PhasmaFelis
PhasmaFelis t1_iu5sofo wrote
This is a clever little bit of design, but I'm not sure who actually needs one. I've never had any trouble fitting a small travel mouse in my bag.
PhasmaFelis t1_iu4jam2 wrote
Reply to comment by Midnight_Sun_1776 in Why are there so many terrible books with beautiful book covers? by Unifish1
I don't think that's it, really. More that a single cover piece is much quicker to create, and much easier to judge the quality of at a glance, than an entire novel.
PhasmaFelis t1_iu2aw97 wrote
Reply to comment by ComputerSong in Magma on Mars Likely - Until now, Mars has been generally considered a geologically dead planet. An international team of researchers led by ETH Zurich now reports that seismic signals indicate volcanism still plays an active role in shaping the Martian surface. by GeoGeoGeoGeo
Yeah, but it makes your comment not make sense
PhasmaFelis t1_iu2aaps wrote
Reply to comment by ComputerSong in Magma on Mars Likely - Until now, Mars has been generally considered a geologically dead planet. An international team of researchers led by ETH Zurich now reports that seismic signals indicate volcanism still plays an active role in shaping the Martian surface. by GeoGeoGeoGeo
You kinda missed an important word in the middle there
PhasmaFelis t1_itlwp48 wrote
Purely by accident, I read The Martian just a few months before the movie came out. It was nice being able to compare and contrast with the book fresh in my mind. The movie held up amazingly well, IMHO. It skipped or glossed over some bits that had I liked, presumably to cut running time, but nothing that was indispensable or damaged the overall story. Hard sci-fi is so incredibly rare in cinema; The Martian and 2001 are the only decent ones I've seen.
PhasmaFelis t1_itlq921 wrote
Reply to TIL that the famous author Thomas Pynchon has avoided publicity during his fifty-year career to the point that almost all known photos of him are from the 1950s. However, he voiced himself in two episodes of The Simpsons, where his dialogue consisted entirely of puns on the titles of his books. by IHad360K_KarmaDammit
This is fantastic:
> Of particular emphasis was Pynchon's outright refusal to utter the line "No wonder Homer is such a fat-ass." Pynchon's objection apparently had nothing to do with the salty language as he explained in a footnote to the edit, "... Homer is my role model and I can't speak ill of him."
PhasmaFelis t1_ita6mv5 wrote
> 8K displays also require more sophisticated video processing than comparable 4K displays. That’s because there are four times as many pixels to process with the need to upscale nearly all current video sources today.
I love how they admit right there that there isn't even any 8K content to watch on the damn things.
PhasmaFelis t1_ir5t5uh wrote
Oh, that's nice. I was thinking "black banks" were something to do with "black money" (profits from crime).
PhasmaFelis t1_ivbf5h7 wrote
Reply to comment by mskimmyd in A pod of dolphins got stuck in the mud at low tide — here's how a N.S. community saved them | CBC News by DrJGH
North Sackota.