Mildly interesting
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@Ivorythumper this is something, in all my years, that I never thought about.
Thanks for fulfilling my life.
wrote on 3 May 2022, 23:22 last edited by@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.
wrote on 3 May 2022, 23:25 last edited by George K 5 Mar 2022, 23:41@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.
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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.
wrote on 3 May 2022, 23:30 last edited by George K 5 Mar 2022, 23:41@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.
wrote on 3 May 2022, 23:40 last edited by@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....
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wrote on 4 May 2022, 00:02 last edited by
Can we just agree there are no good ways to have acid thrown on your face?
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wrote on 4 May 2022, 00:07 last edited by
@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.
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wrote on 4 May 2022, 00:08 last edited by
@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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wrote on 4 May 2022, 00:30 last edited by Larry 5 Apr 2022, 00:37
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wrote on 4 May 2022, 00:46 last edited by
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:
wrote on 4 May 2022, 00:51 last edited by@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:
wrote on 4 May 2022, 00:56 last edited by@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!
wrote on 4 May 2022, 13:53 last edited byHere is a color photo including the Pleiades Star Cluster, that was posted to the James Webb Telescope FB page.
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wrote on 4 May 2022, 14:54 last edited by
Human for scale: USS Gerald Ford in dry dock.
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wrote on 5 May 2022, 21:54 last edited by
Posted on FB with the description:
Russian photographer Andrey Pavlov has taken one of the most impressive macro photos of ants you will ever see.
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wrote on 5 May 2022, 22:48 last edited by
That photo is almost too good to be real.
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wrote on 7 May 2022, 15:17 last edited by
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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.
wrote on 7 May 2022, 16:08 last edited by@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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wrote on 9 May 2022, 20:22 last edited by
Eggs from different breeds of chicken, natural colors of eggshell.
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Eggs from different breeds of chicken, natural colors of eggshell.
wrote on 9 May 2022, 21:38 last edited by@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.
