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  • Godel, Escher, Bach
    Infinite Jest
    The Lord of the Rings
    The Demon-Haunted World
    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    Small Gods
    Master and Commander

    and everything else written by those authors.

    The first two or three on that list might take several fits and starts to get through, YMMV, but they are WELL worth the effort, and you will come out the other side changed by the experience. The others are all pretty easily digestible, but no less transformative.









  • I assume that this thought experiment posits a space filled with the same average density of particles found at ground level on Earth. Obviously such a thing is nonsensical, but it serves to illuminate one aspect of the raw power of the Sun that we ignore, because we’re insulated from it by 93 million miles of vacuum.



  • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzMoss
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    2 months ago

    It always staggers me when I remember that for roughly sixty million years during the Carboniferous Period, there were trees but no microorganisms capable of decomposing them.

    Just sixty million years of branches falling off and trees falling down and… just sitting there on the ground, not rotting at all.