Mildly interesting

[George K]

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/uranus/in-depth/

Uranus is also one of just two planets that rotate in the opposite direction than most of the planets (Venus is the other one), from east to west.

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/uranus/in-depth/

Uranus is also one of just two planets that rotate in the opposite direction than most of the planets (Venus is the other one), from east to west.

That's why Venus' years are shorter than its days.

[Klaus]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/uranus/in-depth/

Uranus is also one of just two planets that rotate in the opposite direction than most of the planets (Venus is the other one), from east to west.

That's why Venus' years are shorter than its days.

Why does that follow?

[Aqua Letifer]

@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/uranus/in-depth/

Uranus is also one of just two planets that rotate in the opposite direction than most of the planets (Venus is the other one), from east to west.

That's why Venus' years are shorter than its days.

Why does that follow?

It doesn't have to, but the two are likely related. Something likely hit Venus back in the long ago to change its rotation. It's a theory supported by evidence but no it's not proven.

[jon-nyc]

[Horace]

@LuFins-Dad said in Mildly interesting:

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

Uranus is backwards. What's up with that?

Technically, that's known as a prolapse.

[jon-nyc]

[Mik]

That's mildly terrifying. But the difference between the burger and the picture is well proven.

Link to video

[Axtremus]

I guess we can start thanking people posting photographs of their food on social media. There you probably still have higher probability of seeing photographs of real food as served rather than fake food as photographed by professional photographers.

[jon-nyc]

Joe Biden secures his election to the White House exactly 48 years to the day after he was first elected to the Senate.

[jon-nyc]

[Aqua Letifer]

@Axtremus said in Mildly interesting:

I guess we can start thanking people posting photographs of their food on social media. There you probably still have higher probability of seeing photographs of real food as served rather than fake food as photographed by professional photographers.

The bigger the following, the less that's true.

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

Listen with sound on and imagine you were driving on the bridge and heard that.

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

@jon-nyc that's mildly interesting. Its orbital period is 249.94 earth-years.

[jon-nyc]

What the Mona Lisa would look like if it were cleaned.

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

@jon-nyc I could've used something like that when I was working.

Our place, for a while, used a hand-scanner that detected the veins for the purpose of ID.

[jon-nyc]