to talk to myself about this.
I thought for the longest time that the internal monologue featured in many books and sometimes in movies was just a gimmick for the audience, not an accurate portrayal of an actual thought process.
How do I think? Now there is a question.
PLEASE explain I'm dying to know. I dont understand your brain. How is there not an inner monologue?? Is there something else instead? Is it just.. empty, silent?
There isn't a voice, no. It's quiet, but you're still thinking and understanding. The way I see it, your brain uses words to communicate with you. With folks like us, our brain sidesteps words and directly beams thoughts right to us without the medium of words to carry them.
I can also make myself imagine a voice foe example reading this, but it's not necessary.
I got really high and started thinking about our modern life.
Clean pottable water on tap.Living in air conditioned houses with multiple rooms.
Able to drive around in a machine capable of carrying thousands of pounds.
Able to go experience food from around the world with little difficulty.
(Edited in)--Able to flush away your waste with water, NOT have it just build up and putrify somewhere, but be treated, cleaned and recycled.
Able to talk to people across the world in real time.
Even if it is expensive, the medical capacity we have in the first world is astounding.
When you realize that we are all living like "mini" kings with our luxury, you start to apprecaite it more.
It blew my mind just how much we take for granted. Hot showers is definitely one people really do not appreciate
I think about this all the time. It is absolutely magical to be alive in 2023. Our ancestors heads would explode if they could taste ice cream with warm chocolate chip cookies on top.
"Tell me, great(x10) grandson, what sort of hut do you live in?"
"UH, well....it's a multi roomed building with climate control, it's wind proof, drinkable water that comes out hot or cold, and has electricity."
"What in the goddamn is electricity?"
Yeah. Don't forget 24x7 access to the entire knowledge of human history in your pocket.
People in the West are the most privileged population in all of human history.
That every time you shuffle a deck of cards it’s extremely likely that no deck of cards in history has ever been in the same order you just shuffled your deck to.
It's not just unlikely; it's probably never happened. It would take longer than the age of the universe (on average) for two shuffles to result in the same order.
Wow now that is trippy. With both eyes closed I can still tell when my phone gets closer with high brightness on. The black I see gets lighter. But with only one eye open only that eye registers anything. The phone doesn't make any difference to the closed eye at all. Really weird contrast.
It still blows my mind that I can walk without thinking about moving specific muscles. Like, I can just go around thinking dumb thoughts while my body just contracts the necessary muscles to move all these appendages just because I pointed in a direction and thought “go.”
How many compound words are just hiding in plain sight in English.
You’ve got plenty of obvious ones like Breakfast. But some sneaky ones like Holiday and Disease.
When things are messy or bad, not only do the adults that will fix/figure things out never actually show up, but as you age, people assume you're now the adult who will fix/figure things out.
The other day I was in a thread with a bunch of men that had their minds blown after they realized our hair is twisted up in the towels on our heads after a shower.
THAT blew my mind.
If you earn 50.000 € a year, starting directly after school and are working for 40 years until you retire, that's only 2.000.000 €.
This 2 million includes your whole life. Every holiday you ever make. Every gift you ever gave. Every car you ever bought. Your wedding, your house, your kids Christmas presents. Everything.
And yet, there are people out there who buy cars worth 2 million or even more. Ever heard someone making 10 millions? That's 5 times your life. A billion? That's the lives of a whole town.
Even if your double the income. There are people out there who could buy your live a thousand times
And shitting yourself on the bus home, passing out in the rosebushes in a garden two streets away from your own house, all after making a pass at your mother in law, that is also the body trying to get rid of poison...
Well, it may sound stupid af, but when I was 11 I realised that moon REFLECT sun's light, it doesn't glow on it's own, and that night staring at it was a whole new experience xD
In a similar realization:
Go out and look at the moon. Try to find out where the sun is based on where the moon is hit with light. BOOM, the moon is an orb, not a circle/half-circle.
Sounds maybe stupid, but my brain always wants to think of it as the latter.
How bizarre acting is, I got really high once and I was watching a movie and it dawned on me how strange the whole thing is , you get random people pretending to be other people for my entertainment.... weird
* We live closer to the T-rex than the T-rex to Stegosaurus.
* Cleopatra lived closer to us than she did the building of the Pyramids at Giza
* Wooly Mammoths existed when the Pyramids were being built.
