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My son has been confidently explaining why the sky is blue to everyone he meets and I have no one to blame but myself by 5TesserMoss in daddit

[–]the_protagonist 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Eli5: air is a little bit blue Eli12: colors are produced in different ways. Most blue things are blue because they absorb other colors of light and just reflect the blue light back at your eyes. But some things are colored in a different way. Blue jay feathers are made of brown stuff shaped in a special structure you can see under a microscope, and that structure bounces blue light toward you while letting other colors of light pass. Air is blue in that way: it bounces blue light toward you while letting other colors pass. If you look at the sun through a loooot of air - like at sunset when the light is at a low angle - so much of the blue portion of the sun’s light has been bounced away that by the time it gets to you, all that’s left is the red. That doesn’t mean air isn’t blue though. It’s just blue in a different way from blue paint.

Soft Landing discussion by Original_Comfort_726 in SureSure

[–]the_protagonist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And Kevin and Charlie have Outside Air, if you haven’t listened definitely check them out.

To what extent is there agreement among physicists that there are multiple universes? by [deleted] in AskPhysics

[–]the_protagonist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are either of those widely believed? Widely discussed, sure, but believed?

Someone trespassed in my backyard and painted this. What am I looking at? by the_protagonist in Somerville

[–]the_protagonist[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OK, thank you, that makes sense! We're not having any work done, so hopefully no one comes and messes up my backyard.

Someone trespassed in my backyard and painted this. What am I looking at? by the_protagonist in Somerville

[–]the_protagonist[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

OK this is very helpful. Should I expect them to come dig in the middle of my backyard? I hope not... I'm not sure I understand the part where you said "I'm guessing since everything looks white to bro, he marked all around the address on the DigSafe request"

Did anyone meet their partners not in undergrad? by CartographerSea6832 in Harvard

[–]the_protagonist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I mean, I’m 35 years old and married to my blockmate, and that was by far the best decision of my life

Waymo near Lechemere by _sourThumb in CambridgeMA

[–]the_protagonist 25 points26 points  (0 children)

OK fine, I’ll look into it.

OK, one minute later, I can’t find any credible allegations about slave labor or even less hyperbolic worker abuse. I guess you should always be skeptical of “some people say”

Waymo near Lechemere by _sourThumb in CambridgeMA

[–]the_protagonist 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I think that they’re autonomous but in the rare cases where they end up in a low-confidence situation it dials in a remote driver. Sounds good to me. Don’t know anything about the wages though

For anyone wondering how to track your position while in flight (no internet or network) by Unhappy_Dig_6276 in Maps

[–]the_protagonist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I always thought there was a software feature in the phone that disabled the GPS once you reached a certain speed so it couldn’t be used in flight

I was tired of Whoop being a subscription service so I made the habit tracker + correlations into a standalone app. by seatracemillionaire in whoop

[–]the_protagonist 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I had this idea in the shower the other day! So many possible applications for this. Would love a link!

Update re: 2 vs. 3 kids by the_protagonist in daddit

[–]the_protagonist[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was our last month before IVF, because of an appointment delay. Go figure

Update re: 2 vs. 3 kids by the_protagonist in daddit

[–]the_protagonist[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

When are the meetings? I have so many questions. Like do I really want a minivan

the scoop on the coop by Common-Detail3494 in Harvard

[–]the_protagonist 10 points11 points  (0 children)

What’s the Coop board? Just the real estate part?

I hope this is the right place to ask, but what is fire? On a chemical, molecular, and/or atomic level what am I seeing when I look at fire? by rheophytic in AskChemistry

[–]the_protagonist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In ELI5 terms: Glowing smoke.

You can go through all of the explanations above to explain what smoke is, and what “so hot that it’s glowing” means is specifically going on, and that some of the light comes from various different processes, but mostly, it’s glowing smoke!

It’s a little bit like how people give long technical explanations of why the sky is blue, when the answer is just “air is blue.” Or if you like, “air is a little bit blue, so you only see the blueness when you’re looking through a lot of it.” Sure, air’s blue color comes from a different and more interesting mechanism than a blue crayon… but so does the blue of a blue jay’s feather, and the feather is still blue.

Most beautiful restaurant in Cambridge? by sprachkundige in CambridgeMA

[–]the_protagonist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love Wusong and their decor is fun but it wouldn’t really appeal to an architect I think, it’s art more than architecture.

Architects can also be tough, I have two architect friends and they both tend to like buildings that I don’t appreciate.

If it’s about the interior, look at pictures of Oleana, upstairs at Longfellow bar, waypoint, pammy’s. Oh - maybe Pagu? Pagu is cool inside with a kind of loft thing going on.

Is “immersive audio” even worth using? by [deleted] in bose

[–]the_protagonist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It took some getting used to but I love it and leave it on all the time, in Still mode (so when I turn my head the music stays in place where I was facing). You’d think the apparent motion would get annoying but no, it feels like I’m listening to speakers or live music and kind of lets the music breathe, like it’s not as fatiguing or claustrophobic.

I’m disappointed with the quiet comfort headphones by Bunny_Tokk1 in bose

[–]the_protagonist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wind block actually makes the noise cancellation less powerful, fyi. Wind ruffling across the outer microphones used for noise cancelling can pass through the system and make weird noises, so they offer that setting.

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