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Epicurus0319, in More like guidelines

Isn’t Rankine the Kelvin of Fahrenheit

runner_g,

Yes. And 0 people use it.

Epicurus0319,

It was invented by some scottish guy long before we had the means to measure things that would need it, and ever since that multibillion-dollar satellite thing fell to pieces even American scientists use metric units, we learn them in every grade level’s science class and our scientific community has this understandable atmosphere of regret that Congress was too lazy to completely kill off imperial units when they had the chance

LongbottomLeaf, in help
tissek, in trees are pretty great.

Trees in a way are just big sticks stuck in the ground. And we all know sticks are great.

marcos, in Seriously???

Hummm… Tokio, evidently.

prayer, in wave em like you just don't care
sheepishly, in trees are pretty great.
@sheepishly@kbin.social avatar

That is a very awesome big tree.

puchaczyk, in More like guidelines

I like that °C and K don’t point at eachother.

Pulptastic, in your time has come, mortal

My favorite class in grad school. Here, let’s derive the empirical laws of thermodynamics from first principles based on random movement of atoms.

troyunrau,
@troyunrau@lemmy.ca avatar

It was third year physics for me, and the professor opened with what was the paraphrased version of the above quote. One of the hardest classes we ever took. Very cool to see statistics used in a proof like that.

Mandy, in trees are pretty great.

Me who’s none of these: hell yeah, big tree

SuperJetShoes, in Seriously???

I hate that this is even a thing.

  • Godzilla is a metaphor (either intended or simply ingrained in the Japanese psyche) for Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • King Kong is a “Beauty and the Beast” love story

They are from different eras and are important films in their own way.

But we end up getting this shite because monsters must fight monsters, apparently.

It’s all a load of fucking shit and devalues the importance of each movies. It should never have been made.

Anyway, I haven’t seen the movie but Godzilla would win. Atomic breath. Come on guys, the monkey’s dead meat that you can’t touch for a hundred thousand years.

TrousersMcPants,

Shin Godzilla was great for following the original idea behind the first movie. Also that version of Godzilla would kick King Kongs monkey ass every day of the week.

Iron_Lynx, (edited )
  • Godzilla is a metaphor (either intended or simply ingrained in the Japanese psyche) for Hiroshima and Nagasaki

From what I’ve gathered, not quite. The film showed up around the time of the Castle Bravo tests at the Bikini Atoll. The bomb tested there turned out to be dirtier than predicted, and fallout made it to some Japanese fishing vessels. It became a bit of an international incident.

And then the original Gojira film launched. And one early scene showed a fishing boat, which went under in a bright flash of light.

Gojira, or Godzilla as he was westernised, was not just the personification of the bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was the personification of the fact that this could happen again.

One take on it that I’m copying

SuperJetShoes,

Yes, you’re absolutely right, I’d forgotten about that.

I think my main point is still valid though - Godzilla is a physical manifestation of the destruction that nuclear activity can cause.

As I read on another post somewhere: “Ask a Japanese, and radiation creates monsters. Ask an American, and radiation creates superheros.”

Iron_Lynx,

And that part still holds. As Godzilla moved (surprisingly quickly) from existential horror to pulp action, the radiation theme endured.

DroneRights,

Do you still like Pacific Rim though?

puchaczyk, in help

The other day I saw a video of a cuckoo chick being eaten by a snake and everyone in the comments were cheering. Nobody likes those bastards lol.

CuttingBoard, in Oopsie!

He must use Arch.

dope, in Seriously???

Godzilla is nuclear powered. Fusion in special cells.

Kong is powered by plot magic.

TheGiantKorean, (edited ) in Oopsie!
@TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world avatar

My move was a Five Guys frequent customer card with all the holes punched out. Who would pass up a free burger?

casmael, in I am so connected to the earth rn.

Wow very plant such identification impress

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