katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space

Shit, y'know, what I think I actually want is a book club.

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

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

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

That's pretty Me.

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.

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

Seattle Dog: hot dog, grilled onions, cream cheese. Delicious.

Salty Old Sea Dog: as above, plus a pickle spear. Probably not delicious.

Bonus: