Things you were shockingly old when you learned

bloody fariners

It was like last year but i was still really old when i learned that a very significant reason pre-modern agricultural ppl had such destroyed teeth was that the milling skills of their societies sucked and they had rocks and shit in their food.

Off topic— also vermin.

I’d like to revoke my medieval shaming and just amend to “milling is hard.”

The Rime of the Ancient Fariner

Well, I'm hot blooded
Check it and see
I got a fever of a hundred and three

Redd Foxx's birth name was John ... Sanford!

I was much less shockingly old when I learned it but I just remembered this trivia today and maybe some of you other oldsters will be shocked when you learn it:

(Tony) Burrows sang the lead vocals on several other one-hit wonder songs under different group names, Edison Lighthouse's "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" (February 1970); White Plains' "My Baby Loves Lovin'" (March 1970); The Pipkins' novelty song "Gimme Dat Ding" (April 1970); and The First Class' "Beach Baby" (July 1974). He also sang lead vocals on The Brotherhood of Man's "United We Stand", which reached #10 on the UK charts and also reached #13 in the U.S.

I have heard of two of those songs.

Get thee to a US AM gold comp posthaste

i know five seconds of four of those songs solely from tv ads for compilations

You can live without hearing more than four seconds of "Gimme Dat Ding" and "United We Stand" but the others are good bubblegum.

i know five seconds of four of those songs solely from tv ads for compilations

Is that Freedom Rock? Turn it up!

Gimme Dat Ding is one of the two I know! Just spent ten minutes trying to find the name of a two-LP compilation of novelty songs that I caned it on as a kid, to no avail

that austrians say "wee-enna"

for sausage or city?

The Viennese accent is quite something, so I believe.

I guess the Vietnamese version of that would be "ngu-ena"?

I just saw austrians as australians, gorlumme.

Now I want to hear the Vienna Choir sing "Khe Sanh".

I will never miss a chance to bring up that there are photos of the surface of Venus, taken by the Russians in the two hours before the lander freaking melted pic.twitter.com/s50svZfbgc

— Barry Petchesky (@barry) February 18, 2021

Whoa.

wait what

that owns

Google image link for more.

https://www.google.com/search?q=photos+of+venus+surface&sxsrf=ALeKk0333ap4RvLsBgpmMmCJVDdsj9t7bg:1613756379840&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiFiJj-vvbuAhUBTawKHcLeB8YQ_AUoAXoECBEQAw&biw=868&bih=580

the lander freaking melted

Burning like a silver flame

similarly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27s_hexagon

that's wild, i didn't know about the venera missions

holy wow. that's beautiful

wtaf saturn

Oh wow.

that's some protomolecule shit

venus looks like a jersey parking lot btw

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

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

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.

yeah, it was a shitty thing to ask, I know.

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!

I live on the top floor, so this info could come in useful.

I live 130m about sea level so it's quite safe to take a bath in boiling oil at this altitude.

Having lived in Colorado this is common knowledge there. Pretty common in baking recipes to have high altitude adjustments listed.

Because you're all high all the time

basically

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

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

At what temperature does water boil in space then?

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

It's an odd topic!

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!

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.

Today I learned some states allow school board members to draw a salary