So I’m not bothered by the inconsistent scale… but why is there a dinosaur peeking through the bottom of the 1889 column?!

On the other hand, show me a universe you made, and I’ll be impressed!

No mention of an eighth day in that story - we’re still in the “god rested” day!

They even have the same fix - just post somewhere quietly that it’s “entertainment”

It’s faster, cleaner, and far more efficient for me to clean my kids’ dinner plates.

And if I always do it, they’ll never do it on their own.

Okay, that makes more sense. Thanks for the clarification!

Iirc, there’s speculation that neanderthals needed something like 3000 calories per day just to sustain themselves.

We may have just survived because we can go leaner.

From a very cursory Wikipedia check, hominini includes chimpanzees?

I might have missed something - you’re saying anthropologists consider all hominins human? Including chimpanzees?

Wolfie will know!

So it lets us work out certain laws inherent in our universe? Wow, I did miss that implication…

Hadn’t heard of her before! The theorem sounds interesting, but the Wikipedia article is a bit dense - I got that “any system with symmetry will have conserved values”, but I got lost on the implications. Would you mind expanding on her theorem?

Vanilla flavoring used to be made from castoreum, which is harvested from beaver anal glands

Like I said, I tend to move like this regardless; this just lets it actually do something!

One is lateral movement, the other is aiming. My deck’s offline at the moment, so I’m going from memory… but now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure I have the right stick set to aim. Then I have the gyro set to only activate when my thumb is on the right stick. Big rapid changes in direction I use the stick and the fine adjustments don’t much matter; then for fine control I hold the stick still, with thumb on top, and physically shift the deck to aim. Sometimes bracing my wrists on my knees or whatever’s handy.

Then when I end up angled weird, I lift my thumb and settle back in. My play style tends to end up with me twisting around while I play anyway, this just lets me harness it a bit!

I have mine set so if I want it to stay still, I lift my thumb off the movement joystick, turning off the gyro control. If I still need to move, I nudge from the side where the sensor isn’t

As I understand it, publishing lets others validate the science. You’re not just declaring what you’ve discovered, you’re showing your work - your sources, your data, your references, your processes.

After you’ve done all that, even if it’s crap, someone else expressing an interest in going through all that can be quite a compliment. Or, if you didn’t bother dotting all the i’s and crossing all the t’s, it can make you a mite defensive…

But yes, a lot of trash can be published. And since it is published, it can be shown to be trash, if someone goes to the trouble.

As I recall the exchange, Paul Ryan said at one point that RATM was one of his favorite bands. Morello was asked about it in an interview, and said something to the effect of “He can like what he wants, but he’s part of the machine we’re raging against”

If Tylenol caused autism, there would be a lot more support for trains in the U.S.

Go dunk your head! Seriously, you can see the effect in a pool - look at how well you can see things above and below the surface, go underwater, and open your eyes. Things will be fuzzier.

You’re trying to reason away an effect that people actually see, and that you can verify independently. That’s the opposite of how science works.

For a scientific explanation, my first Google got came up with this - an article about some kids who do seem to see normally underwater. It also includes this explanation for our blurrier experience:

When the eye is immersed in water, which has about the same density as the cornea, we lose the refractive power of the cornea, which is why the image becomes severely blurred

…so what happens when you use goggles? Or a camera?

Lakes can be dirty, but you can see the same effect in a pool. Or your bathtub.