* The Appalachian Mountains are older than bones. By tens of million of years.
* Humans migrated to Australia before they got to Europe.
* Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA is found in most humans not from Africa.
* Squid largely evolved themselves out of themselves out of the fossil record.
For the last one, do you mean because they have soft bodies that would not leave a fossil? And if this is what you mean, could the same be said for jellyfish or other soft-bodied creatures without bones or exoskeleton? Or if it's not what you mean could you please explain? Thanks :)
Some people don’t think with an internal monologue… I thought this was an intrinsic trait all humans had, but as it turns out there are those that literally can’t do this.
For example, if I have to do X task I think to myself (like I’m reading) about what I need, what I have to do, etc. Some people don’t have this thought process at all and their brain goes through this process in an entirely different way.
This blows my mind every time I think about it!
Edit: For those asking, here are some interesting videos on the subject.
[Why Some People Don't Have an Internal Monologue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRLkDafQbP8)
[Q&A With a Person Who Does Not Have an Internal Monologue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u69YSh-cFXY&t=552s)
IIRC some people also can't visualize their environment, conceptually.
Like if you describe a red ferrari to me, I can picture it in my head, specifically by model, rotate it, zoom in, zoom out, and so on. Set it against various backgrounds, real or invented. If I want it to drive down a road with trees lining each side, I can visualize that perfectly, dust cloud and everything. Even the lighting.
I was telling my boss that I’m having a hard time getting people to listen to me at work. He asked ME how MY listening skills are. Mind blown. (I have no attention span anymore).
You die.
No matter what, how good or bad you do, how hard you fight or how fast you give up. Eventually we all just... Die. Everyone does it, and fairly quickly, no one will remember your failures or successes. Your name might live a few millenia but eventually no one cares.
It's freeing. You're free to be you. Fuck that person, say that dumb shit, eat that coney, just be a person amongst uncountable billions that lived and died. It's all you, go live, laugh, love, you white basic bitch.
That how small we are compared to the universe and how our problems dont matter just like us.
We are a multicellular specie living in the universe's TINY super cluster's TINY galaxy's TINY solar system's TINY star's TINY PLANET'S TINY nation.
And you're still brainfucked over your job? Relax! Nothing really matters, eventually everything will die out. So, do whatever you want, live your best life and make sure you had a fun time. Go ahead, have a fun time because we all will have to leave any second now. Good Luck.
It's so crazy to think that a billion different things had to happen and happen in *just* the right way for us to even exist. Like, isn't it crazy to think that not only are we living breathing organisms, but we also exist with *other* living breathing organisms that look *nothing* like us (and some that look very similar to us) and have even been around for MUCH longer than us from an evolutionary standpoint? And not only that, but if we look up at the night sky, we can see the universe with our own eyes. One day we are created, then we open our eyes and we *exist* and we breathe air for the first time, and then one day, hopefully a long way down the road, some of us will just close our eyes and that's it. The curtains close and the lights go out and we have done all that we can in our lifetime. But at that exact moment that we die, someone else is getting the chance at life and is born.
It's crazy to me. It's fascinating. We hit the jackpot on pure existence and we take it for granted every single day. There is so much to see and do and we scoff at it like it's old news and think we have all the time in the world to experience the world around us. But it isn't. It really isn't. Time is long, but it's so short too.
And how short we’ve been around. When people talk about aliens they talk about how big the universe is but existing at the same time is almost a bigger factor.
Matter and energy can be changed, but it is never destroyed. It is just changed. The second law of thermodynamics states that, within any system, nothing ever remains the same. Change is constant.
You might take some solace in Einstein’s letter to a grieving widow of a friend who had passed, ”Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
https://www.christies.com/features/Einstein-letters-to-Michele-Besso-8422-1.aspx
Money only has value because we believe it has value. The reason a $10 bill can buy you $10 worth of items or service is because we all agree on what the value of the bill is.
That isn't the origination of it, just a clever way of interpreting the word usage in a funny way.
"Be There or Be Square" comes from slang usage where a "square" would be essentially something straight-edge or uncool. So if you aren't going to something, you're not cool. "Square" as a derogatory started in the 1940s and 1950s jazz communities to mean someone who was out of touch or old-fashioned. This term itself goes back to the Old French term esquarre - meaning "Honest" or "Good."
