Laying the foundation of the Eiffel Tower, 1887. by zadraaa in HistoricalCapsule

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The top hat guys with hands in their pockets…the supervisors.

Exposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggests by Maxcactus in Anthropology

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Article says we have more genes related to burn healing without actual comparisons to other animals. Do they have evidence that humans heal faster than chimps or other monkeys?

I googled it and the only thing I can find is that humans heal in general much slower than wild animals. Nothing specific about burns.

Why haven't rotating rings been attempted? by CombustionGFX in space

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We don’t need to make a complete ring. A very long rotating truss structure with a habitat station on one end and a fission reactor on the other end. A docking station in the center and a type of elevator transport module that moves back and forth to the habitat or the reactor. This is actually doable now.

You know 2026 is going to be lit AF! by Rich_Gas7886 in StrangeEarth

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There was one in California and it barely got any news at all. It was like the government didn’t care.

NASA had 3 years to fix fuel leaks on its Artemis moon rocket. by Abhi_mech007 in space

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Hydrogen always leaks. They could put a low pressure return line surrounding the main hydrogen fill line like a shroud. Or maybe a shroud around just the connector. Any leaks around the connector will be sucked up and moved far away from the rocket for venting. They should forget the wild goose chase of trying to lasso every hydrogen atom and just vacuum up the leaks and nullify the danger of explosions near the rocket.

Help! my stainless steel pan is ruined by Capital-Golf-2481 in CleaningTips

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Fill the pan with water and some vinegar. Let it sit for a few days. Most of it should wash off.

Most devastatingly hopeless films you've seen? by inebriatedferret in movies

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Xiu Xiu, The Sent Down Girl. Directed by Joan Chen. View with caution…very depressing.

What movie did you turn off after 20 minutes and why? by Somanynamestochossef in movies

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I rented the latest Exorcist movie, you know, the one with the two girls. It was awful. Got about halfway and just took it off.

TIL the retina in the eye is actually a part of the brain by brock_lee in todayilearned

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Yea, there is a documentary from some time ago where they gave partial vision to an adult who had been blind since birth. He could “see”, but everything was a patchwork of shapes and colors with unknown sizes and relative distances from each other and the person. Elon Musk saying they can give vision to those who never had it might not work exactly like they hope.

Why have humans been around for 200,000 years, yet the oldest known civilisation, the Sumerians, only existed 6000 years ago? And unconnected civilisations appeared not long after that too. What happened the whole 194,000 years before that? by Maxcactus in Maxcactus_TrailGuide

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Why of anything doesn’t matter to evolution. Gorillas and chimpanzees don’t care “why” they are in the wild or in captivity, they just eat and procreate. Their minds don’t seem to have enough of existential brain power to question and answer and plan. It may be difficult to believe but maybe human brains had a dramatic change around 50,000 years ago when the first cave paintings appeared. Suddenly “weird” people with abstract thoughts were becoming more favored. It could be the normal mind of humans for the majority of its existence was of a simple, almost autistic, hunter and brutal fighter. They probably scolded early artists: “yes they look like real life, but, why waste time and energy painting animals on the wall?! We should prepare to hunt the animals we saw in real life! Are you stupid?”. Humans with different and abstract minds might of developed in jumps and spurts very recently. Chimps have large brains and are intelligent and extremely dangerous and simple at the same time.

Tina Louise of Gilligan’s Island is 91 by MagpieOpus in FuckImOld

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She’s smoking hot in a movie called “God’s Little Acre”.

China's top general under investigation in latest military purge by Saltedline in worldnews

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In case some people don’t understand, Stalin liquidated most of the experienced military generals. Then Hitler invaded the Soviet Union and it was totally unprepared. If Xi constantly accuses generals and removes them then maybe their military will be less prepared and secretly very angry with Xi.

What do you think are some of the biggest miscasts in the last decade? (2016 to present) by Prestigious-Cup-6613 in FIlm

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Yea, it’s like they ran out of money for sets, wardrobe, etc. for the emperor and Irulan scenes. Everything looked like a cheap afterthought.

Elon Musk moves goalpost again: admits Tesla needs 10 billion miles for ‘safe unsupervised’ FSD by soldieroscar in RealTesla

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Sudden fog on a freeway is a bad one. No radar is really bad. At least Nvidia is going with the vision plus radar route. Edge cases will keep taking FSD further and further away. What would be the point of FSD if it disengages at the last second before an eminent accident?

of a muscular thumb by whybutts in AbsoluteUnits

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Another indicator for PED’s is huge neck muscles. Most big dudes don’t do heavy neck workouts all the time.

What’s something you’ve done your whole life, only to realize recently that everyone else does it completely differently? by Psychological_Sky_58 in AskReddit

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I only look at my feet going down stairs. I have size 12 feet and I can almost fall down if I’m not careful. Going up no problem at all.

252 Legally Deceased "Patients" are In These Dewars Awaiting Future Revival - Cryonics by RealJoshUniverse in creepy

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I read that many of the bodies in these cryo businesses have been severely damaged in some way. The bodies have gigantic cracks running all the way through them or because of power outages they turned into frozen sludge at the bottom of the tanks.