Mildly interesting

[Horace]

@Horace said in Mildly interesting:

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I guess it's not coincidence that the rungs are angled. When a rung hits the table on one of its ends, the rung rotates and the opposite end spins towards the table faster than freefall, pulling the ladder down with it.

[Copper]

Conditions improving from 2 years ago

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/CompareTwoWeeks.aspx

[bachophile]

Look again. It’s one picture. Not two.

[mark]

@bachophile WTF is that? It looks like a stubby cargo ship but what is the structure on the left?

[mark]

A woodpecker's tongue is so long that it wraps around its skull to protect its brain from over 1000g of acceleration when it's hammering away

Read more http://bit.ly/3XXIU7c

[Catseye3]

That really is interesting. I have often wondered how a little bird's brain survives those thunderous blows without rattling around in its skull like a BB in a bottle.

[mark]

The Hubble looks at the dust. The Web looks through the dust.

[mark]

@Catseye3 I didn't mean to reply to your comment with another Mildly Interesting post.

I meant to say. Maybe we should start a "Really Interesting" thread. But then I thought, who determines what is Mildly Interesting vs. Really Interesting? It's so subjective.

[bachophile]

@mark left of what?

[mark]

@bachophile It's just the strangest looking ship I have seen.

[mark]

The Earth’s Spinning Inner Core Recently Paused Then Changed Direction

https://hasanjasim.online/the-earths-spinning-inner-core-recently-paused-then-changed-direction/?fbclid=IwAR1S8_BW2SgL4nWq3zhca1HqzCs4teE2-Z2p6ZNV80mwFoOW-S5deuwVlFQ

[Catseye3]

@mark

Is this, uh, something to worry about?

[George K]

@Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:

Is this, uh, something to worry about?

What? You didn't feel it?

[Rainman]

When I was a kid we had this guy Newton somewhere in our school, and he made a bunch of laws.
As I recall something about something continuing in the same direction unless a force acted upon it. So, this "author" expects me to believe that a huge mass of spinning stuff can reverse direction in just a handful of years?
Ever played with an out of balance basketball? That's our earth! Literally like a basketball. Same color too.

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

I didn’t know much about these guys, other than driving by them now and then. Interesting business model, but I’ll stick to the NY Sports Club.

[jon-nyc]

Also the more I learn about franchise models the more they seem really predatory.

[George K]

[Horace]

@George-K Seems the invention of contraptions is an underappreciated piece of the moviemaking art. Someone oughta do a documentary series on that subject.