niktemadur

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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

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

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

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

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 93 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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 4 days ago

The Jeopardy! question to the answer "42".

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I'd rather smoke with Cary Grant than with Dennis Hopper

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Oh yeah... he's a goner!

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

TS Eliot would be proud.
So would Edgar Alan Poe, for that matter.

Aw hell... Dante, too.
The techbrahs and enshittifiers deserve the 9th circle, they are inch by inch savoring their betrayal of humanity.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Hey, it's that guy from Fight Club!

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

Thærmodynamic Dæmon Mæ Mæin Mæn!

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

Dear Apple:

Do NOT do it!
Through your indifferent silence, let that parasitic warped megalomaniac get a hint to go fuck itself.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The mad lads did it!
Somewhere between 6:13 and 6:15pm.
"Shave & A Haircut" honk, perhaps?

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

Take a copper wire, twist it into a nice long coil, then take a rod of magnetized iron and give it the ol' in-out... in-out... in-out... or something like that-ish?

 

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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