We all did weird stuff during lockdown...
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2025
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Was gonna say, covid if anything made me more focused. I did so many side projects
Pictured: Sir Isaac Newton discovered gay rays on this day, which is why we celebrate pride.
Pictured: Isak Newton proves that going outside is gay
things you can do to kill time in confinment
Then by year two of his lockdown, Newton was inserting a tiny lever under his own eyeball, inside the eye socket, to try and figure out how the eye captures and processes light.
I wonder what Newton would have done if he were alive today and tried to figure out furries.
ColoUrs, Newton was a well learned man! These meme creators, grrrr!
The U in USA had to come from somewhere!
CreatoUrs, thank you very much.
And calculating far too many digits of π by hand
To many people back then, a prism turning a sumbeam into a spray of colors must have seemed like actual magic happening right before their eyes.
Still does.