• @Squorlple
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    1312 months ago

    The correct answer is an unlucky sentient manhole cover, that incidentally was thinking “Oh no, not again”.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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      252 months ago

      Love the HH reference, but you’re the second person to mention a manhole cover. What’s the story there?

      • @sicarius
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        If I recall correctly the fastest object ever was a manhole cover after an explosion. If it was sentient then it would be the fastest creature.
        BRB, going to look up the incedent.
        Edit: Here you go

        • @ChicoSuave
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          632 months ago

          During the Pascal-B nuclear test of August 1957, a 900-kilogram (2,000 lb) iron lid was welded over the borehole to contain the nuclear blast, despite Brownlee predicting that it would not work. When Pascal-B was detonated, the blast went straight up the test shaft, launching the cap into the atmosphere at a speed of more than 66 km/s (41 mi/s; 240,000 km/h; 150,000 mph). The plate was never found. Scientists believe compression heating caused the cap to vaporize as it sped through the atmosphere.

          A one ton iron vent cap (sewer plate) moved so fast it vaporized. Iron into gas, just add velocity in atmo. That’s so fucking cool.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          312 months ago

          the nuclear blast ended up having a yield 50,000 times greater than predicted

          That’s what’s known in the industry as “an oopsie”. Almost at the “snafu” threshold over which it would be likely to cause a brouhaha.

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            It was within their safety factor of 50,001

    • @Mojave
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      362 months ago

      Their hair also slowly shifts upwards, as they charge their super Saiyan power

      • @notanaltaccount
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        -172 months ago

        Plus it helps us realize that since they have more masculine haircuts they are even smarter, right?

        Because it wouldn’t make sense for the initial female to look the same and still be a physicist, right?

        Just pointing out that bias may also be affecting the cartoon too, even if not maliciously intended

        • @Mojave
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          152 months ago

          I’m pretty sure it’s the same hair, just getting more and more disheveled (frizzy and standing on-end) using a simpler art style. Not different hair styles entirely

          • @notanaltaccount
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            No, it’s shorter and more masculine… since more masculine people do hard science like physics while even a regular mom who is a little bit smart could learn biology. (I don’t think this.) I am just pointing it out, it probably wasn’t done with intentiinal sexism.

        • @[email protected]
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          42 months ago

          I’m fairly sure SMBC isn’t being misogynistic. They have no issue at all frequently featuring same-sex couples, fem-coded scientists and so on, as a perfectly normal part of the world. This is either you reading something into it, or a sheer coincidence.

          • @notanaltaccount
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            02 months ago

            It’s possible it’s a coincidence.

            The idea that scientists, especially hard scientists, have a certain look is something many think… so despite literally everyone on lemmy downvoting me, i still think it’s important to notice when these things coincidentally happen or don’t coincidentally happen

            However you are saying SMBC is very tolerant and unbiased and I believe you. I was’t saying it was sexism, I was just noticing it. But I understand the defensive reaction: if the comic creator is generally accepting of many people’s identitites then they are less likely to have done this with any sort of biased intent and the comic creator is probably cool and not prejudiced.

  • @Zoldyck
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    652 months ago

    Therapist: what do you think the fastest animal is?

  • teft
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    402 months ago

    The water bears that are hanging out on the Parker Solar Probe.

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    Every physicist I met was in some way unhinged. One had delusions of grandeur, second couldn’t bare his feet in any circumstances, another one would pause lecture every ten minutes to go into his room from which indescribable sounds would come.

    It’s probably the unbearable awareness of vastness of space that does a number on you. I wonder if they have any pills for that

  • @Zoldyck
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    132 months ago

    Philosopher: that depends on the situation.

  • @DarkCloud
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    102 months ago

    So, all creatures on earth, as seen from the center of the galaxy?

    • @[email protected]
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      192 months ago

      The humans in the satellite still win, in that case, about half of the time.

      The rest of the time it’s probably one of the falcons.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        Which edge? One where our local galaxy cluster is blueshifting towards or redshifting away from?

        • @[email protected]
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          52 months ago

          Akshully I’m pretty sure the edge of the observable universe is redshifted to infinity everywhere by definition

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      If there were alien life, would this change the answer? since the question is “animal” and the kingdom of animals is a taxonomic classification of stuff on earth, I would assume the answer still remains the same

  • @Etterra
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    42 months ago

    Mantis shrimp.