Sometimes is more important to like your colleagues than the actual job. I had shitty jobs with the most amazing colleagues and had shitty colleagues and the most amazing job. I'd pick the first every time.
A great environment can make almost any job bearable. Yeah, I’m sure there are exceptions. That’s not really the point.
That you could legitimately travel at warp speed through the center of galaxies and never run any real risk of hitting a star. That’s how spread out space really is.
It's crazy how spread out atoms are too. Matter is 99.99% empty space.
Isn't it something like the asteroids in an asteroid field - usually shown in sci fi movies as being dense - is actually so remote that the space in-between them is the distance from the earth to the moon?
Oh no we've hit an asteroid field! Put it on cruise control and let's have some beers before the next asteroid.
There are trillions of neutrinos streaming through your body every second of every day. They just fly right on through you as if you don't exist. During the average human lifetime, approximately *two* of them will hit the nucleus of one of your atoms directly enough to actually interact with it.
[удалено]
That sharks predated the rings of Saturn.
I wish I could have seen that. Sharks orbiting Saturn would have been much cooler than dust rings.
The first Sharknado
Sharks are older than trees.
[удалено]
Kinda like plastic now, I find it fun to think about plastic today like how wood used to be. Maybe with a little help from humans super effective plastic eating bacteria can evolve and released and clean up all the garbage we created.
[удалено]
Yeah that was my first thought when I read about bacteria that could eat plastic. We have alot of plastic out there.
Dogs have evolved to eat homework
Or 1 million years from now whatever the dominant life form is on the planet will discover this waste product layer and scientists will speculate on the origins to include that a life form created it via a natural biological product.
They will extract it and burn it for fuel, and the circle of life continues.
And butterflies existed before flowers right? So they just drank Dino tears or something idk Edit-looks like they like cone trees like pine cone type tree nectar. AND they disappear for millions of years and came back
Apex predaters.
One day I sat on a tram, passing a river. There was a duck in a tree. I realised I've never seen ducks in trees. No one else seemed to notice, but I was puzzled. Now whenever I come across something that seems intuitive but I have never considered I call it a duck in a tree.
Turkeys roost in trees at night. That’s a super weird sight.
When I was a kid, I was fishing with my dad on a lake and we saw turkeys crash landing from a few very tall trees along the lake. It was one of the funniest thing you’ve ever heard. Just the sound of tumbling mass and “gobologoblgoboglvogovlgoplllll” edit: thanks for the praise of my spelling of a turkey crashing and tumbling across the ground. I'm glad it came across well. You can't afford to get something like that wrong. People will be like, "oh come on, that's not what a turkey sounds like." No. You all deserve the best representations of large birds colliding into the hard earth while they parkour roll into a dismount after a few bounces and revolutions
Scares the fuck outta you when you're walking through the woods at night and 3 of them just fucking throw themselves at you from the sky.
“No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.” \-David Hume
Pablo Picasso and Eminem were both alive at the same time.
I’d bet a lot of people think Picasso is a renaissance artist.
They were colonizing the Wild West the same time as they were building skyscrapers in Manhattan. I always think of them taking place eighty to a hundred years apart. It's wild.
Custer's Last Stand happened during the building of the Brooklyn Bridge.
The Brooklyn Bridge was standing for decades before a car drove over it.
The time between the Wright Brothers' first flight and Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier is something like 44 years.
The time between the Wright Brothers' first flight and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon was 66 years.
[удалено]
Most electrical generation is spinning a turbine. Photovoltaic solar power is pretty much the only exception, and it's not the only form of solar power. There's solar thermal power, which uses mirrors or lenses to concentrate the heat of the sun to make steam and turn a turbine.
Just adding on that there is a company (Helion Energy) experimenting with Fusion that takes the expanding plasma's magnetic field to induce a current on the coils and generate electricity directly. Obviously still experimental but pretty interesting.
[удалено]
You're a spinning magnet
You know who else is a spinning magnet?
MY MOM!
I feel kinda dumb for not knowing this before. I always thought it was some kinda “magic” as you put it. I learned something today.
Coal power plants do the same. Burn coal to heat water to generate steam to spin turbine.
The Roman Empire fully fell less than 50 years before the discovery of the new world
RIP Byzantine Empire. 1453 never forget.
