Fun fact: the guys at our college’s geology department prop out the doors with their samples. I totally understand why but as someone whose work with samples is necessarily super delicate and sterile it fucks me up so bad
lol idk if you watch nautilus live at all but watching them process bio & geo samples side by side evokes exactly this Thing (the descriptions are gold too… “here are the 30 steps we use to preserve bio samples, and as for rocks, well, we let them dry, bag them, & put them in the Rock Box)
Good to know there’s enough Biologist Salt™ to go around
Paleontologists occupy a weird and highly uncomfortable slice of this Venn Diagram
in my own experience with geology most precautions with samples are to preserve the life and safety of the geologist, most of the rocks are fine.
i am continually reminded of one of my colleagues, who wanted to collect a sample of gypsum on a field excursion but was too lazy to take off his backpack and get his rock hammer. so he said “eh, it’s soft enough” just fucking punched the rock until a piece fell off like it was fucking minecraft
but celsius is so much easier! it’s based on the freezing (0ºC) and boiling (100ºC) points of water. and yeah, you’re not water, you’re human, but water is fundamental to life as we know it and humans are weird and inconsistent. don’t base stuff on humans. we’re not the centre of the universe. we kinda suck actually
and then you’ve got frricking kelvin (K), which is the scale you use for big spacey stuff that we use to calculate how everything in existence works, and it uses almost the exact same system as celsius. like, the degree is exactly the same, except that kelvin is 273.15 degrees lower. but fahrenheit is ???????????? who even knows how to convert that. it’s basically rejected in science. u dont use it because it’s dumb and irrelevant and annoying. u dont need it irl either trust me im australian and i find celsius perfectly serviceable on a day to day basis.
anyway that’s why i hate fahrenheit and you’re wrong thanx for listening
Nah, Fahrenheit is still better
Fahrenheit is literally invalid because people feel temperatures differently. One person’s very cold is another person’s just right. Water doesn’t feel. Water is objective.
Human temperatures are not objective. Even the average human body temperature varies a whole 2°C. That’s a big difference to base a whole heat measuring system off of.
Celcius temperatures make sense based on what you see in the world around you. Is there snow? Is water freezing? Is there frost on the ground making grass stiff and crunchy? Its <0°C. Fahrenheit temps seem so arbitrary and don’t make sense fot day to day life, sorry.
Fahrenheit is an archaic form of measurement and it’s so extra too because of its larger unnecessary scaling. Celsius is much simple and more logical..
-1 to -10 to onwards: Freezing cold (high chance of snow) 0: Cold (freezing point. the fact freezing point in Fahrenheit is 32?? like whats the logic behind such a specific number.. whereas 0 is much more memorable and a better benchmark) 10: Cool 20: About room temperature 25: Hot 30+: Very hot
literally the fact America is like the only country using Fahrenheit while the rest of the world uses Celsius must be a sign that there’s something odd
things are going wild in the temperature fandom
0% heat to 100% heat of fahrenheit makes plenty of sense. 0 degrees freezing to 100 degrees boiling celsius makes sense. all of it is arbitrary numbers measuring shit. everyone will always find different temps comfortable regardless of system. whatever you’re used to will make the most sense to you.
the universe: okay, you’re a human. I gave you free will and a conscious mind, so you’re free to do whatever you want. So what do you wanna do?
human: GO FAST
the universe: well, you’re a perfect pursuit predator but if that’s the way you want to evolve, go ahead.
human, climbing on a horse: GO FAST
the universe: wait what
human, inventing the carriage, the car and the bullet train: GO FASTER
the universe: I IMPLORE YOU TO STOP
human, trying to figure out lightspeed travel: FAS T ER
human:
THEORETICALLY MAXIMUM FAST
the universe:
How will the people in the ship not get gibbed?
Because the warp drive doesn’t actually accelerate the ship, it just makes the space in front of it smaller and the space behind it larger. Or something.
it works like this
Objects cannot accelerate to the speed of light within normal spacetime; instead, the Alcubierre drive shifts space around an object so that the object would arrive at its destination faster than light would in normal space without breaking any physical laws.
A WRINKLE IN TIME IS COMING TRUE
We gonna be surfing gravity waves!!
COWABUNGA SPACE DUDES!
I love how mankind’s solution to ftl is just to bend to rules of reality a little.
Universe: ok human, with the physical laws as they are you can’t go faster than the speed of light.
Humanity: ok, let me just figure out how to manipulate space time so I can go FASTER!
That’s literally how the ship in Futurama works lol the professor says the ship doesn’t move at all, it moves all of space around it. Can’t believe Futurama was right
fun fact: there’s a real life math theorem (futurama theorem) created by one of the writers for the sole purpose of solving a plot in an episode
As we all know one of the more disturbing consequences of the current bout of human induced global warming is the rise in sea level, due both to the expansion of the ocean’s waters as they warm and to the rapid increase in glacier and ice sheet melting worldwide. Working out how fast it is happening and whether the rate of rise is accelerating is one of the most vital areas of research for our mitigation efforts, since if the rise is swift evacuating all the worlds coastal cities and replacing the infrastructure is going to be even more of a nightmare than it is already going to be (think Shanghai, Mumbai, New York, Holland, Bangladesh, London etc, the lowest projected rise by 2100 involve s shifting 150 million people, at least). We need the best and most refined projections in order to help us cope with the monumental changes that loom over our heads like a sword of Damocles, the only unknown variant being the speed of the increase.
Me: *falling asleep to an audiobook on the science of the gut*
Book: saliva is actually filtered blood!
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Book: saliva also contains a painkiller that is stronger than morphine, but we don’t produce a lot of it otherwise we’d be constantly high
Me: ʕʘ Д ʘʔ
Opiorphin is 6x stronger than morphine and actually contains an anti-depressant compound which is why some doctors believe it’s linked to comfort eating
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