u/Traroten

This is from the Extended edition of the Return of the King, and if you're here I assume you've watched that. Aragorn straight up murders an ambassador because he doesn't like his jive. This bothers me enormously - Sauron is certainly not negotiating in good faith, but Aragorn should still follow the rules. Because that's what Aragorn does.

Is anyone else bothered by this? It's not the worst sin of the movies, but it irks me.

Apparently a man named Riddke came up with a timeline of Conan's stories numbered for the Aquilonian Age, but I can't find it anywhere online. Does anyone here know where I can find it?

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is due to come out in July. Did you study the Odyssey in school? We did both the Iliad and the Odyssey, although I always like the Iliad better.

So apparently 3I Atlas has a lot more deuterium than the Solar system's comets. Now, we know that heavy water is toxic to Earth life in large quantities - it messes with all the bond angles and distances our enzymes depend on to function. Would a significant amount of heavy water be an obstacle to abiogenesis? I doubt that 3I Atlas has enough to be a problem, but theoretically?

This was an interesting article.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jez.b.22690

They speculate that the orgasm originally induced ovulation, like it does with many animals (cats, for instance). After we evolved spontaneous ovulation, the female orgasm was free to develop independently of ovulation.

We also get this gem: "surprisingly unreliably accompanies heterosexual intercourse"

The Americans salute the flag each day pledge allegiance to the flag, and to me that sounds cultish. Like brainwashing.

Edit: My bad. Pledge allegiance, not salute the flag. Still sounds cultish.

I've read that it is not time-symmetric and time symmetry is needed for energy conservation to hold. (I don't imagine we can tap this as free energy, just curious).

EDIT: Answered! Thanks!

Over there!
Outremere!
Send the word, send the word, over there!
That the Franks are coming!
The Franks are coming!
The galleys sailing everywhere!

The de/dem (they/them) distinction is going extinct in Swedish and most people now use a generic "dom" when they are talking. In writing they still use "de/dem", but most people no longer have the intuition, so they use them more or less at random. What I find fascinating is that these people have no problem with exactly the same distinction in English. Why is that? Is grammar for different languages that walled off from each other?