ashleyjm

Adventurer and explorer. Scientist and artist.

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Mythbusters Physics: Relative Velocity

The Mythbusters tested what would happen if a ball was shot at 60 mph off the back of a truck travelling at 60 mph to see what would happen.

It became a perfect example of the relative nature of physics - showing that velocity can vectorially add together. 60 mph in one direction cancels the 60 mph in the other, meaning a net velocity of zero.

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True wisdom from the father of medicine.

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Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Hypatia of Alexandria

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Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle, (The House), 1958

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(via Just an Illusion # 294)

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From Tom Gauld.

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Criterion movies in Criterion movies… this is apparently a thing

A Night to Remember (1958) poster in a scene from Shadows (1959)

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Devil’s Archway, Devil’s Lake State Park, Wisconsin, USA

I had to yell at a bunch of strangers to stop climbing up it for a moment so I could get this shot sans people.

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Any schoolboy can do experiments in the physics laboratory to test various scientific hypotheses. But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion or not.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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night wandering

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Walk along the Aegean Sea

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Meters: Greek edition They keep their meters behind these metal boxes, which is way less aesthetically pleasing, but I figured I should still get a photo of them.