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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 day ago

So conditioned that NDT is talking bullshit and people dunking on him that I had to read it a couple of times to understand it.

[–] HeliosPhoebus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Screenshot from Rick and Morty S6E9 Bring forth the shears of stumping!

[–] chemicalprophet@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

I mean it would but I’ve known the scale of the universe since i still threw myself birthday parties…lol

[–] SandmanXC@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

TIL the sun is dark brown. Crazy the tricks our minds play.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Fun fact screens can't produce "brown".

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Science Journalists; Neil Degrasse Tyson claims dead pixels may actually be Mercury sized planets!

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Proof that light is a particle and not a wave?

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yes, but also both. (a simple example follows)

Think of it like you being at work or home. If I check your house, either you're there, or you aren't. If you're there, you're at home, simple. If not at home, you're at work.

Same with your work: either you're there when I check - or you aren't, therefore at home.

But before I check either location (it's understood that you are only in 1 of those 2 places), you are effectively in both places, and neither place, all at once.

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)
[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 5 points 2 days ago

Checkmate physicists

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Then you are either at work or at home. But until I check, you are out getting tacos.

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[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

How is the next transit of Venus not until 2117? That blows my socks’ mind. Seems like that should be happening very regularly.

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Same reasons for any eclipses :
.1- plane of orbits (the one for Venus and the one for the Earth) do not exactly coincide and
.2- because distances between objects are much larger than objects, including size of the sun.

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I believe you. Still seems wild that I will never see another one in my lifetime.

[–] Soulg@ani.social 2 points 2 days ago

It's probably more about how often it's visible in your part of the world than it happening at all if I had to guess.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 points 2 days ago

Praise the sun!

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

My socks were appropriately blown off but I still didn't get invited.

I tried wiping the dust off my screen 😭

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

so is basically the whole sky sun on mercury during the day?

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[–] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Imagine what the sun would look like standing on Mercury.

The morning of my birthday party I hung out with my physics teacher (it was a Holiday from high school) who's also an astronomer and we watched mercy transit the sun.

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