Recent content by pinball1970

This made me smile https://phys.org/news/2026-02-astronauts-international-space-station-nasa.html

You missed one.

Facetious is a joke out of place.

They are subtly different things in English. Sarcasm is words regarding a situation that have opposite meaning, usually within a humorous context. Irony applies to a situation but not necessarily humorous. Example (this shows my definition has not satisfied me!) A man is a kidnapped by...

Those words were part of the IQ classification last century in the UK and also appeared on marriage certificates, "any history of.."

What about “Irony?” Not the easiest word to define in English, so I would be interested in your versions. Also, German “schadenfreude” we do not have an English equivalent, so we use it as is.

There is this also. https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/546/2/stag089/8426287?login=false Analysis of 31 galaxies with average redshift 7.3 From phys.org "As a result, we found that they are on average ~600 Myr old, according to the comparison with theoretical models based on previous...

Breathing is involuntary which is why we can breathe when we are asleep. The suffocation arises because we are paralysed and cannot take control of our breathing. It is a horrible feeling, I suffered from being a small boy. Historically demons sat on your chest was one explanation, not nice...

Up voting the first part but not this. Sleep paralysis is when your brain wakes but your body does not. It is very distressing because you cannot move or breathe properly. Bipolar, schizophrenia, depression, not connected.

I had never heard of it till my friend told me to watch it. Great film.

“The Man Who fell to earth” 1976 David Bowie’s character has “equations of basic” IIRC. He sells these to create wealth to return home. “K-PAX” 2001 The scene I remember is where the alien works out the trajectories of celestial objects in his head. I cannot remember if there are any other...

....and voila techno was born!

I don't see the issue. the earth makes one rotation every 24 hours, where we split today from yesterday is completely arbitrary. You can think of it when flying from West to east and back you gain and lose hours in those journeys, it is why we get jet lag because we are crossing the time zones.

I like this one

This confused me. They had all the instruments to make this fantastic plus singers but decided to turn into elevator music.