[ziffusion]

It made me very happy, for some reason, that people are systematically and thoroughly studying a subject as obscure as this (fluid dynamics of peeing in insects). I now question if research is happening on every single ridiculous notion that crosses my mind. I bet a bunch of people are actually interested enough in that computation that a field of study exists for it, that I know nothing of, and couldn't find out about if I tried. What all of actual fuck are people looking into?!

[bongodongobob]

Reminds me of the first time a bought a mattress. The guy was 60 years old and had been doing it his entire life. I was blown away at the depth of knowledge one could have on mattresses and mattress technology.

[CableNinja]

Ive posted it before, but i once learned way more than i ever wanted to know about time, specifically time regarding computers, all to answer a question from the business side of "well why cant we have nanosecond time matching across 10+ systems", and the reason is, because its really really hard and really expensive. This wasnt for science either, it was for VR, making the request even more ridiculous, and putting me in an even deeper hole, finding out the minimum response time of the human brain and eyes. I could talk a lot about it, but most peoples eyes glaze over about 30 seconds in