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Syzygy (astronomy)
  • Thank you, internet stranger! I've got a pretty high tolerance for monster of the week nonsense, and was looking for a 'new' show to binge.

  • Syzygy (astronomy)
  • I watched every single one back in the day, til the movie came out and I quit cold turkey. The only ones I remember were the vampire pizza boy, the Bobby Darrin song, and the circus freaks in the sewer. Is it worth a rewatch?

  • Pizza Principle
  • Ol Doinyo Lengai

    ...the lavas of Ol Doinyo Lengai have temperatures of 540–593 °C (1,004–1,099 °F); they are so cold that during the day they look like mudflows or oil and glow only during the night.

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  • See also: Conservapedia

    I thought this was a joke for too long. It is not.

  • Mall goth
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  • One of these days it'll be my turn...
  • This is the way. Mac and cheese accepts most additions.

  • What is your BG3 unpopular opinion?
  • That's the most controversial take so far. Cheers!

  • What was using the internet in the early 2000s like?
  • Back in the AOL CD via postal mail days, the Internet was the AOL home page. News feeds, email, dumb games, chat rooms, message boards.... and rotten.com for everything else.

  • What was using the internet in the early 2000s like?
  • Everyone had a blog.

    I'm so glad my Diary-X got irretrievably wiped.

  • Whale fall
  • A 2022 study identified 45 known natural whale falls, 38 implanted ones, and 78 fossil ones, mostly in the Pacific, but a significant number, particularly of fossil ones, in the Atlantic.

    The cool thing about this is, (non-wiki links) we now know of 50+ more off the coast of Southern California, as of this year. Scripps was tasked with finding sunken WWII munitions with their ROVs and the sonar scans came back with all this new whale fall data, conveniently located right next to an oceanographic research institution. I hope they have live streams online somewhere.

  • Jeju oreum
  • Not exactly a one-to-one, but western North America has a huge variety of volcanic fields to explore. I had sandwiches on top of a cinder cone north of Flagstaff this spring, and Craters of the Moon is on the bucket list, too.

  • What's the dumbest blockbuster movie you have seen that somehow received high praise?
  • Joel Schumacher's Batmen movies, especially the Clooney one, were so awful they changed the tone of superhero movies from that point on.

    I watched them both very recently during an extended Arnold Schwarzenegger movie binge, and it's absolutely worth hate-watching them again for the sheer wonkiness and absurdity of... everything. Try tallying the Dutch angles. And girl power platitudes.

  • Pork roll
  • Not Connecticut. I've been here a looong time and I've never heard of this.

  • Comet NEOWISE
  • I miss everything because of clouds and light pollution. And I forget.

    But- (non-wiki links)NASA and EarthSky are great to have bookmarked for sky stuff.

    And subscribe to sciencey instances and communities across the fediverse. I am subscribed to astrophotography, science, and climate stuff on Lemmy, and that helps keep me informed.

  • Raggare - Punk hating Swedish greasers
  • I read the no editorializing request in regards to the link title, but adding a bit for clarification is fine. If you like putting a salient quote or a quick synopsis within the optional text of the post, there's nothing wrong with that choice. But I'd hate for it to be mandatory. Some articles speak for themselves, and the comments are always open for community engagement.

    But I'm not a mod, and I don't speak for our resident clam man.

  • Gegenschein
  • They do look similar in this photo, but they're very different things.

    Gegenschein is reflected sunlight backscattered back to our eyes from dust particles close(ish) to Earth.

    The Milky Way is the cross sectional view of our spiral galaxy that rises and sets like other constellations and has viewing seasons- its more visible in the northern hemisphere summer.

  • Dutch roll
  • Forewarned is forearmed. I figured I'd save a couple people 2.3 seconds if I threw this up here. Also, it wiggles. Look at that yaw!

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