What scientific fact blows your mind the most?
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This fact blows my mind the most.
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Yes, but have you considered [INSERT OUTGROUP] are bad? /s
To play devil's advocate, considering that in evolutionary terms we just left the trees now, we're doing okay, honestly. I just don't know if it will be enough.
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Actually, there's some contradicting evidence that came up recently-sh. If you factor in the challenge of not being fried by the very incoming light you need, every photosynthesiser is about the right colour for it's environment.
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I saw that recently too. There's some bug somewhere.
If you downvote it it goes back up to zero and everything.
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I mean, you'd have to be right near a neutron star or black hole for it to add up to much AFAIK.
Even being on the moon is enough to mess up clocks, though.
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Yep. The Higgs field interacts with matter, both holding the waves "in place" so it can seems like not a wave, and carrying a bunch of energy.
There's also mass-energy just in the very fast and powerful internal movements and fields of the nuclei and individual protons and neutrons (which are made of gluons and quarks). Not sure about the breakdown off the top of my head, though.
If you blew up an atomic bomb in a sealed container, it would stay the same mass, just with a noticeable contribution from pure electromagnetism.
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The false thing they teach is that air has to go over the longer side faster. Actually, it's under no obligation to meet back with the same air on the other side, and doesn't in practice. The real magic bit is the corner on the back, which is not aerodynamic and "forces" air to move perpendicular to it (eventually, as the starting vortex dissipates). A lot of aerodynamics is still more art than science, though.
The pressure difference from different volumetric flow speeds is real, it's just not that straightforward to produce, because air mostly does whatever it wants.
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now that would be revolutionary!
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I mean, it's not something for nothing. You still get drag at least matching lift to conserve energy.
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Here's a version you can scroll through to-scale. Patience required.
That would be wildly impractical for stars, so this diagram will have to do.
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Ah okay. Why not though? I thought mathematics as a whole suffers from a lack of proof of some of its axioms, which if disproven could spell trouble.
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Homo ignorans
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....? .... Oooooohhh. Haha that's some fine gallows humor.
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Moderately bad would be, for example, getting stuck in the agrarian neolithic for geological time because every significant technological advance leads to a devastating social collapse that wipes it away. If farming is already a new thing to the species, why shouldn't we struggle just to keep it going at a basic level?
I mean, it did happen that way sometimes, and history was shit, but progress eventually did come. By the 20th century there was little anyone from the paleolithic would recognise in Western life, but we adapted.
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Lemmy Easter egg. Gives access to Bizzaro Lemmy. They get a mustache. That's it.
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Yes, this is what I was thinking of, thanks for filling us in.
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