FlyingSquid

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[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We already have a word for everything. The word is 'everything.' No need to redefine what 'god' means to make it fit into the grandeur of the universe. It isn't necessary at all.

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

We all know that Martians know the international sign of the donut.

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The chaos is also physics.

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Or is it.... EeeeeeEEEEEEEEEeeeEEEEEEeeEEEEeeeeeEEEEEEEEE

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

The astronauts will have advertising patches all over their spacesuits, like NASCAR.

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

It's not god, it's physics.

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

That's the sort of map you'd expect from beings that are made out of meat.

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks. My mother is an aficionado of Persian rugs and she loved this. You made an old lady's morning.

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 6 points 2 years ago

I remember how in The Matrix movies, humans blocked out the sun to stop the computers from taking over. Looks like we're going to ask them whether or not that's a good plan first in our timeline.

 

Apologies for the silly clickbait headline.

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Isn't it amazing that ostrich eggs and ivory were able to be traded all the way to Iberia in the second millennium BCE? Prehistoric trade networks never cease to amaze me.

[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

That and the claim that it shows Antarctica just because there's some imaginary land down there drive me nuts. They knew Antarctica existed but not Tierra del Fuego, which was a lot closer? Call me dubious.

 
[–] FlyingSquid@mander.xyz 7 points 2 years ago

Not the science we asked for, but the science we need.

 

Starlink doesn't just interfere with optical astronomy, it also interferes with radioastronomy.

 

This is unsurprising, because African iron working is a good thousand years older than what we call 'the iron age.' That African expertise in iron working was what helped kick off the Industrial Revolution is just another tragedy of slavery.

 

This doesn't mean you would know it was slower if you were there at the time. A second would still feel like a second. But, relative to us, it was five times slower.

 

 

Using AI, researchers have been able to translate Akkadian into English using a relatively small number texts for the language model to work from.

 

The Kensington Rune Stone is one of America's best-known archaeological hoaxes. This article gives a good overview.

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