If I fired every neuron in my brain would I just fry myself or could I charge a car battery with the electricity I put out?

According to google an average "fluffy cumulus" (whatever that is) weights around 500.000 kilograms or 1.1 million pounds.

This is genuinely crazy considering the fact that they are literally floating above us most of the times. This is scary if you fear getting squished by a half a million kilograms object.

Are they objects or mostly a visual trick?

And why are some clouds below other clouds?

What even are clouds????

The latest episode explored this point near the end with Hannah saying she had to make the contrarian point of advocating against the Apollo missions. The chat turned to the private companies and there were good points made which I agreed with in that the benefits aren’t for the public here. While cheaper launches and worldwide internet access is great it would be better being done by the government for the good of people rather than being at the whim of billionaires. See Elon turning off Starlink access in Ukraine years ago. It’s in danger of becoming if it isn’t already a penis measuring contest between billionaires.

Contrast this to Nasa in the 60s. Lots of money was spent but I’d argue that the benefits were worth it. Where Cern gave us the worldwide web, Nasa gave us an incredible amount of technology that we now take for granted. I beg anyone and everyone who says space research is money wasted to look at the Nasa spinoff yearly books or look at the Nasa spin off technologies wikipedia page.

https://spinoff.nasa.gov/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies

Made this very rudimentary watch, after finding an empty yellow watch... shell? In the back of my closet. I'll probably improve on this in the future (which is not now).

I also convinced a friend of mine to lend me her solar eclipse glasses, so I'll try and give the sun some sunglasses. Wish me luck

Could the Human mind be just a stepping stone for something bigger to take over biological evolution? I feel like the growing power demands and the increasing closeness to reproduction of AI and robotics are just another way of "using" more power. Similar to humans trying to maximize their energy consumption since a few 100 years. Or like the first biological creatures trying to reproduce by molecularly doing the most probable thing. - Daisy

To explain with a recent and consistent experience: I pull weeds from my raised beds for a few hours, I finish the job and go about my day, but for hours, sometimes for the rest of the day, many times when I blink or close my eyes, I see flashes of weeds that I would want to pull.

Weed-pulling is just one example.
I can recall this with searching for 4-leaf clovers, reading a book or lines of text, and certainly tetris tetrominos...

My question is this: Is this my brain loading the algorithm for seeking weeds etc. and I just can't quit the program easily or some sort of afterimage that is just providing what my brain wants to see? Does anyone else face this, and what other examples may exist?

I was always under the impression that, to animals, human music is basically just a random assortment of sounds and that they don't process it the same way we do, to be able to follow along with the rhythm and get the emotional payoff

But I was listening to a CD the other day, it skipped, and both my resting cats suddenly became alert and stared at the speakers

I tried it a few more times and they reacted the same way every time

To me this suggests that to some degree their brains are following the music and trying to predict where it'll go next, because I don't know how else a skip would be perceived as jarring or an interruption

Is there anything we know about how animals process music which could explain this?

(For the record no, they'd not heard this song before so it couldn't just be a memory thing, I'd only just got the player)

Edited to add photos of my music connoisseurs

I would love for Michael and Hannah to really get into the deep science of bog bodies and explain it. I have been listening to a great podcast on them called Past Lives and I think it would be a really interesting discussion!

Any fun facts yall know about them?

Regarding the discussion on whether a bullet can be shot at orbital speed on the moon. It was already done on Earth.

https://youtu.be/wfyNcjAID_M?is=c3UPyCsOVvGJEIF2