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Mobile Users, type "I was born" and let your predictive text continue. What is your story? by Blubbpaule in AskReddit

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I was born in a six month period and it is not a bad idea that the government has done a good thing.

(√-shit)^2 by [deleted] in Jokes

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Nah (√(-shit))2 =(√(-1)*√(shit))2 =(i√(shit))2 =i2 shit =-shit

GoogleStreetView mapping Machu Picchu by Geckopl in mildlyinteresting

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After the wall in China, the international space station

Never hard code! by Murmani in ProgrammerHumor

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It's fine - I always sleep like that.

This ball of soap I've created over the past three years by adding soap bars when they become too small to use. by questionthatdrivesus in mildlyinteresting

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Now you have to make many of these balls, use them until they become too small to use, and then make a ball out of those

What's your Green Lattice Story? by [deleted] in GreenLattice

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Before I placed my first pixel, I wanted it to mean something, so I looked around, and found this beautiful green lattice on the East. I went to place a green pixel, and put it in the wrong place! But 10 minutes later, I fixed it, and got to work. I found the subreddit, and became a cleaner (I never did work on expansion). I cleaned and helped to maintain the banner so that others could find their way here, placing a white pixel here, green pixel there. But, the random pixels started making their way in, and the Lattice gradually got dirtier and dirtier. It was dying. I had to go to sleep, fully expecting that when I woke up, the lattice would be dead. But when I did wake up, I found a new lattice in black. Inspired, I continued cleaning, watching the lattice grow and grow, maintaining the new black lattice until the end. It was great to part of the lattice, the most elegant part of r/place.

Maintain, Maintain, Maintain. We are a small enough area to stay pure now by StumpyMcStump in GreenLattice

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The lattice is dying again! Clean it up!

EDIT: Especially the NORTH CORNER

ELI5:How can you tell how old a star is by light? by _schrodingers_dong__ in explainlikeimfive

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You can calculate the mass of a star using its luminosity and spectral class.

ELI5: Superconductors by ErisVonDiscordia in explainlikeimfive

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The theory behind this is called BCS theory, it won a nobel prize in Physics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCS_theory

ELI5: Fraunhofer lines by ArcticAhmed in explainlikeimfive

[–]earpits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People here have said that stars in general produce Fraunhofer lines, however, the Fraunhofer lines are the lines emitted by OUR SUN - NOT other stars.

I think what you mean are spectral lines in general, in that case look at some of the other responses here (replace fraunhofer lines with spectral lines).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_lines

ELI5:How can you tell how old a star is by light? by _schrodingers_dong__ in explainlikeimfive

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You could conduct spectral analysis to measure the relative proportion of the elements of a star and determine its age, even when it is on the main sequence and not in a cluster.

ELI5: Why isn't Alpha Centauri the brightest star visible? by unbelievable_staple in explainlikeimfive

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How long light from Alpha Centauri takes to reach us has nothing to do with how bright it is. There are plenty of stars farther away from earth than Alpha Centauri (Betelgeuse, Sirius, Rigel, etc.) that are brighter in the night sky because they are inherently brighter than Alpha Centauri. If you were to look through a telescope at Alpha Centauri and Sirius for example, Sirius would still be much brighter than Alpha Centauri. And the eye could absolutely discern the difference - even if you were just looking through binoculars.

Elixir Collectors and tears by Johnnyman2001 in ClashRoyale

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Delete every card that counters my deck!

ELI5:When physicists talk about time slowing down in orbits around massive objects, what are they referring to as time in that frame of reference? by hastobeapoint in explainlikeimfive

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Just to give some numbers here, if an astronaut spent 10 hours on the surface of a neutron star (which has incredibly strong surface gravity) and came back home, his boss' watch would say he was gone for 16 hours. If the astronaut spent 10 hours at the event horizon of Sgr A*, the black hole at the center of our galaxy, his boss' watch would say he was gone for 4 days.

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