stelelor

joined 2 years ago
[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 4 points 20 hours ago

A Canadian Space Agency project about detecting life on Mars. My contribution was minuscule, as a young naive grad student, but I hope it gets built on over time.

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Who throws out a nearly full bag of chips?! They're like 6$ here in Canada!

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 10 points 22 hours ago

I can't remember if it's mentioned in the books, but I think the idea is that Muggle technology stops working in the presence of magic. Guns would jam, electronics would brick, etc.

Granted, this raises the question of where do you draw the line? For example, the magical world has countless exploding substances. What if they took some, stuffed it down a long metal tube, insterted a small metal object in front of it, then set fire to the explosive stuff from the back end? That's basically a gun or cannon, and it's hard to argue that it's technologically complex.

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

Teaching: That moment when someone's eyes light up and their whole facial expression changes from confusion to understanding. I love the challenge of figuring out how to reach that with each person.

Dancing or working out to my favorite songs: It feels like my body is taken over by the music, and I can keep going endlessly while everything else fades away.

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Helicobacter, like Helicobacter pylori which causes ulcers.

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

No more climate change if no more climate!

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

I can make two sounds that I haven't been able to locate in the IPA chart. They're a voiced and voiceless pair. I can only describe then as the sounds of a goose or duck.

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

How big is this thing? Without a sense of scale in the picture I thought it was about 2 ft / 60 cm long.

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

You better not cut any corners!

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Sleep, exercise, catch up on chores (cleaning, organizing). I'm tired of being tired, achy, and messy.

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