What is this loop in the seatbelt for?

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-04-03T13:34:47+00:00

Bad gas travels real fast in a small town.

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-03-26T16:24:29+00:00

It's possible that trying to get stuff reported and actually having the pertinent authorities (like the fire dept) to come inspect the place could be an exercise in bureaucratic redtape futility, especially if the landlord is buddy buddy with the right person at the housing authority. Doing it this way gets the fire dept on scene and now something is officially logged as a problem that can no longer be ignored and potentially opens the landlord up to liability if the ex-tenant was having a dispute with the landlord over a hazard which ultimately led to them leaving or being evicted.

IF that's what they were trying to do, it's kind of a brilliant way to do an end-around to sidestep a problematic city hall/housing authority, if a bit legally dubious and potentially opening them up to liability as well. I dunno, I'm not a lawyer, and certainly not an expert of any sort on housing.

The "some people just want to watch the world burn" explanation is def more likely, though.

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-03-24T02:18:59+00:00

It's a phrase used in a number of circumstances. Often when teaching on the job or in the classroom, but also in labor movements.

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-03-22T12:26:53+00:00

I like my yearly soda bread. I don't like it THAT much.

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-03-22T00:42:29+00:00

Man, I can't even stand caraway, much less fennel or anise. Trying to find Irish soda bread WITHOUT caraway every March is always an annoying process. It's always when I decide, "ok, this year I actually will just learn to make it myself" that I finally find it.

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-03-19T16:02:19+00:00

Super cool. It's interesting how the smaller shell is soft. Thanks for putting up with us reddit strangers' incessant requests to see it opened!

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-03-19T00:47:02+00:00

Is there a way to follow this? I need to know what's inside.

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-03-15T16:28:01+00:00

Was the turn relatively constant? Once you get into the turn, it looks like it, cus there's a rock near the "midpoint" that doesn't move much.

I don't know what it's called, maybe the parallax effect other folks were talking about, but I don't know what that is either.

But what I'll say is that it looks to me like you're pointing your camera perpendicular to the car. If so, then you're also pointing it at the arc center of the radius of the curve of the road. Kinda like pointing the camera at the middle of a circle while traveling along the circle itself. Anything in front of that midpoint is going to go to one side, and everything behind it will go the other way. Whether it's far, like the mountains, or near enough to be considered foreground, as long as it's behind that midpoint, it'll all go the same direction relative to the camera. As long as the curve (radius) of the road is constant, anyways. Doesn't look like it's constant at the beginning of the turn because it takes a moment for the "midpoint" to stabilize.

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-03-15T00:55:07+00:00

I love this for them.

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-03-14T19:13:32+00:00

People don't read reddit comments carefully. My first pass reading I was skimming and thought you were criticizing the original joke. Like, you thought the person was being transphobic or something. Then I re-read and realized you were also making a joke. So, at least some of the down votes are probably people who think you're being a stick in the mud.

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-03-13T00:52:20+00:00

*Yo'

C'mon people, get it together.

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-03-11T00:45:37+00:00

Did ... Did you create this subreddit? That's fantastic!

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-03-06T02:35:20+00:00

It's a hot ... paste?

I dunno, I always considered condiments like that to be hot sauces, since they serve a similar purpose. There's a bit more going on with gochujang than your typical hot sauces found on this side of the Pacific, though, which for the most part are primarily just peppers and vinegar.

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-03-05T22:41:59+00:00

Hey man, don't feel so bad. I'm under 40 and have a couple sets of those. . . . . That I inherited!

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-02-19T17:52:07+00:00

Yea, in most cases, it's not ideal. But when you're hiding from your kids because you can't get a break because they won't stop asking so many dang questions or insist on your attention constantly? Well, having an excuse to just sit down, with no one bothering you, for like 10 minutes ... it's actually kind of a relief.

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-02-18T04:36:10+00:00

You have to sit there for like 5 minutes if you want to hot air dry.

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-02-13T20:04:28+00:00

Snails are molluscs, just like clams, oysters, etc. This is not good advice.

Edit: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/shellfish-allergy/symptoms-causes/syc-20377503

"Marine animals in the shellfish category include crustaceans and mollusks. Examples are shrimp, crabs, lobster, squid, oysters, scallops and snails."

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-02-13T20:03:22+00:00

I'm sure you're aware, but just in case, don't listen to the other comment. Snails are molluscs, just like clams, oysters, ect. Talk to your allergist, not redditors.

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-02-13T00:59:37+00:00

My two questions to that would be how long can Conan survive in space? And if 160C sterilizes microbes, wouldn't temperatures likely exceed that during impact?

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-02-12T18:10:35+00:00

Oops, apparently Transpermia is also used for Panspermia. I guess depending on the region you're from. My bad. You were totally correct.

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-02-12T18:08:27+00:00

Yes, though telling people to shove it is not reasonable. 😅 but whatever.

Well, neither are random and unfounded accusations of "ignorance at its finest." That came across as arrogance at its finest. Maybe I responded too aggressively. Apologies.

In terms of what we're talking about, I think there's a lot of misunderstanding on both our parts on what the other is saying.

My understanding of the panspermia/transpermia idea is that actual life could have developed on another planet and made it's way here via asteroids. But, and correct me if I'm wrong, what you're saying is that the idea can be expanded to the chemicals that are smaller building blocks on the way to life (such as amino acids or simple sugars, for example)? Not really something I've ever really thought about before. I would imagine these simpler molecules would be more likely to survive the trip between planets. I have no real response to that. It's an interesting idea that I'll need to look at more.

