Obligatory mention of the novel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schild%27s_Ladder](Schild's Ladder) by Greg Egan.
Such a scenario would be interesting indeed.
a chain of incredibly strong carbon-fluorine bonds
Pedantic mode: The longest chain of C-F bonds you can have has length two.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_sulfoxide
for the less-scientific-but-still-want-the-correct-wikipedia-article among us
I think that's only used in Chinese and Japanese, so that °C occupies as much space as a Chinese/Japanese character.
The Longest Journey
Thanks for the recommendation! I have a long list of games I want to play make graphs from, and I just checked and that game already on it. So one day, it should come
Why is the first picture a Paphiopedilum? (It's an orchid)
The photograph is taken looking up in a room. There are thousands of cables hanging down from the ceiling to the floor, with LEDs attached at regular intervals. The room has mirrors on the walls, on the ceiling and on the floor, so in whatever direction you look you see this. The whole this is programmed to shown different colors changing over time, combined with music and sounds. You can go through the room through a predefined path where the cables are shorter and don't reach the floor, allowing you to walk under them. It gives the illusion that you're in the middle of some infinite arrangement of lights, going on in all directions, sometimes moving, sometimes rotating, or just pulsating with the music. The room is part of a wider art installation called "teamLab SuperNature", in Macau, and it is quite a unique experience.
I'm not so sure. They forgot the citations, and also the acknowledgments for the project that gave the funding.
Thanks! It's a pet peeve of mine when people use an abbreviated genus name without having written the full genus name first.
It tasted pretty much like a yellow kiwifruit, nice and sweet and better to me than the green ones. I was disappointed however that it was still mostly green inside.
Sure, let's write a proposal for LSD-based feline experimentation, give the cats just catnip and keep the LSD for ourselves.