Sciencey Stuff

[blazers]

I bought a cheap, tiny drone with simple fwd facing video camera that recorded to SD card. 20 bucks probably. First flight was in my living rm, bumping around, bouncing over stuff.

I took out the SD card, started watching the mp4 and almost vomited due the immediate motion sickness.

 

[blazers]

I can't quit watching these two vids

 

[bluetoe]

I can't quit watching these two vids

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you're driving down the street and you notice there's a house coming your way, you might get the feeling you're in for a bad day.

It was defintely a bad day for those unfortunate souls on those boats getting tossed around like rag dolls.

 

[blazers]

you're driving down the street and you notice there's a house coming your way, you might get the feeling you're in for a bad day.

It was defintely a bad day for those unfortunate souls on those boats getting tossed around like rag dolls.

yeah, in that second vid the dude pans early and you see traffic in the street which is goners a minute later
Estimated death toll was 18k+.

 

[bluetoe]

yeah, in that second vid the dude pans early and you see traffic in the street which is goners a minute later
Estimated death toll was 18k+.

horrific and terrifying are completely inadequate words to describe that disaster. I looked up the Krakatoa eruption/explosion and I was surprised to see the similarities in the immediate effect in way of a 120 foot high wave traveling at like 500 MPH (out in the open ocean). Your dinghy would undoubtedly be a goner.

 

[heelmanwilm]

A park in Siberia has implanted a wooly mammoth embryo into an Indian elephant using dna technology. Their goal is to have 100 woolly mammoths. The gestation is 22 months. They say the first will be born in 2024

Did they not see the movie about this?

 

[heelmanwilm]

Thunderstorm clouds contain hundreds of thousands of pounds of water

 

[bluetoe]

1) drones have given us amazing views of things and 2) tornadoes don't F around. This one was only a three and it is just blowing shit up like it's nothing.

 

[bluetoe]

yikes!

 

[tarheel0910]

Webb telescope just found the holy grail in a famous supernova

Scientists discovered what's been hidden.

mashable.com

 

[bluetoe]

Webb telescope just found the holy grail in a famous supernova

Scientists discovered what's been hidden.

mashable.com

WHA???? No wonder we couldn't find it.

How the F did it get way out there?

 

[pooponduke]

WHA???? No wonder we couldn't find it.

How the F did it get way out there?

Don't worry, the Black Knight will protect anyone from getting there.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Webb telescope just found the holy grail in a famous supernova

Scientists discovered what's been hidden.

mashable.com

An intergalactic Dune worm swallowed the Holy Grail.

Awesome.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

A park in Siberia has implanted a wooly mammoth embryo into an Indian elephant using dna technology. Their goal is to have 100 woolly mammoths. The gestation is 22 months. They say the first will be born in 2024

Did they not see the movie about this?

I read this book a few years ago and got the impression that doing this was almost bound to fail. I wonder what they did that makes them think they can do it.

 

[bluetoe]

Don't worry, the Black Knight will protect anyone from getting there.

lol, he's probably now posted somewhere in the Andromeda Galaxy. I guess the HG is safe then.

 

[KeeLo]

My brother sent me this... Called a "Crown Flash":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_flash

 

[tarheel0910]

The Y Chromosome Is Vanishing. A New Sex Gene May Be The Future of Men.

The sex of human and other mammal babies is decided by a male-determining gene on the Y chromosome.

www.sciencealert.com

 

[heelmanwilm]

There’s a millipede in Madagascar that’s poisonous and goes untouched by predators. Except lemurs. Lemurs take the millipedes and rub them all over themselves as an insect repellent. Then they take a single bite of the pede and proceed to trip balls from the psychotic effects of the poison.

 

[tarheel0910]

Then they take a single bite of the pede and proceed to trip balls from the psychotic effects of the poison.

 

[bluetoe]

guy has bitten a few too many millipedes, now thinks he's a lemur.