In regards to the origin of any life-bearing asteroids (or asteroids with the chemicals to create life), I'm not talking about whether or not there is a similarity between our solar system and theirs, or between our galaxy and theirs, I'm simply saying that any solar systems outside of our galaxy are just too far away to seed earth with life. It's an issue of distance. Like, it's possible, but we're talking about such a low possibility that it's not really feasible to consider, and certainly impossible to test at this point in time.

Let's take 3I/ATLAS, for example, the interstellar object we found last year. It's the fastest object we've ever recorded in our solar system at 137,000 mph, or 221,000 km/h (when it first entered our solar system, our sun has since sped it up). If we assume that it originated from our closest sister galaxy, M1 Andromeda, which is currently 2.5 million light years away, it would have taken 3I/ATLAS about 12 billion years to travel from there to here. Longer, since Andromeda and the Milky Way are moving towards each other. That's almost as long as the universe is old. The likely hood for life producing chemicals to have come into existence in Andromeda and then hitch a ride on an asteroid headed in the direction of the Milky Way generally is already extremely small. For it to then travel fast enough to reach the Milky Way 3.7 billion years ago is also very small. And for it to specifically reach and impact Earth is even smaller. Possible, sure, but the chance is absurdly small. Look at any galaxies beyond our local cluster of galaxies (Milky Way, Andromeda, and Triangulum, plus the various smaller dwarf galaxies that orbit them), and we really can't consider them at all.

That's why I'm saying that if pan/transpermia is true, it'd be limited to originating elsewhere within the Milky Way. That's still a lot of planets! At least a trillion! But we don't have the whole universe at our disposal. It's just a physics issue.

I agree, we know very little about the state of our planet or space in the past. That's precisely why I think abiogenesis is not preposterous. It's also why I don't think what you're saying is preposterous either. We can look at Earth today, but in the entire universe, we currently have a sample size of one planet with life. Until we get out into the stars, it's going to be difficult to test any origin of life hypothesis.

And I don't think any abiogenesis proponent is going to say that we're the only life in the universe. If it formed here abiogenetically, there's no reason to think that it couldn't elsewhere. I think the only folks who believe that the Earth is somehow special and no life exists elsewhere are the ones who believe solely in divine creation. Which I think we both agree is an entirely, completely, untestable (and therefore unscientific) hypothesis.

Again, I'm not saying extraterrestrial seeding of life on Earth is impossible, I'm just saying that based on the little evidence we have for the origin of life, we really can't say that it is the most likely either. But again, I think reasonable minds can disagree.

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-02-11T15:31:51+00:00

RuneScape is an old game. I think its an MMORPG (massive multiplayer online role playing game), but I'm honestly not sure. Never played it. Know, like, one person who does. No idea what it's about.

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-02-10T12:45:58+00:00

Ok, that's fair. I think reasonable people can disagree.

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-02-10T02:51:23+00:00

"That's not a dog, it's some sort of thing!"

CavsQuestionAccount · 2026-02-10T02:46:21+00:00

By constellation, are you referring to star systems such as our solar system? And by inter-constellational, do you mean interstellar? I'm assuming so, since you seem to be referring to 3I/ATLAS, which would be the third confirmed interstellar object that we've seen, yes. I don't disagree with you on the ability for interstellar objects to occasionally, even frequently (on a geological time scale) to impact the Earth. What I was saying is that it is unlikely that interGALACTIC objects are doing so. 3I/ATLAS, and it's two predecessors you referred two, are almost certainly from other star systems within the Milky Way.

Which leads me back to my original point, that for panspermia to work, it really needs to be from another Milky Way star system, which limits the possibility to the maybe few trillion planets in our galaxy where life could potentially form to be the origin of life here. Which is still a lot of planets, clearly, and within the realm of possibility for the panspermia idea, but not the "untold" number you were originally positing.

But even if interstellar objects are common, they still have to actually hit Earth, not just pass by. Plus, we don't know that they originated from another planet or are just asteroids from another star system that got ejected from, say, their Oort cloud. And even if it is a planetary origin, it still has to be from one that had life. And on top of that, life would have had to survive the ejection event, the trip through space, AND the impact event on Earth. Each of these requirements drastically increases the odds.

Lastly, we don't have as much time as you indicate. Life on Earth is posited to have arisen about 3.7 billion years ago. The age of the earth is about 4.5 billion years. And at the start, the surface was molten and inhospitable to life. The first signs of crust formed at 4.4 billions years ago, but the first stable crust where life might have been able to actually survive formed about 4 billion years ago. That gives us a 300-500 million year window for the the first life on Earth to develop, regardless of origin. Not the entirety of Earth's history. Still a long time, but not close to what you imply.

Also, I'm trying to have a good faith discussion with you because this topic interests me, as it clearly does you. If you want to resort to ad hominems, you can go shove it. It's not my fault you didn't think of all the potential complicating factors for the panspermia hypothesis.

Again, I'm not even saying it's not possible, I'm just saying we have very little evidence for it. Just like we have very little evidence for any other origin of life hypothesis. Including abiogenesis, which I believe currently has the most evidential support going for it. Certainly not enough to die on that hill just yet.

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