Curious layman

If we go off the amount of words in dictionaries it's Korean, 1,100,373 words. Ingush has only 11,142 words. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dictionaries_by_number_of_words Quite interesting: Toki Pona, 123 root words, 14 phonemes. 🙂 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona

https://astronomynow.com/2020/08/24/nearby-supernova-blasts-may-be-culprits-in-at-least-one-mass-extinction/

Maybe this would of been a better OP title for the original thread. Did you really think you were going to get an intelligent discussion with flammable farts in the title?

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the closest images yet of the sky’s latest visitor to make the headlines, comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, after it passed by the Sun. The two images in this video were take three hours apart on 8 August 2020 and features the comet’s prominent jets that are emerging from the nucleus. Credit: NASA, ESA, Q. Zhang (California Institute of Technology), A. Pagan (STScI), and M. Kornmesser https://phys.org/news/2020-08-hubble-snaps-close-up-comet-neowise.html

How about the language with the longest word/name? Titin just a small section. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titin

It's effective, but it seems to be limited due to the side effects. I can definitely see this being used more and more in the future. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_weapon#Effects_other_than_to_the_ears Wouldn't like to be on the receiving end of this one. What about Nerf guns?

https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/aug/HQ_06297_CHANDRA_Dark_Matter.html

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-fastest-star.amp

Thanks Joigus, +1

no more jokes about people like this from me. Short but moving doc. https://www.youtube.com/c/SoftWhiteUnderbelly/playlists some really good docs on this channel. Check it out.

Can someone explain to a layman what they do, Why are they important? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_tiling

Ok this is pretty gross, and don't quote me on this, but isn't the smell due to small molecules of actual poo getting stuck up your nose? Heard that 'fact' a few times now.

Disagree. If this was true, most women would only have one child, which isn't the case. Question: does/would using a gestation pod lesson the bond between mother and child? Let's hope not. They already do, with mixed results. Just go to your local prison if you want to speak to some of them.

Location of Comet NEOWISE from July 27 to August 2, 2020. Facing west-northwest shortly after dusk, as seen from the U.S. See how the curve in the Big Dipper’s handle points to the bright star Arcturus? For a specific view – shortly after your local dusk – from your specific location on the globe, try Stellarium. Illustration by Eddie Irizarry using Stellarium. https://earthsky.org

The star TYC 8998-760-1 (top center) was photographed with two giant exoplanets (arrows), the first time astronomers have directly imaged more than one planet orbiting a sunlike star. The bright spots above star TYC 8998-760-1 are other stars in the background. BOHN ET AL/ESO https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-picture-sun-like-star-multiple-exoplanets-astronomy-planets

Nothing crazy, just interesting. Interview starts at 4:30.

A 35-mile-long rift opened up in the Ethiopian desert in 2005, the result of tectonic plates slowly spreading the continent apart. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/african-continent-very-slowly-peeling-apart-scientists-say-new-ocean-n1234128

Unlikely, as Swansont says, but it doesn't mean people don't come up with ideas. Try these if your interested. http://asteronx.com/index.html https://tauzero.aero/making-progress/propulsion-ideas/

Yes https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/humans-still-evolving-3-recent-adaptations Maybe. BBC news- Human species may split in two They already did, dinosaurs are just animals.

Oops, reading too fast, thought it meant 0.8-2 kilos not 2000 tons.

Not sure if these will help, but https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuclear_device https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/w54.htm (the bottom of the page)

A visualization showing the South Pole Wall, a large cluster of galaxies near the southernmost part of the sky. (Image: © D. Pomarede, R. B. Tully, R. Graziani, H. Courtois, Y. Hoffman, J. Lezmy.) https://www.livescience.com/south-pole-wall-discovered-in-space.html

https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-united-states-will-withdraw-from-the-world-health-organization