similarly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27s_hexagon
― koogs, Friday, 19 February 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
that's wild, i didn't know about the venera missions
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 February 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
holy wow. that's beautiful
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 February 2021 00:04 (three years ago) link
wtaf saturn
― would a nit be nice? (NickB), Saturday, 20 February 2021 00:07 (three years ago) link
Oh wow.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 20 February 2021 00:13 (three years ago) link
that's some protomolecule shit
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 February 2021 00:45 (three years ago) link
venus looks like a jersey parking lot btw
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 20 February 2021 00:58 (three years ago) link
Courtesy of some guy I know on Twitter:
When you walk in on a conversation without knowing what it's about. ( @quartzcity and @highway_62 will appreciate it on various levels.) pic.twitter.com/VSmClfwJLD— Ned Raggett (@NedRaggett) February 19, 2021
― pplains, Saturday, 20 February 2021 04:25 (three years ago) link
My brother @JoaquinCastrotx and I volunteered the San Antonio food bank today, one of many getting food and clean water to Texans in need.In the past two days, we’ve raised $326,000 for @FeedingTexas! You can pitch in for more supplies here: https://t.co/vPDXxMArhj pic.twitter.com/W5imf7KFNW— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) February 20, 2021
― StanM, Sunday, 21 February 2021 05:49 (three years ago) link
Not sure what the story was with this, but there's a real chance that people would show up there regardless of their financial situation because there are widespread water outages and grocery stores may be either closed or stripped bare.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Sunday, 21 February 2021 05:58 (three years ago) link
yeah, it was a shitty thing to ask, I know.
― StanM, Sunday, 21 February 2021 06:09 (three years ago) link
That water boils at lower temperatures at higher altitudes. Was just looking at a green egg salad recipe and it recommended that you set your egg timer for 5 and a 1/2 mins and adjust it higher if you live at higher altitude. That instruction is probably a bit of overkill but interesting nevertheless!
― calzino, Sunday, 21 February 2021 18:41 (three years ago) link
I live on the top floor, so this info could come in useful.
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 February 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link
I live 130m about sea level so it's quite safe to take a bath in boiling oil at this altitude.
― calzino, Sunday, 21 February 2021 18:57 (three years ago) link
Having lived in Colorado this is common knowledge there. Pretty common in baking recipes to have high altitude adjustments listed.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 21 February 2021 22:31 (three years ago) link
Because you're all high all the time
― illumi-naughty (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 21 February 2021 22:46 (three years ago) link
basically
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 21 February 2021 23:25 (three years ago) link
Like i remember this because i am coloradan and i am not high all the time, but mainly some movie with livingstone , the zambezi, and i presume stanley, too. someone was always boiling water to determine the altitude. I was a kid and i was just “huh, boiling point’s a thing.”also I just visited wiki on livingstone and— holy shit that guy
― pence's eye juice (Hunt3r), Sunday, 21 February 2021 23:57 (three years ago) link
I know this is going around the internet a lot already, but I didn't know Elizabeth Olsen of Avengers/WandaVision fame was the sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 22 February 2021 00:53 (three years ago) link
At what temperature does water boil in space then?
― pplains, Monday, 22 February 2021 01:00 (three years ago) link
Well, it's rather difficult to define. Perhaps I'm just projecting my own concern about it. I know I've never completely freed myself of the suspicion that there are some extremely odd things about this question
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Monday, 22 February 2021 01:04 (three years ago) link
It's an odd topic!
― pplains, Monday, 22 February 2021 01:07 (three years ago) link
Indeed!
When we talk about putting liquid water in the vacuum of space, we’re talking about doing both things simultaneously: taking water from a temperature/pressure combination where it’s stably a liquid and moving it to a lower pressure, something that makes it want to boil, and moving it to a lower temperature, something that makes it want to freeze.You can bring liquid water to space (aboard, say, the international space station) where it can be kept in Earth-like conditions: at a stable temperature and pressure.But when you put liquid water in space — where it can no longer remain as a liquid — which one of these two things happens? Does it freeze or boil?The surprising answer is it does both: first it boils and then it freezes! We know this because this is what used to happen when astronauts felt the call of nature while in space. According to the astronauts who’ve seen it for themselves:When the astronauts take a leak while on a mission and expel the result into space, it boils violently. The vapor then passes immediately into the solid state (a process known as desublimation), and you end up with a cloud of very fine crystals of frozen urine.There’s a compelling physical reason for this: the high specific heat of water.It’s incredibly difficult to change the temperature of water rapidly, because even though the temperature gradient is huge between the water and interstellar space, water holds heat incredibly well. Furthermore, because of surface tension, water tends to remain in spherical shapes in space (as you saw above), which actually minimize the amount of surface area it has to exchange heat with its subzero environment. So the freezing process would be incredibly slow, unless there were some way to expose every water molecule individually to the vacuum of space itself.But there’s no such constraint on the pressure; it’s effectively zero outside of the water, and so the boiling can take place immediately, plunging the water into its gaseous (water vapor) phase!But when that water boils, remember how much more volume gas takes up than liquid, and how much farther apart the molecules get. This means that immediately after the water boils, this water vapor — now at effectively zero pressure — can cool very rapidly!
