I remember learning that before the invention of the locomotive, people thought that 30mph was some kind of barrier that the human body could not survive.

relevant XKCD

Yeah. Can’t tell you the number of times recently I’ve tried to pull up a video from the past and couldn’t find it. Either removed or just impossible to search for.

I’ve got a YouTube playlist that gets downloaded to my server every week just in case

Also many (most?) of them crossed the border legally. They just stayed here illegally.

Glad we’re still talking about the real issues. 😒

I don’t know if I like this take.

I own two ocarinas specifically because of Zelda. The site I bought them from has a bunch of Zelda themed ones as well as a bunch of others.

The game raised awareness about the instrument, and I certainly wouldn’t have learned to play it (or any instrument for that matter) if it wasn’t for one of my favorite games.

How many people play guitar just because they saw a guy play one in a movie?

Also leaving this here. https://youtu.be/79Y6Q47qjlw?si=P6nN1i-tKFQP7Dhb

I’ve been snapping up DVDs of every film I care about over the last five years. Especially the holiday films since you know they’re going to hold those hostage.

So he does read your tweets. This still does nothing. This is just the lamest form of activism, and as recent evidence shows, it clearly doesn’t work.

Elon doesn’t read your tweets. This does nothing.

Freeline skates

But it takes more energy to split than you get out of it.

Doesn’t splitting helium into hydrogen absorb energy?

Fusion bombs fuse hydrogen into helium.

Nuts. Never seen H2SO4 used for drains. They don’t call it “oil of vitriol” for nothing. You can actually test a distillation of pure sulfuric because a drop will burn through a paper towel in seconds.

How do they know it was a whole person?

Drain cleaner is NaOH (lye).

Sulfuric is sold as battery acid for refilling lead acid batteries.

Muriatic is HCl sold as concrete cleaner.

Nitric is hard to buy, but there are some guides on making it.

Instructions unclear. Wrapped laptop around post.

I think you’re mixing up names. Dobson is the name of the mount, and since they’re most commonly used on Newtonians, it’s kind of become shorthand. My 5" and 12" are both Newtonian reflectors on Dobson mounts.

Maybe you’re thinking of a Schmidt Cassegrain?

I remembering bringing my 5" dobson to a work retreat camping trip. Everyone was pretty boozed up to the point where they were struggling to keep their eyes steady in the eyepiece.

When one of my coworkers finally got everything lined up he just blurted out “HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT’S SATURN!”

It was great.

I love showing people Saturn. Clearly visible even with city light pollution, and rings can be resolved even with cheap hardware.

Kind of nuts how long people can live without ever seeing the rings for themselves.