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  @aizuindeed · 3 years ago

  “Just go the speed of light- then push the accelerator a little more.” This man has single-handedly solved physics.

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  @sheauwn6974 · 3 years ago

  Australia is kind of like a dwarf continent, as it was unable to pull in the contents of Oceania to form a proper landmass. Count your lucky stars that NASA hasn't taken you off the map yet.

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  @SatanasExMachina · 3 years ago (edited)

  The important thing is, no matter what we choose to do with all that space, I think we can all agree a nice rug and coffee table will really help tie the room together... and maybe a lamp.

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  @TheRose202 · 3 years ago

  I love the idea that we rig up a box explicitly for an alien to find and then booby trap it because we don't want them to touch our stuff. Very human move.

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  @NayleJR · 3 years ago

  I love the idea that there were just a bunch of scientists in a room like "I don't care about Pluto, we can't be adding more planets to the solar system! We'll look dumb!"

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  @william_dittmann · 3 years ago

  "They should just separate them into big planets and small planets." That's... literally what it means to be a dwarf planet...

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  @sourgang2110 · 3 years ago

  it's so funny hearing the historian and mr ordinary things call the large hadron collider "the cern" for three minutes straight. that's  like calling a space rocket "the nasa" lmao

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  @Kelnef · 3 years ago

  Heres a fun fact. Anatoli Bugorski is an ex russian particle physicist who ended up inside a particle collider while it was still running. The particle pierced his skull and he alledgedly saw a bright light like looking at the sun. He is still alive today and has somehow outlived the said particle collider that shot him.

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  @JoshuaKennedy321 · 3 years ago

  Not just once, but twice he calls the firmament a &quot;filament.&quot;<br>What a legend.

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  @Average_K · 3 years ago

  My grandpa has a lot of stories about the space race in the 60s, and one of my favorites he’s told me is when all of the physicists and engineers responsible for getting the rocket off earth couldn’t figure out how to get the fuel tank to be light enough to lift off but big enough to hold the necessary fuel because it was just a little bit too heavy. Then a painter suggested not painting the tank and that somehow took off enough weight for the math to check out lmao.

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  @purplehaze2358 · 3 years ago

  “I would find it difficult not to get in the CERN”<br>Someone actually did get inside a particle accelerator in the middle of an operation period. The absolute legend took a particle moving at near-light speed directly to the head and came back to work the next day.

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  @buchido8329 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MST-0jsOTN0&amp;t=800">13:20</a> &quot;Alien Pesos&quot; has some layers to it and I dig the joke

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