People often say "hot as the surface of the sun" to indicate extreme temperature. But the surface of the sun is actually weirdly cool (~5800 K) in comparison to the area surrounding it. This area (known as the corona) is MILLIONS of degrees hot. And we don't know why. It's called the Coronal heating problem.
Another fun one is called "The axis of evil", and it is the observation that the most universal base of reference we have, the cosmic microwave background radiation—literally the remnant photons from the earliest time of the universe we can see (because before that, everything was opaque and weirdly orange), this background is completely aligned with our solar system. It's called the axis of evil because we're supposed to be insignificant, arbitrary, statistically randomly aligned. But this most basic yard stick is perfectly aligned with us. We also don't know why. A fluke, we must assume. But pretty evil, from a copernican perspective.
All plant life on Earth nearly died from low CO2 levels at the end of the most recent ice age.
Why? Crustaceans had been pulling carbon our of the atmosphere for millions of years in order to make their shells and there is no offsetting natural process to recirculate it into the atmosphere.
I've been thinking the same. They should make a Java based cold wallet app, so people can download to this Nokia phone that has no service to use as a hardware wallet. I've seen a hardware wallet that looks like a phone that actually does this called the Fountain Device Passport. The only thing it was missing was the cell features.
Oil does not come from dead dinosaurs. The fossil fuels, the name given as such, originates from commitment of oil producers to make it appear as scarce.
"Most oil reserves were formed between 65 and 252 million years ago. While this does overlap with the ‘dinosaur times’, oil is a marine sediment made of the remains of algae and plankton.
Skeletons of prehistoric reptiles such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs (neither of which count as dinosaurs) have been found in the same geological layers as oil and they may have contaminated the oil deposit. But to say that oil is made from dinosaurs is like saying that bread is made from insects, just because the odd one occasionally falls into a flour mill." - www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/dinosaurs-in-fossil-fuel
Important to note, many "depleted" oil wells replenish themselves over time.
Yes it's spelled with and S and not a Z. And don't tell me that in American English it's a Z it's not it's just flat out incorrect and a commonly circulated mistake.
Anyway.
It stands for
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. L-A-S-E-R.
(You don't spell stimulated Zimulated do you? Now go forth and remove thyne Zs)
It's why the British monarchy had a unicorn on the clay of arms. As at the time Scotland was the only recognised country within the union
(Wales wasn't considered a country at that point). So the coat of arms is made up of 4 quarters 3 lions of England (encompasses Wales). (6 lions total) the lion of Scotland and the harp of Ireland. Flanked by the rampant lion and the unicorn.
The marathon is named after the legend of Philippides, an ancient greek messenger who apparently ran to Athens without stopping to claim victory in the battle of Marathon.
However, nobody really knows how far his route was, and so the modern marathon was actually not a standard distance when it began as an Olympic sport in 1896.
The 1908 Olympics in London had a marathon course designed to finish in front of the royals which was 42.195km, and that eventually became the standard marathon distance which is run today.
almost all anyone can tell you about them is that "Feb 29th is every four years" but there's a bit more to it than that.
The whole point is to balance the calendar with the actual progression of time, but adding in an extra day every four years overcorrects, so
every 100 years where you are supposed to add the extra day, you omit it. However, this causes a bit of an under correction, so
every 400 years, when you are supposed to omit the leap year day, you actually keep it in. This last happened in the year 2000 when nobody really blinked an eye when we had a leap year, because as far as 99% of people know, there's just a leap year every four years for some reason.
when following this procedure, true time will align with the calendar for tens of thousands of years
According to Diana Reiss, PhD, on the Star Talk YouTube channel, bees communicate both the location and distance of food by wiggling their bodies.
They specify location relative to the position of the sun and they are intelligent enough to correct for the apparent movement of the sun in the earth's sky according to the time of day when the communication is taking place.
Nice, with all that lego we could build a house with that. I wonder how safe it would be to live in one. Also, I wonder what the cost would it be if its similar to the price of an actual house.
