27. Astrophysicist, writer, artist. Michigan. Business inquiries: kaijunobiz@gmail.com
Mythbusters Physics: Relative Velocity
The Mythbusters tested what would happen if a ball was shot at 60 mph off the back of a truck travelling at 60 mph to see what would happen.
It became a perfect example of the relative nature of physics - showing that velocity can vectorially add together. 60 mph in one direction cancels the 60 mph in the other, meaning a net velocity of zero.
thanks, you discovered vectors. Fuck me sideways this is dumb
Yup, everyone has the same level of knowledge as you. There’s no one to learn anything from this.
Just to add, before the Mythbusters did this it was purely a thought experiment and had never been empirically tested at that point. So you are seeing in those two gifs the first actually test of that hypothesis since it had been proposed back in Newtons time.
As an astrophysicist I’d like to apologize for @surrenderless rude ass comment. We’re not all pretentious and like they said above, this was the first time this was ever tested. Imagine being so pretentious to something more profound like the double slit experiment.
Rest in Paradise, Ali
A true inspiration, unapologetically black, unapologetically Muslim, unapologetically human. May we encapsulate such character, passion and faith in all that we do and all that we stand for.
Season is a beautiful bicycling adventure where you explore & document a doomed world.
“Kimiko Nishimoto learned how to use a camera for the first time at the age of 71 and even furthered her skills by taking courses on digital editing to manipulate her images. While she mostly focuses on still life and nature photography, she has a series of hilarious self-portraits involving random costumes and staged falls.” (x)
a serious inspiration
Later in life goals
I just wanna talk about No Man’s Sky for a second because the map for that game is absolutely massive? There are 18 quintillion planets to explore in No Man’s Sky. It’s an online multiplayer, but the odds of running into someone are so slim it might as well be impossible. Like, there are 18 quintillion planets, across multiple galaxies, to explore. And that’s what you do! You explore and chart star systems! Boldly Going where no man has gone before! And I think that’s why I like it so much, tbh. I’m not gonna live long enough to like, actually explore the galaxies in real life! I’m not gonna live long enough to see people explore other planetary systems in real life! But you can get a taste of it with this game, a taste of what could be in the very distant future and fuck dude it’s just really cool
Okay, but can we talk about how the Paradise Lost one is meme text attached to one of Gustave Dore’s woodcuts for Paradise Lost
My tour of sadness through Megacon.
I CANT BELIEVE IM LOOKING AT A COSPLAY OF THAT ONE BIRD GIF
IT’S NOT JUST A BIRD GIF IT’S A VERY IMPORTANT BIRD OF PARADISE CALLED THE SUPERB BIRD OF PARADISE, IT IS FAMOUS BECAUSE OF BBC’S PLANET EARTH HOSTED BY DAVID ATTENBOROUGH OKAY
JESUS
IT STARTS THE DANCE AT 2:05
THE COSPLAYER DOES A SPLENDID JOB OF PERFORMING THE MATING DANCE AS SCRIPTED AND I THINK THAT’S VERY IMPORTANT
HERE IS WIKIPEDIA’S FRANKLY SPECTACULAR JUSTIFICATION FOR THE DANCE
The species has an unusually low population of females, and competition amongst males for mates is intensely fierce. This has led the species to have one of the most bizarre and elaborate courtship displays in the avian world. After carefully and meticulously preparing a “dance floor” (even scrubbing the dirt or branch smooth with leaves), the male first attracts a female with a loud call. After the curious female approaches, his folded black feather cape and blue-green breast shield springs upward and spreads widely and symmetrically around its head, instantly transforming the frontal view of the bird into a spectacular ellipse-shaped creature that rhythmically snaps its tail feathers against each other, similar to how snapping fingers work, whilst hopping in frantic circles around the female. The average female rejects 15-20 potential suitors before consenting to mate.
THIS COSPLAYER HAS TRULY CAPTURED THE SPIRIT OF THE BIRD AND ITS DANCE AT EVERY LEVEL
A man who has traveled to 217 countries in the world on visiting Iran
http://highlife.ba.com/articles/lessons-learned-from-travelling-to-217-countries/
#I’ll never forgive the leaders of this country for teaching us to hate Iran
She has a point
There are two situations in which I make extremely sure I’m going precisely at or below the speed limit:
This is both spiteful AND practical, because you can’t control whether or not they give you a safe following distance for the speed you’re travelling, but you CAN reduce the speed you both have to travel, having the triple benefit of
A) increasing the likelihood that they’ll have enough time to stop without rear-ending you.
B) lowering the speed of any possible collision and thus the severity and
C) Pissing the fucker the fuck off.
I feel so valid now
