Vesurel t1_j8uu1h6 wrote on February 17, 2023 at 2:34 AM

Reply to [Image] Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw by pompous-pomeranian

Sometimes life is about making another person out of stone and asking the gods to turn them into your girlfriend.

Vesurel t1_iugc720 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 2:39 AM

Reply to ELi5: Why specifically is it oxygen that is required for life? by West_Theory3934

Nitrogen in its most common form N2 is very stable the triple bond between the two atoms takes a lot of energy to break. Compared to O2 which only has a double bond between them meaning it's much more reactive.

Both nitrogen and oxygen are necessary for life, but they have different chemical properties that mean they'll be used in different ways.

Vesurel t1_iugbi83 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 2:34 AM

Reply to TIL Peter Weller, who played RoboCop, went on to get his Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance Art History and wrote his dissertation about Renaissance artist/philosopher Leon Battista Alberti by kamyizme

The director Paul Verhoeven also studied and wrote about theology and the life of Jesus. Kyle Kallgren has an interesting video on his movies.

Vesurel t1_itrjdwf wrote on October 25, 2022 at 7:48 PM

Reply to TIL part of a Teletubbies episode was actually banned in some countries for supposedly being too scary. by thedubiousstylus

Makes sense he was scary not just on top and underneath, but scary both in the front and back.

Vesurel t1_irv67py wrote on October 11, 2022 at 8:00 AM

Reply to The vast majority of the 150-400 billion stars in the Milky Way haven't been directly detected. Alpha Centauri is the nearest known star to Sol. What is the probability that there are nearer stars that remain undiscovered? by [deleted]

For us to not see it, it would have to be less bright than alpha centauri. It's not like we're searching a 3d space for starts, we're searching the '2d' sky, so it's not like we're going to find out there's a bit of sky we didn't know was there before. So instead we'd find new starts by getting better at detecting fainter and fainter lights in the sky we already know about.

So it's a question of how likely a star within the range of alpha centauri would both meet the requirement for being a star but be fainter in the sky than entire galaxies billions of times further away look to us.