There's a TV show called Toy Stories with James May. They built a full size LEGO house. I don't think you could live in it though as it wasn't waterproof.
In case of alien invasion, don't worry, the United Nations got your back. They have the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. And yes, it's a thing where people around the globe gather and discuss not only about aliens but also current state programs searching for aliens. Here's the link for the office where you'll find lots of presentations that goes from Progress made by satellites, climate change1 to cyber protection for space technology.
Fair points. A constitutional republic is still a democracy, just a more specific kind of democracy where the constitution is a document that sets out the fundamental laws and principles of the government & establishes the rights and freedoms of the people.
The Mona Lisa when Da Vinci painted her did have eyebrows but over time and over cleaning have eroded them to the point that they are no longer visible.
that's the reason the day is divided in 24 hours (counting on both hands), and the minute divided in 60 seconds (12 in on hand iterated 5x fingers of the other hand)
Just 30 minutes of daily complaining can physically damage your brain. Listening to someone constantly complain also negatively affects brain function.
Lightning kills about 10,000 people a year worldwide, more people than tornadoes or flooding.
Lightning doesn't just happen during a thunderstorm. It can happen during volcanic eruptions, intense forest fires, surface nuclear explosions, heavy snowstorms, and large hurricanes.
A subsatellite, also known as a submoon, or a schmoon, is a "moon of a moon" or a hypothetical natural satellite that orbits the moon of a planet.
Terms used in scientific literature for subsatellites include "submoons" and "moon-moons". Colloquial terms that have been suggested include moonitos, moonettes, and moooons
A schmoon! Hahahahaha I love it. And the last one too, which was definitely coined by a sentient cow. "moooon"
All objects emit radiation. 3 minutes after the big bang the temperature of the Universe was around 1,000,000,000 Kelvin. Now days the temperature of the Universe is around 3 K (-273 °C), measured by the background cosmic radiation. It means that there was a moment at which the Universe was at room temperature, around 300 K (27 °C).
Cats, dogs, and many nocturnal creatures appear to have glowing eyes because the back of their eyeballs include a special reflective layer called the tapetum lucidum. This helps animals see better in low light by working like a mirror on the retina to reflect the light back through the eyes
Did ou know that a group of crows is called a murder?
Yes, you heard that right! When crows gather together, they ared reffred to as murder. Howver, you do not need to get alarmed by these feathered creatures, since their name does not refelct their criminal behavior at all.
IMPORTANT: Take notice of this fun fact and the next time you see a bunch of crows hanging out together, definitely do not panic—I repeat do not panic—and start shouting "It's a murder!" Unless it actually is.. but that's another story...
The brain is the fattest organ.
The stomach may be our body’s fattest part, but the fattest organ is our brain. The brain is composed of nearly 60% fat.
Between November 1, 2022 and April 30, 2023, a Chinese woman in Walnut, California, was arrested after shipping over 9 million packages on behalf of Chinese e-commerce vendors using fake postage, costing the USPS over $60 million.
Fascinating article:
https://www.piratewires.com/p/china-stamps-scam-postal-service
The obvious law of demand and supply states that 'If supply exceeds demand, prices will fall, and If demand exceeds supply, prices will rise'.
Since Bitcoin's price is primarily affected by its demand and supply, the chances are, it will offer an incentive to hold, in unforeseeable conditions of inflation. It has greater scarcity than the fiat currencies, which have unlimited supply.
It's been 10 years since I wore my sandles. This week I decided take them out of the closet and dust them off to wear them. As I walk around outside, I noticed a trail of materials that look like dirt thats coming from my sandles. I figured they were dirty. Little did I know as I walked further my sandles were falling apart! So I walked home bare foot. I also check my other old shoes 👞. They all were falling after shaking them. I guess shoes ages over time even after reserving them unused.
Definition of "legal" is "The undoing of God's law." - 1893 Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Encyclopedia Britannica, a dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature / The R.S. Peale 9th 1893
Hahahaha.... these commies really love and respect us, eh? Count on their inability to do anything more complex than steel Your money and fill their bags via the climate change complex.
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