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Doze eps. ⚡
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Doze eps. ⚡
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If you like apples, you'll get a dose of bad-breath prevention.
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I'm about halfway through OneShot but the clover file won't open on my mac ;-;
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I'm about halfway through OneShot but the clover file won't open on my mac ;-;
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I'm about halfway through OneShot but the clover file won't open on my mac ;-;
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happy independence day
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Hi sir tell me a nice dream you had lately
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*Hug*
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I'm sick and tired of ppl making fun of those who wear masks in public. I hate you all.
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Hi sir tell me a nice dream you had lately
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Hi sir tell me a nice dream you had lately
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Hi sir tell me a nice dream you had lately
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Hi sir tell me a nice dream you had lately
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so I was listening to this song and a thought occurred to me: Earth's sun and moon look almost exactly the same size in the sky, but there is no natural reason for this, it's just an incredible coincidence which I think is so cool. Apparently the sun is 400 times as wide as the moon AND 400 times as far away. This is very unlikely and very satisfying
but as I was typing all this another thought occurred to me: IS it a coincidence? Since there is a such a thing as a "habitable zone," i.e. a planet can only support life if it is a certain distance from its star, it's reasonable to think that on any hypothetical life-supporting planet, one's star looks approximately the same size in the sky as the sun does to us. But what about the moon? Is there a correlation between a celestial object becoming a moon to a planet and this moon's mass/distance from its planet (i.e. its size in the sky)? Maybe not but that got me curious about how big various moons in our solar system look in their respective planets' skies. And someone made a thing about that which was really cool to see: http://umich.edu/~lowbrows/reflections/2008/jmaguran.1.html
That link has some really fascinating information I thought, especially in the table at the bottom. For the moons in the table, I calculated the correlation between their distance from their planet and their diameter. The correlation coefficient was just -.17, which is pretty weak with a sample size of 23 observations. So it does seem to be just a coincidence that our moon looks like a very similar size to our sun
interesting stuff idk i should probably be asleep or doing something productive
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Hi sir have you heard of this bundle
It's 1500 games for 5 bucks with all proceeds going to charity
Some of the games are usually worth 25 bucks by themselves so it's about 8000 dollars worth of content
I don't know if you're the gamer type but even if you're not there's a bunch of game creation tools and tilesets in there too to give extra bang for your exceedingly few bucks
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Mate do you keep up with the Dr. Stone manga? Some pretty wild stuff has gone down
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does anyone else just eat Nutella plain? surely it can't be just me??
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@Duality I wasn't expecting that but I should have been
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so I was listening to this song and a thought occurred to me: Earth's sun and moon look almost exactly the same size in the sky, but there is no natural reason for this, it's just an incredible coincidence which I think is so cool. Apparently the sun is 400 times as wide as the moon AND 400 times as far away. This is very unlikely and very satisfying
but as I was typing all this another thought occurred to me: IS it a coincidence? Since there is a such a thing as a "habitable zone," i.e. a planet can only support life if it is a certain distance from its star, it's reasonable to think that on any hypothetical life-supporting planet, one's star looks approximately the same size in the sky as the sun does to us. But what about the moon? Is there a correlation between a celestial object becoming a moon to a planet and this moon's mass/distance from its planet (i.e. its size in the sky)? Maybe not but that got me curious about how big various moons in our solar system look in their respective planets' skies. And someone made a thing about that which was really cool to see: http://umich.edu/~lowbrows/reflections/2008/jmaguran.1.html
That link has some really fascinating information I thought, especially in the table at the bottom. For the moons in the table, I calculated the correlation between their distance from their planet and their diameter. The correlation coefficient was just -.17, which is pretty weak with a sample size of 23 observations. So it does seem to be just a coincidence that our moon looks like a very similar size to our sun
interesting stuff idk i should probably be asleep or doing something productive
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Hi sir have you heard of this bundle
It's 1500 games for 5 bucks with all proceeds going to charity
Some of the games are usually worth 25 bucks by themselves so it's about 8000 dollars worth of content
I don't know if you're the gamer type but even if you're not there's a bunch of game creation tools and tilesets in there too to give extra bang for your exceedingly few bucks
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Hi sir have you heard of this bundle
It's 1500 games for 5 bucks with all proceeds going to charity
Some of the games are usually worth 25 bucks by themselves so it's about 8000 dollars worth of content
I don't know if you're the gamer type but even if you're not there's a bunch of game creation tools and tilesets in there too to give extra bang for your exceedingly few bucks