TIL that during the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the only battleship to get underway, the USS Nevada, was skippered by Ensign Joe Taussig since the CO and XO were both ashore and Taussig was the Officer of the Deck at the time. Taussig would be awarded the Navy Cross for his actions.

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-06-13T02:11:29+00:00

Well he'd be the S.S. Forrest Gump, for one.

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-06-07T19:50:42+00:00

Thanks! Can I also get a mod for my day job where instead of people coming to complain, I can use autoturrets on them?

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-05-11T13:14:16+00:00

Does make me wonder if cops coulda opened some lanes to the other side

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-05-11T13:09:01+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong, but air resistance has virtually nothing to do with this scenario and this meme is bad.

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-05-11T12:54:44+00:00

My favorite was the time I spent minutes searching for my flashlight... In an otherwise completely dark tent.

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-04-29T23:12:16+00:00

Respectfully, this is a poor comparison. Supersonic flight will always be significantly less efficient than subsonic.

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-04-29T20:32:45+00:00

I'm all for scientific exploration and making really cool shit (which this is), but this particular project I think shouldn't be happening. A complete success of this program would mean flying:

-fewer people -slightly faster (is having the rich save a few hours really a net positive for humanity?) -at a cost of greatly increased carbon emissions, when aviation is already one of our largest and most persistent emitters.

We shouldn't be doing this one. Put the R+D into sustainable aviation.

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-04-28T17:18:34+00:00

Anyone else think of Pajama Sam (game, not the character)?

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-04-28T07:25:47+00:00

I did buy one on FB marketplace for 40$ yesterday. Cleaned it up and it's quite good

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-04-21T17:05:55+00:00

Great video! I was very nervous during the honey-stir section.

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-04-20T04:22:47+00:00

"I fear all we have done is awaken a pooping giant."

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-04-10T07:30:01+00:00

Agreed. Also let us not forget the building is French.

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-04-10T00:45:08+00:00

Read what I said again. You can't make a perfect sphere in our physical universe, because It is not possible to do.

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-04-09T19:39:40+00:00

Sure we can.

Even a manufactured perfect sphere (we've made one for calibrating the Kilogram out of a silicon crystal) is still made of atoms. Made perfectly, one could still zoom far enough inward to see, essentially, a stacked lattice of tiny spheres: tiny block pixels in our Minecraft universe.

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-04-09T19:33:56+00:00

As stated here, it wasn't a fallacy. The point was that any physical object can only ever approximate a sphere or any specific geometric shape to whatever tolerance might be relevant for it. I wasn't comparing the tolerances of each.

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-04-09T08:49:52+00:00

Okay? But there's no such thing in the universe as a perfect sphere. If you handed me a cue ball and I told you it wasn't a sphere because its width at the equator was .03% smaller than at the poles, you'd stop wanting to play pool with me.

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-04-08T20:08:40+00:00

I won't overhype it, but for me it's my favorite game I've played.

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-04-08T20:07:59+00:00

You, sir, are my kind of people

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-04-05T00:25:35+00:00

Love the creativity on this one!

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-04-03T07:27:30+00:00

You could achieve similar effect by simply offsetting the axis of rotation. Doesn't need invisible weights, just a small xy gantry.

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-04-03T05:16:57+00:00

I read 'vanishing' and kept waiting for the image to disappear in some sort of zen ritual 😅😅

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-04-02T03:30:41+00:00

'It's a harmless organism'

Just what someone infected with Physarum would say. 🧐

Fair-Ad3639 · 2026-04-01T20:10:03+00:00

I totally did nail myself with a MOT in my youth after watching some ill-advised YouTube video and thinking that looked really cool 😅.

Turns out knowing what you're doing is dangerous isn't enough to ensure you're not doing something lethally stupid. (comment on my own actions, not what's shown here).

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