The limit that the 3 body problem presents is that there is no exact solution, and inexact solutions will eventually desynchronize so much as to become worthless for predictions. But the key word is ‘eventually’ - if your initial measurements are good, there could be years (and in the case of the planets of the solar system, millions of years) worth of useful predictions.
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Oh yeah, I remember reading this (and other stories by the same author) on Kuro5hin decades ago. I’m not sure I agree with the superlative, but it was definitely a freaky story.
Haven’t watched the video version yet, but from the first few minutes it seems like just an audio book of the text.
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Ask Science@lemmy.world•What's a scientific fact that sounds 100% real but is made up?English
7·2 days agoIt’s the second half that makes it really false (although the first “all” is sufficient): there’s a single-cell animal with 16000 chromosomes.
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Movies@lemmy.world•What's a movie you have seen that one thing annoyed you and you can't watch it again after thinking about the annoying part the first time?English
4·2 days agoIf I remember right that’s almost word for word from the script of the movie itself (but talking about the game Neo was coding)
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Movies@lemmy.world•What's a movie you have seen that one thing annoyed you and you can't watch it again after thinking about the annoying part the first time?English
4·3 days agoThe tether is what’s keeping the magic space force from pulling him away from the ship until it fails or he disconnects it or something. (It’s been a while since I saw it too, but it bothered me as much as thread-OP)
Got a visible spectrum comparison?
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Space@mander.xyz•Massive 'Tycho' Space Station 10X Larger Than the ISS Wins Inaugural Aurelia Prize
2·3 days agoAre you including Formula 1 and similar?
Sounds like the summaries I’ve seen of Gnosticism
Ok, I recognize Evanescia, but not the one on the left.
Who 'dat?
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What Tor/I2P porn sites would you recommend?
101·4 days agoPerhaps they are in a place that blocks normal access
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's something that is more difficult than it seems?
131·5 days agoProbably a front loading clothes washer.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•KPop Demon Hunters is half way between Hannah Montana and Van Helsing
15·5 days agoAnd it’s not even by Dan Schneider.
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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•The most important person in Starfleet history
3·5 days agoYeah, I’m not aware of even a single example of near-death making someone “stronger”. (I don’t count more cautious, callous, etc. as “stronger”. Nor stuff like chemotherapy: that’s a dip even lower and then maybe back to regular healthy strength.)
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science@lemmy.world•Fluoride in drinking water has no effect on IQ or brain function, long-term study showsEnglish
4·5 days agoMaybe differences in liver or kidney function? I wouldn’t be surprised if various organs are proportioned differently compared to humans because of things like volume vs surface area that come with size differences, and in this case diet.
It’s not exactly that they ran out of money, but the admin who ‘held the keys’ went offline long enough for the hosting to end.
One of the other admins started a new instance. Also the old instance was brought back as read-only.
“Did you ever have the feeling you was being watched?”
Approximately 26 times a year.
Forgot the tiny 9 after the 8.












Try reading Flatland, besides the social commentary, it’s an illustration of how dimensions work, and by analogy how higher ones would.
It’s well out of copyright, so there are also a bunch of audiobook versions on YouTube and such.