Today I learned

[1695814]

From the face book, Orion’s Belt is HUGE:

@the secrets of the universe

Orion’s Belt, one of the most recognizable asterisms in the night sky, is part of the constellation Orion and consists of three bright stars: Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka. These stars are nearly equally spaced in a line as seen from Earth.

Alnitak (ζ Orionis), the easternmost star in Orion’s Belt, is a triple star system approximately 1,260 light-years from Earth. The primary star, Alnitak Aa, is a blue supergiant and the brightest class O star in the night sky.

Alnilam (ε Orionis), the central star, is a blue supergiant around 2,000 light-years away. It is the brightest of the three stars and the fourth-brightest in the Orion constellation.

Mintaka (δ Orionis), the westernmost star, is a six-star system located about 1,200 light-years away and is closest to the celestial equator. It is a multiple-star system composed of three spectroscopic components.

These stars are hot, luminous blue supergiants. Although they appear close to each other in the sky, they are at varying distances from Earth. The stars of Orion’s Belt are several times more massive than the sun and thousands or tens of thousands of times brighter. Together, the ten stars of these three systems possess a luminosity approximately 970,000 times that of the Sun.

[BG5150]

@Triweasel

Nah you just send 2 full pies and keep one for yourself. Partial pies is just weird

I know I’m a month late to this, but do we know how the pies tasted compared to those of JFG’s Aunt?

[twig93]

[Cooke]

And 27 US states have some of their state further north than Point Pelee in Canada.

[ArthurItas]

I was thinking there have to be many examples of this, so I decided to test it. On my first try I found a spot closer to 9 other state capitals than it’s own: Cumberland Gap, VA.

Raleigh, Frankfort, Charleston, Atlanta, Montgomery, Columbia, Nashville, Columbus, and Indianapolis are closer than Richmond.

[PatientZombie]

@Cooke

And 27 US states

you mean 27 OTHER US States?

too soon?

[PatientZombie]

[SpaceLobster]

@Cooke

And 27 US states have some of their state further north than Point Pelee in Canada.

Including california.

[dr_t_non-fan]

@SpaceLobster

Including california.

California is both south of some of Mexico AND north of some of Canada.
That CA-Mex border is actually northeastward-tilting

[DeepPurple]

@ArthurItas

Benadryl is now an age restricted purchase. I gather it’s because some teens have abused it with big doses, sometimes combined with Imodium.

One should never take a sleeping pill and a laxative at the same time.

But if you do, you’ll sleep like a baby.

[Funemployed]

I remember not feeling all that great one morning in High School. My mom handed me some medicine, which I took without thinking and went to school.

It was NyQuil…

I learned nothing that day

[PatientZombie]

Au contraire, I believe you learned something very important

[Snikelfritz]

If all of the antarctic ice melted an archipelago would remain, not a solid continent. The East would bounce back up above sea level due to isostatic rebound, but the west would stay mostly submerged.

[tommie.frazier]

my son can stay on my employer provided health plan until the end of the calendar year (and not required off the end of the month of the 26th bday).

i had assumed end of month but had not checked. so…i guess he stays on. ($0 negative impact to me either way.)

[1695814]

The original saying from Benjamin Franklin is “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. If we can stop the fire before it starts, we shall save ourselves a world of trouble.” and he was talking, specifically, about fire safety.

[Mathman]

The perfect Guinness pour is supposed to take 119.5 seconds. I rarely drink Guinness and had no idea.

[vjvj]

Heaven forbid you take 2 minutes and ruin it with that extra 0.4%.

[The_President]

That’s called “marketing”

[DeepPurple]

There’s a new-to-me drinking game called “Splitting the G” which involves chugging just enough off a full glass of Guiness to exactly split the G in Guiness 50/50 with the beer’s meniscus..

[BG5150]

today I learned it’s called the meniscus.