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Be careful fighting gravity. If you win, it's a long way down.
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Be careful fighting gravity. If you win, it's a long way down.
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Sea Level

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They're up there with coral islands, lightning, and caterpillars turning into butterflies.
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They're up there with coral islands, lightning, and caterpillars turning into butterflies.
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jlvanderzwan
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Huh, I did learn a long time ago that having a big moon like ours is rare, but never considered the implications. Then again, I was also told that a lot of astronomers think that a moon like ours is required for complex life to evolve, because otherwise it would be reset constantly by big asteroid impact (same with gas giants like Jupiter catching most of them before they reach us). So maybe we should expect most intelligent life in the universe to think this is normal?
rraszews
2 days ago
"rare" is a very complex concept when you're dealing with the universe, because a thing can be "rare" and still happen billions of times.

Wavefunction Collapse

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Wavefunction collapse is only one interpretation. Under some interpretations, graduate students also have souls.
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Wavefunction collapse is only one interpretation. Under some interpretations, graduate students also have souls.
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I'm pretty sure the *actual* problem is a misunderstanding about what qualifies as an "observation", and honestly I still don't know exactly what does or doesn't count myself. So if anyone could fill me in here… (links to non-handwavey explanations accepted)
iustinp
3 days ago
Same here.

Dual Roomba

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I tried uploading it to a household appliance porn site I found, but apparently their content is limited to only fans.
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I tried uploading it to a household appliance porn site I found, but apparently their content is limited to only fans.
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JayM
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Hahaha
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Coastline Similarity

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Hey! A bunch of the early Cretaceous fossils on each coast seem to have been plagiarized, too!
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Hey! A bunch of the early Cretaceous fossils on each coast seem to have been plagiarized, too!
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motang
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lol

Cesium

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Someday I hope to find a way to mess up a recipe so badly that it draws the attention of the International Air Transport Association, the International Mathematical Olympiad, or the NSA.
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Someday I hope to find a way to mess up a recipe so badly that it draws the attention of the International Air Transport Association, the International Mathematical Olympiad, or the NSA.
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https://www.npr.org/2025/08/20/nx-s1-5507971/walmart-recall-frozen-shrimp-radioactive

Wait, this actually happened?
mareino
12 days ago
"I don't understand, we source our shrimp directly from fisheries in Bikini Atoll and Novaya Zemlya!"
rraszews
12 days ago
Okay, I had seen the headlines and just assumed that they routinely used low level radiation to kill bacteria in shrimp and someone turned the machine up too high, but this sounds much, much less explicable.
wffurr
11 days ago
There's some nice theorizing over at Funranium labs: https://www.funraniumlabs.com/2025/08/radioactive-shrimp/
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