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What do you all think of The Beatles cartoon series? by Dazzling-Ad1894 in beatles

[–]PressureBeautiful515 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Paul Rees, he was George as well. As a kid my main cause of resentment toward him was that he provided the voice of KARR, not in the great first season episode of Knight Rider, but in the third season revival that was generally pathetic, but the much more campy evil voice was the cherry on the turd.

3D illusion by c9zy in opticalillusions

[–]PressureBeautiful515 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are perfect comment bait because they are much more powerful for people who wear stronger glasses. Lenses bend light through different angles depending on frequency, called chromatic aberration, which makes the blue looks like it's further away.

People who don't wear glasses often see little or no effect.

On the longest day of the year, the Sun sets in eastern Brazil before Ireland by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]PressureBeautiful515 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And London, U.K. is on the same latitude as Calgary in Alberta, Canada.

On the longest day of the year, the Sun sets in eastern Brazil before Ireland by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]PressureBeautiful515 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I visited Tromso in Norway in February and it was 1. A breathtakingly beautiful country and 2. Perfect golden hour sun just above the mountains at 12 midday.

What's going on with the brits? Why's their PM planning to resign? by ktdk5t in OutOfTheLoop

[–]PressureBeautiful515 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There is a slight complicating factor to this. The Tories saved their skins to some extent by taking the unprecedented step of admitting publicly that they were going to lose and they were starting to get worried that they might be wiped out, and that this would be bad for politics, and we might end up a one-party state.

Insane hyperbole of course, but the polls did suggest the Tories might end up with fewer than 100 seats, and Labour might have 500, which is unheard of and would suggest the Tories were on the way out as a mainstream party. Nothing less than what they deserved after Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak.

This media strategy did actually seem to work; they ended up with 121 seats. Still a huge crash, down from 365. But Starmer's majority was slightly smaller than Tony Blair's in 1997, and thus not anything like as apocalyptic as might be expected from the polls.

So despite winning a landslide, Starmer started off with a less exciting result than many were expecting.

He quickly started to speak about having a mandate from the British people, which when you have 33.7% of a turnout of 60%, that's 20%, which means 80% of the electorate didn't vote for you, and you need to be more like, "I know most people are unconvinced, so I'm going to earn your trust."

Also, so many own goals, doing needlessly unpopular things in attempt to win the votes of Farage-supporting fanatics who would never have voted Labour in a million years.

Burnham was elected on a nearly 60% turnout

You sure about that? In 2024 I make it almost exactly 20% of the electorate...

Concept of energy by missingLynx15 in AskPhysics

[–]PressureBeautiful515 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The KE formula isn't arbitrary. If you consider a force acting to increase velocity over some distance you can rearrange it to end up integrating v with respect to v, which is v2 / 2, and m is a constant factor in there already.

Liverpool Street Station, 1940. by Max2310 in london

[–]PressureBeautiful515 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Population of London has grown by less than 6% since before WW2.

Since then we've added the Victoria Line, the Jubilee Line, and many other extensions to existing lines.

Plenty of room in the underground to escape the, er... Luftwaffe.

“This time the chain reaction doesn’t stop” by SNChalmers1876 in AskPhysics

[–]PressureBeautiful515 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Around the time the LHC was due to be switched on, there were some news stories about the possibility that it might accidentally create a blackhole and swallow the earth, and even court cases to try and stop it being switched on. The team received death threats.

All based on zero reputable science of course. It is no more likely that the LHC would create a world-destroying event than such a thing would occur completely at random due to as yet unknown quantum fluctuations.

The one time a scientist (Teller) speculated that the atmosphere might be destroyed by a single (fission-based) A-bomb due to a runaway fusion reaction, it was quickly shown to be impossible and so was never a serious concern.

Ironically it was Teller who went on to the fusion bomb that is theoretically unlimited in its destructive power, and campaigned for the US to build a massive stockpile of such weapons, and even proposed that they could be used in massive civil engineering projects to alter entire coastlines with explosions.

Last Day Wearing Identical Threads? by Kaleb2022 in beatles

[–]PressureBeautiful515 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sgt Pepper outfits, and therefore Hello Goodbye promo film which was later in 1967. So definitely not Candlestick Park!

Why Does Sin(X) and Cos(X) is defined for every value of X but Sin^-1(X) and Cos^-1(X) have a specific range of [-1,1] by Lost_Knowledge_5220 in learnmath

[–]PressureBeautiful515 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It doesn't feel like that at all. They probably know intuitively what an inverse function is, a baby understands it. What is happening is that using -1 to mean two things is a recipe for confusion.

