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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

Just goes to show this place is only one half step up from reddit.

This ancient repost keeps getting upvotes no matter how many times it comes up.

[–] Beebabe@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

I have two trainees and when they come to me with complex questions they’ve clearly thought out and debated it makes me so happy.

[–] IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Oh wow, to be jump scared by the Destiel fanfic writer I'm obsessed with (the stories not the person lol) in the wild.

Northern Sparrow is an amazing writer and talks often about bird physiology in her fics!

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

well yeh it's fiction. because birds aren't real.

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 13 hours ago

a bit absent are we?

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Scientist just discovered how to upload a picture to a bird. Non-drone theory isn't looking so good.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 points 13 hours ago

non-drone theory? what is this nonsense?

it's the 20last century.. fucking drones be everywhere..
and they talk to each other just like birbs.

how you defeat a patriot system or any other air defense? lots and lots of drones.

they're like the plague that is online bots, but they fly.
add a little AI to the mix and baby you got a stew going

[–] sewer_socialist@midwest.social 84 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the opposite outcome of one of my friends advisors. We went to the Roswell UFO museum as a lark. And one of the info panels said "this is potential alien metal panels, analyzed by a scientist, Dr. So and So" and we told the professor, who got really angry. "I said that I would look at what they had and it was all flattened pieces of beer cans, I told them not to associate me with this nonsense!"

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So you're saying he did analyze the metals, and that he couldn't conclusively prove that they weren't alien metal?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

This whole "it's comprised of an unknown element" thing that sci-fi likes to do is ridiculous in and of itself.

If aliens did turn up on Earth their starships would be constructed out of known materials, sure it might be some exotic alloy, or other engineered metamaterial, but we definitely understand what it was.

There's no such thing as alien atoms. Iron is iron.

[–] pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I think the most crazy thing we could potentially encounter atomically (that we theorize about but haven't seen) is material from the possible "Island of stability" that could be (much) farther along in the periodic table from things we've created.

For the uninformed, the island of stability is a range on the periodic table with atomic numbers in the ~170's (currently the element with the highest atomic number - how many protons in the nucleus - that humans have synthesized is Oganesson, with an atomic number of 118) where it is believed that nuclei will remain (more?) stable, rather than breaking down in microseconds after we slam other elements into each other with devices such as the Large Hadron Collider.

There are SO many challenges with even getting to 118. Getting higher than that is theoretically possible but so far we haven't worked it out. A super advanced civilization might have the means and/or dedicated the resources, and be the beneficiary of whatever properties exist in the advanced/exotic matter that we know nothing about.

That being said, we would still be able to analyze the materials and understand what we're looking at, even if our WTF meters are breaking from the overload because we don't know how they managed to achieve it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 13 hours ago

I, for one, love me some copernicium... truly magical stuff.

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'm still not convinced alien technologies would be totally incomprehensible to us. Some of it obviously will, but their tech will still adhere to basic fundamentals like levers, inclined planes, and wheels -- as well as fundamental forces like electromagnetism, kinetic energy, and pressure.

When you need to fasten two parts of machinery together, there are a limited number of efficient ways to do it. I fully expect bolts, nuts, and washers to be a universal technology. Same with focusing radiation; there are not many substitutes for lenses, mirrors, and lasers. When you need to move something around in gravity well, you're always going to need a wheel. If something needs to rotate, there aren't many substitutes for a rotor, stator, copper windings, and electricity. Gears, chains, and belts work just fine for transferring that rotational energy. Nobody is gonna go looking for exotic forces to perform tasks that can be far more easily accomplished conventionally.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Not wheels. When your technology is sufficiently advanced you un-invent the wheel and just hover everywhere.

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Its very important that they can only hover and not float or fly. If they could float or fly then you wouldn't be able to do cool car chases in a society without cars

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I know right? Who needs fire anyway?

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Replaced with plasma and lasers.

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Humans harness fire now more than all of history combined. And fire is plasma.

I'm just saying, even the lowest tech has never really disappeared. We still use rocks and steam in our highest technologies. There's no reason to think aliens would abandon whatever tech has worked for eons.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 170 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Pre-smartphone was a very different time.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You would NOT believe-… ok honestly everybody reading this already knows.

But there are SO many people that will offer confident unprompted incorrect advice on so many subjects while they have the sum of human knowledge in their pocket. Or they will ask some dummy for the answer while having that same access.

And the best part is that many of them use their literal human knowledgebase portal to send the wrong information!

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 points 13 hours ago

well yeh, because everyone knows Wikipedia is only 99.9901% accurate.

[–] hansolo 102 points 1 day ago (8 children)

There were literally phone numbers you could call and someone at a library would look up the answer to your question. In like, a day or so. And call you back with the info.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I want this job so bad. Do you know how much I know but never get asked about! I have to inflict it apon people to get it out ofy system.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Pfft, I bet you can't even tell me one interesting thing about minerals

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 21 hours ago

Here's a cross-over mineral and biology:

Teeth are not bone. They are made of a variety of the mineral apatite called hydroxyapatite (fluoride treatment converts some of it into fluorapatite, which has stronger chemical bonds).

Further, apatite is a homophone for appetite but they come from completely different root words.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Does Bronze count as a mineral for these purposes? If so did you know that the earliest form of bronze was arsenical and that large amount of copper deposits used during the copper and bronze age were contaminated by arsenic. This is probably what resulted in early blacksmiths being shamans, because they poisoned themselves while making their tools and went crazy.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll allow it, because A. interesting. and B. I can use my preplanned response:

Can the trap be a glacier? I want future archeologists to dissect my corpse much like how Ötzi who was probably a metal shaman based off of his tools and how far travelled he was. Though he was most likely a very early example, also he was most likely murdered.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

There used to be an address at some university and you could mail them photographs of insects and they would tell you what those insects were.

Usually it would turn out to be a beetle of some kind.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I have a friend who works for a library. They still offer this service. I don't think anyone under the age of 70 has used it in some time.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

my first job ever was at a library. dewey decimal system anyone?

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 hours ago

I worked in my college library, so no we didn’t use the Dewey decimal system.

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I really wonder what the other people thought, that they just landed on the core of their body? I suppose they could defecate while in flight, but man that would be a drag.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Probably comes from the old tale that hummingbirds never stop flapping their wings or they die so why would they need feet?

Hummingbirds, the real Speed and Crank stars.

[–] degen@midwest.social 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Is it a tale? It thought stopping would basically overclock the heart after too long. I saw one land the other day (possibly the first time I've ever seen that) and it kept flapping while hanging onto a twig.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 3 points 13 hours ago

I've seen 4 hummingbirbs on a feeder at once yet they are usually very territorial. and yes they do sit if your feeder has leg rests.

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[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I imagine everyone in the bar silent while he's on the phone, leaning forward, waiting to hear the answer.

[–] lemmyknow 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

my advisor: …yes

Girl stacking cups in the background: OH MY GOD!!!!!!

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!justguysbeingdudes@lemmy.world

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