Mildly interesting

[taiwan_girl]

@mark said in Mildly interesting:

Solar Cycle 25 is approaching solar maximum already, with far more sunspots than the model curve predicted by this point. Look at the sun today, and on this day last year

Maybe the picture on the left was taken at night?

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

I saw that the other day and meant to post it here. Fascinating.

Watch the video to the end everyone

[Aqua Letifer]

Fucking Bladerunner.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/txqca6/shanghai_residents_go_to_their_balconies_to_sing/

[mark]

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

[Aqua Letifer]

[George K]

@Aqua-Letifer is the last one Russian?

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

@Aqua-Letifer is the last one Russian?

Could be!

Seriously, this wasn't an internet search. Someone took all of those photos himself. Crazy.

[mark]

I almost started a new thread for this one as I find it quite a bit more than just "Mildly" Interesting.

The Sun and the four inner planets path through space.

More here: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/earth-move-universe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3qloAsenVX11AXAHZW7ssep0aM3TM5ATCHInS8nCfdICZicDwgm9gfCEw#Echobox=1649397537-1

[Klaus]

They got it wrong. Everybody knows that Uranus is the fixed point of the universe, so the Milky Way and the other planets move around Uranus.

[Horace]

It is said that an exploration of the wormhole connected to Uranus, known as the intestinocontinuum, has led many of our contemporary thinkers to embrace leftist ideology.

[George K]

@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:

They got it wrong. Everybody knows that Uranus is the fixed point of the universe, so the Milky Way and the other planets move around Uranus.

Somehow, I'm sure the German equivalent of a "Uranus Joke" isn't quite the same.

[Klaus]

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:

They got it wrong. Everybody knows that Uranus is the fixed point of the universe, so the Milky Way and the other planets move around Uranus.

Somehow, I'm sure the German equivalent of a "Uranus Joke" isn't quite the same.

Not a problem, we don't have a notion of humour anyway.

[George K]

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[George K]

Pangolins are bipedal

Link to video

[jon-nyc]

[Horace]

Link to video

[Aqua Letifer]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

It's also why "leading" isn't pronounced "leeding"—it was literally strips of lead.

And "mind your ps and qs" doesn't mean "pints and quarts", that's ridiculous. Glyphs are upside down and backwards, so it's very easy to mix up the ps and qs. It means, "make sure you don't fuck up with basic mistakes," not "watch how much you're drinking."

"Cliché" originally referred to lead stamps for stock art. These would be very time-consuming to produce, so the same ones typically got used over and over again.

"Stereotype" is another one. It was a saved layout that could be reused as-is without recreating the layout every time.

"Out of sorts" referred to an unorganized galley and glyph case.