Shower thoughts

[ColdJ]

I think it funny when in a movie they come to some thousand year old temple and everything is ready to light and does, and all the ancient traps work perfectly as designed.

I'm gonna wash that grey right out of my hair. (insert tune here)

[Stormpilot]

Do bees burp?

[kerbiloid]

And it's also wonderful, how did the ancient Egyptians know what machine-gun ammo put into a sarcophag.

Isn't it the evidence of their prophetic wisdom?.

2 minutes ago, Stormpilot said:

Do bees burp?

Of course. And you eat it, calling their vomit "honey".

[Stormpilot]

Figs are pollinated when a wasp flies into one, gets trapped, and dies.

Spoiler

Why? Why? Why?

 

[cubinator]

23 minutes ago, Stormpilot said:

Figs are pollinated when a wasp flies into one, gets trapped, and dies.

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Why? Why? Why?

 

This is nowhere near the most baffling role of wasps in an ecosystem.

[Stormpilot]

1 minute ago, cubinator said:

This is nowhere near the most baffling role of wasps in an ecosystem.

Yeah. Honestly there annoying (and painful sometimes) but they do a lot to the ecosystem that bees seem to have the spotlight for.

[cubinator]

3 minutes ago, Stormpilot said:

Yeah. Honestly there annoying (and painful sometimes) but they do a lot to the ecosystem that bees seem to have the spotlight for.

Usually people think mainly of yellowjackets when thinking about wasps. But there are over 20000 described species and probably one for every other species of insect. If you learn to identify them, you'll find that a lot of the random bugs you see outside are actually wasps of various types. They tend to be pretty harmless.

Edited July 26, 2021 by cubinator

[kerbiloid]

Ants are of wasp descent, too.

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[ColdJ]

Does no one worry that the Antman movies kept mixing up the 2 sorts of ways to shrink and grow?

If you are more dense and strong when you shrink then you should still weigh the same but in a smaller area, and when you grow much larger you should weigh the same but over a much wider area and so should much weaker and be almost balloon like. Or if it is the remove matter to shrink and add matter to grow version, then should be light and weak when shrunk and heavy and strong when grow.

[cubinator]

9 hours ago, ColdJ said:

Does no one worry that the Antman movies kept mixing up the 2 sorts of ways to shrink and grow?

If you are more dense and strong when you shrink then you should still weigh the same but in a smaller area, and when you grow much larger you should weigh the same but over a much wider area and so should much weaker and be almost balloon like. Or if it is the remove matter to shrink and add matter to grow version, then should be light and weak when shrunk and heavy and strong when grow.

They explained a clear set of rules in the first movie and then immediately broke them. I never had high expectations in this regard after that (although the movie itself is quite fun)

[kerbiloid]

9 hours ago, ColdJ said:

Does no one worry that the Antman movies kept mixing up the 2 sorts of ways to shrink and grow?

If you are more dense and strong when you shrink then you should still weigh the same but in a smaller area, and when you grow much larger you should weigh the same but over a much wider area and so should much weaker and be almost balloon like. Or if it is the remove matter to shrink and add matter to grow version, then should be light and weak when shrunk and heavy and strong when grow.

Compare to Pratchett's

https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Wee_Mad_Arthur

Despite of his shrunk size (can fit on a bird's back), has a kick strength of an strong man (and uses that often).
Eats per year as much as a normal guard per  week (but drinks per week as much as a normal guard per year). 

[ColdJ]

4 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

Compare to Pratchett's

https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Wee_Mad_Arthur

Despite of his shrunk size (can fit on a bird's back), has a kick strength of an strong man (and uses that often).
Eats per year as much as a normal guard per  week (but drinks per week as much as a normal guard per year). 

Never could get into The Terry Pratchett books, though strangely I like the tele movies. That person is in a magic world. In a physics world it is either space between atoms or the adding and subtraction of matter.

[Dientus]

Standing there I can't help but wonder, am I not aggressive enough? I am so different now than I was just 20 years ago, but is it better or worse?

[ColdJ]

16 hours ago, Dientus said:

Standing there I can't help but wonder, am I not aggressive enough? I am so different now than I was just 20 years ago, but is it better or worse?

If you have gained wisdom then you are better. Aggression rarely works out well.

[Dientus]

2 hours ago, ColdJ said:

If you have gained wisdom then you are better. Aggression rarely works out well.

Point taken... Hey was just a thought while cleaning my tootsies!

[ColdJ]

Hmm, I wonder if tootsies roll?

[cubinator]

6 hours ago, ColdJ said:

Hmm, I wonder if tootsies roll?

Painfully. Not recommended.

Edited July 29, 2021 by cubinator

[ColdJ]

If the Borg turn Humans green, would they turn Kerbals orange?

[Admiral Fluffy]

No, the kerbals would destroy the entire borg fleet.

[kerbiloid]

The player is Kerbal's Borg. They are already green.

[Dientus]

I was thinking that I saw this question somewhere else, but I am still sitting here thinking...

Are Kerbals Borg, Zerg, religious zealots???

[kerbiloid]

They are mindless bodies possessed by the invisible spirit which they call The Player.

[ColdJ]

Oooh, some serious Zen thoughts in the shower today.

If Kerbals are Irish, do they celebrate Saint Kerbals day?

[kerbiloid]

Is that why there are no snakes on Kerbin?

On the other hand, their rockets aren't fueled with ethanol.

So, the truth is out there.

[kerbiloid]

The broomsticks in the movies have rather strange mechanical properties.

When somebody easily punches it against the knee, it always cracks in two halves.

When somebody heavily punches another one's shoulders, the stick in one piece, but the punched one falls down.