In fact he covered it on the same album! This one went to #1 on the US Charts and "Beyond the Sea (La mer)" went to #10.
Which is hilarious because at this song's from Three Penny Opera which is critical of capitalism, and its author (though not the creator of the music) was forced to testify in the Hollywood Blacklist sessions of HUAC in 1947 -- he left to live in East Germany the day after.
In the case of velocity, all neutrinos move at essentially the speed of light (they have the slightest amount of mass which slows them down, each of the three types of neutrino a different mass compared to the other two but still very, very, extremely low masses). Only neutrinos less than 2 eV are noticeably slower than light, and that's quite a low energy. The almost-exactly-light-speed has been confirmed by, among other methods, comparing bursts of neutrinos from supernovas and other intense sources to the photons coming from the same sources.
The photons move at the speed of light by definition and MeV and GeV energy neutrinos show up in detectors at the exact same time down to as close as we've been able to measure it (roughly one part in a billion, I think it is).
Yes, but it doesn't matter enough. The square-cube law means that the mass being supported goes up faster than the area of the layer doing the supporting does. So each additional brick on the bottom still ends up carrying more weight as the pyramid gets taller.
Depends on the compressive strength of the material. Sooner or later the weight of the pyramid above the base exceeds the base's ability to support it. Considering that a mountain is basically a stone pyramid, Everest has to be in the neighbourhood of how tall you could go -- call it 10-12 kilometers high. Other materials would do better.
I loved that movie especially because his parents in it are duplicates of my parents. I even had a copy of the Bay City Rollers album that had the original version of this song, when I was a kid in a very Scottish immigrant house.
I had a quick re-read I think you might be right! I'm wondering if I picked it up from the movie instead.
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Yes, Gary is the father. He's ended up leaving her (in the future) because he found out she had the future knowledge of their daughter's early death but went ahead with having her anyway.
Oh, I've read all of his stuff! It's a red letter day for me when a new story is published. None since 2019, though.
My odd choice of his would be Seventy-Two Letters. I find him most interesting when he follows through in the consequences of an old disproven scientific theory or theological explanation of the universe, and he manages to fit two of them in here.
He's written some "Notes" on the story when it was printed in his first short story collection and said that it has the same theme but that he wasn't inspired by it directly. The roots were Paul Linke's play "Time Flies When You’re Alive" and the principle of least time in optics -- if you treat light as a ray, it has to know its future destination in order to know the path with the shortest time it will take to get there (though not if it's a wave). Then there's a bunch of diagrams and discussions about the principle's implications for free will that will stretch your brain. It's pretty fun.
It's based on a short story called "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. He's published only eighteen stories in his career (starting in 1990), nothing longer than a novella and mostly short stories. Despite that they've won him four Hugos, four Nebulas, and six Locus Awards. He's worth reading, is what I'm trying to say.
It's the only one in English unless you allow things like "The absolute value of -20".
The area of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire is one of the great gold-producing regions of the world, and from roughly 1400 CE it was a primary producer of gold dust for much of Africa and Europe -- Europeans called the region the Gold Coast and the British guinea coin was minted from gold obtained there. The Akan peoples who lived there made weights called abammuo or mrammou (among others, depending on which Akan language) for use when trading the dust. Originally geometric in form, by about 1700 they started to be cast in the shape of many different animals and objects.
Whale-like appearance notwithstanding this is a sankofa bird perched on a stepped pyramid. The sankofa is a symbol for learning from the past in Akan culture, which is why the bird has its head turned backwards as if looking behind it. Abammuo are generally small, and this one is 3.8 by 2.2 by 2.2 cm.
This image is copyright to the Smithsonian Institution, and used with permission. You can see the original on their website.
(Originally posted by me to Reddit a couple years ago)
This is a season's ticket for the 1931 New York Giants baseball club made out of 14 carat gold. It was given to Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his capacity as Governor of New York. The picture on the front is a reproduction of a 1909 image by Charles Dana Gibson (more famous as creator of the "Gibson Girl"), while the back has Roosevelt's name and "one party" as those covered by presenting the ticket at the Giants' home field, the Polo Grounds. The reverse also shows a 14K gold stamp from Lambert Brothers, the jewellers once located at 58th Street and 3rd Avenue in New York City which produced the ticket for the Giants.
The original image can be seen here on the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum's website.
(Originally posted by me to Reddit here but I thought I'd revisit some of my favourites since I switched to Lemmy)
This is a map I made about a year back after encountering Hamilton Inlet and the associated Lake Melville on a map. It looked like the sort of place a medieval Norseman might call home, and when I checked it's climate was actually nicer than the one around the real Greenland settlements.
In this alternate history it was settled and managed to survive until European fishermen arrived in the area in the 1400s. With closer connections to across the Atlantic after that, it then carried on down to the modern day, a bit like Iceland but not as populous.
Its look was inspired by the National Geographic infographic maps of the 70s and 80s.
[email protected] is about the venerable Traveller TTRPG, and is new in the last couple of weeks. It's seeing some activity every few days right now so it might not take much more to get it off the ground.