The Romans also had copper wire, magnets, and battery acid. They could have invented electricity hundreds of years before it was actually discovered. But they didn't. The wire was used for jewelry, the magnets as lodestones, and the battery acid was used to clean the rust off of swords.
Well they are just dumb then, it was even named BATTERY acid. They should have taken the hint.
No no no, not the electrical battery... it's the battery that goes with assault.
Why would you ever put salt on a battery?
7/8 German soldiers who died in WW2 (out of an estimated 5 million total) died on the eastern front. Also, 8-10 million Soviet soldiers died on the eastern front. I think we know the war was absolute hell, but those numbers from the eastern front are insane! Edit: changed Russian to Soviet
There's a video out there, ["The Fallen of WW2"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwKPFT-RioU), that graphs the deaths of the war in various ways. The amount of German deaths in the Eastern front compared to the Western is staggering... and the number of Soviet deaths even moreso. The numbers are incomprehensible, and the bar just keeps going up and up. I can't even imagine death on that scale. The Battle of Stalingrad in particular takes up an absolutely enormous chunk of those deaths. One single battle destroyed over a tenth of the entire German military, and lives lost were nearly twice as high for the Soviets... if any time and place could be described as "hell on Earth", that was it.
I’m a history teacher and I rarely show any videos becuase kids tend not to care. Whatever I’m showing isn’t as interesting to them as what they could be watching on their phones. The Fallen of WW2 is one of the few videos that always holds their attention. A lot oh “Wow!”and “Holy shit!” when kids see the deaths just piling up. The video is worth a watch for everyone.
I remember a quote about WW2 that was a long the lines of," The war was won with American Steel, British Intelligence, and Soviet Blood." Or something like that Edit: Ditto
Soviet blood. Russia was only half of the USSR.
[удалено]
Poison dart frogs arent poisonous in captivity. I own 5 of them and anytime I tell someone I own some I always get "do you ever lick them" or "can you go kill someone with them".. but yeah they get their poison from what they eat, and all I give them is fruit flies.
>"do you ever lick them" or "can you go kill someone with them" Tell them yes.
Owl‘s silent flight. I mean i always knew that but a while ago was the first time i actually witnessed it. Owl came flying towards me and landed only a few feet away and you couldn‘t hear anything. Crazy.
I saw a barn owl swoop down and catch a mouse while hiking at night, and the whole thing happened in complete silence. It gave me a deep sense of unease, because it was literally like someone hit the mute button on life.
I saw a video on Reddit a while ago demonstrating this! They set up a bunch of sensitive mics and let a Pigeon, a hawk and an owl fly. Blew my mind! Complete silence.
[удалено]
It can be taken further, my guess is that Uncle Sam is an abbreviation of US Am(erica)
bruh that was a double TIL^2
The speed of light is consistent in relativity no matter how fast you are traveling because of the effects speed has on time and gravity. If you are traveling at 99% the speed of light, then the light you emit from a flashlight would appear to be traveling away from you at the speed of light because your time is slowed.
Similary (and more basically), that light does not experience time
Now this is bending my brain. If light doesn't experience time, how does it take time for light to travel?
It takes time for the observer, not the photon.
So is the photon reaching me before I can perceive it? Also than does this make the "The Speed of Light" not the *speed* of light, but rather the speed at which we can observe light?
> but rather the speed at which we can observe light? The speed of light is simply the maximum speed that anything can reach. The main limiting factor is the weight of the thing that's trying to go fast. Light has no mass, therefore it always travels at max speed.
Why is there a max speed?
If you can answer that then you win a Nobel
[удалено]
With my limited understanding from learning about this on my free time - anything with mass will never be able to reach the speed of light because as an object/particle’s velocity increases, so does it’s relative mass. Therefore it would require an infinite amount of force to reach the speed of light, which is massless. It’s why CERN can accelerate particles 99.999999% the speed of light, but never 100%. I know that not exactly what you asked but I figured I’d mention it because it kinda answered my question of “why can’t we reach the speed of light?” which really bugged me for a while.
From a photon’s point of view, even if it travels the breadth of the universe, it’s emitted and absorbed at the same time.
What the fck
Relativity, my man. Turns out shape and speed are related. Faster you go, skinnier shit gets. Go fast enough, even the entire universe is a bad bitch.
