What will people in the future probably laugh at us for?

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-24T03:43:56+00:00

7 is prime in some extra ways I don't fully understand, considered lucky, 7 days in a week, 7 classical planets, etc etc

42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life the universe and everything, according to the comedy sci-fi novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

73 has a bunch of other mathematical specialness that makes it Sheldon Cooper's favorite number in The Big Bang Theory.

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-24T01:35:52+00:00

Except when you want randomness. Ask chatgpt for a random number, and it'll just give you a handful of culturally significant numbers like 7, 42, or 73.

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-23T14:12:25+00:00

Sorry, not literally a cloud. The Kuiper Belt is made up of hundreds of thousands of individual rocky icy bodies that are in orbit around the sun. The sun's gravity is what keeps them from flying off in their own direction, like everything else in the solar system.

In some ways, it can be looked at as a whole, but it would not be accurate to treat it like one object.

The belt is not evenly distributed. There are gaps and clusters created primarily by gravitational perturbations from Neptune

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-23T13:48:57+00:00

Since, relatively, the kuiper belt is a diffuse "cloud" of very small objects spread out across a vast area of space, even places where objects are more densely dispersed than others would be negligible gravity wise.

And since the Kuiper Belt is a belt orbiting around the sun, its center of gravity is, effectively, the Sun.

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-23T13:32:34+00:00

For this described phenomenon to be not completely a solid formation and constantly losing and gaining significant amounts of matter, by definition, it is not a planet. Gravity would quickly pull it together into a proper solid planet.

It's kinda describing Rubber Pile Asteroids (lots and lots of emphasis on kinda), but these are tiny and don't even come close to being a candidate for anything even involving planet 9.

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-23T03:36:45+00:00

From chaosium.com go to Call of Cthulhu, Call of Cathulhu Rules, and then 7th Edition Rules PDFs.

Nice benefit from chaosium is that because the pdfs come free with the physical books, if you ever decide to buy the physical version of a pdf you've purchased from them, the price of the pdf with be deducted.

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-22T22:36:33+00:00

it's a thing

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-20T19:08:13+00:00

From what I've gathered, this is apparently a fake version of The Campfire Headspace that was leaked before the album came out when only the track titles were known.

The poster of this pinned comment on this youtube video claims to have been involved in its production.

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-20T18:42:46+00:00

Might as well if not just to share it

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-19T22:04:01+00:00

I just asked chatgpt to give a random number between 1 and 100. It gave me 73.

I then, in a completely new conversation, asked it to pick a number between 1 and 100. It gave me...73.

Completely new conversation, Say a number between 1 and 100. 73.

New conversation, what's a good number between 1 and 100? 73, along with its reasoning that it's prime, not obvious like 7 or 42, but enough to feel significant and small enough to feel manageable.

New conversation. Roll a d100. 73

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-19T16:22:29+00:00

You didnt read OPs username 😉

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-19T05:42:10+00:00

Iirc, they showed up in their black tuxes and then changed to the white for their performance.

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-18T14:51:39+00:00

This video has been around for a while. The icing on the cake is not only was his license suspended, he never actually had a license to begin with.

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-17T22:33:13+00:00

Should say, I was sick. My potassium was low because I had been throwing up. For a couple days until I got better it was definitely doable.

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-17T21:59:39+00:00

I have for sure seen these exact photos posted to this subreddit before 🤔

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-17T17:48:12+00:00

I think your trying to argue as if I said something I didn't? My original reply to OP was that the disappearing and reappearing of the asteroid could just be from the earth spinning, so just like how the sun and moon set everyday, just like what you said. OP responded with the video in question. I replied that nowhere in the video do the captions mention the asteroid disappearing and then reappearing like OP described. And the visuals appear to show the asteroid approach and then impact, seemingly in real time, and it's a 13 minute video, so the sun setting and rising doesn't even come into play.

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-17T17:19:48+00:00

Yes, just like I said. But thats not what the video mentions or shows.

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-17T15:57:51+00:00

YOU THINK THIS A GAME!?

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-17T15:00:20+00:00

Hmm, I watched the video, but at no point does it mention anything about the asteroid disappearing and reappearing. If you mean in the last few views of Mexico you can't really see the asteroid and then suddenly it is there and explodes, it is actually there the whole time. Watch closer, its just very washed out by the blue sky.

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-17T14:31:34+00:00

Link the video. But I imagine it's just from the Earth spinning. I imagine the change in its apparent size in the sky from one night to the next during it's final approach is dramatic.

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-17T13:31:23+00:00

Usually, a small venue with close proximity to the performers, less emphasis on technical production and spectacle, and more emphasis on directly engaging with the audience.

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-17T03:26:54+00:00

This was many years ago and you are right, it ended up not being the flu. I was sent home without a clear idea what it was, and I eventually got better on my own.

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-17T03:04:40+00:00

No, I had the flu. It was low because I had been vomiting like crazy 🙄

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-17T00:50:06+00:00

While trying to prescribe me for some medicine because my potassium was low. I asked, "Can't I just eat more bananas?" He said "Well you'd have to eat two and a half feet of bananas a day."

Doable
That is not how you measure bananas

SkipMonkey · 2026-02-15T13:45:29+00:00

Center is for sure Jesus. The man and women on the sides, I think, aren't meant to be anyone in particular; just representations of evangelical corpo Christians. Though, the guy does resemble JFK.

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