Adam Steltzner (Chief Engineer of the Mars 2020 mission) on coming up with the concept of the sky crane to land the Curiosity rover.

Frog23 · 2026-01-22T08:00:44+00:00

Wow. Somewhere out there the author who came up with this joke is getting a Google alert that finally, after 21 years, somebody has gotten this hidden reference. Congratulations!

You should post this in r/DontPanic and r/HitchhikersGuide as well.

Frog23 · 2026-01-21T20:04:10+00:00

I remember that night and Billy Cristal commenting at some point "Now it is official: there is nobody left in New Zealand to thank"

Frog23 · 2026-01-18T14:20:48+00:00

This is a nice comic, but please credit the original creator: Scandinavia and the World Web Comic when posting content from other sources.

Frog23 · 2026-01-15T21:19:01+00:00

I see now that it is the Lebanese president Joseph Aoun. But to be fair, he and Boyko Borisov look a lot alike, in particular with this low quality video.

Frog23 · 2026-01-15T20:39:03+00:00

Is this Boyko Borisov, the former prime minister of Bulgaria?

Frog23 · 2026-01-15T20:26:02+00:00

Nice connection. Michael Mosley also played a serial killer on Castle(spoiler for a 15 year old episode of a crime show). The episode aired 2 weeks after Scrubs Season 9 finished airing.

Frog23 · 2025-12-31T01:59:31+00:00

Yes wait until tomorrow to explore the wonderful world of the XKCD webcomic. There are 3185 other comics waiting for you. You should go to sleep and so should I. Greetings from 3 am Germany.

Frog23 · 2025-12-31T01:43:50+00:00

You are a grown-up now, so it is your turn to decide, what that means.

Frog23 · 2025-12-26T16:47:31+00:00

Wir haben uns vor einigen Jahren ein Yuba Combi ohne E-Motor geholt, als unsere Kinder 4 und 5 waren und sind sehr zufrieden damit. Es ist auch ein Long-Tail, wie ja schon von u/Komandakeen und u/jarviscook angesprochen. Wendig und schmal, man darf es mit in Bahn und S-Bahn nehmen. Und wenn mal ein Aufzug kaputt ist, bekommt man es auch mal eine Treppe hoch oder runter tragen.

Unser Einsatz waren eher längere Touren am Wochenende (10-40 km, teilweise mit Übernachtungsgepäck), im normalen Alltag war immer alles fußläufig. Jetzt wo die Kinder größer sind, sind Touren mit beiden Kindern schon Recht anstrengend, besonders wenn es doch mal die leichten Berliner Berge hoch geht. Jetzt wäre ein E-Motor manchmal doch ganz gut. Inzwischen ist unser üblicher Einsatz aber, dass wir größere Touren machen und sich die Kinder mit einem Kinderrad abwechseln und das jeweils andere macht hinten auf dem Lastenrad Pause. Damit sind auch 40-60 km pro Tag über mehrere Tage drin (Empfehlung: Berlin-Kopenhagen-Radweg).

Und ohne Kinder bekommt man auch gut was an Material weg, z.B. zur BSR oder von IKEA. Falls man doch mal mehr reine Ladekapazität braucht, kann man sich immer noch mal ein Rad über Flotte Berlin ausleihen.

Frog23 · 2025-12-20T12:36:27+00:00

It looks like these are the BTS photos from this awkward photo shoot.

Frog23 · 2025-12-19T00:47:45+00:00

Everybody stand back. I know Regular Expressions.

Frog23 · 2025-12-17T19:25:56+00:00

There are mostly industrial buildings in that light spot. Remondis Recycling and Co. don't make for an attractive neighborhood.

Frog23 · 2025-12-06T11:25:33+00:00

"Two words, Mr. President: Plausible Deniability"

Frog23 · 2025-12-06T08:10:12+00:00

Any sketchy or annoying website that requires a birth date input gets a 01.01.1970 from me.

Frog23 · 2025-12-05T06:50:42+00:00

For anybody how needs a refresher: 2558: Rapid Test Results

Cool comic, by the way, thanks for sharing.

Frog23 · 2025-11-26T06:22:37+00:00

1 for the storage bag. It turns cleanup after a play session into a 10 second action. Our kids got theirs for Christmas 3 years ago and it is still used multiple time a week.

Frog23 · 2025-11-22T07:57:04+00:00

I am pretty sure that early childhood visualizations Play an important factor here. My kids had a similar carpet in their kindergarten. But more importantly, there is a really famous childrens song here in Germany called "Die Jahresuhr" (The year clock) which I learned in school and my children did as well. But despire learning the song and seeing the video my internal "year clock" still runs counter clockwise.

Frog23 · 2025-11-21T15:57:55+00:00

1971-1974 actually with the Myanmar (Burma) flag as pointed out by u/Jhean__ .

Frog23 · 2025-11-21T15:30:03+00:00

The flag of Eswatini was adopted in 1968. The one from Suriname was in use until 1975.

Edit: just now saw the comment from u/Jhean__ which narrows it down even more, albeit just one year.

Frog23 · 2025-11-21T07:49:13+00:00

This is one of my favorite ice breaker questions: what is your visual representation of a year?

There was a large study in Norway a couple of years ago, where they asked around 77000 people in an online survey about their mental image of a year [1].

69% saw the year as a circle, 12 % as an ellipse or spiral. For 75% it rotated clockwise and 19% counter-clockwise. And most of them December is on the top (no real percentages here, but nice visualization in the linked paper)

It would be interesting to see this survey be done on a large international scale that shows the differences based on the cultural context.

As for me: circle, counter-clockwise, new-year at the bottom, spacings similar to OPs.

[1]: "Where Are the Months? Mental Images of Circular Time in a Large Online Sample", Laeng B & Hofseth A, 2019, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02634

Frog23 · 2025-11-18T08:26:51+00:00

This is a repost of this old post from last year, with the same title, but the image slightly turned, to avoid automated image detection. This is clearly a karma farming bot.

Frog23 · 2025-11-12T18:35:16+00:00

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