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The Sodium Tail of Mercury
May 9, 2021: The biggest comet in the Solar System is actually a planet. It’s Mercury. Researchers have known for years that Mercury has an enormous tail. Last week, Andrea Alessandrini photographed it from the balcony of his house in Veroli, Italy:
@mark said in Mildly interesting:
The Sodium Tail of Mercury
May 9, 2021: The biggest comet in the Solar System is actually a planet. It’s Mercury. Researchers have known for years that Mercury has an enormous tail. Last week, Andrea Alessandrini photographed it from the balcony of his house in Veroli, Italy:
Wow that's rad.
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The Sodium Tail of Mercury
May 9, 2021: The biggest comet in the Solar System is actually a planet. It’s Mercury. Researchers have known for years that Mercury has an enormous tail. Last week, Andrea Alessandrini photographed it from the balcony of his house in Veroli, Italy:
@mark said in Mildly interesting:
The Sodium Tail of Mercury
That's just damn cool. We tend to assume that, because we can't see things, they don't exist.
Radio telescopes, FTW!
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@mark said in Mildly interesting:
The Sodium Tail of Mercury
That's just damn cool. We tend to assume that, because we can't see things, they don't exist.
Radio telescopes, FTW!
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@Horace said in Mildly interesting:
It would be nice to imagine the vomit force being due to a rifling action of the neck, but alas, it's just boring ol' gravity.
As someone who, presumably, has never had someone literally vomit into your (unmasked) face*, you have no standing to comment in this thread, @Horace.
*1993, Sunday afternoon, ICU. Yeah, that was more than special.
@George-K said in Mildly interesting:
@Horace said in Mildly interesting:
It would be nice to imagine the vomit force being due to a rifling action of the neck, but alas, it's just boring ol' gravity.
As someone who, presumably, has never had someone literally vomit into your (unmasked) face*, you have no standing to comment in this thread, @Horace.
*1993, Sunday afternoon, ICU. Yeah, that was more than special.
So I do have standing? Yay me…
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Eggs from different breeds of chicken, natural colors of eggshell.
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Eggs from different breeds of chicken, natural colors of eggshell.
@Ivorythumper and they all taste the same, right?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Ivorythumper and they all taste the same, right?
@George-K No idea!
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
A “petroglyph” (new word to me) from 8000BC.
As interesting, if not more, is Göbekli Tepe, which has archeologists stumped.
It is a fully formed neolithic temple, which somewhat predates any stone founded city, and has no indication of the sort of human habitation needed to organize, build, and service a temple cultus. It seems to have been built by hunter-gathers (pre village, pre agrarian), who yet had 3 dimensional plastic art form of animals carved out of stone, rather than petroglyphs which were carved into stone.
10,000 year old art -- for reference these are more than twice as old as the Pyramids at Giza.
@Ivorythumper said in Mildly interesting:
@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
A “petroglyph” (new word to me) from 8000BC.
As interesting, if not more, is Göbekli Tepe, which has archeologists stumped.
It is a fully formed neolithic temple, which somewhat predates any stone founded city, and has no indication of the sort of human habitation needed to organize, build, and service a temple cultus. It seems to have been built by hunter-gathers (pre village, pre agrarian), who yet had 3 dimensional plastic art form of animals carved out of stone, rather than petroglyphs which were carved into stone.
10,000 year old art -- for reference these are more than twice as old as the Pyramids at Giza.
Just following this thread... I've been interested in Gobekli Tepe for about 20 years now. Within the past two years, a much larger and much older temple site (1000 or 2000 years earlier) has been uncovered about 30 miles away:
This gentleman holding his gentlemanly tool has been covered since about 10,000 BC
This is "Temple of the Penises" is the oldest know piece of architecture.
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Trivia: take a deck of cards and give it a good shuffle. You are pretty much guaranteed to have produced an ordering of the cards unique in human history.
Like if 8 billion people shuffled cards once a second for a billion years, the number of card orderings would be 1/(42-digit number) of the total possible.
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Trivia: take a deck of cards and give it a good shuffle. You are pretty much guaranteed to have produced an ordering of the cards unique in human history.
Like if 8 billion people shuffled cards once a second for a billion years, the number of card orderings would be 1/(42-digit number) of the total possible.
@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
Trivia: take a deck of cards and give it a good shuffle. You are pretty much guaranteed to have produced an ordering of the cards unique in human history.
Like if 8 billion people shuffled cards once a second for a billion years, the number of card orderings would be 1/(42-digit number) of the total possible.
On the other hand, given enough time, a monkey hammering away randomly on a typewriter would produce Homer's Odyssey eventually.
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
Trivia: take a deck of cards and give it a good shuffle. You are pretty much guaranteed to have produced an ordering of the cards unique in human history.
Like if 8 billion people shuffled cards once a second for a billion years, the number of card orderings would be 1/(42-digit number) of the total possible.
On the other hand, given enough time, a monkey hammering away randomly on a typewriter would produce Homer's Odyssey eventually.
@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:
On the other hand, given enough time, a monkey hammering away randomly on a typewriter would produce Homer's Odyssey eventually.
Before he got it right, he would miss it by just a few letters many billions of times.
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
Trivia: take a deck of cards and give it a good shuffle. You are pretty much guaranteed to have produced an ordering of the cards unique in human history.
Like if 8 billion people shuffled cards once a second for a billion years, the number of card orderings would be 1/(42-digit number) of the total possible.
On the other hand, given enough time, a monkey hammering away randomly on a typewriter would produce Homer's Odyssey eventually.
@Klaus A Bob Newhart sketch.
A roomful of monkeys, each sitting at a desk and banging away on a typewriter. Men in white coats wandering the aisles, observing. One of them stops, stares, and cries, "Jim! Jim! Get over here, quick!" The other man joins the first, who points to what the monkey had typed: "To be or not to be, that is the geframenplatz."
