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Buzz Aldrin’s 1963 doctoral thesis for his astronautics PhD was entitled “Line-of-sight guidance techniques for manned orbital rendezvous”. The dedication is, in full:
In the hopes that this work may in some way contribute to their exploration of space, this is dedicated to the crew members of this country’s present and future manned space programs. If only I could join them in their exciting endeavors!
The libertarian fears of black helicopters are actually rooted in CAMP - the campaign against Marijuana plantations - back in the 90s, where they would fly blackhawks around the california mountains and drop swat teams to raid cannabis farms. This is the basis for the infamous GTA San Andreas mission and the song by Barington Levy: Police In Helicopter
They did this where I’m from as well. It was always reported by people who lived in this low income housing area that was surrounded by state land.
Another fact to add on: This mix of Barrington Levy tracks is probably the best roots reggae mix I’ve ever heard.
https://m.soundcloud.com/godsconnect/barrington-levy-the-early
Yeah he rocks. He’s touring right now in California at least.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnRHRRHaTi4
Here’s the canonical Humboldt county reference song.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The only place on earth that Venus Flytraps grow naturally is within a narrow range along the coast of the southern US. They aren’t from the Amazon, or Borneo, or any place exotic like a rain forest. They only grow in a bare sandy patch of geography about an hour north of Myrtle Beach
They evolved to eat bugs because it allowed them to survive in shitty nutrient-sparse sand, the fact that we think of them as coming from a lush jungle or whatever is funny when you realize that
Yup, exactly! But there a ton of other different species of carnivorous plants that aren’t flytraps specifically that grow all over. There are actually varieties in equatorial jungles, and all the way north into Canada too
And a bunch of formerly carnivorous plants have evolved into inviting toilets for other animals, e.g., bats. Bat gets a nice place to poop, plant gets fertilizer.
formerly carnivorous plants
This is so cool! Probably a tough sell for a few years though lol
“I’m vegetarian”.
~That plant, probably.
that’s wild
I think we think it’s wild because all the media depictions of them are in cool and interesting places for plot reasons. In my mind they belong with like komodo dragons and birds of paradise or something
Another carnivorous plant, Darlingtonia, only grows in a couple of swamps in Northern California, and Heliamphora are only found on top of flat-topped mountains called tepuis in South America. There are a lot of homebodies in the clade.
there is a 1 km x 1 km x 1 km neutrino telescope that is buried starting about 1.5 km below the ice at the south pole that uses the ice itself as a medium to see neutrino interactions.
The double split experiment does not prove wave/particle duality for light. It actually only proves that light is a wave, and another experiment proved that light is made of particles. Most of what people think they know about the experiment comes from Feynman theorizing about it.
in a very similar vein, i doubt most people are aware that there isn’t a fundamental theory of physics that accounts for neutrino mass. in the standard model, they’re just massless. there are theories that accurately describe neutrino mass eigenstates, to be clear, but it’s still unknown why their mass and flavor eigenstates differ.
Creates chirally symmetric guitar
Still right handed
I think that’s why I never noticed. I just assumed the fireman was left handed.
Is it truly chiral, though, or is it also offered in right handed models?
The Fireman was a custom sig model design of Paul Gilbert
There’s also the Stoneman, which is a baritone 8 string version of the Iceman by Frederik Thordendal
They made a version of the Fireman in a royal purple finish with mini humbuckers and I still would love to have one, I’m a sucker for quirked up guitars
The word “cliche” is an onomatopoeia for the sound of the ink roller on a stereotype machine.
Actual TIL.
Radioactive material doesn’t directly provide nuclear power, it just heats water for steam power.
Unless one is using specialized equipment like an e-bow or sustainiac pickup, guitars and bass guitars don’t have sustain. They just have decay.
Isn’t the same true of gas and coal power?
Yeah they don’t have sustain either.
Sometimes water isn’t needed. When the heat isn’t enough to boil lots of water, or when the plumbing would be too complicated for the application, it’s possible to directly generate electricity directly from the heat. It’s not as efficient, but it’s useful in some cases. For example: low power, long lifespan spacecraft like New Horizons.
One of the biggest providers of laboratory grade bloods in the US is called Lampire
Is there an industry for blood? This makes me think of how earlier medical schools would buy bodies that grave robbers stole, not asking too many questions about the origin because they needed cadavers for students. I have comprehended a new horror, a sort of enslavement where you are forced to give blood repeatedly.
I have comprehended a new horror, a sort of enslavement where you are forced to give blood repeatedly.
Don’t look up blood plasma donations and how a lot of people in the US need to donate just to afford to live.
Have you ever heard of plasma “donation”? A lot of poor people get money in the US this way
Oh, right, I kind of forgot for a second haha, there is a massive above ground market for blood. I know people who have sold their plasma, I only ever donated blood though to a local organization. I think there were some around that would pay you for blood rather than plasma but I haven’t heard of that as much.
H.H. Holmes would sell the skeletons of his victims. He also had an elaborate murder hotel with secret entrances which he constructed by repeatedly hiring and firing workers which let him get away with not paying them but also so he’d be the only one who knew the true layout
Liking the taste of black licorice, being able to smell formic acid (ants use it to produce their venom), and the taste of cilantro are all genetic. Not everyone can smell ants. Some people get a soap taste instead of the peppery citrus taste when eating cilantro. People describe the taste of licorice differently due to the sugar.
Bed bugs are real, they enjoy heat with clutter, and they carry no diseases. They can, however, cause allergic reactions, making victims break out in hives and itch. This too is genetic–some people won’t notice bites at all. A couple who share a bed can often have one partner break out while the other is fine. This often causes confusion because people think only one person has a condition, rather than both people are being feasted upon each night.
I literally looked at it in your post and was like, hormiga, formica… there’s no way.
Formic acid (from Latin formica ‘ant’)
And yup. Way.
Me and my mom were the only people that liked black liccorice. Must be extra freakin’ recessive or somehow linked to my bad joints.
People can smell ants???
Some people get a soap taste instead of the peppery citrus taste when eating cilantro.
Is it a categorically different taste, or is it that some people perceive a bitter taste to it that then makes the citrus notes seem like the citrus scent that’s used in a lot of soaps?
I beleive they have a genetic quirk that makes them capable of tasting a certain chemical compound in it that most people cant perceive.
The little tips on the end of shoelaces are called aglets
Their true purpose is sinister
Sinister comes from the Latin for “left”
Dexterity comes from the Latin word for “right”
the little individual bips in raspberries/blackberries or other cluster berries are called druplets
We used to cut them off, push a pin through them and fluff out the cut end. Put them in a straw and you have a little blowgun :)
Phineas and Ferb type beat
Their true purpose is sinister
So is that fireman guitar in another comment
1661 is a palindromic number that is is the product of the palindromic primes 11 and 151
An orange is a berry known as a hesperidium.
Watermelons and cucumbers are also berries called pepos or cucurbits.
Strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries are not berries.
But tomatoes are berries. So are bananas.
Cashews aren’t nuts. Neither are peanuts, coconuts, or almonds.
My favorite kinds of nuts are deez.
Also not nuts in the botanical sense!
that’s nuts
Out of all US states only about 10 have any laws requiring breaks for most workers. At all. No federal rules exist either.
In ~40 states you could be told to work a 20 hour shift with no breaks and written up/fired for looking tired.
Ska came before Reggae.
When I was young I just figured ska was a descendant of punk invented in the early 90s by dudes that looked like this:
Yes that’s actually correct. This is John Ska celebrating the 20th anniversary of inventing ska music.
