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[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 86 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We all did weird stuff during lockdown...

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 20 points 1 month ago

Was gonna say, covid if anything made me more focused. I did so many side projects

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Pictured: Sir Isaac Newton discovered gay rays on this day, which is why we celebrate pride.

[–] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 14 points 1 month ago

Pictured: Isak Newton proves that going outside is gay

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Excellent picture of an excellent album. "The Black Album" is absolutely one of my favorite AC/DC albums. Not quite on par with "Nevermind", but it's definitely up there. "Stairway to heaven" alone makes this one of John Foggertys legendary works.

PS: It was a loss to the band when Wes Borland left, but David Gilmore is a pretty great replacement drummer.

[–] luciole@beehaw.org 20 points 1 month ago

things you can do to kill time in confinment

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then by year two of his lockdown, Newton was inserting a tiny lever under his own eyeball, inside the eye socket, to try and figure out how the eye captures and processes light.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I wonder what Newton would have done if he were alive today and tried to figure out furries.

[–] Bloodyhog@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

ColoUrs, Newton was a well learned man! These meme creators, grrrr!

[–] beesthetrees@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago

The U in USA had to come from somewhere!

[–] terabytes@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

CreatoUrs, thank you very much.

[–] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We've all heard the story of the falling apple, but did you know Newton figured out light while trying to make an album cover?

[–] huf@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

anal bum cover?

[–] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

And calculating far too many digits of π by hand

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

and what did you do during corona lockdown huhhh?????

[–] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Completely rewrite the curriculum and problem sets for my advisor's grad-level course for flipped-classroom virtual teaching as opposed to in-person lectures. It was the pits for many reasons, not the least of which was that his attitude became "everyone is at home doing nothing, so I can ramble into a recording for 3 h instead of giving 1 h lectures and we can have a full problem set every week instead of 4 in a semester and the scheduled class time is now a problem session amd to answer students' questions :)".

And a fuckton of DFT calculations, so honestly, fair.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To many people back then, a prism turning a sumbeam into a spray of colors must have seemed like actual magic happening right before their eyes.

[–] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 month ago

Still does.