Welcome to one of the big unsolved problems in physics

Went to see Randall doing his book promo and being interviewed by Matt Parker (in the UK) recently and this was his exact position on it

The audience were not on his side 😆

The orks are stupid, but also have psychic powers that mean if they believe something hard enough it just happens - eg they believe painting their ships red makes them go faster, so they do, and it works

https://youtu.be/JUO7LvDnCPA

First baby in space yeah, it was a post-Soviet prestige thing

Random thought that I, a fellow 33’er, had yesterday - Sputnik was launched in 1957, 34 years before I was, I’m almost as old as the space age was when I was born

Enjoy!

Terrible coffee

Ooh neat, think that’s from the same root as troth/betrothal in English too, proto German for truth & fidelity

I get that, but also, it’s always seemed like the purpose of the ring is to signify the state of being, so engagement ring to show the state of being engaged, wedding ring shows the state of being married, or wed, I guess it works both ways

Not a strongly held view by any means 😆

French as well - le bague de mariage

His coming was foretold on the ancient tablet

On higher end ones maybe, but this works fine so idk - it’s conceivable they both use the same internals just with a different battery mounting geometry

Laughs in 3-cylinders

Shot somehow ricochets off the wall, kills stormtrooper, redshirt dies of surprise

Something janky about the wheels, smells like AI…

Road distances are in miles, speed in mph, heights in feet & inches, anything else is a hot mess generally trending towards metric the younger you are (or if you’re in STEM)

ETA: there was a dumb plan a couple years ago to “reintroduce” imperial measurements after Brexit, mainly aimed at food shops, ignoring the fact that the EU never prevented anyone using them, and then the govt quietly dropped it in December lawl

So well… 😬

Quit a job last week, on my fourth morning, this hits very close to home

Garridge