This Blew My Mind!

[SKT]

This is why we need the Time Variance Authority.

[Nocturama]

Me, pretending to understand this thread, whilst wishing I hadn’t rewatched The Matrix yesterday…

[IrishHeart]

I only popped on here to look at the jeans.

[seawolf]

@Mizmazzle This honestly made me nauseated for a second as my brain tried to comprehend.

[seawolf]

That's enough internet for today, friends!

[Matt]

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.

[Giles]

Fuck off

[mclaincausey]

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

[Matt]

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

[goosehd]

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

[weftyarn]

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!

[weftyarn]

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.

[ARNC]

@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).

[WhiskeySandwich]

Crazy....

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

[Mizmazzle]

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

[mclaincausey]

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.

[SKT]

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

[goosehd]

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

[mclaincausey]

@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.

[WhiskeySandwich]

@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?