Random Facts Thread.
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Dejan Corovic
As above, so bellow
Sad thing about the above statistics is that closer one is to the home more chance he has that he will drawn.
Dejan Corovic
As above, so bellow
everybody probably heard that we share 98% of our genes with chimps.
But, did you know that we share 50% of our genes with banana? Not that far.
But, did you know that we share 50% of our genes with banana? Not that far.
AD1184
Celestial
What does the statement "time is moving faster" mean? That subjectively somebody is feeling the passage of time as occurring faster? I am not. Although there can be a perception of time moving faster as you age, because each year, for example, becomes a smaller and smaller proportion of all of the time that you can remember. When you are five years old, a year is 20% of your lifespan, and probably more of your total remembered life. When you are 40, a year is only 2.5% of your lifespan. I have also read of an effect that time can appear to be compressed retrospectively when you are under high stress for an extended time period.
Sunlight was never yellow, even before Covid. It has always been daylight white and that is how our brains have evolved to interpret the daylight spectrum of visible light. What are they trying to imply by this claim? Did they not learn of Newton's experiment to split a white sunbeam into its component colours, thus proving that white daylight is the summation of different colours, including yellow? The yellow sun is an artistic convention, not physical reality. Sunlight takes on a golden, yellowish quality just before sunset, and just after sunrise, as it passes through a larger column of air to reach you. Photographers have long chased this "golden hour" as it provides what many consider to be the ideal light, and it is also frequently depicted in representational paintings.
I saw somewhere else on the internet someone making the claim about time being faster and sunlight no longer being yellow. It perhaps demonstrates that, since Covid, more people are willingly falling victim to collective delusions.
Sunlight was never yellow, even before Covid. It has always been daylight white and that is how our brains have evolved to interpret the daylight spectrum of visible light. What are they trying to imply by this claim? Did they not learn of Newton's experiment to split a white sunbeam into its component colours, thus proving that white daylight is the summation of different colours, including yellow? The yellow sun is an artistic convention, not physical reality. Sunlight takes on a golden, yellowish quality just before sunset, and just after sunrise, as it passes through a larger column of air to reach you. Photographers have long chased this "golden hour" as it provides what many consider to be the ideal light, and it is also frequently depicted in representational paintings.
I saw somewhere else on the internet someone making the claim about time being faster and sunlight no longer being yellow. It perhaps demonstrates that, since Covid, more people are willingly falling victim to collective delusions.
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
Easy there Spock, I didn't interpret that literally and don't think it was intended to be. Nostalgia not analysis.
To me it suggests that times past were somehow less hectic, friendlier and warmer and there is perhaps some truth to that. Technology has rendered a disconnect, IMO.
To me it suggests that times past were somehow less hectic, friendlier and warmer and there is perhaps some truth to that. Technology has rendered a disconnect, IMO.
AD1184
Celestial
They seem to be literal claims that are being made lately. See, for example, this video at the linked timestamp:
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
Good grief, I had no idea that was a thing but am not surprised. There's the thing about YT and social media in general - any nitwit gets a platform and any nitwit that can speak well enough gets other nitwits who follow them. That one probably throws rocks at the Sun in protest.
I have been outside all morning and it certainly seems to be the same fiery orb that's always been there. My grandfather once pointed to the Moon very seriously and told me the Apollo astronauts had removed so many rocks it was now lumpy and I believed that. For a while, I was five
If gramps had a YT channel now saying that no doubt he'd have followers.
I have been outside all morning and it certainly seems to be the same fiery orb that's always been there. My grandfather once pointed to the Moon very seriously and told me the Apollo astronauts had removed so many rocks it was now lumpy and I believed that. For a while, I was five
If gramps had a YT channel now saying that no doubt he'd have followers.
