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What makes you think no-one cares?

OK. So in a poll of 2 science minds that I know, neither is bothered. That's my evidence and I stand by it 😉


 
Posted : 28/06/2022 7:23 pm
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Feels much longer or shorter MCTD?

So much longer.....


 
Posted : 28/06/2022 7:23 pm
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Fastest Fred Whitton riders averaging 20mph. How is that even possible?


 
Posted : 28/06/2022 8:52 pm
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This
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Go on, ask me...!


 
Posted : 13/07/2022 12:12 pm
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Medical imaging is getting towards the point that it can almost track individual thoughts in your head.

The fact your eyes can see almost down to individual photons


 
Posted : 13/07/2022 1:35 pm
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Go on, ask me…!

Amazon drop box?


 
Posted : 13/07/2022 1:38 pm
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This is the Venus of Willendorf. It was thought to be either a image of beauty or early pornography* Research is now exploring the idea that this (and the various version of it that have been found subsequently) in fact may be one the very first pregnancy diagnostic tools that we know off. A German team did some research that showed that if you look down on these, at the same angle that you could on your own body while pregnant, the images are very similar. It it thought that the idea was that if you looked like the Venus, you had a better chance of coming to term healthily. Another team also doing similar research with other versions.

* Because they were 19thC scientists, every naked image looked like porn to them

Venus of Willendorf: A 30,000-Year-Old Figurine That Continues to Captivate


 
Posted : 13/07/2022 2:07 pm
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Amazon drop box?

Ooh, someone did!

No sir, that is a Classroom Safety Pod. #OnlyinAmerica


 
Posted : 13/07/2022 2:14 pm
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Jesus H Christ. 🙁


 
Posted : 13/07/2022 2:43 pm
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Big numbers put into some kind of human context blows my mind.

1 million seconds = 12 days

1 billion seconds = 31 years

1 million pounds = very rich

1 billion pounds = utterly, madly, incomprehensibly rich

And these aren't even really big numbers!


 
Posted : 14/07/2022 11:23 am
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The size of Stephenson 2-18.
Came up on my feed this morning.

It's big enough that light takes almost 9 hours to circumnavigate, our sun it takes about 14.5 seconds.

If you swapped it into our Solarsystem, Saturn would be comfortably inside the photosphere.


 
Posted : 14/07/2022 11:38 am
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