 

[bluetoe]

There’s a millipede in Madagascar that’s poisonous and goes untouched by predators. Except lemurs. Lemurs take the millipedes and rub them all over themselves as an insect repellent. Then they take a single bite of the pede and proceed to trip balls from the psychotic effects of the poison.

oh shit, it has to be a Madagascar millipede? Now you tell me.

 

[JuleZ '02 HEEL]

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

There’s a millipede in Madagascar that’s poisonous and goes untouched by predators. Except lemurs. Lemurs take the millipedes and rub them all over themselves as an insect repellent. Then they take a single bite of the pede and proceed to trip balls from the psychotic effects of the poison.

Can I buy them on Amazon?

 

[bluetoe]

Can I buy them on Amazon?

probably not, but you can see them at the dook Lemur Center. It's pretty cool. Or go to Madagascar, while there's still some habitat left, and maybe you can poach one and bring it home in your travel bag. What could go wrong?

Take pictures.

 

[heelmanwilm]

If you tied a string around the earth and decided you wanted it a foot off the ground you would need only 6.28 additional feet of string. If you did the same with a basketball you would still need 6.28 additional feet.

 

[prlyles]

If you tied a string around the earth and decided you wanted it a foot off the ground you would need only 6.28 additional feet of string. If you did the same with a basketball you would still need 6.28 additional feet.

Never underestimate the power of pi (π).

 

[bluetoe]

If you tied a string around the earth and decided you wanted it a foot off the ground you would need only 6.28 additional feet of string. If you did the same with a basketball you would still need 6.28 additional feet.

what about with a ten gallon bucket of whale blubber? How much more would that be?

 

[heelmanwilm]

what about with a ten gallon bucket of whale blubber? How much more would that be?

Depends on the whale

 

[bluetoe]

Depends on the whale

well oh geez yeah, of course it does. Duh. Thanks.

 

[DSouthr]

WHA???? No wonder we couldn't find it.

How the F did it get way out there?

FedEx...LOL

 

[heelmanwilm]

Fun fact. Total solar eclipses are actually very common. Like nearly one a year. Yet a lot of them occur in places where there’s hardly anyone to see them. Like on the vast ocean or the poles.

 

[bluetoe]

Fun fact. Total solar eclipses are actually very common. Like nearly one a year. Yet a lot of them occur in places where there’s hardly anyone to see them. Like on the vast ocean or the poles.

prove it.

 

[bluetoe]

I think this is cool AF. Would love to see many more mechanisms this way.

 

[bluetoe]

in using youtube videos about trains to help me get to sleep, I've discovered a lot of interesting things about them. There's more to them than you might think. Here's a basic design factor...

 

[heelmanwilm]

A dna study in 2003 concluded that 1 in 200 men WORLDWIDE are direct descendants of genghis khan (why it specifies men and not women I don’t know)


But That dude was fuking

 

[uncboy10]

A dna study in 2003 concluded that 1 in 200 men WORLDWIDE are direct descendants of genghis khan (why it specifies men and not women I don’t know)


But That dude was fuking

Scientists who study ice cores found a dip in carbon emissions that lines up with the Mongol invasions. Dude killed so many people he put a sizable dent in the carbon footprint of the human species.

 

[bluetoe]

A dna study in 2003 concluded that 1 in 200 men WORLDWIDE are direct descendants of genghis khan (why it specifies men and not women I don’t know)


But That dude was fuking

that might explain my love of Mongolian beef, and my occasional urge to lay siege to some town and slaughter its entire population. I guess it's a good thing I haven't been able to get a good horde together.

Now I could kill for some Mongolian beef..

 

[heelmanwilm]

Scientists who study ice cores found a dip in carbon emissions that lines up with the Mongol invasions. Dude killed so many people he put a sizable dent in the carbon footprint of the human species.

I didn’t think about that part of the equation. Not only was he “planting his seed” he got rid of millions of others

 

[blazers]

Scientists who study ice cores found a dip in carbon emissions that lines up with the Mongol invasions. Dude killed so many people he put a sizable dent in the carbon footprint of the human species.

Was he the first big de-forester?

 

[bluetoe]

Was he the first big de-forester?