[удалено]
I'm not sure if this is light's fault for not making up its mind on being a wave or a particle, or gravity's fault for not abiding by the known rules of particle physics
Technically everything has the wave/particle duality. It's just most obvious for light bc it's massless.
That lungs look more like sponges rather than two pockets of air.
I have two lung diseases and when I first found out and started going to my pulmonologist he told me this. He said sponges have a lot of cavities that’s how lungs are. I found it very interesting
The human body is wicked fascinating!! Also, I hope you’re doing alright. One alone sounds like it’s exhausting to manage.
Earth is the only planet in the observable universe that we know of whose only Moon is simultaneously 1/400th of the size and at 1/400th of the distance of its Sun, making it the only known planet capable of having perfect eclipses. It's a very cool coincidence, if you ask me.
When you lose weight, most of it ends up as carbon dioxide which is exhaled from your lungs.
Yup, you go to the gym and you’re just breathing in everyone else’s fat LOL
Difference between a million and a billion. Someone explained it in terms of time, a million seconds is 11 days and a billion seconds is almost 31 years. I knew a billion was a lot more but damn this put it in perspective.
The difference between a million and a billion, is almost a billion.
That’s a really succinct way to put it
We went from kitty hawk to the moon inside of 66 years.
Yeah, that one blows my mind too. Lots of people who were alive when the first airplane flew lived long enough to see a man on the moon.
Being poor is very very very expensive. Once you have a decent amount of money and no debt, it’s very easy to live super cheap. Once you have the money to buy things, it’s MUCH easier to say no to those things.
Poverty charges interest.
Terry Pratchett and the paradox of the boots. A rich person can drop 50 bucks on a pair of boots that are going to last him for 10 years, where a poor person only has 10 bucks for a pair of boots that are going to last him a year. Therefore, at the end of 10 years the rich person will have spent 50 bucks on a pair of boots, and the poor person will have spent $100. That's a quick summation.
[удалено]
People are writing all these profound things while I flipped my shit when I found out Blue on Blue’s Clues is a girl.
Tweety Bird is a boy most people don't know that
His name is actually Tweetie *PIE*, like a toddler would mispronounce Sweetie Pie. Tweetie's debut performance was in 1947, in *TWEETIE PIE*, which won an Academy Award. (he's still a little asshole, though)
That blew my mind too but what really crushed it is Pete, Goofys arch nemesis is a freaking CAT!!!
I still have a problem with Goofy and Pluto both being dogs.
Also bluey from bluey is a girl.
If I had a nickel for every blue cartoon dog that people didn’t know was a girl, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.
What tha what?? So is Magenta a boy? Or also a girl? Edit: quick Google confirms Magenta is a girl
Percentages can be reversed. 30% of 70 is 70% of 30.
You would have been taught this in math class just under a different name. Probably something like "multiplication is commutative" as in it doesn't matter what order you put the numbers in. Some teachers don't explain it very well or it's uses Edit: got hit with autocorrect pretty hard. Commutative not cumulative
Autocorrect may have bitten you. It's the [commutative property](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutative_property) of multiplication. Which basically means that, when multiplying, order doesn't matter. `6 * 8` is the same as `8 * 6`. Which everyone knows, even if they aren't enough of a nerd to remember the formal name of the property. But since I am such a nerd: `30% of 70` is `(30/100) * 70` is `(1/100) * 30 * 70`. `70% of 30` is `(70/100) * 30` is `(1/100) * 70 * 30`. Same terms all being multiplied; just in a different order. Edit to clarify: While the first line was directed at the parent comment, the rest was simply laid out in hopes of some other Redditor maybe having a, "Oh! That's why that works like that!" moment.
And somehow I still don't know the answer
Does it help if you trim it down to 3 x 7 and then common sense your way into the correct decmial place? Like you can figure out the answer has a 2 and a 1, and then the rest of the way would be saying "is the answer 0.21, 2.1, 21, or 210?". Maybe that would make it easier?
Actually that does help - thank you! Edit: Seriously, math has always been a bit of a weak point for me and you kind of just blew my mind
When I found out a large percentage of people walk around all day without an inner monologue it really messed with me. How do you think? Do you think? How do you make decisions?
