xkcd #3243: Crystal Gazing
1mon 10d ago by lemmy.world/u/xkcdbot in xkcd from imgs.xkcd.com
Title text:
'Beyond that lies a vale of fire through which my vision cannot penetrate' is the kind of fun thing geologists, heliophysicists, and early universe cosmologists have a lot of opportunities to say.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3243/
Crystal-gazing is one of my favorite things to do. I can ponder my crystal for hours and commune with other practitioners, plumb the depth and breadth of human understanding, and look at cats. Lotta cats in the crystal network.
I find thermo-luminiscence dating interesting too, from an antroprocentric point of view.
Imagine, you find human relics but can't use radio carbon dating, because it just tells you: yes it is older than 60k years but I won't tell you how much older, because we ran out of ¹⁴C a while ago. And then someone comes along and says: Hey let's heat those rocks we found close to the ancient fire place and measure the energy they emit instead. :D
That thermo-luminiscence video looks like one of the most AI produced things I've seen, why not link the wiki like you did for radio carbon dating?
Definitely TTS, maybe AI text source. Google came up with lengthy texts or elsevier-links. The 3min video didn't feel too bad to provide the gist of it in 3minutes. I didn't think of wiki.
Thanks for the link.
Prophets of Done
I'm a reverse next-thursday-ist, i believe the world will begin next thursday.