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threelonmusketeers, to bloomcounty in 12 December 1980

Pear pimples.

threelonmusketeers, to bloomcounty in Bloom County Starts December 8

Where is “10 days”? :)

threelonmusketeers, to cyanideandhappiness in 9 December 2023

I must be uninformed. What is FLAC, and should I be using it?

threelonmusketeers, to lemmybewholesome in Just a blimp

Have there been advancements in materials or safety procedures since the Hindenburg that would allow us to safely use hydrogen as a lifting gas? It seems a waste to use helium for anything other than cooling big magnets.

threelonmusketeers, to programmer_humor in It's that time of the year again!
threelonmusketeers, to thefarside in 8 December 2023

If they go in the tube

Aren’t they attracted to carbon dioxide? They would go in the tube.

threelonmusketeers, to asklemmy in What phone do you sugest for your grandparents?

SOS doesn’t stand for anything. People made it up later.

Ah, so is it a backronym, then? Neat, I didn’t know that.

The original distress signal was CQD, which stood for “seeking you, distress”

How did they decide on those letters? Is it relevant that “CQ” sounds a bit like “seek you”?

threelonmusketeers, (edited ) to asklemmy in What phone do you sugest for your grandparents?

The “S0S” makes me more uncomfortable than it should…

Edit: My discomfort does not stem from the mere concept of an SOS button; It’s more subtle than that. If “SOS” stands for “save our souls”, does “S0S” stand for “save zero souls”?

threelonmusketeers, to asklemmy in What gifts are you getting for your friends and family members?

I saw that post too!

threelonmusketeers, to historyporn in Ponies aboard the ship 'Terra Nova' during an Antarctic expedition, 1910

It’s been gradually ramping up with things like the Inspiration4 and Axiom missions, but still relatively slow. Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight is further from today than the Wright Brothers’ flight is from Yuri Gagarin’s flight.

threelonmusketeers, (edited ) to historyporn in Ponies aboard the ship 'Terra Nova' during an Antarctic expedition, 1910

I can only assume it will be the same with space explorations (once we’ll get there).

en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac…

Orbital fatalities so far are just Soyuz 1, Soyuz 11, STS-51-L, and STS-107. We are still a bit early, but Space exploration has been surprisingly safe so far.

en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_fatalities_from_aviati…

There were many more fatalities in the early days of aircraft, though airplanes proliferated more quickly than spacecraft have.

threelonmusketeers, to upliftingnews in A Critically Endangered Sumatran Rhino Successfully Gives Birth In Indonesia

In this case, endangered species must be secured, contained, and protected against humans, rather than the other way around.

threelonmusketeers, (edited ) to mildlyinteresting in Unfortunate cropping of a phone notification

Is this not a screenshot?

Edit: Maybe not, there are some strange moiré-like patterns surrounding the text…

threelonmusketeers, to science_memes in And that, my friends, is the Pleistocene.

For real?!

Yup: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano

Though its main use was as fertilizer, Guano was also sought for the production of gunpowder.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_nitrate#From_cave…

Major natural sources of potassium nitrate were the deposits crystallizing from cave walls and the accumulations of bat guano in caves. Extraction is accomplished by immersing the guano in water for a day, filtering, and harvesting the crystals in the filtered water.

threelonmusketeers, to thefarside in 25 November 2023

waste

Waist or waste?

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