katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space

Anchovies on pizza are fucking awesome.

Holy SHIT, now I found a paper demonstrating that humans can detect single individual photons shot into our eyes.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12172

That's beyond ridiculous.

If I did the math right, that means from a star that's near the limit of human perception under ideal conditions, your eye is taking in ~650 photons per second when fully dilated.

Cool thing I learned recently: the flux from a magnitude-zero star is about a million photons per square centimeter per second.

@Azure heck maybe i should actually re-read it while i wait to hit top of queue on my library books

@Azure It's been a while for me. I'm really curious what you think of it :)

@Azure Have you read https://qntm.org/ra ?

Goes some strange places.

@HTHR@cybre.space fuck I gotta remember that phrase.

@lifning@cybre.space @kinsey glad I checked the mentions first!

@lifning@cybre.space @kinsey I was just about to recommend that book :)

@mawr @xenon oh good you saw this <3

@shoofle oh it'd be 100% opaque to the average fucko. So yeah if you don't want that, then your text here.

@Doephin yeah that's pretty wtf.

@shoofle I'm offering a hard vote for bottom text

@shoofle yeah I uhh get that at least a couple times a week.

Baryon asymmetry was a mistake.

Do you ever suddenly get uneasy and disoriented just thinking about how the world like... exists? And how there's so much stuff in it, in nested complexity at every scale? And how weird it is that all this stuff has this one particular configuration and exists at this one moment in time?

I do this. Might be a dissociation thing.

shimmer with your impossibility