Shower thoughts

[razark]

45 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

How many illuminati does it take to illuminate a room?

They wouldn't, because they like to keep people in the dark.

[cubinator]

Since the sun is about 44% as bright on Mars as it is here, you might not need to wear sun shades when walking there.

[Bill Phil]

2 hours ago, cubinator said:

Since the sun is about 44% as bright on Mars as it is here, you might not need to wear sun shades when walking there.

Depends on how reflective the surface is.

[Kernel Kraken]

On 5/9/2018 at 9:29 AM, adsii1970 said:

Yeah, there is. If you don't want poop all over the place...

But the point is, you're constantly having to take the dog out... and in some cases, the dog gets separation anxiety. And that can be real fun...

Step 1: open door, dog runs outside

Step 2: dog drops a deuce in backyard

Step 3: dog runs back in

Step 4: said deuce composts into fertilizer for the lawn after a few months or so. We have the greenest backyard in the neighborhood!

Edited June 6, 2018 by Kernel Kraken

[kerbiloid]

10 hours ago, cubinator said:

Since the sun is about 44% as bright on Mars as it is here, you might not need to wear sun shades when walking there.

But since Mars doesn't have a thick atmosphere and ozone layer, UV should be more intense.

[p1t1o]

8 hours ago, Kernel Kraken said:

Step 1: open door, dog runs outside

Step 2: dog drops a deuce in backyard

Step 3: dog runs back in

Step 4: said deuce composts into fertilizer for the lawn after a few months or so. We have the greenest backyard in the neighborhood!

Dude. No.

[kerbiloid]

If a gum neutralizes the sour  in the mouth, why shouldn't it keep doing this in the stomach, when you are chewing it after lunch and swallowing the saliva?
Shouldn't it disturb the digestion? Or it's a choice: either teeth, or stomach?

[TheTripleAce3]

On 6/6/2018 at 12:36 AM, kerbiloid said:

But since Mars doesn't have a thick atmosphere and ozone layer, UV should be more intense.

1.14 diff in apparent magnitude tho?

[kerbiloid]

6 hours ago, TheTripleAce3 said:

1.14 diff in apparent magnitude tho?

So, sunglasses are still in fashion.

[NSEP]

Everyone who goes skydiving will die.

[kerbiloid]

Chess, too.

[NSEP]

If something happends 1 lightyear away and im seeing it right now, does that mean it happend 1 year ago, because the light had to travel 1 year, or is it right now, because if nothing moves faster than light, then than must mean time itself also doesn't move faster than light.

Whoa.

[Atlas2342]

18 minutes ago, NSEP said:

If something happends 1 lightyear away and im seeing it right now, does that mean it happend 1 year ago, because the light had to travel 1 year, or is it right now, because if nothing moves faster than light, then than must mean time itself also doesn't move faster than light.

Whoa.

Then, it happened one year ago, didn’t it?

[NSEP]

2 minutes ago, Atlas2342 said:

Then, it happened one year ago, didn’t it?

Wait, time travels at the exact same speed time does? Oh wait, yes! Of course!

[Atlas2342]

2 minutes ago, NSEP said:

Wait, time travels at the exact same speed time does? Oh wait, yes! Of course!

An explosion happens far away from you. The shockwave takes 60 minutes to get to you. When the shockwave reaches you, the explosion would have happened an hour ago. Same principle.

Also related, people who were born at the same time can be born a day apart.

[NSEP]

1 minute ago, Atlas2342 said:

Also related, people who were born at the same time can be born a day apart.

Yeah, because light has to travel a da.... here we go again.

[kerbiloid]

3 hours ago, NSEP said:

If something happends 1 lightyear away and im seeing it right now, does that mean it happend 1 year ago, because the light had to travel 1 year, or is it right now, because if nothing moves faster than light, then than must mean time itself also doesn't move faster than light.

So, Big Bang is happening right now. We can see it all around.

[NSEP]

On to another shower thought:

Lets say i go on a cruise ship with 4000 other people, jokingly tell my friends that the ship is going to sink, and later, the ship actually sinks. Is that a coincidence, or inevitable, because you would think that at least a few of the 4001 people on board would make a joke about the ship sinking?

[cubinator]

45 minutes ago, NSEP said:

On to another shower thought:

Lets say i go on a cruise ship with 4000 other people, jokingly tell my friends that the ship is going to sink, and later, the ship actually sinks. Is that a coincidence, or inevitable, because you would think that at least a few of the 4001 people on board would make a joke about the ship sinking?

It's probably likely that a few people would joke about the ship sinking on any cruise ship, so you could happen to be on the one that actually does by a slim chance.

[cubinator]

When people go to Mars, we should have scheduled 'waving times' set up by internet so that for a short time, people on Earth can wave at Mars and the astronauts can be waving back at the same time (this would be some compromise between Earth and Mars time involving either one group waving early, or the two groups waving in a bounce). Of course, nobody would be able to see the other group waving, but it would be fun to know there is somebody waving back.

[kerbiloid]

10 hours ago, NSEP said:

Lets say i go on a cruise ship with 4000 other people, jokingly tell my friends that the ship is going to sink, and later, the ship actually sinks. Is that a coincidence, or inevitable, because you would think that at least a few of the 4001 people on board would make a joke about the ship sinking?

The ship sank because somebody not joking about sinking has an evil eye.
He/she was thinking: "We are not sinking. It's OK. What can go wrong?", and that's a result.

3 hours ago, cubinator said:

When people go to Mars, we should have scheduled 'waving times' set up by internet so that for a short time, people on Earth can wave at Mars and the astronauts can be waving back at the same time (this would be some compromise between Earth and Mars time involving either one group waving early, or the two groups waving in a bounce). Of course, nobody would be able to see the other group waving, but it would be fun to know there is somebody waving back.

And we will easily recognize that moments from internet freezing, when all Martian users will be connecting at once.

Edited June 9, 2018 by kerbiloid

[cubinator]

10 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

And we will easily recognize that moments from internet freezing, when all Martian users will be connecting at once.

You wouldn't have to connect all at once. You'd set up a time in advance, then when the time comes everybody goes outside and literally waves at the other planet.

[kerbiloid]

7 minutes ago, cubinator said:

You wouldn't have to connect all at once. You'd set up a time in advance, then when the time comes everybody goes outside and literally waves at the other planet.

And myriads of Martian leechers resume torrent downloading at once.

Edited June 9, 2018 by kerbiloid

[NSEP]

For those who can't wrap their head around the fact that people used to live without near-instant communication and electricity, keep in mind that people 200,000 years ago, people rarely ever saw a geometric shape.

[StrandedonEarth]

For that matter, how long did it take to get from, say, New York to LA before the steam train was invented?