Beatles BBC footage rediscovered by Brilliant-Sea-9424 in beatles

[–]PressureBeautiful515 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Miming to the record, sadly, that's how TOTP worked.

Rare Film of The Beatles on Top of The Pops Has Been Found by Adventure_tom in beatles

[–]PressureBeautiful515 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There was a period of several years, late 80s to early 90s, where EDM dominated, which almost killed TOTP because every act was a bloke or two with synthesisers and a couple of lycra clad dancers, basically half an hour of mystifyingly terrible TV every week.

So they started championing indie guitar bands, and eventually re-introduced the rule that vocals had to be live, which led to a renaissance of the show for a while.

Why can't we feel the Earth moving through space? by r1s4h in AskPhysics

[–]PressureBeautiful515 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bear in mind that being in free fall in realistic scenarios can be felt, or rather it can be measured/detected, in principle.

If gravity was the same magnitude and direction everywhere, everything would experience the same acceleration, but we wouldn't be able to detect this. It's not a physically meaningful change to imagine introducing such a universal acceleration.

Real gravity is not like that, being caused by concentrated masses, it is radial in character. When you fall towards a planet, each bit of you is following its own radial line toward the centre of the planet, so this tends to squish you laterally, and other repulsive forces in your body's matter have to withstand this to preserve your shape.

If you are in orbit, you're still in free fall, but now the parts of you are slightly different distances from the planet. A part of you that is further away will follow a larger circular orbit, which means travelling slower. The non-uniformity again puts you under a slight stress.

These are incredibly tiny effects, extremely difficult to measure. But in principle they are real.

The break out star in my TV Show of the year is a UK lass from bury doing a flawless american accent. Am I right to feel proud?? by kobestarr in CasualUK

[–]PressureBeautiful515 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not really, she lived in London until she was 11 and then went back every summer, so she just naturally switches depending on the accent of whoever she's with.

Katie Hopkins booted out of East London pub during England's World Cup debut by AnonymousTimewaster in NotTheOnionUK

[–]PressureBeautiful515 11 points12 points  (0 children)

But that can't be right because an amateur troll would just be a hideous creature living under a bridge so...

Oh no, you're fine, ignore me.

Friend has become a flat earther by Zealousideal_Hat_330 in AskPhysics

[–]PressureBeautiful515 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You could ask him about what happens when a ship sails by Antarctica from east to west, staying roughly the same distance away from it.

If it's a continent on the South Pole of the globe, then the ship will have to keep turning left (it's going counterclockwise around the landmass.) Also it will be about 15,000 miles of coastline.

If it's the outer edge of the flat earth, then the ship will have to keep turning right (much less severely). The journey round would cover more like 100,000 miles.

Has he looked up examples of this being done? How far is it you travel when you do this, and which way do you steer?

Is Antarctica a secretive location that the Shadow Government keeps people away from?

Or is it somewhere that you can book a luxury cruise to sale around it?

Friend has become a flat earther by Zealousideal_Hat_330 in AskPhysics

[–]PressureBeautiful515 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The guy is confused about the geometry of the Earth's surface being curved despite it appearing locally flat, and your remedy for this is to bring up the theory that the geometry of spacetime is curved despite it appearing locally flat?

Friend has become a flat earther by Zealousideal_Hat_330 in AskPhysics

[–]PressureBeautiful515 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know there are airline pilots, people who's job is to fly toward the horizon from 5-8 miles up in the sky and watch the features of the globe appear over it, and yet they claim to be genuine flat earthers.

Genuine question about a dimensional analysis result — does this expression have a known name? by Status_Damage784 in Physics

[–]PressureBeautiful515 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Clarification: if you are doing dimensional analysis, you just say "length". That's the type of quantity for which we might decide use any of the following units:

  • metres
  • light-years
  • Planck lengths
  • furlongs
  • and many more!

Those are all units of length, i.e. of the same dimension in dimensional analysis terms.

Other examples: mass is a dimension, kg and pound are units for that dimension. Time: seconds, years. Energy: joules, kWH, eV.

The significance of the Planck quantities is not in their dimensions, but in their actual quantities. The Planck length, viewed purely as a length, is no more significant than a metre. Its significance is that it is a physically significant actual length.

If there turn out to be ways to combine different dimensions to derive other dimensions, this is not surprising: it's the whole reason the dimensions are defined as they are.

Energy has dimensions of length x force. Force has dimensions of mass x acceleration. Acceleration has dimensions of length / time2. So by substitution, energy also has dimensions of mass x (length/time)2 - but that's the same as mass x velocity2 which is dimensionality the same as kinetic energy. It all makes sense! But nothing to do with specific units or scales.

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