When the great pyramids were being built there was still woolly mammoths walking the earth.
Humans can’t feel wet, what we’re actually feeling is cold. It’s why when you have a cold patch on a blanket or carpet you can’t quite figure out if it’s wet or not.
It’s actually an even greater level of abstraction: we feel the rate of heat flow through our skin. This is (kind-of) why plastic feels warmer than metal. Colder things don’t feel colder because they are colder. Colder things feel colder because they more efficiently sap heat from our skin. Wet things feel colder because water and other highly conductive fluids which have wet the skin (and are thus in direct contact with it) are much more efficient in removing heat, thus feeling colder.
This is so cool to know!!! Thank you!
Sorry these facts are actually useful, please leave. ;)
Oh yeah? Well menthol tricks your nerves into thinking they’re losing more heat than they are, so if you dissolve a tiny crystal of menthol in everclear, you can make a tincture to rub on a part of your body that’s sweating, and it will feel naturally cool for about ten minutes, reducing discomfort from both heat and sweat! How’s that for “actually useful”?
I feel like that’s like “you can’t see or touch the world or experience time, your eyeballs and molecules that never touch anything are just affected by magnetic and gravitational waves and translate that to feeling and experiencing those things”
Like I guess it’s technically true in that perspective, but effectively false
Somewhere bongos started to play…
Is that a Jumanji reference?
As long as we’re doing pyramids, Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than the construction of the Great pyramid of Giza.
Edit: someone beat me to it. Here’s another one. If you take the timeline of the Bible literally, the Israelites did not build a single pyramid. They would have been hundreds of years too late (and the Bible never references pyramids, just that the Israelite slaves built cities).
Also we literally can trace, at least with some pyramids, people who built them. They weren’t slaves, they were masons and craftspeople and levied labor - and from graffiti we’ve found, it was considered a pretty great honor to work on one. Even just from a religious angle, do you want heathens who you’ve forced into slavery to build your vehicle for ascension into the afterlife?
you can’t resurrect a horse
Hell I can’t
Arthur has a bottle of horse reviver that would beg to differ.
But you can beat one long after it dies
Not with that attitude
The eyes are the most sensitive part of the body. If they pull a hair from your ass, tears will come to your eyes.
We live on Earth v2.0
There was a body in our orbit and then another large body (neither were planets, I guess, since they hadn’t test cleared their solar orbits of other bodies) crashed into it. The heavier parts stayed in what became the Earth we know. The lighter parts coalesced into what is now the Moon. The Moon is slowly leaving us because it has enough leftover motion to do so.
Significantly more aluminum, calcium, titanium, magnesium, and silicon. My understanding is that a large percentage of the moon was the earth’s former crust.
I had this idea for a sci-fi short story that involved a long-lived alien that has been watching the earth since the solar system formed. It finally decides to speak to humanity and starts telling the story about how the earth formed from the collision of two bodies, and the humans are all “yeah yeah we know. Here’s a movie we made of it” and the alien is all “WTF? How do they know that?”
A quarter of known animal species are beetles.
I thought there were four Beatles.
Pythagoras (of Theorem fame) thought that beans were evil, and were also tiny humans.
https://thehistorianshut.com/2024/06/26/pythagoras-curious-relationship-with-beans/
Pythagoras advised followers to “abstain from beans because they are flatulent and partake most of the breath of life; and besides, it is better for the stomach if they are not taken, and this again will make our dreams in sleep smooth and untroubled” (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 8.1.24).
Later, in a passage insinuating that the problem with the beans potentially resided in mystic ritual purification issues, Diogenes Laertius wrote that Pythagoras called for, “abstaining from meat and flesh of animals that have died, mullets, gurnards, eggs and egg‑sprung animals, beans, and the other abstinences prescribed by those who perform mystic rites in the temples” (Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 8.1.33).
Finally, in terms of potential symbolic reasons for the bean ban, Diogenes wrote, “According to Aristotle in his work On the Pythagoreans, Pythagoras counselled abstinence from beans either because they are like the genitals, or because they are like the gates of Hades . . . as being alone unjointed, or because they are injurious, or because they are like the form of the universe, or because they belong to oligarchy, since they are used in election by lot” (Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 8.1.34).
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This is “God Impregnated me” level unhinged, but with lower stakes. I infer he may have farted once with an attractive partner and it scarred him.
I dunno sounds like a flowery way of saying they made his stomach bloat painfully and any time he asked someone else who was similarly afflicted, they confirmed the same, therefore his reverse survivorship bias caused him to believe beans were the devil.
