Fairytale Units btw is the SI name for anything in the Imperial measuring system.* Based on the fact that imperial not only is a witch's brew of childish units that don't go together, but also that things are based on barley corns. Barley corns. One inch was originally defined as three barley corns, and if that isn't some fairytale shit I don't know what is.
*no need to look it up, just accept it as true.
#imperial #SI #measurements #standards #science
Unfortunately all those #scientific #measurements have to be discarded because#scientists used #metric measurements which are #woke.
Shipping
It’s weird but I actually have two packages that have been shipped out by me over the last couple of days. One is a passport renewal form that went out via Fed Ex last night and the other is seven rolls of 35mm film* that I sent out via USPS on Saturday. Which will arrive at its destination first? The race is on! In this post-pandemic era of online shopping it’s common to be following packages that are on their way to you, but less common to have to follow packages that are on their way from you. Maybe not. I don’t know. I have to write about something.
Apparently you can spend six months in Scotland without a visa. Who knew? Ireland only lets you stay for three months. England and Wales are also six months, so is that a UK thing in general? What about Australia? I’ve recently watched two television shows that took place in Australia so I feel like I practically live there already. Duck Duck Go (fuck you, Google) says you need to obtain an Australian visa before you arrive. Well that’s no fun. Kevin Garvey, Jr and Nora Durst must have already had a visa when they left Miracle, TX on The Leftovers. Kevin Garvey, Sr… well who knows what that whack job was doing. He sure as hell didn’t.
The Bruins season ended last night on another painful loss. Some teams still have a game left to play, but my team is done. Mercifully. The best they can finish is tied with Philly for last place in the Eastern Conference. The worst they can do is finish in last all by their lonesome. Unfortunately for the draft lottery, there are 4-5 teams out west that will finish with worse records. Not that we have a General Manager who knows how to draft for shit though. In other Boston sports news, the Red Sox actually won a game last night after getting humiliated on Monday night. Fun.
I’m in the office today and tomorrow so the pickin’s for photo a day will be slim. Not that it matters. They are all just pictures of cats anyway. This one for today made use of the iPhone’s low light feature. It works well.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54455674076/in/datetaken/
*35mm film refers to the size of the negative… I think. 120 film does not refer to the size of the negative. I read somewhere that it refers to an old Kodak catalog product code. Mentioning 35mm and 120 film in the same sentence makes my ass itch. It’s like doing your physics homework and mixing up your units of measure. It’s like referring to velocity (measured in meters/seconds) and acceleration (measured in meters/seconds squared) as if they were the same thing. I believe the product code for 35mm is actually 135 (not too confusing there, Kodak) but I don’t know what the negative size for 120 film is. I can’t bring myself to call 35mm 135 so I guess I will continue to mix units and have an itchy ass. I could say medium format instead of 120 but that just feels like taking it all a step too far. I don’t know.
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💥 Nanomaterials used to measure first nuclear reaction on radioactive nuclei produced in neutron star collisions
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-nanomaterials-nuclear-reaction-radioactive-nuclei.html
#astronomy #physics #nuclear #materials #instruments #radioactivity #science #measurements
Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had previously only been theorized. The study, led by the University of Surrey, provides new insight into how the universe's heaviest elements are forged—and could even drive advancements in nuclear reactor physics.
Look, I'm sure there are reasons to ever have a logarithmic scale for measuring things, but there's a lot of scales out there in the world which are completely unintuitive to humans when it comes to quickly understanding something.
Decibels? Utterly unintuitive.
Earthquakes? nope.
Scoville scale? garbage.
Schmidt sting pain index? useless.
I have invented the Skullvalanche Scale Usability Index (SSUI) to rank how useful these scales are.
Rankings are 1 to 10.
1 being "nobody would understand this, possibly including the person who invented it"
10 being “anyone who can count to 10 would understand this"
Now I will rank the aforementioned scales.
Decibels: 3
Earthquakes: 4
Scovilles: 3
Schmidt: 2
🔔 BioSonics spectroscopy can 'listen' to the sounds made by individual viruses
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-biosonics-spectroscopy-individual-viruses.html
#virus #biology #optics #acoustics #instruments #measurements #resonance
A team of chemists and microbiologists at Michigan State University has found that an all-optical method can be used to detect natural vibrational frequencies made by individual viruses as a way to identify them. In their study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group found a way to bounce light off viruses and detect the resulting patterns of vibrations, which could be easily identified.
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