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scienceasfuck

Cell phone batteries are like your mitochondria because they’re the powerhouse of your cell

recked

tastefullyoffensive

dennys

;)

inthedumpsterbehindthe711

the denny’s tumblr both concerns and fascinates me

enrique262

Underwater nuclear reactor test, where Cherenkov radiation is the result of the experiment.

ayellowbirds

A nice reminder that, contrary to the sickly green you usually see in fiction, glowy radiation is usually a lovely blue. But what’s happening? Well, something’s going faster than light! I’m not a physicist, so i might be getting some details wrong, but this is as far as i understand it:

See, the speed of light is a universal constant, the c of e=mc². But that’s only in a vacuum—so much of physics is based first and foremost on activity in a vacuum—and the speed of light through matter is often significantly slower. Instead of 1 c, light moves through liquid water at about 0.75 c. That may still be ludicrously fast, but it’s still slowed down enough that charged particles like electrons can exceed that speed within the medium in question. Exceeding that speed does all kinds of weird, somewhat terrifying and very exciting things to the electromagnetic field of the medium, including the creation of a shockwave in a manner very similar to a sonic boom.

In other words, that bright blue visible radiation is what happens when a particle exceeds the speed-of-light-in-water and creates a luminal boom.

robotlyra

Oh. So THAT’S what my favorite color is

dr-dendritic-trees

It’s so beautiful

greenreticule

I got my Bachelors in physics, with my senior project working with Cherenkov radiation, and yeah, @ayellowbirds pretty much got that description spot on. [thumbs up]

my friends who have dogs: this is my beautiful son he is not very smart but hes such a good kind boy

my friends who have cats: this is my terrible daughter she is very soft and has tiny beans

my friends who have birds: this is the wretched foul gremlin who lives in my house and screams very loud. i love her

humoristics

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@red-faced-wolf

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THIS IS IMPORTANT @arcticvixxen

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@skypig357

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love to reblog

highlandvalley

イタチ部屋兼お父ちゃんの寝室を覗いたら三男がベッドで大の字で寝ていたのが衝撃だった今日の昼下がり。#フェレット https://twitter.com/guunondai/status/860472582713233408/photo/1

quasarlasar

Reasons Why Oxygen Is Actually the WORST Element

1. Everything it combines with becomes complete garbage. Iron + oxygen = rust. A wooden table + oxygen = carbon dioxide and a pile of ashes.

2. It slowly kills you with free radicals, but you have to keep breathing it or else you’d die even more quickly. So oxygen basically holds you hostage for life.

3. Ozone alerts. Seriously, those suck.

4. It turns my guacamole brown. Who wants to eat brown guacamole?

5. In liquid form, it basically goes on flaming murder rampages.

6. It’s the third most common element in the Universe, which is stupid because it’s number eight, not number three. Oxygen cuts in line.

7. People will pick it as their favorite chemical element because it’s literally the only one they can think of.

jasper-rolls

heartsnmagic

merry-go-round-jailhouse

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bwansen

There’s a discussion about this, including an explanation, here.

Basically, it seems there’s some bit stuck on zero. Just compare the binary values of the letters:

In “Windows” => “Wandows”:

i = 01101001 a = 01100001

And in “Normally” => “Ngrmadly”:

o = 01101111 g = 01100111

l = 01101100 d = 01100100

You see, in the misplaced letters, the fifth bit is “zero” when you would expect it to be “one”. That’s the difference.

Also, it seems to happen on every fourth letter, but in some letters, we don’t see it because their fifth bit already is zero: “Wandows” has both the “i” (changed to an “a”) and the small “w” affected, but “w” is 01110111, so the bug doesn’t make a difference.

The whole thing is very probably caused by a damaged graphics adapter.