Or he didn’t want to be around farty coworkers
Pythagoras was a cult leader. That’s the real story there!
I have uncountable ones and don’t know where to startXD
Me too, but I forgot most of them!
Use Cantor diagonalization
Start with the first one! SMH.
Sharks are older than trees.
The appendix isn’t useless it helps repopulate your gut bacteria after you’ve been ill.
Some people have their heart on the right side of their chest. Some people have all their organs swapped round - really confuses surgeons.
Our ability to feel social judgment and shame reuses the same neural circuits as physical disgust or nausea. This effectively makes it so you can take anti-nausea medication to temporarily make you less judgy of other people’s life choices.
Brb drugging my family with anti nausea medicine
If you mix Sparkling water with instant milk, you got the taste of spoiled milk!
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The most efficient base is e, cosmologists describe the big bang as a rapid expansion of spacetime that doesn’t say anything about it being the beginning of time it’s just the furthest back that can be currently measured, and the egg came before the chicken.
The specifications for all varieties of “9mm” cartridges (9x17, 9x18, and 9x19) actually call for a projectile with a diameter of 0.355 inches, which is actually 9.017 millimeters.
Similarly, the specification for .38 Special calls for a projectile with a diameter of 0.357 inches.
If you measure the barrel of any firearm chambered in any variety of 9mm, .38 Special, or .357 Magnum, you’ll find that they’re all ostensibly .35 caliber (0.350 inches).
Why? Well, the simplest answer is, things aren’t always what they’re called. In the world of cartridge designations, there are many, many such idiosyncrasies; these are only scratching the surface. I find this interesting because many people perceive cartridge designations as being very uniform, logical, and standardized, but the actual truth is far from that.
In some cases, the number is even made bigger just to make it sound more powerful, such is the case with .460 S&W Magnum, which is a more powerful version of .454 Casull, which itself is a more powerful version of .45 Colt, all of which actually fire a projectile with a diameter measuring 0.452 inches.
The barrels smallest diametral dimension has to smaller than the bullet, otherwise the rifling wouldn’t engage.
Is that what the 0.350" are referring to?
It’s also kinda funny how the most common rifle rounds are smaller calibre than 9mm, so if you ignore all the other metrics, most handguns shoot “bigger” bullets than most rifles.
The barrels smallest diametral dimension has to smaller than the bullet, otherwise the rifling wouldn’t engage.
Kind of, but not really. The bullet actually slightly expands from heating. At the same time though, if you measured the diameter of a cold barrel and a hot barrel you would get two different measurements. If the cold barrel is too tight of a fit the bullet has an increased chance of lodging when it heats up and expands.
This is why bullets moved towards copper jackets with some sort of other metal center chosen for various justifications. The copper jacket is soft, east to expand into rifling grooves, not hard enough to damage and wear out rifling, and can stretch a little if it gets too tight.
Really, the BIGGEST difference is going to be the casing, chambering, and pressure. It’s like how people talk about 5.56 and .223 being the same. They are the same only at face value of size and clambering, but very different on rated pressures. A rifle rated to shoot .223 should only shoot .223. A rifle rated to shoot 5.56 is rated for a higher pressure and can shoot both.
In the same regard to OP: 9mm, .357, and .38 special may measure the same, but all 3 chamber very differently and have different pressures.
He’ll, even 9mm has 9mm luger (parabellum) vs 9mm NATO. it’s the same round/casing, but again, different pressure. A gun that shoots luger (lower pressure) should never shoot nato. But a gun that shoots nato (higher pressure) can shoot both.
It’s also kinda funny how the most common rifle rounds are smaller calibre than 9mm, so if you ignore all the other metrics, most handguns shoot “bigger” bullets than most rifles.
True, but this is also why “stopping power” is then measured in ft-lb (foot-pounds) or joules for metric. Pistols may shoot bigger rounds, but at significantly slower speeds. Less powder for recoil control and less barrel length for pressure build up. The bigger size bullet is a compensation for the smaller gun. A rile with a smaller round has far more energy behind it’s round.
Sharks are older than fire! It took billions of years for Earth to get the oxygen levels and fuel (land plants) needed for fire. Earth is the only place in the universe where we have seen fire.
False! The Russians caught Mir on fire at least once. So fire has also been seen in low Earth orbit.
I don’t know. I can think of some space probes that were pretty fuckin’ fire.
Do stars not count as fire?
Stars are different fire? Nuclear fire?
Stars are not combustion, so technically no.
To be fair we can’t see other planets outside the solar system too well.
Sylvester Stallone’s name is “Sylvester.”
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I don’t see what’s unclear here.
