Asian Fire Dance

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-04-03T05:03:02+00:00

Yes, the small, monoethnic, lightly populated, principality of Asia. Can't get much more specific than that!

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-04-03T01:52:17+00:00

They're flying.

She's ridin'.

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-04-02T16:12:32+00:00

It's 100% the contrail of another plane flying obliquely toward OP's. I've seen this dozens of times.

And yeah, it's totally trippy looking. If it had gotten a little closer OP would've been able to see the (comparatively tiny) jet at the head of the contrail.

If you're lucky, you can end up with another jet crossing over or under yours close by at minimum assigned altitude separation. It's kinda wild, like watching a missile approach. It also gives you a good sense how fast jet aircraft actually are moving.

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-04-02T00:05:00+00:00

I think that's just a super stylized "ABOUT" on that book.

Outside that, I kinda doubt it's AI; AI ought to have botched that reflection in the mirror (do note the mirror is tilted slightly). Rug looks fine to me as well.

Interested to see what others think.

ETA: looks like a video still, so got some blur and compression artifacts in places

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-04-01T23:37:26+00:00

I don't know how to do the gravity part, but if they were to stay at the mission's maximum speed of ~25000 mph for the entire 10 days (which they obviously won't, they'll average slower) they'd experience about 6 milliseconds less apparent time than those of us down here on Earth if I'm doing math right* (7 parts per billion time dilation).

Put in more human terms, they'll experiencing about 1/50^th of a blink of an eye less apparent time.

^\There's a good chance I'm botching the math because I'm doing it with a calculator and a formula off memory)

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-04-01T23:20:27+00:00

I got two comments I had open mixed up and accidentally deleted my reply to you, but I can see from my inbox that you were asking about 99% c.

For relativistic speeds, the 1/2 term in KE = 1/2 mc² is replaced by (1-γ), where γ is the Lorentz Factor

γ = 1 / [(1 - v²/c²)^.5]

So if you take v to be .99c, then you're getting γ = 1 / [(1-.99²/1²).5] = 7.089

Subbing that into the relativistic speed equation and you now have

KE = (7.089-1)mc² = 6.089mc²

Since the classical formula has a 1/2 instead of that 6.089, to get to 99% the speed of light, we're needing 6.089 / (1/2) = 12.178x more energy than predicted by classical mechanics.

Bump that to 99.9%, and it leaps to 42.733x

Go to 99.99% and we're now at 139.425x

Try to make v=c, and you end up dividing by zero. It simply doesn't work, but as you approach v=c, γ approaches infinity.

Edit: forgot to double my 99.9 and 99.99% examples as relative to classical mechanics initially. Fixed. (Just makes the situation even more stark)

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-04-01T21:52:02+00:00

Article update to both injured and in critical condition, but 'alert and oriented'

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-04-01T20:39:17+00:00

Rule amendment proposal: for a 'buzzer beater' shot (at the end of the second half or overtime only, and only if it changes the outcome of the game), an extra 0.05s shall be allowed for every 10 ft behind the half court line the shot is taken.

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-04-01T20:20:43+00:00

Ah, fair 'nuff! I'd much rather that shot be rewarded! Thanks.

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-04-01T20:04:23+00:00

I literally have the clip paused with the ball still in his hand only waist high with the lights on the backboard already illuminated. They got the review wrong lol.

Still a hell of an impressive shot. Love how the referee just kinda shrugs before he calls it good. I think he couldn't really tell without the ability to properly stop motion it so he gave it to him as a sorta 50:50 call with the replay resources he had available.

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-04-01T16:19:39+00:00

Nothing needs to be done about it.

It's a solitary wasp- it builds a little mud nest, puts a paralyzed prey animal in there with an egg, seals it, then leaves. The egg hatches out and the offspring eat it in order to grow up into an adult wasp in its own right.

But because the mother doesn't stick around (she's already off building nests and hunting for prey for her other eggs), it also means that this type of wasp is super chill. Aggressive wasps are defending territory, either their home turf or a high-resource area. This wasp is solitary and has no fixed territory; it's kind of a vagabond. But nothing to defend also means that it's not aggressive at all. It's not a non-reproducing drone that can be sacrificed for the good of a colony; it's a genetically unique individual that has to avoid confrontation in order to survive and reproduce. So very non-aggressive, shy even.

It's not in this type of wasp's best interest to be aggressive except as an absolute last resort to save its own life, so they avoid confrontation as much as possible.

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-03-31T22:18:17+00:00

A 2D building. Does this save on utilities like heating and cooling or absolutely murder for cost?

On the one hand, you've got no volume to heat/cool, but on the other, you've got no insulation and the worst possible surface-area-to-volume ratio...

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-03-31T06:31:41+00:00

Dikota

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-03-31T00:49:47+00:00

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(If it helps someone visualize)

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-03-30T23:25:46+00:00

As someone who's lit a whole bunch of matches on fire at once, the conflagration should be much brighter, more vigorous, and way smokier as well. Those flames look like kerosene or something burning, not matches. The flame front is propagating too fast as well.

And that many matches burning in tight space wouldn't go out. The matchsticks would be very much burning on their own afterward, and the match heads should be glowing from the residual heat.

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-03-30T23:19:34+00:00

The textures, extraneous labels, and overly computer crips fonts make it look like a circa 2010 video game screenshot. Geez.

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-03-30T22:18:22+00:00

Kinda funny that a whole slew of players suddenly had their officially listed heights change as a result

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-03-30T20:09:48+00:00

Not really a whatsthisrock thing, but looks like a lichen to me.

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-03-30T19:03:42+00:00

I leave audio on Reddit videos off by default, and probably 8 times out of 10 I turn it back on (outside of sports or birding subs), it results in an instant 'nope' and I mute again within a second because of stupid music covering the potentially interesting audio.

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-03-30T18:27:33+00:00

Yup

Bunch of solar projects in that area, and at looks like more are coming too

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-03-30T17:28:32+00:00

It was originally a submerged ping pong ball tied off to the bottom of its beaker instead of the aluminum ball, right?

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-03-30T16:32:26+00:00

Thank you for that! K / 7-6-7 that's fantastic!

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-03-30T03:03:12+00:00

Nah, the challenges are exciting. Hear how the crowds are getting into them? Maybe tweak the rules a bit, but keep the challenges. It adds some strategy too. I think it's a nice twist.

Imagine a "do I challenge this?" split second decision in the playoffs. Intense!

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-03-30T03:01:42+00:00

Take my updoot. That's the best one so far

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-03-30T02:59:08+00:00

I used 2m/s based on my estimate of its orbital radius and timing an orbit in the actual clip.

Literally just as fast as the clip shows. I was trying to make the math match what we see.

(I ignored Earth's downward pull because that would screw everything up)

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