niktemadur

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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I am maga from Texas, I say we secede from librul states, we have all we need, like warm-water port for naval and industry.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Considering your specific example with an apple, what about other senses, what happens if you try and recall texture, smell and taste?

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Monke brane and senses, well adapted to survive in the savannas of Africa, encounters math and gets baffled.

EDIT: Visualize the apes at the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey, scared but touching the monolith. Now imagine that the monolith is the square root of minus one.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

More people than you can shake millions of sticks at, are stunted and stupid and angry beyond what we could imagine was possible.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"I've never seen anyone sad in a Ferrari. In fact, I've never seen anyone in a Ferrari, I've only seen the Ferrari as I pass by the dealership showroom."

Lamborghinis, on the other hand... I once saw a farmer driving his Lambo tractor truck! And while I didn't get a good look at his face, it was still awesome.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Tiger.
Champ.

Or go British!
Guv'nor or just plain Guv.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Boy oh boy, do I feel enlightened AND refreshed, by that video summary.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

When archaeologists express that very same concept, they widely use 12025 BP (Before Present).

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 93 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Have you heard of the truly ancient - Stone Age, in fact - ruins of what is now called Gobekli Tepe (Potbelly Hill) in Anatolia, Turkey, near the Taurus Mountains, between rivers that converge further downstream to create the Euphrates River.

These long-gone people, hunter/gatherers and slightly later hunter/harvesters (a primitive phase of agriculture), now called Tash Tepeler (in modern Turkic), build stone urban centers on a large scale, were completely unknown before 1992, and let me put it this way, how long ago they were:
Ancient Sumeria, cradle of civilization, where writing was invented, is closer to us than it is to the time when Gobekli Tele was thriving.

Gobekli Tepe is near halfway between the Lascaux and Chauvet cave paintings and us.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The Jeopardy! question to the answer "42".

 

Wherever there is matter in an ever-thinning universe, there might be an entire cosmologically-sized era dominated by an entirely different chemistry to what we have now.

 

If the answer is YES, a related follow-up question: if each visible color of the spectrum were to measure a centimeter in width, how far would I have to move the sensor from the red to detect the change from infrared to microwave, then to radio?

In the knowledge that Sir William Herschel discovered infrared by repeating Newton's experiment, but with a thermometer to measure the temperature of each component of the spectrum, and after placing the thermometer a bit to the side of the red light, in darkness, noticed quite by accident that the device would still register heat, therefore an invisible yet very real component of light was there, warming the thermometer.

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