Karyl Krug
DgarOn 25th December, a child was born who would change the world forever.
Happy birthday Isaac Newton.
doro.e@dgar @bauhausmensch großartige Bildbeschreibung 😅🏆
John Mastodon@dgar the guy on the back is his sidekick, Nikolaus
MrWeirdo729@dgar Happy Birthday Isaac Newton 🍎🌈🥳🎊🎉🎂
Elon Muschg@dgar He didn't change the world, he changed the point of view. And there are still persons who don't believe in science.
SkyLuke@elonmuschg @dgar I find it incredibly ironic that those people speak through the internet their disbelief in science.
ScriptFanix💍
@dgar And they already had fog machines to make light rays visible!
Magnus Ahltorp@ScriptFanix I get that this is a joke, but there were fog machines then, yes.
@ahltorp
Wow, didn't know that, now I want to know everything about them!
Wow, didn't know that, now I want to know everything about them!
@ScriptFanix It’s not that complicated, burn damp wood or straw or something, the difficult thing is avoiding suffocation, but that’s a problem with current methods as well.
Lots of theatre effects are really old, we just have more modern ways to generate them now.
@ScriptFanix You don’t even have to go as far as carbon monoxide to have a hazard, carbon dioxide or nitrogen is perfectly able to displace oxygen and commonly used to generate smoke.
@ahltorp
Yes, definitely. Some datacenter fire suppression systems that use nitrogen + 5% oxygen and 12% CO2 (so a human passes out but does not die). I've always found them terrifying, but they're eco-friendly
Yes, definitely. Some datacenter fire suppression systems that use nitrogen + 5% oxygen and 12% CO2 (so a human passes out but does not die). I've always found them terrifying, but they're eco-friendly
@dgar He made The light go WOKE!!! 😡
Bread80@dgar He also concluded that everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.
Michael MarekOh, I thought you meant Rod Serling.
Kickstink@dgar one of my favorite historical quotes is by Newton:
"if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
He recognized that any achievements he made were only building on the work of previous scientists. Never forgetting this and preserving scientific process across generations is central to humanity being able to solve our biggest problems.
PassengerRemember the context in which Newton said this.
Someone pointed out that Newton's work owed a debt to that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary of Newton and his mortal enemy. (Newton had numerous mortal enemies, he was that kind of guy.)
Newton responded with the famous "shoulders of giants" line, which sounds good until you remember that Hooke was a tiny little guy, scarcely a giant, and that this was said as an attempt to brush off any debt to Hooke.
After Hooke's death, Newton disappeared his papers and destroyed the only confirmed portrait of him - he really was that petty and unpleasant.
@passenger @dgar oh, thanks for the context and history lesson :)
I was aware Newton had been regarded as a nasty/selfish character by many, so always read that quote as a possible change of heart from him, or some level of wanting redemption. It probably wasn’t, but I’m glad his work and that quote specifically are remembered as positives and inspiration to those continuing his work today.
But yes, it is important for the context to be known also. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas (or other greeting for those who prefer other greetings) to you too!
In time, I hope that all our personality flaws are forgiven and forgotten, as happened to Newton; rather than our work being erased or stolen, as happened to Hooke and Flamsteed.
Ian Tindale
Marcus Marcius Marcellus@dgar Wot no luv for Humphrey Bogart?!
coldclimate@dgar was that not 4th January?
@dgar
This is not how prisms work.
That was part of the genius of the Pink Floyd art.
Is this AI art? Or was someone actually this ignorant?
Love Pink Floyd.
Dud (Mx)@dgar On December 24 was born Lemmy!
Emil Jacobs - Collectifission@dgar oh, sneaky alt text 😂
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James Boag@dgar I've got one of them. Happy 14th Birthday tomorrow Skye.
Quinn Norton@dgar he really managed to accomplish to much for being a werewolf.
Rupert Reynolds@dgar Also Dido, and Armin van Buuren, DJ who was responsible for many broadband slowdowns and router crashes, when oldest son was downloading A State Of Trance :-)
Newton was a very dodgy geezer, it seems, but he gave us Newtonian mechanics (that got us to the moon and back) and (arguably) calculus as well.
mindsetsYes. To fulfill the prophesied coming, if I remember correctly, of the Principia of Peace.
andymalo@dgar Merry Newtmas!
BeardedBulldog 🤷🏻♂️😵💫🏳️🪦@dgar Dark Side of the Room
ideaPDish@dgar
What would tve world look now if sir isaac sat under a fig tree?
What would tve world look now if sir isaac sat under a fig tree?
Winni 
Happy Birthday, @dgar
Eduardo Maschio@dgar and my wife :))
Rich Stein (he/him)
aldonogueira has moved@dgar here depicted at the moment he invented the LGBT ray