brandontaylor1
brandontaylor1 t1_jdnkjc8 wrote
Reply to comment by MajesticOuting in Tornado hits western Mississippi as storms knock out power for thousands. A town is 'gone,' resident says | CNN by A179E49GFZ68722R23
Colorado had 9 wildfires between 1980 - 2000 burning ~87k acres
In 2020 we had 14 fires burn ~810k acres.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Colorado_wildfires
Edit: I originally listed 1980-1990
brandontaylor1 t1_j6c6m31 wrote
Reply to There is a period around the year 2000 where you can usually distinguish which one of two movies is older based on the CGI and picture quality alone even if they were made only around 3 years apart. by Shamon_Yu
On this note, there are a lot of TV shows from the late 90’s - mid 00’s that don’t exist in HD. Early shows were shot on film, and could be converted to HD, and later shows were shot digitally in HD, but during that period a lot of shows were recorded on SD digital cameras, and we’ve got the best version we’ll ever get.
brandontaylor1 t1_j5qqgfn wrote
Reply to comment by lisa_frank_trapper in Playing Military Sim War Thunder May Get You Classed as a National Security Risk by Sorin61
I picked up a VR flight sim, and after several hours in it, I’m confident, that given the chance, I could crash a real helicopter.
brandontaylor1 t1_j2d6brr wrote
Reply to The difference between resign and re-sign is a hyphen but they essentially have opposite meanings by geebsnstuff
English has a whole class of words called contranyms. Which are words with identical pronunciation and spelling, but with opposite meanings.
I.E.
I was bound to a chair, on a train bound for Chicago.
The child cleaved to his mother’s leg, as the butcher cleaved meat from the bone.
Our new quantum scale processors represent a quantum leap in the field.
It’s a truly mad language.
brandontaylor1 t1_j08t5ac wrote
Reply to comment by SecurelyObscure in [OC] Cost of Carbon Zero - Historical Look At U.S. Funding of Fusion Energy by Metalytiq
We use gravity to store and generate energy all the time.
Perpetual motion and fusion aren’t really comparable. One we know is impossible and the other we know exists. It’s like comparing cats and unicorns.
brandontaylor1 t1_jefsup2 wrote
Reply to There really isn't any reason why north is always upward and south is always downward on maps. by GuinnessTheBestBoi
There is more ice in Antarctica than at the North Pole. This imbalance makes the South Pole heavier, so the maps have a natural tendency to self right. Like a Weeble Wobble.