Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - March 25, 2025 [scampydog]

Great Wall. Cool piece of history and unique experience. Walking on it was very different as the steps are uneven, varying in height, depth, and width. Have any of the Horde made the journey to visit?

Good evening, busy brained - ONT people. Sweetly kicking things off this evening with donuts.

Old school bakeries are the bestest. Pull a number and wait your turn for golden delight. Perfect exterior crunch, pillowy center - each bite a swirl of sugar, cinnamon, and melty yummy.

I present to you... The absolute gold standard of donut.

Not a donut. More cinnamon and sugar. About a half dozen seems the appropriate amount.

Pull on your lab coat. It is time for some ONT space and science with our AoSHQ friend and commenter, publius.

We are leading off with a quote from Feynman. H/T to publius.

A great deal more is known than has been proved. Richard P. Feynman

Mars Madness Perfect NCAA bracket wins you a trip to the red planet.

Elon and team bring back Suni and Butch

Don Pettit has been posting a lot of photographs from the ISS. He's due to come back next month on a Soyuz, and considering his age, 69, this may be his last expedition. [publius]

Here is the link to Don's X feed. Some really cool pictures and videos.

Looks like Don got the ONT memo about pants.

OK; you all asked if this was possible….. pic.twitter.com/sMmJJtQNMy

— Don Pettit (@astro_Pettit) February 23, 2025

He also did another little Intermediate Axis rotation demonstration using a video camera. That shows the axis flipping from the POV of the rotating object. [publius]

A new spin on orbital video. pic.twitter.com/hgdgg25XnL

— Don Pettit (@astro_Pettit) November 24, 2024

Even the big kitty is science curious.

Mountain lion pushes swing and discovers physics pic.twitter.com/yVP90U4DTS

— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 22, 2024

Point Nemo Watery satellite graveyard.

Had some notes in draft for quite a while for a bit of ONT, Latin chatter. AoSHQ commenter nurse ratched posted the comment below and here we are.

Pretty amazing how much Latin is used in everyday life, unbeknownst to many. Here are a few common ones.

Non sequitur
Status quo
Ad hominem
Terra firma

Here are a few that are a bit more fun.

Veni, vidi, vici
Carpe diem
Vox populi
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Non compos mentis. Motto of the ONT readers, lurkers, and commenters?

Here are 77 word/phrases to peruse. sept..something, something, septem.

How is the Latin skillset of the Horde?

This is cute. The things we believed as littles.

When I was 4 or 5, I swore that bird seeds grew birds, thus the name. When my parents asked me to prove it to them, I planted a pile of bird seeds. The next day there were loads of birds where I planted the seeds, showing I was right.

I got a big splinter in my foot when I was 4 and I kept pulling away when my dad tried to pull it out with tweezers, because it hurt. My older sister leaned over and whispered to me me that if I didn't let my dad pull it out, the splinter would sink into my skin and go straight to my heart, pierce it, and then I would die. I immediately believed her and let my dad pull the splinter out - and that was how I thought splinters worked for ages.

Spill it, people. You weren't always smarties.

Cummings was 20ish and Bachman 25ish when they wrote this song.

There's an anecdote where John Lennon was allegedly asked, "If you could sing like anyone, who would it be?" Lennon allegedly responded, Burton Cummings.

Fun link about the song.

Late add on to the post. This kid throws smoke.

78.2 MPH 😳

Karlyn Pickens just threw the FASTEST recorded pitch in NCAA Softball history 🔥🔥 @Vol_Softball pic.twitter.com/CHhnAOvbhc

— SEC Network (@SECNetwork) March 25, 2025

This ONT brought to you by the luckiest kid ever. This 19 year old wins big on the Price is Right. Bonus, it was on his birthday.

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