Science!

[Mongrel]

That reminds me of a thing that I saw.

I like that the same guy also made this.

[Mongrel]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip-scale_atomic_clock

This is soooooooooo cooooooooooooooool

[Büge]

The title alone justifies this article: A Whale Blasted an Ungodly Amount of Ass Ham All Over Some Divers

[Thad]

Wait I thought blasting ass was good

[Mongrel]

Wait I thought blasting ass was good

If you read the article, it might well have been in this particular case!

[Brantly B.]

You can tell that article was written with a courageously straight face until it reached the editor's desk.

[Büge]

A forgotten pinhole camera in a beer can captured an eight-year exposure photograph

[Büge]

[Mongrel]

There's probably a million videos out there talking about old rocket technology, or NASA history, and especially the Apollo program, but this is just really, really cool.



It's mostly just an old engineer named Luke Talley who was on the IBM team that worked on the computing system of the Saturn V rocket, explaining pretty much everything related to the brain of the rocket, and it's just amazing. This guy has an incredible memory of not just of the processes and systems he worked on 50 years ago, but all the related parts and systems and he is fucking mesmerizing. It's really wild to see this much institutional memory about anything fifty years old in a single person.

Like it's clearly not going to rust because now he's a guide at this museum answering questions about exactly this, but here he gets to go on about it in so much more detail and length than you'd probably ever get as an ordinary visitor.

[Mongrel]

[Mongrel]

[mharr]

Wouldn't the curve of the banana align with its orbit?

[KingRoyal]

Reminds me of the Geostationary Banana Over Texas that was planned in 2007.

[Yoji]

What a majestic sight

[zaratustra]

aren't most bananas geostationary

[KingRoyal]

aren't most bananas geostationary

They are, but so far 100% are not so in the skies over Texas

[Mongrel]

[Esperath]

i'm sorry what

As soon as the tournament begins, hormones drive the competitors to undergo an intense physiological transformation that turns them into reproductive queenlike ants, called gamergates. Although worker ants and gamergates are similar in size, their internal anatomy is vastly different.

Dr. Penick and his colleagues compared the internal anatomy of workers and gamergates and found that becoming a gamergate not only caused worker ants’ ovaries to balloon to five times their normal size, but it also caused their brains to shrink by roughly 20 percent.

Workers that transformed into gamergates also experienced significant shrinkage of their central brain. Dr. Penick believes this is because the gamergates don’t have to perform cognitively difficult tasks

“Worker ants need a large brain to deal with these cognitive tasks, but gamergates don’t need to think that much,” he said.

[hngkong]

Ok, as a weirdo obsessed with ants and bees, I'm upset that I never noticed that until just now.
But seriously, ants (and bees) are fucking awesome:

[Mongrel]

As a collective, ants can deal with some pretty fucking wild problems, yeah.