AlolanYoda

How DARE you show me this meme when I should be writing my thesis

I once saw a website that claimed that the moon was a hologram. I guess it can still be that.

One of the theories was that the Moon was not always a hologram, but that it was destroyed (maybe in WW2?) and now the government keeps a projection of the moon to keep people from finding out.

Also all of the space exploration propaganda was faked. Here's an amazing sentence that will never leave my mind: "Occam's razor says the simplest explanation is most often the correct one. And what's simpler: that the government spent millions of dollars, spent years doing research, with international collaborations on rocket science and astronomy, and then managed to get a manned rocket onto the moon... Or that it is all a conspiracy? ;) "

This is an amazing string of comments. I look forward to crossing paths again

Take Husky i

Look North

Someone has been playing Skatebird!

Star Trek The Next Generation

Skip episode 1, "Encounter at Farpoint". It sucks all around. Watch it later if you're really curious but don't say I didn't warn you.

If you want to check out a "representative" episode, see Season 5 Episode 2. (edit: the episode is named Darmok) You don't have to know everything going in, it's self-contained. If you like the episode you'll like Star Trek.

I have been rewatching Friends and it drives me nuts. They regularly jump on top of the couch and the coffee table with their outside shoes on...

I have a Mastodon account but I'm too socially anxious to actually post there

I'm also too socially anxious to post here but the comment format helps me get over it sometimes

Because the article itself says at some point, maybe multiple times: "whichever Brother printer you want"

In my first year of university, we had a fun project to make us get used to physics. One of the projects required filming someone throwing a ball upwards, and then using the footage to get the maximum height the ball reached, and doing some simple calculations to get the initial velocity of the ball (if I recall correctly).

One of the groups that chose that project was having a discussion on a problem they were facing: the ball was clearly moving upwards on one frame, but on the very next frame it was already moving downwards. You couldn't get the exact apex from any specific frame.

So one of the guys, bless his heart, gave a suggestion: "what if we played the (already filmed) video in slow motion... And then we filmed the video... And we put that one in slow motion as well? Maybe do that a couple of times?"

A friend of mine was in that group and he still makes fun of that moment, to this day, over 10 years later. We were studying applied physics.

If Sony patented this idea, does it mean nobody else can use it until it expires? Good guy Sony always looking out for us