Candles not helping my attempt at “do no harm”
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Candles not helping my attempt at “do no harm”

I made a candle at 2AM coz ADHD. Currently sitting in the garden enjoying the cooler air after the first rain in forever. Light up my candle, pleased with how it’s burning (tea lights have required fortresses even on windless evenings to stay lit)
Goddamn moth just kamikazied straight into the hot wax…I’m feeling responsible for this dumb buggers poor life choices. And now I have the serenity busting snap, crackle and pop to look forward to, once it makes its way to the flame. I feel guilty about stepping on snails, even though they are courgette devouring scum. And I like moths, they cool af. This is not helping.

Update: we’ve had a snap! Thank you for your kind words, there are plenty more in my kitchen, I should feel responsible. I guess this is how Jurassic Park starts…kinda

u/vorblesnork — 1 day ago

Light/gravitational travel time across hypergiant stars.

Betelguese’s newly observed companion had me thinking about the gravitation well of such a system and the boiling turbulent surfaces of these massive stars, and starting wondering about stars like Stephenson 2-18. Their sheer size (some being larger than the orbit of Saturn) means that gravitational information about the turbulence on one side of the star could take up to \~3 hours to transmit to the other side, and vice versa.
This must be having wild effects on the cores of these stars, not to mention the time dilation differences across the entire star.
I guess my question is, Is this something thats even calculable? Are these effects large or so minuscule as can be igonred. Or do I have it completely wrong?

Just for clarification, I refues to use ai for these sorts of things (or anything). I am a complete layman, and most of my understanding comes from articles, youtube videos/lectures and gleaning what I can from scientific papers.

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u/vorblesnork — 23 days ago
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Rescued a dragonfly from a lake

I’m pleased to report it is alive and well (well it was when it flew off).

I saw it divebomb the water and couldn’t bare to watch it struggling. So I fished it out with a stick and it slowly dried off and recovered from the ordeal whilst chilling on my hand, which took about 20 mins (i didn’t know you could get cramp in your hand from holding it flat for so long).
Very cooperative and photogenic.

u/vorblesnork — 3 months ago