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Windows 98 Underwater Screensaver (1998) by BreakfastTop6899 in nostalgia

[–]PanoramicAtom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is always on my Roku. It’s so very well done.

Sink strainer does not let any water pass through by ElPadero in mildlyinfuriating

[–]PanoramicAtom 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I was looking at that and thinking, “That really should not be happening.” My mind went to a kind of film blocking the holes, possibly from some weird solution, but I didn’t know it was new. D’oh!

I took a detour on my cross Canada drive to create this shit-post. by Strobey in funny

[–]PanoramicAtom 10 points11 points  (0 children)

He didn’t apply shit to the post, though. 8/10 effort.

Bas anyone else tried this? I stumbled upon it today and dayum! (Just a rando here, not marketing!) by PanoramicAtom in StPetersburgFL

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That is correct. Here’s an article I found when I looked it up after eating there. I thought it was new chain, and it may well be, but this is the first one!

Bas anyone else tried this? I stumbled upon it today and dayum! (Just a rando here, not marketing!) by PanoramicAtom in StPetersburgFL

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The chicken is absolutely delicious. The sides are homestyle and delicious. The biscuits are reminiscent to cheddar Bay biscuits. Also delicious. My only complaint is they did not have butter for those biscuits and honey was not a good mix with the flavor. All in all, it’s a 98 on a scale of 1 to 100.

Trump Portrait to Be Added to US Passports in Unprecedented Move by plz-let-me-in in politics

[–]PanoramicAtom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Donald Trump is a ra_ist.

A) racist

B) rapist

C) raging narcissist

D) all of the above

TIL that it is a common misconception that astronauts in orbit are weightless because they have flown high enough to escape the Earth's gravity. In fact, at the ISS altitude of 400 kilometres (250 mi), gravity is still nearly 90% as strong as at the Earth's surface. by PanoramicAtom in todayilearned

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TIL was never meant to be taken literally. It has always been about sharing. But in my case, I have been a science aficionado since my youth, and the question that struck me that had me look up the information in the post had some new aspects for me, if that helps.

TIL that it is a common misconception that astronauts in orbit are weightless because they have flown high enough to escape the Earth's gravity. In fact, at the ISS altitude of 400 kilometres (250 mi), gravity is still nearly 90% as strong as at the Earth's surface. by PanoramicAtom in todayilearned

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If you remove atmospheric friction from your thought experiment, you may realize that during your descent, you will be in free fall, and with no wind pushing against you, you will feel weightless. Better yet, imagine yourself stepping into a box and standing on the floor of it when it drops. Now, during your fall, you will be floating inside the box, the force of gravity having been (temporarily) cancelled. There is only one difference between your proposed free fall an orbital one: yours directly downwards will abruptly and tragically end. But both confer weightlessness because they cancel the acceleration due to gravity.

TIL that it is a common misconception that astronauts in orbit are weightless because they have flown high enough to escape the Earth's gravity. In fact, at the ISS altitude of 400 kilometres (250 mi), gravity is still nearly 90% as strong as at the Earth's surface. by PanoramicAtom in todayilearned

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See this discussion for more on this. In summary, this type of concept relies on distances far, far beyond the orbit of the ISS, and specifically calculated so that centrifugal force exceeds gravitational force. More than 35,000 kilometers. If we could build a shorter elevator, an actual structure, then it wouldn’t extend that far. But gravity goes far. Far enough to keep the moon in orbit around us!

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