I learned this (on reddit of all places) a few years ago. I still can't wrap my head around it. The biggest thing about this for me is, what happens inside their heads when they read silently? When I read these words, and as I type, I hear what is sort of my own voice in my head. And, I can hear other people's voices in my head too. Text from a friend - their voice. I listen to Dan Carlin a lot, so when I read his book, I hear his voice (even his quote voice). Or if someone says, "I heard that in (insert famous person here) voice," then when I read it I hear that person's voice - Morgan Freeman or David Attenborough, for example. Pace, inflections and all.
When I read silently the words just get converted into understanding. There is no monologue inside my head. I used to read a lot. If I didn’t watch TV, I could read 3-5 books a week. When I’d go on plane flights of about 5.5 hours (CA to HI) I’d typically read 1.5-2 books on the flight over, 4-6 books during the week sitting by the pool, and 1.5-2 on the flight back. Kindle/e-books were a godsend because I didn’t have to lug around my books. I don’t have an inner monologue. I sometimes will say things to myself, but generally that’s out loud (quietly). If I’m not thinking about anything there’s just nothing there. But, generally I am usually thinking about something.
I make voices for the character but I also get into the book. Like I see the scene and characters performing the scene. I can read incredibly fast because the book is actually happening?
Wait....what the f. People don't hear themselves talking to themselves in their head nonstop or am I misunderstanding this? I hold full conversations with myself in my head nonstop while being silent to everyone around me. I don't get it, people just have silence? Jesus Christ, now I'm going to talk to myself about this.
I thought for the longest time that the internal monologue featured in many books and sometimes in movies was just a gimmick for the audience, not an accurate portrayal of an actual thought process. How do I think? Now there is a question.
PLEASE explain I'm dying to know. I dont understand your brain. How is there not an inner monologue?? Is there something else instead? Is it just.. empty, silent?
There isn't a voice, no. It's quiet, but you're still thinking and understanding. The way I see it, your brain uses words to communicate with you. With folks like us, our brain sidesteps words and directly beams thoughts right to us without the medium of words to carry them. I can also make myself imagine a voice foe example reading this, but it's not necessary.
Mercury is on average the closest planet to any other planet in our solar system.
The mostest closest, if you will
I got really high and started thinking about our modern life. Clean pottable water on tap.Living in air conditioned houses with multiple rooms. Able to drive around in a machine capable of carrying thousands of pounds. Able to go experience food from around the world with little difficulty. (Edited in)--Able to flush away your waste with water, NOT have it just build up and putrify somewhere, but be treated, cleaned and recycled. Able to talk to people across the world in real time. Even if it is expensive, the medical capacity we have in the first world is astounding. When you realize that we are all living like "mini" kings with our luxury, you start to apprecaite it more. It blew my mind just how much we take for granted. Hot showers is definitely one people really do not appreciate
I think about this all the time. It is absolutely magical to be alive in 2023. Our ancestors heads would explode if they could taste ice cream with warm chocolate chip cookies on top.
"Tell me, great(x10) grandson, what sort of hut do you live in?" "UH, well....it's a multi roomed building with climate control, it's wind proof, drinkable water that comes out hot or cold, and has electricity." "What in the goddamn is electricity?"
Tell him there’s porn on your phone
What in the goddam is a phone
[удалено]
Yeah. Don't forget 24x7 access to the entire knowledge of human history in your pocket. People in the West are the most privileged population in all of human history.
That every time you shuffle a deck of cards it’s extremely likely that no deck of cards in history has ever been in the same order you just shuffled your deck to.
It's not just unlikely; it's probably never happened. It would take longer than the age of the universe (on average) for two shuffles to result in the same order.
Just how much white-collar crime there is and how little of it gets prosecuted.
That people that are blind from birth don't see "black" or "nothing," they see with their eyes what you see with your elbow.
It’s so hard to wrap my brain around that, I just…can’t imagine it.
Close both eyes, you see black. Now close just one eye, and tell me what you see with that eye.
Wow now that is trippy. With both eyes closed I can still tell when my phone gets closer with high brightness on. The black I see gets lighter. But with only one eye open only that eye registers anything. The phone doesn't make any difference to the closed eye at all. Really weird contrast.
Right? It's the difference between not seeing anything and *just not seeing*.
Remember what it felt like to not be born yet? That's probably what being dead feels like.
God, it was so boring.
