Mouse figured that out but Switch was a wet blanket.

Oh now it’s don’t have time/know how? I thought it was “too poor.”

lol whatever.

Reverse the genders and tell me how women would treat that guy.

Ah, you were a don’t-stick-your-dick-in-crazy.

Hmm, that’s interesting, I’m thinking like a pilot here but tip vortices increase in magnitude as AoA increasess, adding to adverse yaw of ailerons. I figured birds handled yaw control through wing sweep, kind of like how a weight shift trike does.

So, guys don’t care about a girls income that much. There’s an entire subculture of men that prefers or demands being the sole breadwinner of their families. I’m going to say the word “tradwife” and consider my point made.

Guys will go for an unemployed girl. Pretty and nice will get you a man. Which weren’t you?

Mind you, when I was in college I tutored freshman chemistry for an hour on Wednesdays and made more than $25/week at it; how delusional was your business plan?

We’re in the science memes sub, I talked about the science. I actually have credentials in this subject.

No it’s more that physics is a fickle bitch.

Those spirals are called tip vortices. They occur because there is relatively high pressure under the wing and relatively low pressure above. At the wing tip, that higher pressure air wants to roll up over the wing tip to get to that low pressure area, which is what sets that spiral in motion. Any airfoil that is creating lift will have a vortex at its tip. Wings, tail surfaces, propeller blades, rotor blades, you name it. The higher the angle of attack, the more significant the tip vortex.

Have you ever seen a jet airplane that has fuel tanks out at the wing tips? Most of the reason they’re there is to reduce tip vortices and thus reduce drag. The additional fuel capacity is a minor byproduct. You might notice most newer airliners feature winglets; the wing tips are turned up. That’s not for additional yaw stabilty, those are there to reduce tip vortices, decrease drag and decrease fuel consumption.

Tip vortices are the main factor in wake turbulence, which is an entire class session in flight school. All a tower controller will say to you is “caution wake turbulence.” And they’re right. It’s the pilot’s job to know what to do about it, because trailing behind and below the wing tip of every airplane is an invisible sideways tornado you just have to know is there so you don’t get thrown onto your Cessna’s roof when landing behind a Boeing.

The bird flies despite the spirals, not because of them.

Humpback whales are able to navigate exceptionally well and I don’t think science knows how.

Humpback whales travel by picking a direction and traveling in that direction. They can maintain a true course to within a degree of accuracy for hundreds of miles regardless of location on the planet, ocean currents, magnetic variation, day or night, though open empty ocean.

I know how to do that, but I need stuff the whales don’t have like visual reference to a solid surface, accurate charts, radio-based navaids, winds aloft forecasts, and/or gyroscopic instruments. Most of the time, most creatures either navigate by landmarks, some are able to navigate magnetically, some can home, ie they can sense a destination and point their noses at it and go that way, as forces such as winds, ocean currents, Coriolis force etc. push them off course they steer to keep the destination dead ahead, tracing a half-teardrop course.

But humpbacks can pick a direction and go perfectly straight. Somehow.

And none of them are missed.

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Almost all of my memory of the original Avatar:

I went to see it with my girlfriend at the time, and she kept reaching into our bag of popcorn, getting engrossed in the movie and just leaving her hand in there, so if I wanted popcorn I’d scritch at her wrist with my fingertips.

There’s a point in the movie where it does this big heavy fade to black. It’s near or beyond the midpoint of the film, and someone in the theater said “Act two.” and half the audience cracked up.

Jake Sooolly.

People talk about the spectacular CG effects, I really only remember one scene, Native Chick takes Jake Sooolly for a walk in the woods at night and everything’s glowing. That scene was striking. Most of the rest of the movie is stored in my brain as visual sludge.

I also remember the news talking about people being upset that they couldn’t be tall sexy blue cat people.

Well, I think Vine was too early. The videos were too short, could you imagine trying to put ads or sponsors in 6 second videos? So how do you monetize it?

That’s Microsoft. They got desktop PCs. They repeatedly failed to get mobile, they repeatedly failed to get portable, they never had embedded, they had fucking Skype at one point. They drink gold and piss nickel, Microsoft.

Every time I pet my cat, a random stranger somewhere in the world dies. There’s 8 billion people in the world, at least a few hundred are born and die every minute.

I am a moderator for a community. I haven’t ever had to do any moderating because everyone in there has behaved reasonably.

Idiocrat

There’s a Youtube channel called Ben Eater that does a great job of explaining computing from first principles. He built a computer out of discrete components on breadboards. He also has a great series where he wires up a 6502 microprocessor and basically builds a little 8-bit microcomputer around it, again on breadboards, in a way that you’ll get. He sells them as kits, so you can play at home if you want. They’re also just nice educational evening calm time viewing.