Mildly interesting

[Copper]

@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.

[Copper]

Who remembers the 1986 Oldsmobile Incas?

[George K]

@Copper said in Mildly interesting:

Who remembers the 1986 Oldsmobile Incas?

God, you're old.

[Copper]

It reminds me a little of the Isuzu Impulse I owned around that time, it had a similar fancy dashboard

[Ivorythumper]

[George K]

@Ivorythumper this is something, in all my years, that I never thought about.

Thanks for fulfilling my life.

[Horace]

@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.

[George K]

@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.

[Horace]

@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.

[George K]

@Horace said in Mildly interesting:

On the bright side, it's not the worst way to get acid thrown on your face.

I'm still laughing....

[jon-nyc]

Can we just agree there are no good ways to have acid thrown on your face?

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

Can we just agree there are no good ways to have acid thrown on your face?

Those sorts of extremist views, devoid of nuance, have no place in this discussion.

[Aqua's Sister]

@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.

[Larry]

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[mark]

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:

https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2021/05/10/the-sodium-tail-of-mercury/amp/?fbclid=IwAR0uBH2psiYrKakwCf8sKSJ5fsfrj7AvyHwURndSWtLAfuZnm8-uqCrZymQ

[Aqua Letifer]

@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:

https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2021/05/10/the-sodium-tail-of-mercury/amp/?fbclid=IwAR0uBH2psiYrKakwCf8sKSJ5fsfrj7AvyHwURndSWtLAfuZnm8-uqCrZymQ

Wow that's rad.

[George K]

@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!

[mark]

Here is a color photo including the Pleiades Star Cluster, that was posted to the James Webb Telescope FB page.

[George K]

Human for scale: USS Gerald Ford in dry dock.

[mark]

@George-K That's a pretty big boat!