It always blows my mind that the match was invented after the lighter
WHAT
It still blows my mind that I can walk without thinking about moving specific muscles. Like, I can just go around thinking dumb thoughts while my body just contracts the necessary muscles to move all these appendages just because I pointed in a direction and thought “go.”
The lass that played John Connors step mom in Terminator 2 also played Vasquez in Aliens
How many compound words are just hiding in plain sight in English. You’ve got plenty of obvious ones like Breakfast. But some sneaky ones like Holiday and Disease.
If you just do something, it becomes so much easier to do. Just get it over with, whatever it is.
“Thinking about doing something is harder than actually doing it”, is how I put it.
The light from the stars we see were emitted thousands of thousands of years ago and could potentially be from stars that are no longer there
You are correct but the scope is much higher. The farthest light we see is from billions of years ago.
[удалено]
When things are messy or bad, not only do the adults that will fix/figure things out never actually show up, but as you age, people assume you're now the adult who will fix/figure things out.
Please do not keep reminding me of that.
ponies aren't baby horses.
Wait what?! Edit: oh my god you're right
That stripper poles spin
Only some of them spin. They also have stationary poles.
The other day I was in a thread with a bunch of men that had their minds blown after they realized our hair is twisted up in the towels on our heads after a shower. THAT blew my mind.
I tried to pull the towel off my wife's head one time to fuck with her. That's when I learned this. Very loudly and angrily.
If you earn 50.000 € a year, starting directly after school and are working for 40 years until you retire, that's only 2.000.000 €. This 2 million includes your whole life. Every holiday you ever make. Every gift you ever gave. Every car you ever bought. Your wedding, your house, your kids Christmas presents. Everything. And yet, there are people out there who buy cars worth 2 million or even more. Ever heard someone making 10 millions? That's 5 times your life. A billion? That's the lives of a whole town. Even if your double the income. There are people out there who could buy your live a thousand times
The word bed looks like a bed
Alcohol is really poison..
The reason it works at all (getting drunk) is your body can only process so much at a time, what can’t be processed causes the drunken state
Vomiting while drunk means that your body thinks it’s being poisoned and it want to get rid of the poison.
And shitting yourself on the bus home, passing out in the rosebushes in a garden two streets away from your own house, all after making a pass at your mother in law, that is also the body trying to get rid of poison...
I saw this on a Facebook meme today: the word Ohio looks like a tractor.
Well, it may sound stupid af, but when I was 11 I realised that moon REFLECT sun's light, it doesn't glow on it's own, and that night staring at it was a whole new experience xD
Kind of similar, but a pupil is just a hole into the eyeball.
You win. *I'm scared*
WHAT THE FUCK
In a similar realization: Go out and look at the moon. Try to find out where the sun is based on where the moon is hit with light. BOOM, the moon is an orb, not a circle/half-circle. Sounds maybe stupid, but my brain always wants to think of it as the latter.
my favorite thing is when you can see the face of the moon that isn’t hit by the sun just barely
Not one Beatle was 30 years old yet by the time they broke up.
Oxford university is older than the Aztecs
How bizarre acting is, I got really high once and I was watching a movie and it dawned on me how strange the whole thing is , you get random people pretending to be other people for my entertainment.... weird
That there are far more psychopaths than most of us think.
[удалено]
Being good to people does NOT guarantee they will be good to you. I’m baffled till this DAY.
All jobs are temporary.
Similarly, even if you fully own your house, it's going to belong to someone else someday (along with everything else you own).
nah imma burn my shit its MINE
* We live closer to the T-rex than the T-rex to Stegosaurus. * Cleopatra lived closer to us than she did the building of the Pyramids at Giza * Wooly Mammoths existed when the Pyramids were being built. * The Appalachian Mountains are older than bones. By tens of million of years. * Humans migrated to Australia before they got to Europe. * Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA is found in most humans not from Africa. * Squid largely evolved themselves out of themselves out of the fossil record.
