numbani defense. me as zenyatta, and 5 lucios; 2 on speed, 3 on heal. they just ran around and spammed their boosts to keep me alive and mobile. they also stayed hidden in the little rooms so that they wouldn’t die.
i was a very fast little robot man with a fist full of discord who never died.
Someone is going into grocery stores and putting stickers on milk jugs of ‘missing’ US reps who are refusing to hold town meetings this week (presumably because they’re afraid of trump protesters).
Whoever you are, know that you are loved and appreciated.
for some reason i definitely thought this was going to be one of those fuckin… infinite chocolate things. or like, some really weird trick involved. literally it’s just “put the tomatoes in some dirt and they grow into MORE TOMATOES 😱” which like… yea… that IS how plants work but i don’t know if it’s a life hack
THIS #LIFEHACK IS TOO POWERFUL YOU WILL LITERALLY GET AN ENDLESS SUPPLY
In Luigi’s Mansion, If Luigi gets closer to a mirror than intended by the game (through the use of glitches or cheats), the mirror will not display parts of Luigi’s model.
someone: supergirl can’t like lena, she has liked boys before
me, a bisexual:
someone: can you believe andrew garfield said he wanted spiderman to get a boyfriend, i mean he had a girlfriend in the past, he can’t be gay
me, a bisexual:
someone: steve rogers can’t be with bucky, he dated peggy, he is obviously straight
me, a bisexual:
someone: what do you mean wonderwoman is bisexual? she had a boyfriend
me, a bisexual:
someone: this character is straight because he/she only has been with people of the opposite gender
me, a bisexual:
It gets worse when they say that about characters who have been bi or pan before. Like, several iterations of spiderman are canonically bi and ends up in a relationship with deadpool and yet people still claim spiderman AND deadpool are straight despite deadpool never having been straight in any version.
Electron microscope video of a needle on a vinyl record.
H O W
like you can tell me all you want how the sound is stored in the grooves but fucking H O W
HOW DOES THAT GET INTO THE NEEDLE
HOW ARE THE VIBRATIONS TURNED INTO MUSIC THAT YOU CAN HEAR???
H O W
The vibrations aren’t “turned into” music, they are music. When vibrations occur inside your inner ear, your brain processes this as sound.
The grooves in a record are an analogy for these vibrations, a method of remembering them so that they can be recreated later on.
Put your hand on a speaker while loud music is playing and you’ll feel the vibrations. Those are exactly the same vibrations happening inside your ear when you hear the music.
But how do you capture that?
Take a surface that vibrates strongly when a sound is played, like the skin of a drumhead for example. Connect that surface to a little tool - when sound causes the surface to vibrate, the tool digs a little bit into some wax, leaving behind a pattern that matches - in proportion - the vibrations of the surface caused by the sound. This is your analogy (hence: analog music).
Now, when there’s no sound playing, you run that little tool back over the pattern. This causes the skin to vibrate again, this time in response to the tool running over the pattern instead of because of an external sound. The vibrations should match, proportionally, the original vibrations of the music.. and thus these new vibrations, if you were to amplify them, would be a recreation or “recording” of the original music.
That’s oversimplified of course and things have changed a lot since the days of wax, but that is very basically how the process of recording music worked at first, and the general idea of how sound gets from a groove in a record into your brain.
(reblogging for Disparition commentary)
Thank you Science side of tumblr
I hugely appreciate people taking to the time explain stuff like this, as it helps put an end to the “wow, science is magic!” trope that’s become far too common.
