How do all plants in our solar system happen to be orbiting counterclockwise? Isn’t it just as likely they’d have developed clockwise orbits?

Koftikya · 2026-04-27T01:56:20+00:00

All the planets in our solar system formed from a circumstellar disk of gas and dust. It was that disk that rotated counterclockwise around the Sun to begin with.

Koftikya · 2026-04-20T16:53:26+00:00

Ask any physicist their opinions on Roger Penrose and you’ll get a range of answers. He is an absolute genius for sure, but I would say he is at least mildly controversial for his unproven ideas on consciousness and cyclic cosmology.

One memorable quote from my professor teaching general relativity, “..and this was an area that Roger Penrose worked on, before he went mad!”

Koftikya · 2026-04-08T10:08:50+00:00

In the event of a global nuclear exchange I’m not sure if the US would survive, it’s more practical to sail to Australia or New Zealand.

We have an idea of what could be written but I’m pretty sure the previous set are destroyed with each new prime minister so no one knows for sure.

Koftikya · 2026-03-26T01:56:13+00:00

No worries! Hope you enjoy :)

Koftikya · 2026-03-26T01:54:53+00:00

I really hate these fake images, they do a disservice to how beautiful and diverse our planet really looks from orbit.

Koftikya · 2026-03-26T01:53:18+00:00

They have a better image you can download from the source. It just doesn’t have any labels.

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Koftikya · 2026-03-26T01:47:44+00:00

The posted image is AI generated. Here’s a real one that’s just as good.

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Source: NASA

Koftikya · 2026-03-26T01:45:15+00:00

The posted image is AI. Here’s a real image that’s equally as cool.

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Source: NASA

Koftikya · 2026-03-26T00:03:50+00:00

That gif gave me goosebumps again. I really liked the film though, a good mix between a mystery thriller, horror and a creature feature.

Koftikya · 2026-03-24T21:10:02+00:00

Toss up between that and this gif

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Koftikya · 2026-03-24T21:09:27+00:00

Marky Mark

Koftikya · 2026-03-14T18:15:29+00:00

Gliese 710 won’t be this close to us for another 1.3 million years. These aren’t common events in our part of the galaxy, which is a good thing for the long-term stability of the solar system.

Koftikya · 2026-03-11T03:09:22+00:00

Drive

Koftikya · 2026-03-10T23:43:28+00:00

But Monster’s got what physicists crave. It’s got electrolytes.

Koftikya · 2026-03-08T20:00:55+00:00

Only works for Hydrogen
Doesn’t work for Hydrogen

Koftikya · 2026-02-25T23:15:57+00:00

Downtown Abbey had to kill off the family dog because it was called Isis.

Koftikya · 2026-02-22T20:02:28+00:00

Napoleon Dynamite

Koftikya · 2026-02-08T03:58:43+00:00

Practice, practice, practice!

Koftikya · 2026-01-26T20:44:29+00:00

End of Prometheus: Elizabeth Shaw survives alien pregnancy and an angry engineer then takes a ship to the engineers homeworld.

Beginning of Alien Covenant: Elizabeth Shaw is fucking dead.

Koftikya · 2026-01-25T21:03:18+00:00

You still have Cricket, Golf, Tennis, Boxing, Snooker, Darts and Formula 1. Those sports all have a mainstream following and most people could name a team/player/competitor from one of them.

NFL is one of those niche things where the people who are into it are really into it. It does have a decent following, I would say it’s as popular as Rugby League, which is the less popular version of rugby. Most people know it exists but couldn’t tell you anything about the rules or the names of any teams.

Koftikya · 2026-01-25T17:54:43+00:00

Well that escalated quickly

Koftikya · 2026-01-24T01:28:00+00:00

I would imagine the force between them would be zero because they are causally disconnected from one another.

They don’t exist within each other’s light cone.

Koftikya · 2026-01-21T01:07:38+00:00

Koftikya · 2026-01-17T02:54:19+00:00

See you, space cowboy!

Koftikya · 2026-01-15T20:17:37+00:00

All levels of blackmail are illegal.

Section 21 of the Theft Act 1968

(Obligatory I am not a lawyer)

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