On Dumb Questions I’ve Had For Science
@rbrtposteschild Handy illustration! (includes ALL water, though.)
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On Dumb Questions I’ve Had For Science
@carpetblogger The moon's position in the sky relative to the sun has to do with its orbit around the earth and corresponds to the lunar phase. When the moon is new, it's between us and the sun, and it appears dark because we can't see the reflected light. When the moon is full, the moon is on the other side of the earth from the sun. When the moon and sun are aligned (new moon), they rise and set at approximately the same location and at approximately the same time. When the moon is full, it's the opposite--the moon rises when the sun sets and in the more-or-less opposite quadrant of the sky. (But of course for the northern hemisphere, it will be NE/SE pairs instead of what might seem more opposite, NE/SW. And none of these directions are precise because math.)
If you chart the location of the moonrise over the course of 28 days, you'll see it swing back and forth between the NE (new moon) and SE (full moon), hitting straight east twice a cycle at the 1st and 3rd quarters. And in sixth months all that will flip and you'll see the moon in the southeast when dark and in the northeast when full.
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On Dumb Questions I’ve Had For Science
@riotnrrd I just have to say that this comment string is the sexiest thing I've read in weeks.
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On Merle Haggard Is 75
You know how some people loathe avocados or celery as children and then sometime in early adulthood, try it again and find themselves adoring it? Merle was my celery.
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On An Analysis of the Thomas Kinkade Calendar for April
@theheckle And look how much water is in the road! If you know the soil has poor drainage, why would you build so close to a stream? I'd bet good money that church has significant flooding issues.
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On Thirty Songs Named For People Named Jane, In Order
If I play these for my cat Jane instead of a person-Jane, does the order change at all?
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On Roman Bean Casserole
I swear I am not an idiot, but can someone please explain why you need three 15 oz cans to equal one lb of dried beans? Since 1 lb = 16 oz, wouldn't you have three pounds of canned beans? This must be a weight/volume confusion issue, but I always thought food products were labeled by weight and not volume. Or is the point that 1 lb of dried beans will swell up into roughly 3 lb of cooked beans?
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On Is James Deen the Title IX of Porn?
@deepomega Yeah, the idea that "because Deen sometimes does parodies or vanilla scenes, that's why ladies like him" is just as reductionist as the argument Oswaks is responding to. What, like his work for kink sites doesn't make any money, some of which is undoubtedly provided by women?
But more importantly, Deen looks just like Fonzie in the picture at the link.
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On Survey Says! The Complete Online Dating Advice Guide for Men
@liznieve I regret filling out the survey last week now, if this is what (who) it's used for.
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On Experiment Boring
I am not lying when I say I have this open in a background tab for about half of my work days.