Diy bath time fun 2 comments
niriel
· 7 years ago
Some people are capable of 1) raising their arms and 2) thinking of keeping a towel nearby. Mutants with supernatural strength and intelligence. They're everywhere, maybe even under your own roof. But with enough practice, you too might awaken these dormant genes and develop those superpowers.
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Don't put pi on your shopping list 7 comments
niriel
· 7 years ago
If there are numbers it's not real maths. The only numbers I use are 0, 1 and 2. Oh, and a few infinities on top. #NoTrueScotsman #CategoryTheory
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Don't put pi on your shopping list 7 comments
niriel
· 7 years ago
I love mathematics and don't know anyone with whom I can talk about it. Maybe I should go there to meet fellow nerds.
If dinosaurs were dumb 7 comments
niriel
· 7 years ago
There is so, so much worse crap than the Kardashians on TV. Does Jersey Shore still exist? If not, I bet it's got spinoffs. Actually, I'd rather watch the Kardashians than Dr Phil, Judge Judy or Oprah: the Ks don't act like arrogant know-it-all when they're demonstrably wrong, or if they do it's fine because they don't impact anyone.
Instructions clear 5 comments
Vegans, it's time to stop 1 comments
niriel
· 7 years ago
Humans cannot digest cellulose. To digest grass, ruminants have a special 'stomach' chamber that's not acidic, in which bacteria process the cellulose into something that the 'normal' stomach can digest. The more you know...
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Anon speaks about marriage 37 comments
niriel
· 7 years ago
I read the whole thing waiting for the punchline. Family is fine when it works, I guess. I moved to another country to escape mine. I'm not starting one either, I'm glad my girlfriend (7 years together) agrees. We've got pet rabbits, that's plenty.
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Elephants foot compared to humans foot 11 comments
Gorilla playing with his son 3 comments
niriel
· 7 years ago
Human are primates, even. But what bothers me is having great apes in zoos. It's even worse with chimps. They're way too conscious to live in a glass cage. Or maybe they're fine with it, and I'm just projecting. They have less neocortex than we do, so abstract and hypothetical thinking is a priori harder for them, and they would have difficulties answering if we asked what they'd prefer. I'm so confused about all this.
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Elephants foot compared to humans foot 11 comments
niriel
· 7 years ago
I like that whales still have legs, but they're buried inside their bodies and not even connected to the rest of the skeleton. Just a handful of bones floating in the flesh somewhere.
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they look like ben-ten cabbage-b*tch 2 comments
Combining the visible and the infrared spectrums 5 comments
niriel
· 7 years ago
Punker is technically correct, the best kind of correct. However there is a relation between heat and infrared. Actually there is a relation between temperature and wavelength, called "Planck's law", which is a mathematical formula that describes how much light an object emits at any wavelength for any temperature. The sun's surface is at about 5000--6000 degrees, so it's green (when seen without atmosphere, it's white with slightly more green than other wavelengths). Likewise, hot stuff starts glowing red, hotter stuff gets white, even hotter gets blue. And stuff at room temperature glows in the infrared. Extremely cold stuff glows at radio wavelengths (1% of the snow on untuned old television sets was due to the light emitted by the universe itself which is 3 degrees kelvin).
This is simplified (black body and stuff). But yeah, if you want to see stuff on earth without shining a light at it, you've got to be sensitive to infrared because that's what it emits naturally.
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Edited 7 years ago
This is simplified (black body and stuff). But yeah, if you want to see stuff on earth without shining a light at it, you've got to be sensitive to infrared because that's what it emits naturally.
Yoplait 1 comments
It's the haircut 12 comments
niriel
· 7 years ago
It's latex, not spandex. I go to Fetish parties with my gf (she models for several latex designers) and all the guys I know from these parties wear latex and are straight. Although we usually wear much cooler outfits than the one shown on this photo. I'm particularly proud of my Captain Picard uniform.
Picture made purely in Excel 4 comments
niriel
· 7 years ago
Probably made with the tool written by Matt Parker for his "stand-up comedy routine about spreadsheets". https://youtu.be/UBX2QQHlQ_I
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Pure savage 13 comments
niriel
· 7 years ago
"replyed", "you're children"... How many chromosomes does the person who wrote the transcript have?
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Plus its armored with bone plates 8 comments
niriel
· 7 years ago
Also, teeth are stronger than bone. Look at the curved roots of a wisdom tooth, something has to deform when the tooth is pulled out; it's the bone. We wouldn't haven't evolved teeth if bone was strong enough. As for guest knowing stuff, maybe it's their job, or maybe they watch YouTube channels like "smarter every day", "today I found out", "Vsauce", or pretty much anything by the PBS network. Learning is easy and entertaining nowadays.