Text from my wife this morning regarding our Sphynx
#one of my favourite stories is how they installed all the pmt's (the gold things)#they filled it very slowly whilst some grad students and engineers sat in a boat and rowed it around and gradually installed the pmts#though at one point when it got to aboht halfway full one of the pmt's broke#It then preceeded to send a shock wave through the water and caused any pmt's that we're submerged to shatter#needless to say that wasn't a great day and we've learned to make less shatterable things#the real kicker is these things are fucking expensive (and surprisingly big!) and I think the glass involved was hand blown#they then had to drain the whole thing and sweep up the glass and redistribute the remaining ones (with shock proof sleeves)#eventually they got enough pmt's manufactured they could actually operate at full pmt capacity#but honestly what an l#also in the tweet 'it can help scientists detect dying stars' is true but what a dramatic way to put it#when a star dies it outputs a shit tonne of neutrinos at a specific energy range and then all the neutrino detectors get a rate uptick#OHOHOH it's a part of SNEWS which is pronounced 'snooze' along with some other neutrino detectors like IceCube (please let me talk about#IceCube please...) and SNEWS is SuperNovaEarlyWarningSystem#Sorry I'm getting carried away talking about neutrinos I'll stop now
@dragonsareimagining YOU GET THE FUCK BACK HERE AND START TALKING ABOUT ICE CUBE RIGHT FUCKING NOW DO NOT EDGE ME WITH SCIENCE LIKE THIS
I adore every single person who has indulged my nerding out on this post but also nobody is appreciating how silly the boat thing is
like, look at these nerds:
ALT(it also puts how big super-k is into perspective)
ANYWAY ICECUBE MAY NOT BE SUPER-K BUT IT IS SUPER COOL
(literally, it's at the south pole)
IceCube is one of the few physics experiments with a cool name that isn't a hilariously tortured acronym (see: ATLAS, COBRA, NOvA, etc)
It does look hella evil, however:
ALTthis is clearly a supervillan lair
though some scientists are locked in here for months at a time over the winter period with no natural sunlight and just other scientists for company so I wouldn't be surprised if an actual supervillan came out of here
I need more pictures of doofenshmirtz that absolutely embodies babygirl status, feel free to add to this
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I could go on forever...
The most babygirl 💕
mf looks like he'd say "oopsie my tooshie 🥺" after falling on his ass
I think the strongest relationship you can support between growth and discomfort is "not mutually exclusive." Sure you can grow while uncomfortable, but it's neither necessary nor sufficient for personal growth to occur.
There are some specific forms of personal growth that may be uncomfortable, and a thing being uncomfortable is not necessarily a sign that it is bad for you.
But "Discomfort indicates that you're growing" and "Discomfort is (as a rule) necessary for you to grow" are surprisingly common sentiments for something that is so obviously and perplexingly incorrect...
It is just "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" reworded.
It sounds nice but if you think really hard about it, you'll realize that there are actually a lot of things that neither kill you nor make you stronger. Like there are way more options than just those two. In fact, if the statement was true, it would be categorically impossible to become weaker.
Am I allowed to address my followers as "sluts, bitches and whores"? I don't want to exclude anyone by saying ladies and gentlemen
I'm pretty sure the current handbook reccommends "attention all Amtrak passengers" but hey, it's your semi-privatized national rail network so do what you want.
That's for the passengers on a train, none of you fuckers are on a train
If the wi-fi ever fucking worked on the trains, maybe we would be.
It’s because if we build trains like those commies in Europe (or invest in any public transportation infrastructure) it means The Poors might be able to get around easily and save money and shit commuting to their three jobs. Next thing you know, they’ll be invading your gated community and fucking up your golf course, and we can’t have that! 😱
I know where your coming from, but the US does have a rail network that connects one end to the other, you can get from LA to Boston, it as just not fast and requires transfers, just like a Lisbon to Moscow trip would. But yeah that's proof that the "America is too big for trains" argument is complete bullshit.also yeah building a rail network that is large and accessible would help the poorest members of society, so we should do it, now
also we used to have FAR more trains in the US. this map is from 1901:
From the book Natural Advanced Georgraphy by Jacques Redway
can't be a case of "this would never work" if we already did it
Not sure about how tumblr works but here's a Blue Beetle piece from March!! Hope you like it :)
