smitty
I am just a very thin layer of charming with some funny sprinkles wrapped around a huge creamy center of raging arrogant a-hole.
— Smitty Report User
Water rings colide 2 comments
smitty
· 6 years ago
Whoahhh... so cool.
There's a doctoral thesis in this...
The wild imagination science geek in me also wonders if the mathematics behind this may also have a parallel in describing curved space time or perhaps String Theory.
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There's a doctoral thesis in this...
The wild imagination science geek in me also wonders if the mathematics behind this may also have a parallel in describing curved space time or perhaps String Theory.
Those guys have serious problems 11 comments
smitty
· 6 years ago
I have long wanted to deny access to the benefits of the sciences people deny.
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We all done this once 4 comments
Memes that have to Stay alive! 22 comments
smitty
· 6 years ago
Here's the bottom line:
"The Ku Klux Klan is a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy."
Throughout their 150 year history, they have committed countless murders, arsons, beatings and reigns of terror & intimidation on those who they are aligned against.
Let me tell you, it's really fucking hard for me to muster one single sliver of sympathy for them.
A crime? Sure. But I can tell you this though, I'm sure the investigation ranks mighty low on the FBI's list of priorities.
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"The Ku Klux Klan is a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy."
Throughout their 150 year history, they have committed countless murders, arsons, beatings and reigns of terror & intimidation on those who they are aligned against.
Let me tell you, it's really fucking hard for me to muster one single sliver of sympathy for them.
A crime? Sure. But I can tell you this though, I'm sure the investigation ranks mighty low on the FBI's list of priorities.
The Great Sphinx of Giza wasn't a sphinx 5 comments
smitty
· 6 years ago
Agreed. This fits into the category of interesting and worthy of further investigation, but buy and large unsubstantiated.
The overlay with the Tutankhamun jackal got my attention however. With that, I though to myself, this might be going somewhere.
Also, Khafra's self obsessed vanity isn't without precedent either. There are some rulers rulers we know nothing about because subsequent pharaohs did everything they could to erase their predecessors very existence.
One queen in particular, we don't even know what she looks like because the successor ordered her face to be chiseled off and destroyed on all her monuments... even going as far I think to bury a temple built for her in the sand and abandoned.
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The overlay with the Tutankhamun jackal got my attention however. With that, I though to myself, this might be going somewhere.
Also, Khafra's self obsessed vanity isn't without precedent either. There are some rulers rulers we know nothing about because subsequent pharaohs did everything they could to erase their predecessors very existence.
One queen in particular, we don't even know what she looks like because the successor ordered her face to be chiseled off and destroyed on all her monuments... even going as far I think to bury a temple built for her in the sand and abandoned.
Happy birthday Curiosity 6 comments
smitty
· 6 years ago
Mars is also the only planet (that we know of) that's entirely inhabited by robots.
Because of that, Curiosity's landing was watched by many of the probes we already have there. Many of them that would have been able to get a line of sight were tasked to do exactly that and paused in their own missions.
I think Curiosity was also the most watched landing on Mars as a result.
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Because of that, Curiosity's landing was watched by many of the probes we already have there. Many of them that would have been able to get a line of sight were tasked to do exactly that and paused in their own missions.
I think Curiosity was also the most watched landing on Mars as a result.
Those guys have serious problems 11 comments
smitty
· 6 years ago
Yes. Yes they do. They will probaby counter your GPS satellite assertion with,
"It's part of the conspiracy. There's actually a secret network of underground transponders that simulate the GPS network in conjunction with the the lies the map application is telling you."
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"It's part of the conspiracy. There's actually a secret network of underground transponders that simulate the GPS network in conjunction with the the lies the map application is telling you."
Perfect date 9 comments
smitty
· 6 years ago
How about this kids: the Perseid meteor shower is this weekend. My research shows that best viewing should be about 11PM EST. Look approximately south west and about 30° up from the horizon to the constellation Perseus.
Conditions dispite the waning, recently full moon are expected to be OKish.
Grab a blanket, your squeeze and have a romantic couple hours out under the stars.
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Conditions dispite the waning, recently full moon are expected to be OKish.
Grab a blanket, your squeeze and have a romantic couple hours out under the stars.
Daily Dose of Love #140- Love songs are far from the genuine becoming 9 comments
smitty
· 6 years ago
I don't really think it means what OP thinks it does.
