Tfw Doomfist is back from prison
i cant get over this i CANT get over the imagery of akande getting out of his lyft ride in a suit and tracer immediately running away shrieking (not even using blink, just like, physically running) like i CANT
doomfist: why are you running
tracer:
“Each dot represents 5,000 hogs.” World Geography. 1948.
untapped infinite hog supply in the ocean
In the original story, it’s said that a kind of Koopa Troopa used Bowser’s magic to turn innocent villagers into brick blocks-
So, does that make Mario a mass murderer for destroying the brick blocks and other inanimate objects he finds on his journey for powerups?
I’m just going to leave this information here.
actually it doesn’t!!!
the bricks that the toads were turned into are NOT the normal bricks. they’re the question blocks! that’s why you get the power ups. they’re actually rewarding you for freeing them, you’re not hurting them!
You just tore down Matpat’s entire edgy Game Theory™ on this
man fuck the overwatch science department youve got mercy and moira having a battle of ethics turning reaper into a ghost and giving genji glass bones and metal skin and then theres just mei and winston in between them eating peanut butter and trying to be normal ass people
i dont know anything about overwatch but isnt winston a literal gun-toting gorilla
A gun-toting gorilla quantum physicist from the Moon, yes.
He’s still the normal one.
Doom but with Super Mario Odyssey Music
Demon slaying has never been more delightful.
Man, the Switch port for Doom looks marvelous.
Invisibility is generally thought of as magical, unobtainable, something out of Harry Potter or a superhero comic. But optics, the physics of light, is very much science. How can you manipulate light so that you are completely invisible?
We see an object when light hits or goes through it and comes back to our eyes. Therefore, then, there are two things we can see: reflection, the bouncing of light, and refraction, the bending of light. Because of this, we can see glass and water even though they are transparent.
Latias, then, bends the light around its body to appear invisible. When light refracts, the angle that it bends is proportional to the index of refraction (n) of the material. Snell’s Law says:
Don’t get too discouraged by the math: it just means that the larger the index of refraction is, the more light will be bent when it enters the medium. For example, air has an index of refraction close to 1, and diamond is 2.4.
This also means that if two mediums have the same index of refraction, then light won’t bend at all when it passes through it. For example, this glass rod has the same index of refraction as the oil, which makes it disappear:
That’s invisibility, but not the kind we’re looking for. If Latias’ feather had the same index of refraction as the air that it flies through, then yes, its feathers would be invisible. But you could see straight through to her skin, organs, lungs, heart, eyes, etc. We aren’t looking for a way to make light go through Latias, we want the light to go completely around her.
Until recently, this was largely thought impossible. To bend light completely around a visible object like an invisibility cloak, you would need a negative index of refraction. By definition a substance’s index of refraction is calculated with a square root, and we can’t take a square root of a negative number. There was no substance on Earth that met these requirements.
Until, in 1964, Victor Vesalago mathematically proved that a negative index was not impossible. You simply need to take a “left hand rule” approach instead of the standard “right hand rule” for electromagnetics. And much more recently, in 2000, we’ve successfully engineered materials with negative indices of refraction.
The catch is, light is made up of a spectrum of different wavelengths. The “invisibility” material that we have only cloaks the object from microwaves, not visible light. Research is still being done, as you can imagine, true invisibility would be a revolutionizing breakthrough.
Because she’s not invisible all the time, Latias must have several layers of feathers; the red and white for normal, and the invisibility ones for stealth.
i cant believe its daylight savings time and i havent seen the “hello its me your cousin oskaar from iceland” video on my dash yet you are all slackers
i guess i have to do all the work around here dont i
