• Jo Miran
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    10010 months ago

    Y’all gonna pretend that while COVID-19 had us all hiding at home, a bunch of y’all didn’t learn to knit, play guitar, bake bread, and all sorts of other things to pass the time and not think about the apocalypse going on outside?

    Shit, Bo Burnham made a god damned masterpiece during lockdown.

  • Sabre363
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    2310 months ago

    He also invented a new math, moving things, and universal gravity.

    • @[email protected]
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      710 months ago

      I remember I watched Brian Cox do some maths. Think it was rocketry.

      He had a bit of paper explained everything and said “In only a couple of minutes I have managed to work out what is required to get to the moon. I can only do this because Newton gave me the second law of motion, if I had to derive the second law myself I wouldn’t be able to do it in a lifetime. Newton was a genius”

      It really put it into perspective for me. I wish I could find the clip.

  • @[email protected]
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    1710 months ago

    What was he supposed to do? Get smarter and invent a cure? He was playing it smart already by isolating himself 60 miles away from anybody else

  • @[email protected]
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    1410 months ago

    Largest Pest Epidemic in Europ; 1350 Birthday of Newton: 1642

    Priorities? Privilege? Nae, Propaganda ;)

  • Destide
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    10 months ago

    I have isolated ultra violet it’s antimicrobial now get me some opium some brightly colored oil paintings and leave me be

  • @[email protected]B
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    310 months ago

    For a brilliant historical fiction account of life and science during that period, read Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World) for a brilliant