horsetuna
horsetuna t1_jb7pezk wrote
Reply to When did this body type first show up? by Human1221
For vertebrae it started with fish. Four fins, head and tail.
A good book about the line of fish to vertebrate is Your Inner Fish by Shubin
For insects it started earlier.
It probably originated simply from practical reasons... You want your head at the front to sense where you're going, and you want waste behind you so you don't run into it/eat it again. The limbs on the sides therefore is the best spots (of course there are exceptions to this body plan... Sponges, jellyfish, etc)
horsetuna t1_jaiipb4 wrote
Reply to comment by Ape_Togetha_Strong in Ask Anything Wednesday - Physics, Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Science by AutoModerator
So how can this Hubble Horizon exist in a distance smaller than the observable universe? Everything outside that Horizon should not be visible because it's moving faster than light right
horsetuna t1_jai8ddp wrote
Reply to comment by mfb- in Ask Anything Wednesday - Physics, Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Science by AutoModerator
Okay but that doesn't really answer my question. How far away would they have to be to be moving at, from our point of view, the speed of light?
I see your line about the Hubble constant etc but it seems to be just a commentary about that distance, not how far away a galaxy needs to be to be moving at SoL.
And I use the word appears, because it would appear to be moving at the speed of light from our point of view on earth.
horsetuna t1_jahr0jm wrote
The further distant galaxies are to us, the faster they are moving away. So how far would they need to be to appear to move at light speed (even if we can't see them)?
horsetuna OP t1_jaf01if wrote
Reply to comment by maclaglen in where do karaoke DJs get new music? by horsetuna
Yes but obviously I wanted to know the details of the process. Obviously in this day and age most of the time it would be the internet.
horsetuna OP t1_jaeyirc wrote
Reply to comment by flamesbladeflcl in where do karaoke DJs get new music? by horsetuna
So they would go to these companies and basically buy the songs, like I might go to a bookstore and buy a book.
horsetuna OP t1_jaeyelz wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in where do karaoke DJs get new music? by horsetuna
Unhelpful response.
horsetuna OP t1_jaeydae wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in where do karaoke DJs get new music? by horsetuna
Yes but I want to know where to karaoke hosts get there official songs and stuff like that. For their karaoke machines
horsetuna t1_jaa0nch wrote
What?
horsetuna t1_ja8ih5x wrote
Reply to comment by Different_Big5876 in Turn it in to a fortress! by opum123
There's a house a few blocks away made of this although not as large
Curiously it's a few doors down from one with a Hobbit door.
horsetuna t1_ja8i5mh wrote
I ordered green onion cakes and got /frozen green peas/
horsetuna t1_j9ys1n5 wrote
Reply to comment by CrustalTrudger in Water on Earth is not Constant. Why ? by ItsDivyamGupta
Iirc some of it is also used in sugar production with the CO2 they absorb, as hydrogen
Eventually though the molecules will end up back in the atmosphere or other ways to recombine into water.
horsetuna t1_j6i5z8u wrote
Reply to comment by ux3l in Understand the gravity of the situation..... by anantzzz
Agreed.
According to the Guiness book of world records:
The most saline water body is Gaet'ale Pond, located in Danakil Depression, Ethiopia, with a percentage of salt by weight of 43.3%, compared to 40.2% of Don Juan Pond lake in Antarctica, 23.1% in the Dead Sea and an average of 3.38% in the world's oceans as a whole.
horsetuna t1_j4wchmy wrote
Reply to comment by cakedayCountdown in Extinction of the Dinosaurs: What did I miss? by cakedayCountdown
You're very welcome. Other people have also given some good ideas as well as more detailed explanations.
horsetuna t1_j4ts8uz wrote
I don't know much about why they thought the peninsula formed. The current crater from the chixulub impact is half under the land and half under the sea, and does not seem to follow the coastline as it is today.
Mostly what convinced people was the timing and size. Before the Alvarez team (father and son) found the iridium in the KT boundary, there wasn't any evidence that there was a meteoric strike at the right time of the right size. After they found the iridium, they looked for other records from mining/gas companies, as people wanted the smoking gun .. the crater itself.
They calculated how big a bolide would be needed to coat the earth in such a way with this amount of iridium and then calculated the size of the crater, as well as the age.
The crater had actually been known for a while but the company that did the surveys wasn't keen on sharing their info due to competition concerns (not specifically about the crater iirc)
Finally once the crater was found, dated and confirmed it was accepted more or less. Better climate modelling showing the extent of the conditions also helped the case
Many think it wasn't the ONLY factor though. But a contributing one. The last straw that broke the camels back so to speak.
For instance the Deccan traps in India is the remains of a massive flood basalt that occured around the same time and likely contributed to the situation with the bolide (some claim the impact caused the volcanic eruption, the shock waves converging on the far side of the planet where India would have been at the time. But less evidence for that).
horsetuna t1_j4eoiua wrote
Reply to comment by RandomPeculiar-17 in Why do we get headaches for so many different ailments? Why is it such a common occurrence? by j_a_f_t
Which one of these might be pressure from a foreign object or tumor?
horsetuna t1_j2z4uva wrote
Reply to comment by Weed_O_Whirler in How fast would a body fall to earth if there was no atmosphere to stop it from accelerating past a terminal velocity? by straubzilla
If I may ask, the rule/law that your energy must be zero is the Law of Conservation of Energy right?
horsetuna t1_j2cpa4m wrote
Reply to comment by BulletBill_359 in This better not have been done before by Jamz64
Professor Irving Finkel is an assyriologist and interested in Babylonian and Assyrian necromancy.
horsetuna OP t1_j2cng15 wrote
Reply to comment by returntomonke_- in Friendly advice... by horsetuna
May have to mute the entire sub for a few days.
horsetuna t1_j2c80j3 wrote
Reply to comment by Fuzzypikkle in This better not have been done before by Jamz64
I had a creative way of doing religion in a fantasy series I was writing
Only to find out a Babylonian priest from about 4200 years ago did it first
horsetuna OP t1_j2c0w57 wrote
Reply to comment by IrISsolutions in Friendly advice... by horsetuna
Something happened on twitter about a day ago and this sub went berserk. This annoyed many others. It snowballed from there.
horsetuna OP t1_j2byjdf wrote
Reply to comment by Historical-Serve5643 in Friendly advice... by horsetuna
I'm surprised it hasn't been done yet (may have been when I was asleep though)
Do take care of yourself!
horsetuna t1_jcsa4ew wrote
Reply to How different were the first horses domesticated by humans compared to modern horses? by clacker96
Current theories is that they were domesticated first as food animals, and then people found out how good they are at other things.
The first horses domesticated were very similar to przewalskis horse... Small, mowhawk mane etc.
(Genetics indicate that the przewalskis horse is not a true wild horse alas)
I thought the Royal Tyrell museum of paleontology had a good lecture on horse evolution but I can only find theirs on evolution of horses in the Americas. I'll link if I can find it. (maybe it's the same one and it mentioned the Przewalskis horse too)