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Shocking how many people don’t know that hens lay non-fertilized eggs and think the yolk they’re eating is a baby chicken
once tried desperately to make my friend understand that yolks were not, like, a liquified potentiality of chicken, and she looked at me for a while and then said, "but they’re both yellow."
Behold
Behold
This is the best thing on the internet.
the intrepid heroes reached new levels of Accurate Teenage Friendship tonight
they thells she shells by the he whore
Endless Fantasy High
you bottle Miette??
You crush Miette like the grape?
brick up mother in basement for ONE THOUSAND YEARS
The Cask of Miettellado
Me duele la cabeza
This is actually examples of the field of mathematics called topology and it’s fucking bullshit wizard shit.
finally, applied mathematics
Don’t worry mathematicians had a very similar reaction at first
Basically around the beginning of 20th century mathematicians were arguing about how to eliminate paradoxes from coming up in maths, and they were questioning whether the bases of maths, known for thousands of years, are complete / correct
In geometry there were those five principles from which everything else was derived, and mathematicians were like: „See, we’ll prove that geometry is sound and complete bc without any one of those principles nothing will make sense!”
And then it made sense. It made too much sense in many weird ways when they removed the 5th principle.
And so, topology was born, simply because mathematicians were so sure it wouldn’t work they decided to try it out as a joke
One example is the assumption that “if two lines are parallel then they can never intersect.”
So… pretend they can intersect twice. That’ll mean things break, right? So you start doing geometry with that, and you get weird results, like “a triangle can have three 90° right angles.” Which is bonkers, but not inconsistent… And it keeps going, the geometry is weird, but it’s not broken, and then someone takes this strange set of rules and slaps them over a globe.
And then suddenly it intuitively makes sense. Longitude lines are parallel at the equator, but they do intersect at the north and south poles! If you take one eighth section of the sphere, each edge of it is “straight,” but each angle is also 90°.
So you start doing other rule changes, and they also make self consistent geometries. You get hyperbolic geometries where lines that are parallel get farther and farther from each other. You start to make weird lumpy geometries and they work!
And eventually you end up with a russian professor teaching a class where his sentence structure only makes sense if you mentally translate everything he says word-for-word into russian and your mind opens up and you can see the layers, you can see just how an Irish hero can walk from the mortal world to the fairy realms and never do more than just walk, you can see how paths to the shadow realms take you from layer to layer of reality.
Geometry.
none pizza with left beef
It should be a rule of Tumblr to always reblog none pizza with left beef
ive missed you
Posted Oct 9, 2012
Happy birthday to none pizza left beef
ok.
happy (late) birthday to none pizza left beef !!
My favorite thing about Tumblr is just how easy and real the possibility is of finding HUGELY popular posts by just randomly scrolling. I constantly think of this one
these posts have the same vibes imo 💯
and this tweet as well
this also
Just so you know, whenever we invent yet another fake fandom character, they inadvertently blink into existence, ill-formed and meaningless, only to be trapped within the hellish liminal space created by the zeitgeist of our collective consciousness.
Make room for Orangutan Johnson
how does one even go about explaining this to anyone??!?
Flaming June
In another universe, Sam Reich is part of Batman's rogues' gallery.
Him and the chocolate guy.
