It’s one of the many often attributed to Winston Churchill, though to my knowledge there’s no actual evidence of him actually saying it and his other writings go against the sentiment. I don’t know who actually did say it first
It’s one of the many often attributed to Winston Churchill, though to my knowledge there’s no actual evidence of him actually saying it and his other writings go against the sentiment. I don’t know who actually did say it first
I know this is absolutely not the point of this, but for some reason this prompted me to try to get a sense of the resolution the JWST is providing here. Here is the original image without our infinite otter overlord. It’s a small part of NGC 3324, which looks like this. If you look at the right hand side of that photo, about in the centre vertically, you’ll see the section that the post’s image shows. It’s rotated 90 degrees between the zoomed in and zoomed out images.
NGC 3324 has an apparent dimension of 11 arc minutes, or 0.183 degrees. So if you imagine a ball that’s 10cm across and another one that’s 20cm across but twice as far away, they’ll have the same apparent dimension. If you imagine a triangle drawn between the observer and the two outside points of the subject, the apparent dimension is the angle of the corner of the triangle at the observer.
So if imagine holding an object at arm’s length, say 0.8 m away, how big would that object have to be to have an apparent dimension of 11 arcminutes? About 5 mm. The entire photo - the zoomed out one - is the equivalent of holding a grain of rice at arm’s length. And then we get this zoomed in one still showing crazy detail on just a tiny fraction of that
Johnson is a slimy tosspot, and his position on Russia is good only for self-serving reasons. Supporting Ukraine let him act out his little Churchill fantasy and distract from all of his domestic failings
As a physically large man who used to work a job that meant he was walking home late at night in the city, just cross the road to overtake. If you’re walking that much faster than the other person, you will overtake pretty soon.
They’re actually fairly prolific publishers, though I haven’t personally played much of their catalogue besides the excellent Golf With Your Friends
RNGesus is a dickhead and I’m Longinus
I don’t think it’s necessarily a misleading headline. I don’t doubt for a second that Trump would make some meaningless demand with no regard for reality
The guy that got “installed” was the leader of the opposition in the parliament, had the backing of a clear majority of the parliament, and had been supportive of the protests. It would be weirder for the Americans to support anyone else
Hamstrung or not, the delivery in that article is 70,000 tonnes of fuel. That’s almost as much as the Russian delivery in the article.
Where I am, autumn is when the spiders decide they want to be indoors
Despite the European Union not including all of Europe, a German would definitely call themselves European when describing themselves as a citizen of the EU and not an EUian
Is Australia the entire south of the world?
Annual government spending was about 1.2 trillion last year, so it’s about 3.5% of that. Alternatively it’s about 30% of last year’s deficit
If you want pausable combat and a logistics focus, the Hearts of Iron games might be interesting to you. They’re pseudo-real-time in that things happen on an counter that ticks forward once per in-game hour of the day (so the results of two units fighting, a diplomatic message being sent, construction on a building), but you can speed up, slow down, or pause however you wish. If you want to zip along at a few seconds of real time per day in game, cool. Want to slow things down to a few seconds per in game hour instead? Also fine. Need to pause while you read a description? Also fine.
Seconding Space Marine 2. It’s built for three-player co-op, crossplay works smoothly, and it’s a super satisfying shooter
The US military is currently directly involved in fighting in Yemen and Somalia. It’s relatively small-scale, but it is happening
Monet, Goya, Degas, and Dali
Also Gojira being amazing
Classic ChatGPT there, forgetting two letters and adding in two that weren’t there before
space nerd is a title i shall wear with pride