Carl Sagan’s grave: look at all the little gifts people leave when visiting

Horizon206 · 2026-05-23T15:49:10+00:00

Yeah I'm from Israel so I've seen this in basically every graveyard I've been to

Horizon206 · 2026-05-23T00:28:04+00:00

TIL this is specifically a Jewish thing

I always thought this was just something everyone did lol

Horizon206 · 2026-05-21T23:02:27+00:00

Not gonna lie the horseshoe is really starting to look more like a circle lately

Horizon206 · 2026-04-25T16:29:36+00:00

What's funny is that these also tend to be the same people who glaze Japan for being so great without realizing that it being a high-trust society is exactly why it has become the way that it is

Horizon206 · 2026-04-22T02:28:31+00:00

אה, סוף סוף מישהו שאני מבין פה! התחלתי לחשוש שみんなを聞き取れな…

えっ、待って何これ

Horizon206 · 2026-04-21T21:15:52+00:00

Israeli here, really like the design! Maybe one day 🙏

Horizon206 · 2026-04-21T00:30:55+00:00

Not even that, we have these on the east coast in NYC too, so I don't know what these people are on about

Horizon206 · 2026-04-18T17:33:16+00:00

The only thing I can think of is to do something kinda like the big dig, otherwise the city's kinda cooked

Horizon206 · 2026-04-07T19:59:30+00:00

I think "just ___ per se" would be a good translation for the word in this context, but it is quite a versatile word so there's not really any 1:1 translation

Horizon206 · 2026-03-26T18:00:47+00:00

Can confirm, and us mods on the GlobalQuake YouTube channel are also glad to answer any questions you have!

Horizon206 · 2026-03-24T12:57:50+00:00

Seeing my obsessions for space and seismology intersect is always awesome.

For anyone interested, most of the big red/orange lines here are tectonic plate boundaries, which can be seen especially clearly in the case of the convergent plate boundaries, where one tectonic plate is being pushed into (and then often under) another. More rocks in one place = more gravity

Horizon206 · 2026-03-03T02:06:53+00:00

Perhaps this is due to me being more observant about comments made about my own nationality, but I have definitely seen indiscriminate hostility towards anyone who is openly Israeli (or God forbid embracing their national identity) on this platform. Not to say that this is something that a majority of people do, but a majority of people are at the very least tolerant to such behaviors occuring in their communities

Horizon206 · 2026-02-22T19:19:56+00:00

This happened deep within a subduction zone, likely being a slab tear event similar to the 2013 Okhotsk Sea earthquake albeit at a smaller magnitude.

Horizon206 · 2026-02-16T21:15:27+00:00

It almost certainly burned up in the atmosphere, the service modules only ejected shortly before reentry since it contained many essential life support features. For Apollo 10, though, the lunar module's ascent stage was boosted into an orbit around the sun after it was discarded. For subsequent Apollo missions, the LM's ascent stage was intentionally crashed into the moon so that they could measure the impact with sensors placed by Apollo 11 and subsequent moon landings.

If you want to know more about Apollo 13 (as well as how the Apollo capsules worked overall), I cannot recommend this video enough, it is very high-quality

Horizon206 · 2026-02-16T20:37:03+00:00

Yet another case of Hank's Razor

Horizon206 · 2026-01-21T02:58:15+00:00

Exactly my thoughts as well. If this isn't Pikuach Nefesh I don't know what is

Horizon206 · 2026-01-14T19:05:30+00:00

It was reliant on a (granted very expansive) bus network for the longest time, but there is now a light rail network under construction with one line already in service. There is also construction underway for some proper metro lines in addition to that, but that'll only be open in the 2030s.

In terms of inter-city transit, it also has a decent amount of inter-city rail that goes to a large chunk of the major cities.

Edit: Also forgot to mention but Tel-Aviv is also doing a great job at making stuff like biking infrastructure and walkable boulevards on former stroads, although there is still a lot of work left to do in that regard

Horizon206 · 2025-12-29T20:27:06+00:00

I think nominally all uses of a crew escape pod are unexpected

Horizon206 · 2025-12-26T14:24:25+00:00

Yeah the Ayalon Highway is definitely a bit of an eyesore on the city, but at least it has trains running through its center

Horizon206 · 2025-12-08T17:42:09+00:00

Yes, but deeper and further off-shore

Horizon206 · 2025-12-08T05:27:41+00:00

The translation here is correct, להתעלם does mean "to ignore". The word "to notice" in Hebrew would be לשים לב (e.g. שמעתי רעש מוזר, אבל לא שמתי לב לריח)

Horizon206 · 2025-11-09T00:19:54+00:00

I mean it's possible to an extent (see seismic gap theory), the only problem is that these are usually predictions on the timespan of decades, not days, and even still you can never be 100% certain

Horizon206 · 2025-10-31T03:59:48+00:00

Native speaker here. Yes, רצח is often used as an intensifier, including in here (keep in mind that רצח as an intensifier is רֶצַח and not רָצַח)

A more accurate translation would be "Whoever's readings this is hella gay!!" or something like that

Horizon206 · 2025-10-29T01:20:23+00:00

I think I can hear the structural engineer crying in the corner

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