Learning about Space. There weβre working miniature prototypes of a ship to get humans up to 12% of Speed of Light. Project Orion worked by blasting nuclear bombs behind a ram jets once per second.
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Absurdly long video essays on video game lore.
Do I want to watch a 90min movie? God no, that's literal torture.
Do I want to watch a 3.5hr video essay evaluating the story of every mainline PokΓ©mon game? Yes please.
Flat earth. It's like a mix of bizarre comedy and a Japanese game show after a while.
Ham Radio.
It started with a pair of two-way walkies, talking with a friend in the backyard while sitting in my bed and then you're pointing to satellites and the ISS to download weather and old space images.
I love radio stuff, but I just haven't dove into Ham yet. That said there a local radio shack with their call signs posted on the window so I might just dig in.
Maybe find my excuse to actually use gnuradio for something.
Sure. Ham people are always open to share their knowledge.
With gnuradio you can download weather imagery with a RTL SDR dongle.
I like to google the cast of whatever tv show/movie Iβm watching and look at their Wikipedia page.
Judy Hops.
Do we have a /c/angryupvote yet?
TV Tropes
Thatβs cheating. TV Tropes is literal crack. Never ever open that website if you have anything important to do in the next 48 hours
It definitely is
It's kind of a shadow of its former self, though. I can't put my finger on why.
The Titanic is endlessly fascinating. Curse OceanGate for reawakening the Titanic Beast deep within me.
Discovering how to extract game sounds into common formats from a Nintendo switch game catridge
To Catch A Predator and its spinoffs/follow-up acts, Takedown with Chris Hansen being the newest.
Computer Science ATM. I'm slowly dancing around the subject of how the CPU scheduler works with modern hardware and resource allocation, and I mean SLOWLY. Like this has been on my back burner for a couple months.
I like deep dives into neon genesis evangelion. I doubt theres anything else I can get out of a show I've seen multiple times and watched who knows how many analysis videos on, but I still like listening to someone talk about it.
Also Titanic. Spent a lot more then 20 mins myself though. I'm on like week 3 of my Titanic rabbit hole
The concept of time and higher dimensions. I donβt understand the physics, but listening to others explain the concepts and spending time to think about it can keep me busy for hours
I always have such a hard time with the 4th dimension concept. (Not the time one though, the other one) Sometimes I grasp it for a bit and then minutes later I'll be confused again.
I really enjoyed the book "Einstein's Dreams". I similarly don't understand the physics, but find some of the concepts so engaging.
I start out with the Fermi paradox and might end up anywhere. And once every now and then I read about those two Dutch girls who got lost in the Amazon jungle.
I think about that incident about the two Dutch tourists every few months. It's just crazy imagining what they went through.
Once in a while, I visit Vsauces old videos. They're thought-provoking.
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