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I was just watching Titanic and spent 20 minutes looking up the effects of hypothermia and discovering that Jack may have been alive and in stage 3 hypothermia when Rose let go, and because he sank instead of floated, he was in fact alive. It was a fun little time sink. What rabbit holes have you done down recently?

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[-] golamas1999@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Learning about Space. There we’re working miniature prototypes of a ship to get humans up to 12% of Speed of Light. Project Orion worked by blasting nuclear bombs behind a ram jets once per second.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All of the humans or just parts of them?

[-] dotslashme@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Flat earth. It's like a mix of bizarre comedy and a Japanese game show after a while.

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Discovering how to extract game sounds into common formats from a Nintendo switch game catridge

[-] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

To Catch A Predator and its spinoffs/follow-up acts, Takedown with Chris Hansen being the newest.

[-] Blaze@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago
[-] webjukebox@mujico.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ham Radio.

It started with a pair of two-way walkies, talking with a friend in the backyard while sitting in my bed and then you're pointing to satellites and the ISS to download weather and old space images.

[-] fruitywelsh@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I love radio stuff, but I just haven't dove into Ham yet. That said there a local radio shack with their call signs posted on the window so I might just dig in.

Maybe find my excuse to actually use gnuradio for something.

[-] webjukebox@mujico.org 1 points 1 year ago

Sure. Ham people are always open to share their knowledge.

With gnuradio you can download weather imagery with a RTL SDR dongle.

[-] TPetrichor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The Titanic is endlessly fascinating. Curse OceanGate for reawakening the Titanic Beast deep within me.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago
[-] buco@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I start out with the Fermi paradox and might end up anywhere. And once every now and then I read about those two Dutch girls who got lost in the Amazon jungle.

[-] its4am@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I think about that incident about the two Dutch tourists every few months. It's just crazy imagining what they went through.

[-] Ubettawerk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago

The concept of time and higher dimensions. I don’t understand the physics, but listening to others explain the concepts and spending time to think about it can keep me busy for hours

[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

I always have such a hard time with the 4th dimension concept. (Not the time one though, the other one) Sometimes I grasp it for a bit and then minutes later I'll be confused again.

[-] blegh@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

I like deep dives into neon genesis evangelion. I doubt theres anything else I can get out of a show I've seen multiple times and watched who knows how many analysis videos on, but I still like listening to someone talk about it.

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