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?

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    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.

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    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

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    To Catch A Predator and its spinoffs/follow-up acts, Takedown with Chris Hansen being the newest.

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    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.

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    Also Titanic. Spent a lot more then 20 mins myself though. I’m on like week 3 of my Titanic rabbit hole

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    The Titanic is endlessly fascinating. Curse OceanGate for reawakening the Titanic Beast deep within me.

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    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.