Cofinal Destination

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[merobot]

I like dogs

[merobot]

APRIL FOOLS I LOVE DOGS

[gaykagome]

ET TU BRUTE???

[theformerastronomer]

Your calendrically-appropriate post for the day.

[alexyar]

spooky math

[tomorrowandbeyond]

[zechery-deactivated20220114]

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing

[cofinaldestination]

Happy Birthday, Curiosity!

[outofcontextdnd]

"Ok, fine. If you roll a natural 20 I'll let you summon George Washington. But only because it's the 4th of July." -our very drunk DM

[outofcontextdnd]

As the last notes of “Oh, Canada” fade into the distance, you all feel the slight taste of maple syrup in your mouths.

The Canada-Themed Paladin had one heck of a crit. (via outofcontextdnd)

Happy Canada Day!

[rpgliving]

When you ask the sorcerer who burned down the village

[eternalglorytochrist-deactivate]

The popcorn function, also known as Thomae’s function, is continuous at all irrational numbers and discontinuous at all rational numbers. The function is Riemann integrable on [0, 1] and its integral over [0, 1] equals 0. (If someone wants proof for this, I ca post it later on.)

Image credit: Smithers888 (Wikimedia Commons). The work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

[mathsdictionary]

Ph.D (n): A badge of honor given to those who sacrifice current income for the promise of sacrificing future income.

[cofinaldestination]

“Sections 8 and 9 finally set aside the more sober ideas (like solving the halting problem using naked singularities), and give zaniness free reign.”

Scott Aaronson is a gift.

[outofcontextdnd]

When last we met, your party just discovered that the criminals you captured had all been brutally murdered overnight, but you all then spent 20 minutes buying crabs and describing how you ate them.

Our very frustrated and confused DM (via outofcontextdnd)

[rpgliving]

When the party druid never leaves wild shape

[nostalgebraist]

Update, 12 May, 10:30 a.m.: The story has been updated to reflect that the maximum speed of the sled was 186 kilometers per hour, not 160 kilometers per second as originally reported.

[cofinaldestination]

Someone: Raising a family is hard

Necromancer: Not if they're buried close enough to each other

Someone: What?

Necromancer: What?

[ferfilelek]

[oldschoolfrp]

“The Hydragen is a huge, mutated descendant of the diamond-backed rattlesnake.”  (Roger Raupp, Gamma World creature collection in Dragon No 75, July 1983)