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 22 February 2021 02:15 (three years ago) link
Just got the "glass half full/half empty" pessimist/optimist litmus test thing a few weeks ago. I'm a pessimist. I recently celebrated my 37th birthday.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Monday, 22 February 2021 03:14 (three years ago) link
Today I learned some states allow school board members to draw a salary
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Monday, 22 February 2021 15:23 (three years ago) link
on a similar theme you should watch the movie Bad Education, it's petty good!
― calzino, Monday, 22 February 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link
DJP is that in relation to this story:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/california-districts-school-board-resigns-comments-bashing-parents/story?id=76020108
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Monday, 22 February 2021 15:33 (three years ago) link
why yes it is
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Monday, 22 February 2021 16:06 (three years ago) link
wow those fuckers were getting paid? lord....
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Monday, 22 February 2021 16:11 (three years ago) link
I saw some Gizmodo commenters saying "how dare they do this, they should forfeit their salaries" and my reaction as someone who grew up in a state where the school board is a volunteer elected position was "are you high, why do you think they get paid... oh no, wait a second" and I've been flipping back and forth between a state of horror and bemused puzzlement at why I feel so vehemently that school board members shouldn't be paid because I don't have a strong argument beyond "they just shouldn't"
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Monday, 22 February 2021 16:25 (three years ago) link
i could see an argument for being paid if it was like "otherwise only rich people will do this" kind of thing? idk.
― honkin' on bobo, honkin' with my feet ten feet off of beale (Doctor Casino), Monday, 22 February 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link
all work should be paid imo
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 February 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
Let me talk to you about journalism internships some time...
― illumi-naughty (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 February 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
That Pamelyn Ferdin did the voice of Lucy Van Pelt in some Peanuts specials and a movie.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 19:17 (three years ago) link
Who?
She is an actress, known for The Beguiled (1971), Charlotte's Web (1973) and A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)
well, today I learned who Pamelyn Ferdin is.
― stilt in the wings (sic), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 20:57 (three years ago) link
She was a pretty busy child actress back in the day.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link
I remember her from a made-for-TV movie where the catch line in the promos was "Daddy, I hate being dead." After that I noticed her popping up in various things.
― nickn, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 21:36 (three years ago) link
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 22:28 (three years ago) link
Like for one thing I know there is nothing shocking about me coming across some hitherto unconsumed crumb of television trivia at this late date.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 22:33 (three years ago) link
xp Lolololol i love you so much, James Redd and the Blecchs!!
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 22:38 (three years ago) link
It was only while looking at IMDB last night that I finally realized that the rather hunky and mysteriously familiar looking Michael B Jordan who was Erik Killmonger in Black Panther, is familiar looking because he’s somehow the same person who played gangly little Wallace in early seasons of The Wire.
― Kim, Monday, 1 March 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
JUst had teh post I made about the black take on teh Meet me At McDonald'#s haircut i made after seeing the fillm repaear on FB a couple of days ago.Did strike me at teh time that the same people wearing taht haircut 3 years ago would have been exactly the same people bullying those who were wearing it when it was first appearing in the early 80s. the white version of the do anyway, tended to denote one was playing in an indie band and may be slightly more enlightened in one's attitudes to homosexuality and things.
― Stevolende, Monday, 1 March 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/haircut-924718.jpghttps://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/529b67dfe4b06bb4b8f64fcc/1518492451848-SDZ2A6P9KT6JHMT9URB1/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kGFVPdioKLjvLPyZtExePgsUqsxRUqqbr1mOJYKfIPR7LoDQ9mXPOjoJoqy81S2I8N_N4V1vUb5AoIIIbLZhVYxCRW4BPu10St3TBAUQYVKcKdjJv59OPFora4UgArJqnTmVKBRn7Np-K9bZIgaTQmUCaRAT4KyiScmnuuGfS8_r/blackpantherhaircut1.jpg
― Stevolende, Monday, 1 March 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
Kim, I think the only reason I knew about Jordan was because he played Oscar Grant in Fruitvale Station, and I recognized his face immediately.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:22 (three years ago) link
A few days late to this discussion, but watching a friend of mine on the school board work 20-35 hours a week on school board stuff makes me reconsider that they do indeed deserve to be paid. It's been eye opening, to say the least. Obviously a lot of it is intensified because of the pandemic and changing requirements/logistics on an almost weekly basis, but I've learned that it's not just a meeting every month and that's it.
I mean we had an outdoor dinner with them before it got cold out and she took no less than three board related calls between 7:00 and 9:00 on a Friday night. It basically is a full-time job and hats off to anyone willing to take on that burden for free, I guess.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
2/3rds of LFO died, one of leukemia, another of cancer
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 03:05 (three years ago) link
(LFO aka Lyte Funky Ones, the American band)
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 03:08 (three years ago) link
1/2 (-to-all) of the real LFO died too, of "complications after an operation"
― grab bag cum trash bag (sic), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 03:35 (three years ago) link
Whoa @ grim LFO news
― Stefan Twerkelle (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 03:42 (three years ago) link
Pop stars just don't last as long anymore. A bunch of old-ass bands have most if not all of their members still alive + kicking but I've been listening to early '90s pop this week and remembering that half of Milli Vanilli, Kris Kross, and PM Dawn are all gone.
― Stefan Twerkelle (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 03:46 (three years ago) link