What you say is held against me, you only say my name: You are holding my name against me.
To hold something against someone is generally not a good thing. It usually has a negative context.
Either his name in a familial origin sense is held against him or it's his identity as an individual. Both have highly prejudicial connotations.
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What you say is held against me, you only say my name: You are holding my name against me.
To hold something against someone is generally not a good thing. It usually has a negative context.
Either his name in a familial origin sense is held against him or it's his identity as an individual. Both have highly prejudicial connotations.
Cannonball damage to a Civil War Confederate fort in Savannah 8 comments
smitty
· 6 years ago
I have now and oh my, that is a lovely song. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
However, is he singing about the City of Savannah, or a girl named Savannah?
If it's the city, it sounds to me like he's singing of his love for the city like one might for a girl.
(I'm assuming you meant Reliant K. BTW.)
However, is he singing about the City of Savannah, or a girl named Savannah?
If it's the city, it sounds to me like he's singing of his love for the city like one might for a girl.
(I'm assuming you meant Reliant K. BTW.)
A 9-Year-Old Self Proclaimed "Guardian Of The Galaxy" Applies for NASA's 8 comments
smitty
· 6 years ago
Absolutely. Anything that can help inspire kids... or rather, the parents to support them.
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Memes that have to Stay alive! 22 comments
smitty
· 6 years ago
Oh they did a lot more than that.
They hacked into their Twitter, shut their website down and released the names of 350 members.
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They hacked into their Twitter, shut their website down and released the names of 350 members.
Memes that have to Stay alive! 22 comments
A 9-Year-Old Self Proclaimed "Guardian Of The Galaxy" Applies for NASA's 8 comments
smitty
· 6 years ago
Those feet that muddied the kitchen floor when they were little, just might be the first feet on another celestial body when we make the next big step out there.
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A 9-Year-Old Self Proclaimed "Guardian Of The Galaxy" Applies for NASA's 8 comments
smitty
· 6 years ago
Yet.
NASA takes letters from kids very seriously because they know that they are the future. In a far more specific sense than you think. All the new designs that are on the board NOW or nearing first prototype stages, kids like young Mr. Jack Davis here and his friends are going to one day become the Commanders, Pilots, Engineers and Mission Specialists that fly them.
Or they could be on the ground crew at mission control, helping guide that mission to its destination and back home again.
Maybe Mr. Jack Davis just might design the next generation of craft that inspires kids his age when he is a grandfather.
The bottom line is that space is big and we need as many brilliant minds as we can get to explore it, whether it's with NASA, JPL or related academic research. If you have kids in your life, directly or tangentially and you find them looking skyward at night... encourage that. You never know how far they will go.
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NASA takes letters from kids very seriously because they know that they are the future. In a far more specific sense than you think. All the new designs that are on the board NOW or nearing first prototype stages, kids like young Mr. Jack Davis here and his friends are going to one day become the Commanders, Pilots, Engineers and Mission Specialists that fly them.
Or they could be on the ground crew at mission control, helping guide that mission to its destination and back home again.
Maybe Mr. Jack Davis just might design the next generation of craft that inspires kids his age when he is a grandfather.
The bottom line is that space is big and we need as many brilliant minds as we can get to explore it, whether it's with NASA, JPL or related academic research. If you have kids in your life, directly or tangentially and you find them looking skyward at night... encourage that. You never know how far they will go.
Cannonball damage to a Civil War Confederate fort in Savannah 8 comments
smitty
· 6 years ago
Savannah will do that to you. Visit for a weekend, a week... live there for a while like I did, that city gets into you.
Canadian folk artist Gordon Lightfoot even wrote a song about Savannah, "Spanish Moss," inspired by his visit there many years ago.
Canadian folk artist Gordon Lightfoot even wrote a song about Savannah, "Spanish Moss," inspired by his visit there many years ago.
The Martian 4 comments
smitty
· 6 years ago
You know what I found to be the biggest fiction? The fact that there were enough successive administrations that funded and supported NASA enough to make it happen.
Nevermind the fictional conciets taken for story telling.
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Nevermind the fictional conciets taken for story telling.
He's going to go see her/them and he's excited because he loves her and the city so much.
So sweet, it might give me the diabetus.