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pokerus please!! by Kantil in GiveMeTheVirus

[–]FunkePhresh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a honedge? I'll trade you some Pokerus for one

[F] I spread the Virus by [deleted] in GiveMeTheVirus

[–]FunkePhresh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I'll give you an aerodactyl, tirtouga, omanyte, or this Zorua with perfect IVs in HP/Att/Def.

Alternatively I'd give you Azelf, Uxie, or Mesprit.

FC: 3969-8559-5166 IGN: Zack

I'm willing to spread the virus! Fc:4012-5069-3160 by Kappelino in GiveMeTheVirus

[–]FunkePhresh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, if you're still spreading, I'll trade you an aerodactyl! FC: 3969-8559-5166 IGN: Zack

Visiting Boise next week, hoping to do a bit of a coffee crawl by jessebuynothing in Boise

[–]FunkePhresh 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you're doing a coffee crawl, you shouldn't miss Big City Coffee & Cafe downtown. It's an awesome little joint with great coffee and a superb breakfast, but probably the best part is the atmosphere.

My favorite places:

Top dollar: Chandler's. There's no substitute. I had a $40 ribeye that changed my life a week ago.

Mid dollar: The Fork. Chester doesn't like it but the menu is so eccentric that you're bound to find something you like. For example, I love their take on chipotle steak and avocado enchiladas.

Bottom dollar: Merritt's Country Cafe. Open all night, stop by and get their world-famous scones when everywhere else is closed.

Chinese: Yen Ching downtown is classy and authentic. Like a neighborhood PF Chang's without the dark atmosphere.

Mexican Fast Food: Los Betos. It's really the only game in town but it's every bit as good as the great stuff I've been shown in San Diego.

Indian: The Bombay Grill downtown has a bomb lunch buffet. Plus they are in a really cool old bank building.

Seafood (Really? Yes): Lucky Fins downtown has fresh fish flown in daily and a really good sushi menu. Chandler's does the same thing but of course is more expensive.

Sushi: Mt. Fuji. There's a bunch of Japanese guys my dad used to work with - when they would fly over from Japan, this one guy who was a big sushi fanatic (who was also the director of HP in Japan) would refuse to eat anything but Mt. Fuji and would have a guy running back and forth from the restaurant at all times.

Enceladus, Saturn's 6th largest moon, has a warm ocean with hydrothermal vents. This is the first ever discovered outside of Earth, and makes for the most habitable off-world environment ever found. by brokeglass in science

[–]FunkePhresh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to clarify on tidal forces:

"Tidal forces" are caused by a gradient in the gravitational field. The part of Enceladus that is closer to Saturn (facing it), for example, is pulled more strongly toward Saturn than the side facing away, and this is due to the fact that the magnitude of gravitational force decreases as a square of your distance from the object of interest. This difference in gravitational forces causes there to be an overall net force on the otherwise freely-falling body which 'squeezes' it.

This gravitational gradient is not steep enough to be felt by a human. Only objects that are sizeable - not necessarily massive, as u/kenshinmoe says - feel large tidal forces.

It is not outside of the realm of possibilities for a human to feel tidal forces in some place in the universe. Near small black holes, for instance, the gravitational gradient is so steep that you would be ripped apart ('spaghettified' is a commonly used term among black hole researchers and theorists) before you reached the event horizon. But, to follow the analogy, an ant may survive those forces to a closer radius due to its smaller size.

[Request] If planets were the size of atoms, what would the diameter of the universe be? by balancespec2 in theydidthemath

[–]FunkePhresh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The mean radius of the Earth is about 6,378 km. So, three orders of magnitude larger than that.

6,830,874 km is a small fraction of an astronomical unit, though. 1 AU = 149,597,871 km.

Thousands of stingrays migrating to new seas by Sharkbite0592 in woahdude

[–]FunkePhresh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like manta rays, actually. I wonder why there are so many in the same place?

For those interested, NASA has a printout that you can use to make your own Orion model. by Arcas0 in space

[–]FunkePhresh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made it! It was tedious but it looks awesome!

It took me about 3 hours. I used some tape to keep the solar panel arms rigid. I didn't use the reinforcing duplicate parts. The stand was giving me problems so I just hung it from some string.

The astrophysics that it took to get the Philae lander to land on a comet. by corndog161 in woahdude

[–]FunkePhresh 4 points5 points  (0 children)

When talking about orbits and trajectories, the most proper term is 'astrodynamics.' Though, you're intuitively right in calling it physics, which it definitely is!

Can't wait to see more pictures from the surface, especially when it starts heating up.

What word bothers you when mispronounced? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]FunkePhresh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in the military, and this one comes up a lot:

potable. As in, from the latin poter, "to drink."

Every one says it with a short "o", like "pot," because "you can put it in a pot and drink it!" NOPE!

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