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
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.
To Catch A Predator and its spinoffs/follow-up acts, Takedown with Chris Hansen being the newest.
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 Titanic is endlessly fascinating. Curse OceanGate for reawakening the Titanic Beast deep within me.
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.
