Yeah the funding necessary for large scale gravitational wave research wouldn’t have been forthcoming unless everybody had been convinced GR was the best description available for decades.
Einstein predicted gravity waves but didn’t expect we’d ever have the technology to measure them.
A diagram showing the domains of single-length vs infinite-length words in a particular type of iterated functional system.
I once spent about four months trying to understand a single diagram in a math textbook.
Primarily, Frank Watson Dyson and Arthur Stanley Eddington.
O prazer é meu.
The relativistic model was demonstrated to better describe the transit of Venus than Newtonian mechanics. It had been quickly proposed as a good test, was generally accepted as the crucial experiment, and all of this happened very fast.
Churrasco is the Brazilian style of grilling.
Saudade is a Portuguese word for a particular emotional state associated with remembering something no longer present. It’s kind of wistful, kind of maudlin, kind of happy.
Like you walk past a house that reminds you of the house your best friend lived in growing up, and you’ve drifted apart as you grew up and don’t quite mesh the same way any more but you still want the best for them and have fond memories of the things you did and wish it could be the same again but you know time has passed and the memories are now what you have and you sit with that feeling on the train. You are experiencing saudades of your friendship.
When Top Gear chained the thing down to go through a cycle of the tides in the fucking North Atlantic and their mechanics could restart the thing on the fucking beach…
That’s when I became a believer.
Churrasco Saudade is a fucking awesome user name.
Zero Tolerance = Bully Enabling
Then Animals right after.
Dogs is so so so good.
I had the chance to watch it in New Orleans and went to senior prom instead, like a complete idiot.
Oh that fucking tour with Rudy Giuliani and GWB and every other asshole you never want to hear from.
My ex got dragged to that by her manager at a previous job, who had been before; she was disappointed that all the speeches were exactly the same as the last time she had been.
You expect people doing a lazy cash-in not to phone it in?
Seriously you can’t just leave me like that!
As deranged as YaBoiBeefcat, but with better grammar.
Well, speaking as someone who came to realize that I was working for a company that was ripping off its customers, you’ve already gone through a LOT of stress before you get to that point.
It was the Basilisk!
Woooooooo
The Substance on Netflix
Duck and cover was supposed to reduce casualties in the relative outer regions of the blast damage area (which are by far the largest).
I encountered this quotation afterward, which reassured me that feeling dead in the water for months at a time happens to the very very best of us.