niktemadur

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Nobody knows what these pre-pottery people were called or called themselves, but today a Turkic term is used - Taş Tepeler, which translates to "rocky hills", and the name Gobeklitepe means "potbelly hill".

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago

Ah yes... good ole-fashioned nazi Germany!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the mechanism that makes Cepheid stars regularly and predictably change intensity

Doesn't it also make the Cepheid noticeably swell (then deflate) in circumference? Or does it maintain the same basic size, and it's just storing magnetic bubbles of hot plasma like a halo, before bursting and releasing all that accumulated material?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Freedum moisturr!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

For those who may not know, about a decade ago probably the most popular Reddit user at the time, Unidan, got into an argument about an image being of crows or jackdaws, and he was caught manipulating the conversation via upvotes/downvotes from multiple alt accounts. For this, Unidan went up in a poof of smoke from Reddit, banished in disgrace.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The dynamics there due to sheer gravity, magnetism and levels of energy/radiation that are utterly alien to our daily experience.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Well... you keep on giving the most rabidly ignorant, recklessly greedy bigoted zealots the keys to the kingdom every 4-to-8 years, what did you expect?

Then when Democrats can't fix everything quickly while under constant zealot attack and sabotage, you reward the saboteurs with the keys to the goddamned kingdom again. All while you proudly proclaim that you've got it all figured out, because you read a blog post or tweet somewhere:
bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe WhY bOtHeR vOTiNg?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Centurion Haddock in the times of Elagabalus.

EDIT: Hadocus?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

If they wanted to use the term "deeply wrong discrepancy", maybe they should have gone with the difference between the universe's expansion predicted by quantum vacuum energy and the actual, much slower observed rate of expansion.
By "much slower", I mean that the theory and the observations differ by something like one hundred and twenty five (!!!) orders of magnitude.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

An elegant device, for more civilized times.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yep, this is the one I was scrolling down to find.

Godfather.
Godfather 2.
The Conversation.
Dog Day Afternoon.
The Deer Hunter.

All five Best Picture Oscar nominees, three winners.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Imagine getting drugged at some seedy nightclub and you wake up without a kidney... then a week later you get drugged again and wake up with the same defective kidney stuffed back inside. A full refund!

 

If the answer is YES, a related follow-up question: if each visible color of the spectrum were to measure a centimeter in width, how far would I have to move the sensor from the red to detect the change from infrared to microwave, then to radio?

In the knowledge that Sir William Herschel discovered infrared by repeating Newton's experiment, but with a thermometer to measure the temperature of each component of the spectrum, and after placing the thermometer a bit to the side of the red light, in darkness, noticed quite by accident that the device would still register heat, therefore an invisible yet very real component of light was there, warming the thermometer.

 

Now I'm just being the curious layman here, but a Google/YouTube search proved fruitless.

 

It's one of those pet peeves that rub me the wrong way, and they all seem to do it, whether it's anywhere around The Ringer network, or the Earwolf network, or the Blank Check podcast to name a few, they always say "Ray" instead of "Ralph".

The man's real full name is Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, quite a fancy mouthful, but not even a hint of "Ray" or "Raymond" in there. Did everyone in the podcasting world decide to pronounce his name wrong on purpose?

 

Me first: in the early 80s, I remember the Vons supermarket chain had their own brand of sour cream dip for potato chips, one flavor that people I know loved was fresh pismo clam, it still had chunks of clam meat in there. One day it got yanked from the shelves and I've never seen it again.

More recently, about a decade ago, Trader Joe's carried cheddar-and-horseradish potato chips, then one day they were gone.

I would love... LOVE... to dip those horseradish chips into that clam dip... sigh.

 

In the same vein, what about a stellar-sized black hole like Cygnus X-1? At this size the rate of evaporation is quicker, right?

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