Thanks for the explanation. You rule. ba dum tiss

What is the YouTube alternative? That’s what I’m struggling to find. I found PeerTube but couldn’t find much I’d like to watch.

ETA: I like videos like Veritasium and VSauce, Tom Scott, those kinds of things.

*fewer than

“The object is currently about 90.5 astronomical units (AU) away from us, or roughly 90 times as far from Earth as the sun is.”

This sentence pissed me off so much and I stopped reading after it.

It is 90.5 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is from the Sun. Why’d you have to go and change the frame of reference to Earth?

I use Ubuntu. Can someone tell me if that’s “independent and outside US jurisdiction”? I know it’s made/maintained by canonical.

What are some Linux distros that we should avoid? What are some that are independent?

Oh yes. My pedantry is nearly boundless.

Interstellar for me. Great soundtrack though.

That post is actually how I got here. This is my first Lemmy comment ever.

To a Tyrannosaurus (~66 million years ago), the Stegosaurus (~155 million years ago) is as ancient as the Tyrannosaurus is to us.

It is interesting because most people think of “the age of the dinosaurs” as one big piece of time where they were all together.

There is a nice VSauce video on the illusions of time: https://youtu.be/zHL9GP_B30E

That’s hilarious. I think I’ve blocked that bit out. But I was giggling when the idiot was using morse code to communicate with his daughter in the past.

And the entire Matt Damon and robot bit could have been left out. It added absolutely nothing to the film.

Edit: found this https://youtube.com/shorts/4aZf1c-SOWY

I had definitely blocked that trite dialogue out my mind to save space for something more important, like digits 700-800 of pi.

Broke with nothing to live for and damn ready to die young. I'm the shadow behind the gun, look what I've become. Lemmy.

Ja Rule, circa 1993, probably

Woah. Interesting.

You are right. I stand corrected.

Fair, but annoying to the pendantic.

If we are 1AU from the sun, and this planet is 90AU from the sun, then it is between 89 and 91 AUs from earth depending on the progress of our orbits (assuming perfectly circular orbits). So they did change the frame of reference.