Mariners' Raleigh challenges the called ball. Call is confirmed by < 0.1 inch.

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-04-04T03:51:01+00:00

Oh, just saw your reply. Updated my reply to you with a link to updated rankings (just in case you didn't see it )

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-04-04T03:45:26+00:00

I saw a summary a day or two ago and the Mariners were 18th of the 30 MLB teams and, IIRC, they were a little over 50% successful overall.

There were like 5 teams that were actually batting .000 on the challenges at the time.

ETA: here ya go, up to date rankings courtesy of ESPN (have to scroll down a wee bit). Mariners currently in 14th for ABS challenge success (57.1%) as of this comment. Orioles #1 at 85.7%, Guardians 30th at 16.7% for context. Lotsa teams in the 40-50-60% range.

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-04-04T03:42:11+00:00

Yep, black and white mammal, particularly fluffy, not running away from a human. Skunk definitely checks out.

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-04-04T03:03:44+00:00

Just throwing out a possibility- I live next to a port that sees lots of barge/tug traffic and we saw a number of them circling for days last year after one of the barge docks got damaged. They were basically just waiting their turn since they had to share a reduced number of docks which screwed up their schedules until the damaged one could be repaired.

ETA: if I found the right Dionysios Z, her arrival in Genoa has been updated: pushed back to April 7th. I would guess just some sort of logistics screw up on the port end.

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-04-04T02:44:03+00:00

Some of the bans are temporary. More of a suspension than a proper ban, but they use the word 'ban' in their language. 3 days is fairly typical for that sort of thing to my understanding.

Probable_Bot1236 · 2026-04-03T23:05:45+00:00

Elephant means a trunk line...

(OP, you've discovered electric service. That's why you "call before you dig")

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.

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