Notices by Starwall the Science Ball (starwall@radical.town)

So I'm sure you're all familiar with the UN projection of the Earth that puts the Arctic at the center and shows all the land, but let me present to you the inverse of that, the Spilhaus projection, which centers the map on Antarctica and shows the world's ocean as the single, continuous mass of water that it is.

it's like marxism, but in your computers

It turns out, mapping the galaxy is a much more difficult job than anticipated, but using the light from Cepheid variable stars, which are stars that brighten and dim according to their size, we can pretty accurately tell distance. By using these stars, we can build a map of the distribution of stars in our galaxy...

So here's a 3D map of Cepheid variable stars, in our very own Milky Way galaxy, released in a survey done back in February. It reveals that the Milky Way isn't as flat as we thought, but rather a little bit warped or twisted. Although rare, it's far from unheard of to see a spiral galaxy with a wobble to it, and quite apparently our galaxy is among them.

Our galaxy is not flat, which means that a whole lot of art is out of date.

We don't know yet what caused the warping effect, could be a recent interaction or collision with another galaxy or even dark matter. At this point, it's still to early to tell.

literally all of this debate is pointless when we could clearly solve all of these problems by opening the volcano

antifa sells t'chuplate

Having a Facebook account "just for memes" is like having a set of men in vans sitting outside your house, constantly monitoring your every move and word, information of which they will quickly sell to the highest bidder, just so that you can get in a few good nose-exhales because they also happen to deliver funny newspapers right to your door.

@amsomniac
shit, we can never get everybody on the same day huh

Land ownership is a tool of oppression across the globe

you don't hate Mondays, you hate capitalism
you don't hate commercials, you hate capitalism
you don't hate your shoddy internet service provider, you hate capitalism
you don't hate shopping, you hate capitalism
you don't hate your job, you hate capitalism
you don't hate standardized learning, you hate capitalism

Imagine for a moment a society actually designed to convenience us, not one designed to extract wealth. Imagine a society actually designed to work in a sustainable way. Imagine a better way.

Notre Dame isn't some confederate statue erected in 1970. This was a world history site. We won't get it back. It's a tragedy, let people grieve. We know the RCC was shit, we know France was shit, but Notre Dame wasn't entirely shit. I'd cry if the Taj Mahal collapsed or if the Hagia Sophia was destroyed, it's not all about religion or the West or whatever you want to make it about. Sometimes it's just about the art and history itself.

All of civilization, all of the things we do on this earth are temporary and mortal and it is painful to admit so. Nothing lasts forever, not even these things that feel like they've been here forever.

The press conference starts in 5 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnJi0Jy692w

afraid to like things because people make fun of things

"YouJelly?" is a website where you can vlog about your perfect life and your extremely fun and exciting adventures, all while starting drama with absolutely every other account, but the catch is that you don't actually have any real fans, just people who are jealous and would rip you to shreds in an instant to have your life.

Stars can't be green for the same reason you can't make iron glow green-hot! It goes from dull red, to white hot, to bluish hot. The thermal blackbody radiation curve that peaks in the green has equal parts blue, green, and red, so it appears kind of yellowish-white to us. If green stars were possible, our own sun would be exactly that! If you think about it, you're glowing like a star right now, just only in the infra-red spectrum, can't see it (unless you have an infrared heat camera) ✨

Boost and I'll give you a space cowboy name.

if you're on mastodon, you're a little bit famous

Hey @Gargron did you see this tool that @andi made? You can view any thread in the fediverse with it in a really cool, visualized way! https://beta.observablehq.com/@nuklearfiziks/hellthread-visualiser