I was just watching Titanic and spent 20 minutes looking up the effects of hypothermia and discovering that Jack may have been alive and in stage 3 hypothermia when Rose let go, and because he sank instead of floated, he was in fact alive. It was a fun little time sink. What rabbit holes have you done down recently?
Learning about Space. There we’re 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.
Relevant XKCD:
All of the humans or just parts of them?
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 Pokémon game? Yes please.
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There’s a great podcast about this called Did Titanic Sink? It’s entertaining as well as interesting
To Catch A Predator and its spinoffs/follow-up acts, Takedown with Chris Hansen being the newest.
Discovering how to extract game sounds into common formats from a Nintendo switch game catridge
I like to google the cast of whatever tv show/movie I’m watching and look at their Wikipedia page.
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.
The Titanic is endlessly fascinating. Curse OceanGate for reawakening the Titanic Beast deep within me.
Also Titanic. Spent a lot more then 20 mins myself though. I’m on like week 3 of my Titanic rabbit hole
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.
Once in a while, I visit Vsauces old videos. They’re thought-provoking.
