Amusing Science

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun May 23, 2021 10:41 pm

↑ Cool! Wikipedia has a ptycography page.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Mon May 31, 2021 11:31 am

https://twitter.com/weatherdak/status/1 ... 46689?s=21

xouper · Post by **xouper** » Tue Jun 01, 2021 12:29 am

NSFW: How mermaids are made! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTDNtcRsLZc

:P

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Tue Jun 01, 2021 3:30 pm

Dolphins are rapey.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Jun 01, 2021 11:51 pm

https://i.imgur.com/hUXjSj3.mp4

Flow field around a microorganism.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sat Jun 05, 2021 1:50 am

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sat Jun 05, 2021 11:19 am

https://twitter.com/techamazing/status/ ... 86720?s=21

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:55 pm

https://twitter.com/reedtimmeraccu/stat ... 78560?s=21

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Sun Jun 20, 2021 12:22 pm

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Jun 20, 2021 5:06 pm

https://twitter.com/calcon2021/status/1 ... 64800?s=21

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sun Jun 20, 2021 8:32 pm

There is no anime girl humping it so it cannot be safe.

– J.D.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:13 am

The blob fish is a lie

https://twitter.com/rainmaker1973/statu ... 71904?s=21

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Jun 22, 2021 3:15 am

https://i.imgur.com/sXzi9QL.mp4

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Tue Jun 22, 2021 1:33 pm

Organic chemistry is hard. Students studying it have alkynes of trouble.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:48 pm

xouper · Post by **xouper** » Wed Jun 23, 2021 11:29 pm

Witness wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:48 pm
Spoiler:

Re: Leidenfrost effect

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2009_season)#Lead_Plunge

A person can wet his hand and briefly dip it into molten lead without injury.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Jul 27, 2021 12:46 am

Identify bird song with an app: BirdNET.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Fri Aug 20, 2021 2:33 pm

https://twitter.com/amazing_physics/sta ... 45472?s=21

xouper · Post by **xouper** » Sat Aug 21, 2021 3:16 am

robinson wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 2:33 pm https://twitter.com/amazing_physics/sta ... 45472?s=21

Here's my guess: It's either fake or there is a hidden source of energy that increases the ball's momentum at some point. :dunno:

Ben Trovado · Post by **Ben Trovado** » Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:14 pm

Anaxagoras wrote: ↑Tue Jun 01, 2021 3:30 pm Dolphins are rapey.

Also jerks.

I and the ex had a "swim with the dolphins" outing some years back.

No reported raping. But between times, the dolphin would nab a fish and then play hackey-sack with it on his snoot. The fish would try to get away from time to time, and the dolphin would nab it by the tail, throw it into the air, and then continue until called by the trainer.

It wasn't hungry (he was fed by the trainer) and he did not eat the fish, he was just amusing himself by terrorizing an innocent passer-by.

And that night, someone kept knocking on the door and trying to break in to the hotel room. I thought it was the same dolphin, but he was wearing a hat and we couldn't prove anything. Clever bastard.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Aug 28, 2021 5:23 am

Land shark?

– J.D.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Sat Sep 11, 2021 7:07 am

The Bizarre Characteristics Of Uranus

No giggling, girls!! :x

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Sep 11, 2021 7:17 am

– J. "何？" D.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Sat Sep 11, 2021 1:32 pm

This research won an Ig Nobel:

Why Rhinos Fly Upside Down Over Namibia

https://assets.atlasobscura.com/media/W ... nging3.JPG

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Mon Feb 14, 2022 2:41 pm

The one in the thumbnail doesn't "actually" fly yet as far as I can tell.

Fid · Post by **Fid** » Wed Feb 16, 2022 3:58 pm

Trees are not your friend. My little pink butt stayed firmly on the ground. Pretty cool though.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Thu Feb 17, 2022 12:53 am

Fid wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 3:58 pmTrees are not your friend.

They emit CO₂!

– J.D.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Fri Feb 18, 2022 7:46 am

https://twitter.com/space_lectures/stat ... 12130?s=21

Ben Trovado · Post by **Ben Trovado** » Fri Feb 18, 2022 4:45 pm

robinson wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 7:46 am https://twitter.com/space_lectures/stat ... 12130?s=21

I had never heard that. Hm.

I must meditate on this.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:06 pm

Does saving Apollo 13 really make up for inflicting Jet Black on the world?

– J.D.

Ben Trovado · Post by **Ben Trovado** » Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:45 pm

Doctor X wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:06 pm Does saving Apollo 13 really make up for inflicting Jet Black on the world?

– J.D.

Fair point. They should have included that in the movie.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Feb 19, 2022 12:17 pm

https://twitter.com/ScienceNews/status/ ... 4007387139

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Feb 19, 2022 2:29 pm

Funny, when I first heard of that as a Wee Spud, the science teacher introduced us to the idea of friction.

Reading the article with the promise of "free" makes me laugh.

– J.D.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Sat Apr 16, 2022 3:16 pm

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Sat Apr 23, 2022 2:24 pm

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Fri May 06, 2022 12:50 pm

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Mon Jun 13, 2022 2:07 pm

This stuff is kinda mind-blowing to me. I don't know if it's your cup of tea or not:

Of the three, Sabine is easiest for me follow. Maybe because of the limitations of my own monkey brain.

Lee seems like a genius, but I have trouble groking what he's really trying to say. Paul is sort of in-between.

On the question though, it does seem like maybe something very different was happening at the very beginning of the universe, than what we see now.

And I do get what Lee is saying about how you need to explain not just "what are the laws of physics" but eventually, "why are there these laws and not other laws".

But some very smart people nerding out.

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Mon Jun 13, 2022 7:42 pm

The laws, as we call them, are the set necessary to create us.

Pretty simple really.

If they'd been even slightly different, we wouldn't be here wondering about it.

Wait around long enough and even the impossible will happen.

Our resident right wingers not withstanding. :)

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Mon Jun 20, 2022 2:21 pm

I am not saying it's aliens . . .

. . . but it's Creationism!

– J.D.