Gil Morris as Gag Halfrunt in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Caption: "Look, Bigfoot's just this guy, you know?"
Posts by Stuart Presnell
Fortunately we’ll all be saved when the killer robots’ circuitry is shorted out by little paper cups of water and segments of orange
"Average walking speed is 4 mph, and allowing let's say 5s to slurp and chew each strand, it was going to take... Then it hit me, I was being stupid! I'd forgotten to account for the lubricative effect of the ragu."
"Daily calorific need for an adult male human is 2500 kcal, divided by 3 meals is 833 kcal. I pulled the cylindrical packet from the shelf and examined it. The individual spaghetti strands were 21 cm in length and had a cross-sectional area of 6 mm^2 ..."
- an Andy Weir character goes shopping
That's not what I've heard from different folks
Looking forward to JD Vance’s forthcoming beef with Jamiroquai
Here you all go. youtu.be/vwyuB8QKzBI?...
They're not nostalgic for the N64, they're nostalgic for having three friends to play GoldenEye with
Toggling the Like button on this post to tap out my thoughts in Morse code
After my recent cryptographic breakthrough I considered releasing a Zero Knowledge Proof to warn the world. But the result is so dangerous that even this would be irresponsible, so I published a Negative Knowledge Proof instead
I trust we've all read the classic "If the IRS had discovered the quadratic formula." www.amherst.edu/system/files...
Spent too long scrolling through the Wikipedia page trying to figure out how a pun on "Leftover-chewer" works here
Ok, if it turns any further toward sideways consult a doctor immediately
I'm just looking at the symptoms of Humorism and... what direction is that glance?
My thumb hurts after I hit it with a hammer, but that doesn't prove anything because I didn't hit my other thumb with a placebo hammer
My thumb hurts after I hit it with a hammer, but that doesn't prove anything because I didn't hit my other thumb with a placebo hammer
My absolute favorite piece of fallout from sedevacantism is that this is a disambiguation page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_the_...
"No boys of the NYPD choir stored in this van overnight"
starting to suspect he was deceitfully hiding the tennis ball behind his back the whole time
Bought the Artemis II Lego set ”for my kid.” This thing is stunning.
Electronics project idea: small digital gyroscope + clock + memory. Keeps a record of every time it's disturbed. Enclosed in a case that can be attached to a surface or a handle
This idea brought to you by: me repeatedly forgetting to start a timer when I put something in the oven
Alternatively: he's arrested, tried for heresy, jailed, but just before they can execute him he's rescued by a squadron of tyrannosaurs flying F-14s
Well we all need a friend like that to keep our ambitions in check
Oh, I thought I'd read somewhere that Jupiter was protecting us from asteroids by mopping them up or disrupting them, but given the scales involved maybe that's absurdly implausible
I can vaguely imagine that the route for an impact to the far side is pretty straightforward whereas the route to the near side is gravitationally more complex, but that's as far as I get with that question
Someone could probably make a fun little game to illustrate this idea
Now published: a seven-pronged no-go result for quantum mechanics (QM). Seven classically accepted theses about physical reality are jointly inconsistent with QM. Any six are consistent. Different interpretations of QM can be classified in terms of which theses they give up and which they retain.
Selection effect: the hominids who found the near side of the Moon interesting were prompted to become more curious about the world, so they out-competed those who would have been mentally stimulated by the aesthetics of the far side
Depluralize a movie
One Battle
Such as: the news