I was just watching Titanic and spent 20 minutes looking up the effects of hypothermia and discovering that Jack may have been alive and in stage 3 hypothermia when Rose let go, and because he sank instead of floated, he was in fact alive. It was a fun little time sink. What rabbit holes have you done down recently?

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    Learning about Space. There we’re working miniature prototypes of a ship to get humans up to 12% of Speed of Light. Project Orion worked by blasting nuclear bombs behind a ram jets once per second.

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    Ham Radio.

    It started with a pair of two-way walkies, talking with a friend in the backyard while sitting in my bed and then you’re pointing to satellites and the ISS to download weather and old space images.

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      I love radio stuff, but I just haven’t dove into Ham yet. That said there a local radio shack with their call signs posted on the window so I might just dig in.

      Maybe find my excuse to actually use gnuradio for something.

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        Sure. Ham people are always open to share their knowledge.

        With gnuradio you can download weather imagery with a RTL SDR dongle.

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    I like deep dives into neon genesis evangelion. I doubt theres anything else I can get out of a show I’ve seen multiple times and watched who knows how many analysis videos on, but I still like listening to someone talk about it.

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    The concept of time and higher dimensions. I don’t understand the physics, but listening to others explain the concepts and spending time to think about it can keep me busy for hours

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      I always have such a hard time with the 4th dimension concept. (Not the time one though, the other one) Sometimes I grasp it for a bit and then minutes later I’ll be confused again.