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brb, building a temperature scale based around degrees of Take Hotness

Me: making Choo Choo noises when the subway train pulls in.

@rey I feel so proud right now :)

Partner: "I helped with an app that's a clone of a 1980s calculator!"

... I went on a date with my girlfriend and got distracted posting calculations about star luminosity online.

That's pretty Me.

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pizza opinion, i will fite you 

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.

nature.com/articles/ncomms1217

That's beyond ridiculous.

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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.

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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 :)

@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 :)

Did you know that it’s a good day to hug your fox? It’s true!

One hundred and seventy-two percent of foxes surveyed* indicated that they are fond of hugs and affection! Also scratching behind their ears!

*Please note that touching a fox without permission is not advised. Survey results may have been skewed by over-exuberant foxes who answered multiple times. We are not responsible for any unintended side effects such as being loved forever, nibbling, inability to remove fur from clothes...

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

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