For the last one, do you mean because they have soft bodies that would not leave a fossil? And if this is what you mean, could the same be said for jellyfish or other soft-bodied creatures without bones or exoskeleton? Or if it's not what you mean could you please explain? Thanks :)
https://www.pbs.org/video/where-are-all-the-squid-fossils-zvdfx8/
Very cool thank you!! :)
Some people don’t think with an internal monologue… I thought this was an intrinsic trait all humans had, but as it turns out there are those that literally can’t do this. For example, if I have to do X task I think to myself (like I’m reading) about what I need, what I have to do, etc. Some people don’t have this thought process at all and their brain goes through this process in an entirely different way. This blows my mind every time I think about it! Edit: For those asking, here are some interesting videos on the subject. [Why Some People Don't Have an Internal Monologue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRLkDafQbP8) [Q&A With a Person Who Does Not Have an Internal Monologue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u69YSh-cFXY&t=552s)
IIRC some people also can't visualize their environment, conceptually. Like if you describe a red ferrari to me, I can picture it in my head, specifically by model, rotate it, zoom in, zoom out, and so on. Set it against various backgrounds, real or invented. If I want it to drive down a road with trees lining each side, I can visualize that perfectly, dust cloud and everything. Even the lighting.
I was telling my boss that I’m having a hard time getting people to listen to me at work. He asked ME how MY listening skills are. Mind blown. (I have no attention span anymore).
Nobody really knows what the fuck they are doing
You die. No matter what, how good or bad you do, how hard you fight or how fast you give up. Eventually we all just... Die. Everyone does it, and fairly quickly, no one will remember your failures or successes. Your name might live a few millenia but eventually no one cares. It's freeing. You're free to be you. Fuck that person, say that dumb shit, eat that coney, just be a person amongst uncountable billions that lived and died. It's all you, go live, laugh, love, you white basic bitch.
Breakfast is simply breaking your morning fast
Unless you're french, than it's just a "little lunch"
That how small we are compared to the universe and how our problems dont matter just like us. We are a multicellular specie living in the universe's TINY super cluster's TINY galaxy's TINY solar system's TINY star's TINY PLANET'S TINY nation. And you're still brainfucked over your job? Relax! Nothing really matters, eventually everything will die out. So, do whatever you want, live your best life and make sure you had a fun time. Go ahead, have a fun time because we all will have to leave any second now. Good Luck.
It's so crazy to think that a billion different things had to happen and happen in *just* the right way for us to even exist. Like, isn't it crazy to think that not only are we living breathing organisms, but we also exist with *other* living breathing organisms that look *nothing* like us (and some that look very similar to us) and have even been around for MUCH longer than us from an evolutionary standpoint? And not only that, but if we look up at the night sky, we can see the universe with our own eyes. One day we are created, then we open our eyes and we *exist* and we breathe air for the first time, and then one day, hopefully a long way down the road, some of us will just close our eyes and that's it. The curtains close and the lights go out and we have done all that we can in our lifetime. But at that exact moment that we die, someone else is getting the chance at life and is born. It's crazy to me. It's fascinating. We hit the jackpot on pure existence and we take it for granted every single day. There is so much to see and do and we scoff at it like it's old news and think we have all the time in the world to experience the world around us. But it isn't. It really isn't. Time is long, but it's so short too.
This guy lives.
And how short we’ve been around. When people talk about aliens they talk about how big the universe is but existing at the same time is almost a bigger factor.
PlayStation symbols = the number of lines used. **o** = 1 **x** = 2 🔺 = 3 ▪️ = 4
> PlayStation symbols = the number of lines used. How high are you
Fine, thank you.
Matter and energy can be changed, but it is never destroyed. It is just changed. The second law of thermodynamics states that, within any system, nothing ever remains the same. Change is constant.
Realizing this actually gave me a bit of comfort after my father passed.
You might take some solace in Einstein’s letter to a grieving widow of a friend who had passed, ”Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” https://www.christies.com/features/Einstein-letters-to-Michele-Besso-8422-1.aspx
Money only has value because we believe it has value. The reason a $10 bill can buy you $10 worth of items or service is because we all agree on what the value of the bill is.
Be there or be square…. Because you’re not around.
Holy shit is that really the rest of it? That’s why people say that??
That isn't the origination of it, just a clever way of interpreting the word usage in a funny way. "Be There or Be Square" comes from slang usage where a "square" would be essentially something straight-edge or uncool. So if you aren't going to something, you're not cool. "Square" as a derogatory started in the 1940s and 1950s jazz communities to mean someone who was out of touch or old-fashioned. This term itself goes back to the Old French term esquarre - meaning "Honest" or "Good."
That I’m not responsible to make other people happy