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@lucifargundam

(I suspect only about <2% of readers will fully understand what I said.)

@lucifargundam

People who do that tend to f*ck their own mothers in outhouses, too.

@peterdrake

>"Threw my back out..."

I almost never throw things out. You never know when you might need them someday.

(Seriously -- hope you recover soon.)

@lucifargundam

Well, I mean the site is called "Glassdoor", what did they expect?

It's like using "Windows" and expecting your computer to be secure.

@lupyuen

Why are they carrying phones?!!!

@dev_nadine

My sentiment exactly.

@freemo

Now you're just goating me...

@aworldinpages

That's true! (I think.)

@reusedbottle

Officially, it's called a "status", but if you use the word "status", half of the people won't know what you're talking about.

Sometimes I use the word "post".

Yeah, that's "portion", not "potion".

(fair use image)

#Webb #Hubble
#Astronomy #wonderful #life

Animated sequence of the galaxy cluster "Stephan’s Quintet" from the Webb Telescope...

@skells

ATM or atm often refers to:

Atmosphere (unit) or atm, a unit of atmospheric pressure
Automated teller machine, a cash dispenser or cash machine
ATM or atm may also refer to:

Computing
ATM (computer), a ZX Spectrum clone developed in Moscow in 1991
Adobe Type Manager, a computer program for managing fonts
Accelerated Turing machine, or Zeno machine, a model of computation used in theoretical computer science
Alternating Turing machine, a model of computation used in theoretical computer science
Asynchronous Transfer Mode, a telecommunications protocol used in networking
ATM adaptation layer
ATM Adaptation Layer 5
Media
Amateur Telescope Making, a series of books by Albert Graham Ingalls
ATM (2012 film), an American film
ATM (2015 film), a Malayalam film
ATM: Er Rak Error, a 2012 Thai film
Azhagiya Tamil Magan, a 2007 Indian film
"ATM" (song), a 2018 song by J. Cole from KOD
People and organizations
Abiding Truth Ministries, in Springfield, Massachusetts, US
Association of Teachers of Mathematics, UK
Acrylic Tank Manufacturing, US aquarium manufacturer, televised in Tanked
ATM FA, a football club in Malaysia
A. T. M. Wilson (1906–1978), British psychiatrist
African Transformation Movement, South African political party founded in 2018
The a2 Milk Company (NZX ticker symbol ATM)
Science
Apollo Telescope Mount, a solar observatory
ATM serine/threonine kinase, a serine/threonine kinase activated by DNA damage
The Airborne Topographic Mapper, a laser altimeter among the instruments used by NASA's Operation IceBridge
Transportation
Active traffic management, a motorway scheme on the M42 in England
Air traffic management, a concept in aviation
Altamira Airport, in Brazil (IATA code ATM)
Azienda Trasporti Milanesi, the municipal public transport company of Milan
Airlines of Tasmania (ICAO code ATM)
Catalonia, Spain
Autoritat del Transport Metropolità (ATM Àrea de Barcelona), in the Barcelona metropolitan area
Autoritat Territorial de la Mobilitat del Camp de Tarragona (ATM Camp de Tarragona), in the Camp de Tarragona area
Autoritat Territorial de la Mobilitat de l'Àrea de Girona (ATM Àrea de Girona), in the Girona area
Autoritat Territorial de la Mobilitat de l'Àrea de Lleida (ATM Àrea de Lleida), in the Lleida area
Other uses
Actun Tunichil Muknal, a cave in Belize
Anti-tank missile, a missile designed to destroy tanks
Ass to mouth, a sexual act
At the money, moneyness where the strike price is the same as the current spot price
At-the-market offering, a type of follow-on offering of stock
Automatenmarken, a variable value stamp
Contracted form of Atlético Madrid, football club in Spain
Common abbreviation in SMS language for "at the moment"

source:wikiedia

Patsplaining...

This one is absolutely, 100% true. A flashlight (or any other source of light) that travels toward the Earth (or any other gravity well) will increase in frequency. This is known as gravitational blueshift (or gravitational redshift when light travels away from a source of gravity).

The part that’s somewhat deceptive is that the change is so small that it cannot be detected with the human eye, so in actuality the light will appear the same color, even though it is actually “bluer”.

Gravitational blueshift is due to general relativity and can be explained in one of (at least) three ways…

1. Time runs slower in a gravitational field; the more gravity, the slower it runs. And the closer you are to the Earth, the higher the gravity. So the frequency will be more because: frequency = 1 / time

2. Anything that falls into a gravity well gains speed, or momentum. This is an increase in energy. Since light is already traveling at the speed limit it can’t go any faster when it “falls” in, so the only way it can gain energy is to increase its frequency.

3. Because of the equivalence principle, gravity is acceleration and the source of the light has lower gravity because it is further away, and so it is accelerating slower at that point than it is when it is closer to Earth with higher gravity, so the frequency shifts due to the Doppler effect.

Further reading…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound%E2%80%93Rebka_experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_redshift

@mc

Just a couple of months ago...

https://qoto.org/@Pat/108310053387118755

****SPOILER*****

This is much more complicated than I thought when I posted this poll. It also depends on how you measure the "surface", i.e., if you measue the entire surface as a smooth sphere or as a fractal surface.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_dimension

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_roughness#Soil-surface_roughness

****SPOILER*****

Also, some additional parts are in shadow because of the irregularity of surface features, such as craters and mountains which cast shadows.

@lupyuen

I was using FF and switched to Chrome.

But now I think I'm going to switch to IE. 😀

****SPOILER*****

Excluding light from sources other than directly from the Sun, it's between 85-90% in shadow. The entire back of the moon is in the shadow of the moon itself, while the front is about 75% covered by the shadow of the Earth.

What potion of the surface is in shadow?

@peterdrake

I think it depends on what attributes they are ranked on. I think it makes sense if the ranking is based on which scholars are the prettiest.