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[-] [email protected] 125 points 10 months ago

Isaac Newton was a life time bachelor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#Personality

[-] [email protected] 94 points 10 months ago

But he did have two sisters, which makes this post a lot weirder

[-] [email protected] 78 points 10 months ago

Yeah I was gonna say that. He was famously single his entire life and is speculated to be one of the first historical examples of an asexual and aromantic person.

[-] [email protected] 91 points 10 months ago

I can't be the only one that read "aromatic person" instead of "aromantic person".

[-] [email protected] 76 points 10 months ago

He was born in the 17th century, everyone had quite the aroma back then

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

sniff sniff

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

atleast you're not alone.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

oh damn that's sick if he was! pretty cool ace representation

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I thought that was the joke here, isn't it? He stayed virgin due to this...?

[-] [email protected] 90 points 10 months ago

I'm gonna go ahead and be that guy and point out the fact that in the panels showing himat his desk from the inside, th window is to his right and there's no wall right next to him, while the one from the outside has the window directly in line with him and it's breaking me

[-] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

But at least the formulas and constants appear to be correct

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

My gawd, you've entirely ruined my enjoyment of this cucumber.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I'm gonna be the guy that points out cucumbers are spiky before they get to the grocery store...

[-] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

I've grown lots of cucumbers, and while I haven't shoved them in my arse, I can confirm that they are smooth. Ridge cucumbers can have spikes, you may be thinking of them.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

He moved his desk to a different room/window

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

It's all just one room, they moved the desk to the window to make place for a bed.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I sure hope somebody got fired for this blunder!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

you mean zucchini

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It looks correct to me, the inside view doesn't even clear the window, the outside view shows that the wall is maybe ~1' past the window frame which we don't even see on the inside shot. Unless I'm missing something?

[-] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago

A cucumber tree? Sir, this is a science community.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

The cucumber is on the ground. And cucumbers do grow on plants.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Admittedly the image quality is "this meme first appeared in a dirty magazine in 1986 and has been re-compressed twice a year since the internet was invented", but there are falling lines above the cucumber, and a little puff of smoke where it hits the ground. It's depicted as falling out of a tree.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's common to use a trellis with cucumbers to have their vines grow vertically instead of covering all of the horizontal space of a garden. That makes cucumbers "hang" in the air like a fruit on a tree, and would lead to those motion lines in a fall.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

But did they do that in Newton's time?

[-] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

Well before Newton discovered gravity, the vines would have been floating freely around. His discovery is what triggered the cucumber to hit the ground.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The apple falls next to a tree trunk, the cucumber falls next to vines and leaves near the ground. You wrong.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The cucumber just fell out of a peddler's basket who was moving ahead of the woman under the tree.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

If they don't grow on trees then why are they green.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

Isaac fucked the apple too tho.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Surely that took a lot more practice than doing a cucumber. So I was told.

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Needs more jpeg

[-] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

The center wall that separates the windows is larger on the inside than the outside. Fun

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

I always laugh at stuff like the small dust cloud of the cucumber, as if it just popped into existence and caused air pressure.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I think it fell off the vine like the apple fell off the tree

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