Shower thoughts

[cubinator]

Just think about all the crazy arthropods we don't know about that existed in past eras. 

[Atlas2342]

If you feel unimportant, just go outside.

Intense heat and pressure at the core of our star fuse atoms of hydrogen to produce helium in the process of nuclear fusion. This reaction releases huge amounts of energy as gamma rays that jump around, being absorbed and emitted. Finally, when these photons reach the surface, they’ve lost enough energy to become visible light. 

The photons travel at light speed, 299,972,458 m/s. Yet since the appoximate distance from the sun to the earth is 149.6 million km, it takes light some 8 minutes to reach earth. After that, the photons become scattered as they travel through the atmosphere and finally, finally reach the ground, only to be stopped by you.

[Kernel Kraken]

If a vegan wears leather boots are they still vegan? 

[Geonovast]

20 minutes ago, Kernel Kraken said:

If a vegan wears leather boots are they still vegan? 

No.  There is such a thing as vegan leather.

You will never find anyone who legitimately claims to be vegan wearing real leather.

 

[StrandedonEarth]

But... but... what about naugahyde? How many nauga's does it take to make a pair of naugahyde boots?

[NSEP]

52 minutes ago, Geonovast said:

There is such a thing as vegan leather.

 

[kerbiloid]

On 5/4/2018 at 5:42 PM, p1t1o said:

You've probably never thought about "bird milk" before, but is that because you are consciously aware that it cant exist, or merely because you've never thought about it until now?

I'm familiar with it since Soviet childhood in 1970s.
"Bird's milk" _{"Птичье молоко"}, kind of milky marshmallow in chocolate.

Spoiler

 

On 5/4/2018 at 7:40 PM, Earthlinger said:

If the genocide of a million saves ten times that number, is it justified?

This question always appears post factum. So, any answer is irrelevant.

On 5/4/2018 at 8:59 PM, qzgy said:

What would the asteroids be though?

Gluon rubbish.

On 5/5/2018 at 6:48 PM, p1t1o said:

But if you have to force an answer, sure, genociding a million is not as bad as genociding ten million, in such simple terms.

Think positive!
"How much will I gain if choose a million instead of ten?"

[Piatzin]

41 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

This question always appears post factum. So, any answer is irrelevant.

Mm. It's one of those 'at what point does the undeniably wrong become justified' questions

I kinda like them for some reason. Or at least, it's interesting to theorize what events could lead to such forced actions

No, don't send help. I already had my psychology appointment

[DAL59]

Today is the youngest you've ever been, and the oldest you'll ever be.

[StrandedonEarth]

1 hour ago, DAL59 said:

Today is the youngest you've ever been, and the oldest you'll ever be.

Are you sure you don't have that backwards? One thing for sure, today is the first day of the rest of my life!

[cubinator]

The Universe understands itself, at least to some limited degree.

[Kernel Kraken]

On 5/6/2018 at 12:12 PM, kerbiloid said:

I'm familiar with it since Soviet childhood in 1970s.
"Bird's milk" _{"Птичье молоко"}, kind of milky marshmallow in chocolate.

I'm almost certainly reading this wrong... But you were raised in the Soviet Union?

[kerbiloid]

1 hour ago, Kernel Kraken said:

But you were raised in the Soviet Union?

Definitely.

[Kernel Kraken]

9 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

Definitely.

Huh. Interesting. 

I don't know what to type to respond....

[Ultimate Steve]

From the perspective of the dinosaurs, we are all living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

[Piatzin]

15 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

Definitely.

Oh

That explains some

7 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said:

From the perspective of the dinosaurs, we are all living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Not really. Tens of millions of years have passed, and sure, the dinosaurs aren't around anymore, but Earth isn't a wasteland. It more than recovered. Post-apocalyptic? Yes, in a sense, though one could say that humanity's damage to the environment is the dawn of another one

Edited May 8, 2018 by Earthlinger

[NSEP]

To the solar system, we humans aren't much different than a disease is to us.

[Ultimate Steve]

26 minutes ago, Earthlinger said:

Not really. Tens of millions of years have passed, and sure, the dinosaurs aren't around anymore, but Earth isn't a wasteland. It more than recovered. Post-apocalyptic? Yes, in a sense, though one could say that humanity's damage to the environment is the dawn of another one

Well, technically, at least one thing is still post-apocalyptic... The atmosphere. (This is somewhat disputed but we have a general idea.) The atmosphere had a lot more oxygen than it used to, so most dinosaurs wouldn't live very long today.

[kerbiloid]

30 minutes ago, Earthlinger said:

the dinosaurs aren't around anymore, but Earth isn't a wasteland. It more than recovered.

Where. Are. Ferns.
?

[Piatzin]

2 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

Where. Are. Ferns.
?

All over the place

At least where I come from, in Vancouver, they literally make up 90% of the undergrowth

[kerbiloid]

That green and pleasant Antarctica...
They call it "recovered"...

Spoiler

 

[p1t1o]

14 hours ago, Ultimate Steve said:

From the perspective of the dinosaurs, we are all living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

And we are the weird, mutated, hairless beasts that survived.

[Atlas2342]

Edited May 9, 2018 by Atlas2342

[NSEP]

Dogs are just kids that look weird.

[Kernel Kraken]

8 minutes ago, NSEP said:

Dogs are just kids that look weird.

Cats are cheap knockoff dogs.