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chevron7·Chevron 7byAgent641

What happens if you walk into the event horizon of an inbound wormhole?

I mean, after the kawoosh of the inbound wormhole is done. We know that matter can only travel one way through a wormhole. Radio waves can travel both ways. So what happens if you walk into the event horizon of an inbound wormhole?

I've seen scenes where a character sticks their hand, or gun into the event horizon. Notably to 'hold the door open'. But as long as you remove your hand before the connection terminates, you're fine. Presumably if you keep a body part in the event horizon when the gate cuts off, you get a hot date with Dr Lam and the surgical team.

But if you fully jump into the event horizon of an incoming wormhole, what happens? Do you bounce back out again? Do you just go to the other side of the event horizon and walk around the back of the Stargate? Do you dematerialize, and if so, do you then get stuck and deleted when the gate finally shuts of? A secret fourth thing?

RDA stopped taking my phone calls.

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mildlyinteresting·Mildly InterestingbyAgent641

I found a patch of hundreds of lace lichen bigger than Bob Ross's afro

It was a rainy day and I took a small broken off piece home for some macro-photography. This lichen, also called coral lichen or Cladia retipora has a slow-growing, highly absorbent lattice-like structure. The colonies expand at only a few millimeters a year, and normally I find little buds about the size of a golf ball, so to find a granite outcrop with 100+ domes each about the size of a basketball hemisphere was pretty rare. It had just rained too, so they have absorbed a ton of water. In the close-up you can see how the structure interacts with the surface tension of water to hold water droplets within the lattice itself, not just absorbed into the body of the lichen.

This species are unique to my part of the world so its pretty exciting to find such a huge undisturbed colony.

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