• M137@lemmy.world
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      It’s fucking impossible to know nowadays, it has even gone into “this is so crazy that it can’t be a troll” territory. I’m at a loss of words almost daily from the level of idiocy and ignorance that infects every damn comment section everywhere. The bar for most stupid imaginable is racing lower and lower every damn second, and it’s already WAY beyond what should be possible.

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      I have a coworker who insists that global warming is a hoax because plants give off oxygen, not carbon dioxide. Can’t even get a foothold in that kind of stupid.

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    Everything in the universe reflects light. Except black holes. Only things you cannot see do not reflect light.

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      And things in itself that are too small to see with even a microscope do not reflect light right? Light might interact there but will not reflect in the usual sense, it can however emit light though. As far as I understand that is.

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        There is a lot to it wavelength, size of reflecting object (if it’s smaller than the wavelength it can’t reflect anything back also applies to emitting photons), reflectance or the fraction of light reflected at the surface of the object (the energy it obsorbs vs energy it kicks back), phase shift, if the photon is traveling from one medium to another with a lower or higher refractive index (redirection of a wave as it passess from one medium to another) it will change the oscillations (kinda like a feedback loop, photons effect electrons in the medium and electrons effect photons right back) like looking at a pencil behind a glass of water distorts what you see. I probably missed some things but I gotta admit it always fascinates me to think about light and reflection.

  • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
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    Breathing is fake. You really don’t have to breath. Don’t accept this group delusion. Quit breathing. You can do it just keep trying to quit.

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    I used to canoe on this lake in Wales, someone had attached a buoy to a gate and chucked it in, presumably as a marker…from where our camp was, the buoy looked shiny and metallic. It was actually white and partly covered in grime. Distance does weird shit.

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    IS THAT A TWISTED SISTER DELTA PLEDGE PIN?!!
    ON YOUR UNIFORM?!!

    I wanna ROCK

    (insert banjo twang here)