So correct me if I’m wrong, but during old Timey, hangings, when a neck was broken, it’s not really the same as instantly killing someone. Just that their diaphragm no longer works and they still choke to death, right?

Does size of a molecule play into how high in the atmosphere it can get? Like is it that the bigger ones get warmer and therefore rise like a box of legos or does the mass keep them generally lower due to gravity? I feel like I’m overthinking this and that the effects of molecular size to dispersion are negligible

This is a fantastic explanation. I was thinking it would all move together and was trying to figure out how a light years long stick would react. I was thinking that the whole thing would move at once and therefore information would travel faster than the speed of light.

Man, sometimes when things get cross sourced so much it makes me believe the meme. We’ve like three or four different books citing individual passages. But at the start we’re told to look at what Jesus was up to right before the fig tree bit. In the supporting sources we should ignore whatever was going on before the quoted passage. I feel like some bits of theology try to make the Bible into some kind of code book make-your-own-adventure that only the devout could possibly understand. I feel like there should be a bigger distinction between the Holy Spirits influences on scripture. Some of these hot takes read like RL Stein books.

Man, this kind of thing worked SO well for GM too…..

Well, they’re bones right? Special bones with a purpose. If I were a betting man I’d say that the lack of nerves never proved beneficial so they were just left behind. Natural selection leads to some great things and some damned odd ones too

Is there any reasonable way to use equations to measure the mass of a rogue planet? Like let’s say there’s a brown dwarf that got ejected from its system and is rolling through interstellar space without anything really being able to measurably affect it. Would we have any idea of the mass?

I as much of a household name as he is, I do wonder how many of his revolutionary theories are still kicking around.

I was trying to think of who wrote that one. Tip of my tongue moment. Thank you.