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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Kinda weird to put the sun in the center imo. Cause we're not the center of it all. But if you put the earth in the center and started spacing out from there it would be pretty cool IMHO
Well, clearly everything gets smaller as you go out.
Scientists Prove Universe Revolves Around Our Sun!
Some say that the universe only exists insofar as it is perceived. This is true, but we are not the observers. All of the world is a grand eye and that eye is spread across itself again and again. We are all but figments in the eye of the world, floaters thinking themselves eyes and seeing nothing. This is all to say that the elf on the shelf is REAL and this image PROVES IT!
So the universe is flat, right?
Sand worm's maw.
I just say it's the universe version of the homunculus. I think that gets the idea across but only if they're even slightly educated. 😅
The firmament!
is that a reference to the epic band The Ocean?
Nope. Flat earthers.
Because of course now they'd start just quote-pulling from a book there's no way they've read. Can we go back to when they were just pseudo-scientific?
Oh i get it.... Wow, there's some janky wording in there!
Hal, is that you?
Louis Rossman had a video recently that I think applies here: don't give in to the premises of assholes. This was particularly directed at Gamer's Nexus and how Steve over there handles Linus, but it's good life advice for anyone. I had a roommate that I was thinking of in this regard, and I wish I had this advice at the time.
There are people in this world who try to set conditions for their own benefit at the expense of you. Don't let them do that. This image is a good example; it's a perfectly valid model for certain use cases. Don't let anti-science idiots take that away with their stupidity.
Hell, I think the whole Final Experiment with flat earthers is an example of giving in.
Now and then I'll watch a Louis Rossman and Gamer's Nexus video but I don't follow Linus. Did something happen between them that I missed?
Oh, yeah, lots of drama.
Gamer's Nexus has always wanted to do very careful testing with wind chambers and sound chambers and such. They've been building that sort of thing up over the last few years, but the options for that are at the limits of what they can invest in at their level. However, they're also very careful about how they do it and document everything.
Now, Linus Media Group was putting together the same sort of lab, but they don't have the same reputation that Gamer's Nexus does on being careful and taking your time to get it right. Just the opposite, in fact. What they do have is the capital to invest in a much more elaborate setup. Then some of the staffers made a comment on video directly aimed at Gamer's Nexus and how LMG's lab will be better.
That's when Steve went gloves off and made a whole video detailing LMG's sins of poor reviews and staff that wish they could spend more time to get things right. Things like "this mouse feels bad when you drag it around the desk", and it turned out they forgot to take the plastic protective coating off the bottom.
This dominoes into a few other incidents that I'll spare for the moment so this post doesn't get too long. Suffice it to say, LMG lost a lot of subscribers because of a series of issues that were highlighted to the community by Gamer's Nexus, and then that opened up into even more things. It revealed how much LMG's internals are steeped in bro culture, just in case that wasn't obvious.
The two have mostly ignored each other since then, but there was one thing that recently surfaced it. Steve apparently had an old phone that had been doxxed some years ago, and he doesn't use that number anymore. Now, Linus and Steve had been texting at various times to Steve's new number. Linus recently sent a text to the old number, knowing that Steve wouldn't ever see it, and then claims on video that Steve isn't responding to his text on an issue between them. That's what prompts Louis to make the "don't give in to the premises of assholes" video.
Linus clearly set that situation up. Louis is more familiar with how people like that function, and he had to walk Steve through the logic of what was going on. That's the part that reminded me of my old roommate, because I was often in Steve's situation, and like him, I didn't recognize it for what it was.
Edit: s/Lewis/Louis/
For those wondering, this is a (cropped) version of a art piece called "The Celestial Zoo".
The original:
I don't understand what it shows. Instead of forcing me to make up some crazy shit, could someone explain it to me?
The further you look in the sky, the further back in time you are looking as well -- there is no way to see what far way looks like "right now". This image shows the visible universe as it appears from our perspective in spacetime, which necessarily smears together the "where", "what", and "when" of it all, but also shows the evolution through time of some of the larger structures.
The tendril things that converge into single celestial objects are clouds of gas condensing to form galaxies and clusters over billions of years.
I think its just a circular logarithmic representation of the universe starting at Sol
just
I've recently learned Americans don't do log tables in high school.
Log is the opposite of exponent, so log2 is the opposite of squared, log 3 the opposite of cubed. log4 opposite of x^4 etc
instead of making things relatively bigger, you're going the other way and making things smaller, in the diagram this means that if the sun's size is 1 unit, under log2 it would have to be twice as big as the sun to be represented as the same size as the sun, the closer you get to the edge the bigger it has to be to be represented as the same size as the sun
Not sure what Americans? It was absolutely part of our curriculum.
Log was absolutely a part of my American high school math curriculum, and while it may not make its way to everyone, many if not most Americans were exposed to it in school. But people have terrible memories when it comes to what they leaned in school, doubly so regarding math, quadruply so regarding higher-level math. Regardless of their level of educational exposure to math concepts, I certainly don't expect the average American adult to be able to reliably do any math they learned outside of elementary school, myself included, because after a few decades of not practicing, not even thinking about those concepts, that knowledge is almost certainly gone or at least covered in a very heavy mat of mental cobwebs.
Fractals all the way down.
But what about the attack on ganymede?
It reaches out it reaches out it reaches out it reaches out. One hundred and thirteen times a second, nothing answers and it reaches out.
Remember the Cant
The outer ring is made of 1-3 meter thick bedrock, but you can easily teleport through it. Just remember to bring enough material with you to make a portal to get back to our universe, otherwise you'll have to starve yourself to death and respawn without your gear.
This comment got progressively better the more I read it
Its obviously the eye of the goddess, who is a huge selfish dragon, which is why were all so screwed - we're nothing more than a microscopic mote in the eye of a selfish dragon lesser demi-god.
Wait, is this not common knowledge?
HyperRogue is an awesome game!
Idiot here. Is it proof that Fauci did 9/11 harbor to fake the flat moon landing on 5g vaccine autism with gay-hurricane-powered Jewish frog space lasers funded by Bill gates and George Soros?
The tooth is out there...
Proof that our sun is at the center of the universe and how IMPORTANT humans are in the universe
If you hate this image then why post it. Fun image but please work on your titles lol, my point is it isn't super good when you let some 1000 conspiracy theorists living in some niche forums live rent free in your head to such point they ruin cool images for you