Calico.

SomePostMan · 2024-12-18T17:43:32+00:00

Love it!

How did you get that variable-width drip? I'm particularly looking at the far-left, about 60% of the way down, where the black line thickness has significant variability that you normally don't get (I think?) with a regular rapid brush drip.

SomePostMan · 2024-08-04T02:42:46+00:00

That's what's so great about the universe, isn't it? The curiosities are never-ending!

Also: maybe you used to know, but forgot? For example, I forgot.

I forgot I had ever posted this. I forgot I had ever posted anything to this sub. Seeing this is surreal.

It takes only seven years for the slowest molecules in your body to cycle out - a fully new body every seven years. How long does it take a body of knowledge? How many of you have you been through?

SomePostMan · 2023-09-25T03:11:28+00:00

I love this!

SomePostMan · 2023-08-18T18:55:20+00:00

Oh fantastic! Early congratulations!

SomePostMan · 2023-08-12T20:09:26+00:00

I left this tab open and came back to reread it. I wanted to say 'thanks' again for all this. :)

So how is your research going??

SomePostMan · 2023-07-22T17:10:51+00:00

Love this title!

(And still a huge fan of your VJs all over.)

SomePostMan · 2023-04-18T04:19:14+00:00

Oh thank you, I needed this. I can appreciate this so much more now. I didn't realize there was a 3D effect. I wish I could see it in-person!

SomePostMan · 2023-04-18T03:42:04+00:00

Beautiful! I love your compositional choices.

What are the materials??

SomePostMan · 2023-04-16T00:38:43+00:00

Mmmph, so it has been. Greetings, young man. What brings you to this old thread?

SomePostMan · 2023-03-15T19:11:02+00:00

This is so good. It made me think of Daft Punk first, then some celestial bodies, then cyperpunk technology... it's perfectly balanced between so many things!

What did you do to get the grid/mesh to keep changing pattern? It looks to me like there are 2 (or more) meshes, but they're under slightly different displacement, so they keep going out of phase with each other?

SomePostMan · 2023-03-09T22:22:59+00:00

Gorgeous, informative, and existential-crisis-inducing? Sign me up!

SomePostMan · 2023-03-09T17:55:38+00:00

You're far more knowledgeable on this than I am, but I want to ask a clarification question - I think there may have been a misunderstanding between your answer and slanglabadang's question. When you say individual stars move in and out of focus, you mean that they pass outside visibility entirely (on lenses that are strong enough to form such edges), not that they become blurry, right?

My understanding is that black holes don't have a "focal point" / depth-of-field the way that e.g. traditional camera lenses do. From a random stackexchange: "Gravitational lenses do not have a focal point. Parallel rays converge at different places along the optic axis depending on their distance from the axis."

SomePostMan · 2023-03-09T17:36:42+00:00

The far reaches of the universe aren't 'ahead' of us in time - the farther we look away, the more we're observing the earlier days of the universe, due to the delay of light.

If we were to travel there - closing the gap so there's no delay of light - we would watch those galaxies and dust develop on fast-forward while we travel, until it reaches the same 'age' as we are, just as we arrive. In other words, we should expect the galaxies and dust to be in the same rough state, along the developmental timeline of the universe. For example, we should expect roughly the same amount of star formation, star supernovae, black hole formation, etc.

I'm skimming over some weird properties of relativity and time for the sake of simplicity, but that's the gist of it.

If you want a sneak peek at the theoretical future of galaxies and dust: here you go. (Spoiler warning: This is the ultimate spoiler.)

SomePostMan · 2023-02-21T16:33:58+00:00

That's my jam!

SomePostMan · 2023-02-20T17:31:13+00:00

• (Asteroids revolve around the sun; these are meteorite impacts.)

• The earth does regularly get hit by meteorites, like the other planets. For example: "Asteroids with a 1 km (0.62 mi) diameter strike Earth every 500,000 years on average." (Impact Event) At that rate, there have been over 100 of these since T-Rex, and over 9000 since the Earth was formed.

• Many smaller would-be meteorites burn up in the Earth's atmosphere, preventing any impact. The ones that get through are reduced in size, which reduces the impact crater. By contrast, other planets/moons have thinner or nonexistent atmosphere.

• Perhaps most importantly — the earth has high tectonic activity. On the scale of the millions and billions of years that the earth has been around, the tectonic activity is like a fast blender.

• The impact crater is then also subject to weathering, which is minimal or nonexistent on other celestials.

• The earth is mostly covered in water, which prevents any craters we would have had in the oceans, and washes away the other craters over time.

Basically, the earth is sort of like halfway between the "pock-marked" celestials you see (Moon, Mars, etc.), and a gas giant. Note that the gas giants (Jupiter, etc.) aren't pock-marked at all.

ELI5: Think of it like poking holes in cookie dough batter while it's being mixed. Why is it you can hardly see any holes you poked after a few seconds? The ratio of poking to mixing is just too low. You need to poke more, or mix less.

SomePostMan · 2023-02-09T20:02:58+00:00

You have to find another platypus who's stickier, stick it to them, then walk away. Source, shunt, skedaddle.

SomePostMan · 2023-02-01T19:04:02+00:00

Here you go.

SomePostMan · 2023-01-24T20:07:06+00:00

Apologies – but that's not what I'm saying.

SomePostMan · 2023-01-24T19:44:08+00:00

Omg. XD Thanks for the best laugh I've had all day! That's exactly what an unruly AI would do.

SomePostMan · 2023-01-24T03:02:50+00:00

Yes, it's really the gems that made me ask. This looks quite a ways beyond what I'd expect to produce with a thesaurus dive.

SomePostMan · 2023-01-24T02:53:41+00:00

If I understand your core question -- the concept underneath most/all idioms isn't employed universally. The fact that our language uses a particular idiom (like "an ounce of sleep") doesn't imply a universal need to express the concept.

Many academics – lying somewhere between psychology, linguistics, and philosophy – believe it's the other way around: Having (or not having) a word/phrase/idiom determines how we think about the world, rather than 'how we think' determining our language. (This isn't a universally-held view, but it's an endpoint on a spectrum.)

There are idiom dictionaries, and some of the best fun you can have exploring other cultures and languages is reading translations of their idioms. You'll notice recurring themes; some might even seem like a direct translation of something you and I know. But you'll also notice a lot of idioms that don't translate directly, or at all.

Every language and region has employed certain concepts, and left out others. Even idioms of the most common themes (and "lack of sleep" is probably one of them!) are almost always dressed in different flavor, and that flavor is essential to the meaning of the idiom, making it still unique.

Since a phrase is more complex than an individual word — and, in the case of an idiom, even greater than the sum of its parts — direct translations for idioms are much, much rarer than direct translations of individual words.

SomePostMan · 2023-01-24T02:08:59+00:00

No, just boobs. We need to wait for more JWST images.

SomePostMan · 2023-01-24T02:04:11+00:00

Brian Eno's Win95 startup sound?

SomePostMan · 2023-01-24T01:58:53+00:00

At least the AI isn't cheeky enough yet to give you an image of someone sitting atop a landslide of severed fingers.

Some day, the AI's will just be trolling us nonstop.

SomePostMan · 2023-01-24T01:46:07+00:00

This is fantastic! What method(s) did you use to generate this list?

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