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@mark said in Mildly interesting:
Eruption on Mount Etna (Sicily) gives the illusion of a Phoenix in the sky.
Or more appropriately Smaug but y'know whatever.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:
@mark said in Mildly interesting:
Eruption on Mount Etna (Sicily) gives the illusion of a Phoenix in the sky.
Or more appropriately Smaug but y'know whatever.
Yes! Of course!
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@mark said in Mildly interesting:
@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
Mercury is so dense an iron anvil floats in it.Cool, and by the same token I assume it would float on Mr. Biden.
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@Ivorythumper this is something, in all my years, that I never thought about.
Thanks for fulfilling my life.
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@Ivorythumper this is something, in all my years, that I never thought about.
Thanks for fulfilling my life.
@George-K said in Mildly interesting:
@Ivorythumper this is something, in all my years, that I never thought about.
Thanks for fulfilling my life.
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.
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@George-K said in Mildly interesting:
@Ivorythumper this is something, in all my years, that I never thought about.
Thanks for fulfilling my life.
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.
@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.
"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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@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.
On the bright side, it's not the worst way to get acid thrown on your face.
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@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.
On the bright side, it's not the worst way to get acid thrown on your face.
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Can we just agree there are no good ways to have acid thrown on your face?
Only non-witches get due process.
- Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
Can we just agree there are no good ways to have acid thrown on your face?
No. No we can't.
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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:
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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!
