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  • Fun fact: back in the early days of Roman legend the calendar had ten months and they just sort of suspended it over winter and started again in the spring. This is also why September, October, November and December are in the wrong places, numerically speaking: they used to actually be the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months before Ianuarius and Februarius got added.

  • There's a very good reason why the Iowa class battleships, built during the second world war, were still firing their guns in anger during the Gulf War.

    Because Reagan wanted a 600-ship navy without having the capacity to build enough new hulls and Congress is full of nostalgia blinded boomers who wouldn't let the navy retire them no matter how much they begged?

  • I think MAGA tends to follow the narcissist's prayer model tbh:

    That didn't happen.
    And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
    And if it was, that's not a big deal.
    And if it is, that's not my fault.
    And if it was, I didn't mean it.
    And if I did, you deserved it.

    They're somewhere around 1-3 depending on the specific person atm.

  • Yes if they have enough energy (see for example https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-74045-5). What you won't get with proton-induced fission is an explosion as the fission doesn't emit protons which can go on to cause further fissions so there's no chain reaction (unless you already have a critical mass for normal neutron-induced fission in which case it's going to explode even without the protons).

  • Top one looks like it's from an intermediate level quantum mechanics lecture. Less sure about the bottom one as it's generally less legible but it looks like it's dealing with probability density functions of some kind to me.

  • “Listen," said Crowley desperately, "how many musicians do you think your side have got, eh? First grade, I mean."
    Aziraphale looked taken aback.
    "Well, I should think-" he began.
    "Two," said Crowley. "Elgar and Liszt. That's all. We've got the rest. Beethoven, Brahms, all the Bachs, Mozart, the lot. Can you imagine eternity with Elgar?"