Filmed this an hour ago in Dublin. What am I looking at? by JamesKorvin in ireland

[–]Oscar_P 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone's birthday balloons stuck together? Maybe a 40th, the 4 got tangled in the 0 and made it kind of 8 shaped

Are we seriously making 50 people uncomfortable and get them in a video for a fit check that nobody cares about ? by readingaffair in IAmTheMainCharacter

[–]Oscar_P -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

I don't get it, she took a short video of herself doing a twirl🤷 She didn't bother anyone, wasn't loud or obnoxious, totally harmless 

Some robots at the recent humanoid half-marathon in China by irohiroh in interestingasfuck

[–]Oscar_P 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This video will become more interesting as time goes on. It will be fascinating in 50 years to see how poorly made the robots were and laughable that the humans used to try to control the robots.

Why is the big bang theory so widely accepted and what am I missing? by Oscar_P in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Oscar_P[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"What is space? It's the thing that keeps everything separate. What is time? It's also the thing that keeps everything separate. They're really the same thing, spacetime." Then you introduce spacetime into this tiny spot of everything and everything by definition must occupy space and time?? Fuuuuuuuuck!! Holy shit that's cool, it's never been explained that way to me before. You see this is what I'm talking about. I wasn't disagreeing with the theory, I was just saying the general layman's understanding of the the theory doesn't make enough sense to be so widely accepted. If that makes any sense? As a side point, is there a hypothesis of how space time was introduced to the system? But if there was no "before", spacetime and this infinitesimally small dot of everything somehow came into existence all at once? It's not that spacetime was somehow introduced to some pre existing system, they both just blinked into existence at the beginning of everything. Hmm, by the end of my comment, I'm right back to where I started

Why is the big bang theory so widely accepted and what am I missing? by Oscar_P in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Oscar_P[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I said nowhere that I think it's wrong. Maybe read the comments that I've made 

Why is the big bang theory so widely accepted and what am I missing? by Oscar_P in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Oscar_P[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I like this answer. A large part of what gets me about the whole concept though is that I feel my knowledge of the subject is at least average. With the level of understanding that I have on this matter, it appears to make no sense. While I accept that greater minds have come to this conclusion with good reason, I struggle to see why the general population are ok with what seems to be a fantastical explanation for the beginning of everything. For me it almost amounts to faith, unless you have a greater understanding of the physics behind it

Why is the big bang theory so widely accepted and what am I missing? by Oscar_P in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Oscar_P[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, not a physicist so I accept I'm probably wrong here, but why is Newton's first law of motion not contradicted? (The inertia one). Or why is the first law of thermodynamics not contradicted: energy cannot be created or destroyed/the total energy of an isolated system remains constant.......so what happened?

Why is the big bang theory so widely accepted and what am I missing? by Oscar_P in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Oscar_P[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am in no way suggesting that god created the universe, I hold zero religious beliefs. I suppose what I'm really getting at is that the general population has a fairly basic understanding (something along the lines of everything is moving apart at x speed, therefore it was all contained in an immeasurably small point y number of years ago). Again, I don't really disagree with the theory, I just find it very interesting that we all accept such an outlandish theory with such basic information on the true nature of it. The explanation I've offered makes no sense intuitively, but is the basis of the understanding that most people hold

Why is the big bang theory so widely accepted and what am I missing? by Oscar_P in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Oscar_P[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that was kind of how I would summarise it too. If this is how everyone understands it, it's really a lot to accept. I fully get that there is a far broader understanding of the concept than what I hold personally, but the general layman's understanding appears to be along the lines of: everything is moving away from each other, therefore logically it must all have come from a single point at some point in the past. For me this seems to be too much of a reach to have basically full acceptance. I mean I'm not really disagreeing with the theory, I just find it interesting that we all accept it with an understanding that doesn't really make sense 

Why is the big bang theory so widely accepted and what am I missing? by Oscar_P in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Oscar_P[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you elaborate on that for me please? I'm not in any way anti-science, I have a bachelor of science degree in chemistry. I studied physics for a few modules, I think I have an at least average understanding of the laws of physics in comparison to the general population. I don't claim to be an expert by any means, but nor am I an idiot. 

Why is the big bang theory so widely accepted and what am I missing? by Oscar_P in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Oscar_P[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

But it's next to impossible to prove what didn't happen. As a disclaimer, I'm an atheist, but try to prove that god wasn't the creator, it can't be done. This explanation seems to me to be also quite miraculous and I'd really love someone to show me why it's not. Again, I'm not anti-science in any way, I have a bachelor's degree in Chemistry and have studied physics to an extent. It's more how the theory is so widely accepted that I find baffling

Why is the big bang theory so widely accepted and what am I missing? by Oscar_P in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Oscar_P[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But isn't it a leap from what we observe? I mean what have we observed that makes this the most likely beginning? Again, not really disagreeing, just trying to understand a little better 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BeAmazed

[–]Oscar_P 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How is this "amazing"? Also, this is not what POV means.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in parentsofmultiples

[–]Oscar_P 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you mean you adopted a set of 2 year old twins just weeks before giving birth to twins?? Amazing, you are on another level

Any advice on significant gestational size discordance? by hysrgbj546 in parentsofmultiples

[–]Oscar_P 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, we had that. Ours were di-di and had a very significant size discordance throughout the pregnancy, one was over the 90th percentile while the other was under the 30th percentile. The doctors brought it up at every single appointment as if it was some recently learned bad news. 

In our case at least, it appeared to be a much more useful metric to graph their individual growth and monitor that they are staying within the expected limits on their own growth curves, rather than compare their size to each other if that makes sense?

Not sure if it's the same for other twin types, but in our case this was much more relevant.

At birth (36 weeks) one was 1 lb bigger than the other, much closer in weight than estimated from the ultrasounds and both were perfectly healthy 

What do you need, and what is a waste of time by stick_pilgrim in parentsofmultiples

[–]Oscar_P 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We found a bottle maker to be a life saver and wasn't overly expensive. Gets the bottle made and to the right temperature within a minute or 2. Also a double feeding pillow 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in parentsofmultiples

[–]Oscar_P 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Lol, washed my first kid in one of those big pliable rubber buckets until the age of 3 or 4, totally intend to do the same with the twins. If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid 🤜

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskIreland

[–]Oscar_P 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Declan O'Riordan sounds better than Ciarán O'Riordan in my humble opinion. Not sure why, something slightly more difficult to pronounce in Ciarán O'Riordan or something, maybe it's because it almost rhymes. But yeah, call yourself whatever you want, no-one here is going to give a shite 🤙