Screenshot from hackernews where someone shares a link about how you can make spacecraft propulsion using antimatter and someone following that up with a video by Angela Collier that essentially debunks that point.

lol, lmao.

maybe i'm the problem, maybe i should just stop going on hackernews.

YouTube video by Angela Collier how antimatter spacecraft will work

mandatory angela collier video : www.youtube.com/watch?v=--eO...

no, my dude, people are not trying to make antimatter to make antimatter engines, that's not the primary goal, that has never been the primary goal, shut the fuck up

i don't know if that's better or worse than seemingly viewing every press release from cern through the lens of someone who has read way too many twentieth century science fiction, like this post from today : news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4597...

every hackernews post about a physics breakthrough has at least two smartasses whose only comment is "what are the practical applications" or "what are the civilian applications" and it makes me want to eat my own scalp

Alright! Let's actually talk about this waterfall thing. It is an amazing showcase of many things that I adore from late 90s/early 2000s graphics.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.

someday ill understand why i find non-fiction easier to write than fiction but that's not today

me, writing my highest single-sitting wordcount in a decade after taking my amphetamine-class-medication: i am become steven king

genuinely insane that there are people who think wind turbines do not look aesthetically pleasing

another victim to the serial killer known as pass-by-reference

90s nostalgia is incomplete without half your economy imploding

shout out to sabrina carpenter

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

A thread worth reading slowly.

It explains, clearly and straight to the point, why Loeb’s claims about #3I/ATLAS don’t hold up—not a matter of opinion, but of comet physics anyone can check.

The tail isn’t escaping gas, it’s dust pushed by solar radiation.

🔭 🧪 #science #comet ⚛️

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it could also be novelty effect at play but let's make that call when nanowrimo is done

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sometimes i truly am embarrassed about my more tech bro tendencies but,

the schematic line break convention is helping readability and surprisingly writability of my fiction projects as well
sembr.org

like sure the probing is still done with light from two combs, but it's useless without the third so what's the point

i think it should be illegal to have a paper that contains the phrase "dual comb spectroscopy" and then later it turns out you need three frequency combs to do it and not two.

Combination with a chain taco store

although part of me is convinced it's a bot replying to a bot

"so much in that excellent formula" is going into my thesis.

starting to see many blame "elon's downfall" on... grimes?

the fact that label size is there not once but twice and also some of the dimensions on the bottle is reported in meters makes me think they were clearly trying to build a coca cola tower

my queen

Lucy Mensing, 1940

Lucy Mensing, forgotten pioneer of quantum mechanics ⚛️

Lucy Mensing was born #OTD in Hamburg in 1901. In the 1920s she made fundamental contributions to the new quantum mechanics. Nevertheless, she is almost completely forgotten today. What did she contribute and what led

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John Carlos Baez (@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz) Attached: 1 image Lise Meitner, who discovered nuclear fission, is one of my heroes. She had to work twice as hard for everything, and did so much. The Austrian government did not open the universi...

Lise Meitner, who discovered nuclear fission and did the experiments that led Pauli to postulate neutrinos, is one of my heroes. She had to work twice as hard for everything, and did so much.

I tell a bit of her story here:

mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosb...

Game tagged with "Choices Matter," but they just mean "If you make the wrong choice, you die."

one of the most "how much could a banana cost micheal, ten dollars?" ass moment

it's truly astounding how much quality control arises from bsky feeds if you just block the annoying posters