The wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube man can be characterized as a 3D slice of a conscious, four dimensional entity (with balls)

This is the longest thing I’ve read today, and I don’t regret it. I laughed, I cried, and I learned a thing or two along the way.

It worked!!

fuck

Also Alaska, apparently. Wonder if it was also counted as part of the USA.

Just chiming in to represent the small minority of people who strongly dislike spiders in our houses

Saw it on a hike through social media, maybe

PECK

That sounds like it’s going to get real messy real fast

Look how they massacred my boy

OR IS IT??

Not a near-term solution, but the Free Software Foundation just announced the LibrePhone project!

This is exactly why giving ID scans to online sevices is a terrible idea, even ignoring the privacy aspect.

Transaction complete

Sure am glad we have police robots in the sky to protect us from 19 year old kids stealing stuff from Walmart

Did it just get warmer?

It seems maybe you’re actually misunderstanding. As I mentioned above, both you and the other commenter are certainly correct that the surrounding atmosphere (water in your case) exerts force on the objects as they fall, with varying effects depending on object density. However, if you take two objects that have vastly more density than the water (let’s say a big tungsten rod and another tungsten rod that has a hollow core), they will drop at approximately the same rate in the water even if their density vs each other varies. The greater the difference of their density versus the density of the medium, the less the effect of the medium. Is there still technically an effect? Sure, but that effect is negligible from a human perceptual perspective.

While that is true, two properly selected objects (such as the ones mentioned above) can reduce the effect of air resistance to levels negligible to human perception, demonstrating that heavier objects do not intrinsically fall faster.

Not excelling either

Gozz is correct. You’re misunderstanding the nature of a digital signal. What the author did was convert a digital signal to an analog signal, store that analog signal on a bird, then record that analog signal. Whether it was redigitized after the fact is irrelevant. It is not a digital process end-to-end. This is the same as if I were to download a YouTube video, record that video on a VHS tape, then redigitize that video. Not only would the end result not be a bit for bit match, it wouldn’t be a match at all despite containing some of the same visual information, because it would be the product of a digital-analog-digital conversion.