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  • niktemadur@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBrooo, I just woke up rule
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    7 days ago

    Because… Palestine? Or buttery males? Or because they will grab onto any excuse to sit on their lazy asses instead of voting, and that impulse to do nothing intensifies with a female presidential candidate?

    Yes, it is retarded. Almost to the goddamned Middle Ages in some respects. And its’ younger generations are just as stunted and stupid as the boomers they howl against. The deaf and blind screaming at the deaf and blind.








  • niktemadur@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyz...
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    20 days ago

    And under socialism in the 20th century, science was an institution that only funds research that advances whatever narrative the hermetic powers-that-be decided to push and strengthen their grip on power, their obsession with secretiveness and projecting an image of infallibility.

    Take the Soviet Union.
    T.D. Lysenko and his crackpot food engineering ideas is one such glaring example. But boy oh boy could he talk a “toe the party line” game and suck up to Stalin.
    Or how about how the kremlin rendered nearly one quarter of Kazakhstan uninhabitable due to their relentless nuclear testing. And they nearly did that for all of western Europe with Chernobyl.

    In the name of workers and science, we shall poison your land. Science for the workers’ paradise, rejoice, comrades!





  • As a grown man who has always been into astronomy, have read books and magazines, watched series and documentaries for decades now, I recently felt this way again while delving into the geometries of cosmology.

    Things like The Cosmic Horizon, the very far edge of light’s ability to reach us as it has travelled for 13.8 billion years, yet the source of that light is now 46.5 billion light years away from us. This is our largest cosmological compass, we can trace the circle and do some abstract math with it.

    They have traced triangles inside the sphere of light that surrounds us and figured out the angles from that light, and there are two options:

    1. The Universe is flat and possibly infinite.
    2. If the Universe is curved, it is so incomprehensibly huge that we cannot detect its’ curvature even with our compass of 46.5 billion light years, must be at bare minimum 250 larger than what we can see, and that works out to 11.5 trillion light years in every direction from us, or a diameter of 23 trillion light years.
      Yet the Universe is only 13.8 billion years old.