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    Matt
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    Joined: 4 Oct 2011

    The beautiful irony of this is that it’s all an attempt at understanding something that our brains are not evolutionarily designed to understand. Humans are so obnoxious.

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      Giles
      IHUK Crew
      Joined: 22 Sept 2009

      Fuck off

      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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        mclaincausey
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        @Matt
        Joined: 12 Apr 2013

        Contemplating the infinite and how inconsequential we are on the cosmic scale can both “blow your mind” and lead to existential dread. For me it does the former but not the latter. If anything it just makes me more grateful to be here for what time I have. There’s a great documentary about infinity on Netflix that touches on that. Even though there will never be a way to be sure about the various multiverses, I have reasons to believe at least in the first 3 I won’t bore you with and believe the 4th is possible. None of it makes any functional difference in how I live my life.

        @Matt what’s cool about it other than a natural desire to understand how it all came to be is that this kind of exploration can yield valuable outcomes. Without quantum mechanics, we wouldn’t have microprocessors or be talking right now, for example.

        But also yeah, shag off ya tossers 😂

        Think it, be it.

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          Matt
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          Joined: 4 Oct 2011

          I’m somewhere in the middle. More like existential indifference.

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            goosehd
            Mod Squad
            Joined: 8 Apr 2016

            God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr

            "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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              weftyarn
              Iron Heart Deity
              Joined: 8 Nov 2020

              One thing is for sure: If this is a simulation I want to thank whoever is playing me for discovering the IH part of the map. And so early too, great job!

              Use it or lose it.

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                weftyarn
                Iron Heart Deity
                Joined: 8 Nov 2020

                went on a short city trip to Heidelberg and amongst many other great things I of course visited the Castle to discover this massive wine cask which absolutely blew my mind!

                apparently a total of four versions were built, starting with the first in 1591 which was destroyed during the 30 years war to be used as fire wood

                in the pictures you can see the fourth version built in 1751 which can hold 220.000 litres of wine. I should say COULD as it was never really water tight and was only filled completely three times.

                IMG_9145.jpeg

                IMG_9146.jpeg

                Use it or lose it.

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                  ARNC
                  啓蒙家
                  @weftyarn
                  Joined: 13 Dec 2020

                  @weftyarn almost enough for an IH party 😃

                  Also reminded me of this at Champagne Pommery (a memorable feature of my first tour of champagne houses when I was about 7). This one holds 75,000hl (equivalent to 100,000 bottles).
                  IMG_8984.jpeg

                  “Every day that you survive you get a free sunset“

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                    WhiskeySandwich
                    啓蒙家
                    Joined: 1 Mar 2023

                    Crazy....

                    https://www.space.com/nuclear-fusion-reactor-south-korea-runs-48-seconds

                    "The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
                    -Seneca

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                      Mizmazzle
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                      @WhiskeySandwich
                      Joined: 29 Jun 2021

                      @WhiskeySandwich freaking nuts that it gets “many times hotter then the sun!!”

                      In the easy chair with my boots on, melted whiskey in my hand. Could'na been asleep for more than three hours...time to go to work again...

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                        mclaincausey
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                        They’ve gone at least 250,000 x the temperature of the core of the sun in particle accelerators: 4 trillion degrees Celsius, enough to decompose subatomic particles. For context, a type 2 supernova (when a huge star runs out of hydrogen and collapses / explodes with unimaginable violence) is (only) 2 billion degrees and that’s enough to create the heavy elements that we and our world are made of.

                        We really are made out of the remains of stars. Pretty cool.

                        Think it, be it.

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                          SKT
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                          Joined: 26 Aug 2019

                          I’d like to wander into one of these testing facilities and say “wonder what this button does?”

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                            goosehd
                            Mod Squad
                            @mclaincausey
                            Joined: 8 Apr 2016

                            @mclaincausey …I do believe that some of us are more gaseous than others, especially after a night of drinking…

                            "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                              mclaincausey
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                              @goosehd
                              Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                              @goosehd 🤣beer and cider man. I don’t understand the biology but I can feel the impact when I know it must still be in my stomach.

                              Think it, be it.

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                                WhiskeySandwich
                                啓蒙家
                                @mclaincausey
                                Joined: 1 Mar 2023

                                @mclaincausey at temps like that, i cant help but wonder why anything that hot wouldn't just laserbeam itself into the center of the nearest/strongest source of gravity. How is something like that kept from burning through the floor like Alien drool?

                                "The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
                                -Seneca

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                                  mclaincausey
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                                  @WhiskeySandwich
                                  Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                                  @WhiskeySandwich if you mean in the particle accelerator I think that the heat is so small and brief that it can’t do anything like that.

                                  The quark-gluon plasma formed is said to be superfluid, which means it has no viscosity. Imagine stirring something and it just keeps stirring forever. This is what they think constituted the early universe after the Big Bang before it cooled into the matter we know and love. There is some theorizing that certain stars (neutron and quark stars) have this state of matter in them.

                                  One more mind blower. There is a pulsar that is spinning 716 times per second. That means its equator is moving at 25% of the speed of light. It is 50 trillion times the density of lead with 1 trillion times the magnetism of the sun. 🤯

                                  Think it, be it.

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                                    WhiskeySandwich
                                    啓蒙家
                                    @mclaincausey
                                    Joined: 1 Mar 2023

                                    @mclaincausey either of those things, or anything hotter than the sun. If they're sustaining temps for near a minute or as it gets longer.... it seems like any kind of force like gravity would be attempting to overcome whatever is containing the heat source.... These things are just hard to wrap my head around. lol It's hard to imagine something that massive spinning that fast.

                                    "The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
                                    -Seneca

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                                      mclaincausey
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                                      Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                                      Gravity isn’t an actual force; it’s just the topology of space time. I think the collisions happen in man made vacuums but these are not total vacuums, so the minuscule weight of the colliding particles is probably not super incline to fall down the earth’s gravity well.

                                      Not a particle or any other kind of physicist so this is just conjecture.

                                      Think it, be it.

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                                      • RobeOfTheMagiR
                                        RobeOfTheMagi
                                        Haraki san Expert
                                        Joined: 15 Apr 2024

                                        Honey Badgers blow my mind. Seriously. Look them up!

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                                          Giles
                                          IHUK Crew
                                          Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                                          Did not exactly blow my mind, but I love how obvious the solution was with the benefit of hindsight.....

                                          https://amazing.caphemoingay.com/abraham-wald-and-the-missing-bullet-holes/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3zHAlULS8EDZGRvh2RL9GENtTwE5hq3BeQHlIqR4cMSZokPQdEl8sSWpE_aem_ARUTXEh8InNUzlaRwVTnfIuBR45ZmptxM4T7DyWhn3pttOAenp-jxEBObnTlMFD9wYfIcDSXGLTaO_3NzqXgdYaf

                                          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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