stickman-on-a-stick

[stickman-on-a-stick]

l figured out how to factor in the collapse of the Jello Sphere, and it doesn’t even require any math!

A star goes supernova when the outward force of nuclear fusion becomes too weak to hold up the mass of the star, at which point the stronger, inward force of gravity causes collapse. Then, if the star’s mass is large enough (about 20 solar masses [Source 3]) it collapses so much that it forms a black hole. As it turns out, our Jello Sphere would be in remarkably similar conditions to a dying star - since Jello does not regularly undergo nuclear fusion [citation needed], gravity would cause the Sphere to collapse and go supernovae just like a star would. So the final answer:

For instantaneous, clean black hole formation, use 127 million solar masses of Jello.

For cheap, messy, and explosive black hole formation, you only need about 20 solar masses.

How much jello would it take to collapse into a black hole?

Hypothetically, of course.

[stickman-on-a-stick]

This is actually incredibly impressive; I graphed it in desmos so you can appreciate its glory (along with a step by step breakdown of how it works!)

Dell wrote a letter to you!

[stickman-on-a-stick]

In an alternate world: “I��m a kindergarten teacher, not a doctor!”

Okay this might be incredibly specific but… kindergarten teacher McCoy.

Trapped them in the white void!!!!!!!

[stickman-on-a-stick]

How could you do this to me /j

Hi! What’s the weirdest/most out there song you listen to? For me it’s probably this https://youtu.be/tyneiz9FRMw?si=ThzYGfarEO9IrsiA

oooh good question! mine is probably this

[stickman-on-a-stick]

space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD space jam DVD

im getting the vibe, and correct me if im wrong here, that you may be excited about a space jam dvd

[stickman-on-a-stick]

That’s the right sort of shape, but the spines were not in clumps like that- each spine was more or less by itself, and they were pointed outwards.

[stickman-on-a-stick]

When I was a kid, my mom bought me a little potted cactus from a nursery. When we were checking out, the cashier (who seemed very knowledgeable about plants) noticed me eyeing it. I wanted to pet the cactus so bad, and it was probably written all over my face. It just looked so fuzzy! So you know what the cashier does? She reached out…

and she ran her fingers along the spines of the cactus! She pet the cactus! But get this: to my amazement, she pulled back her hand back, completely unharmed and unfazed, saying “actually, you can pet this one.” That’s right, a small, hand sized cactus that you could pet!

Unfortunately, a few years later the cactus died of neglect, but I certainly enjoyed petting it in front of my clueless friends and watching them gasp in horror.

(P.S., could someone identify the cactus so I could get another? It had a single stalk, and was cylindrical with a rounded top. It had short and thin yellow, or maybe yellowish-white, spines, which were evenly and individually distributed throughout the cactus’s surface, enough to be considered a light fuzz. It was about the size of your curled fingers when making a thumbs up. When it died I broke it open, and it was made of solid rings of plant material.)

[stickman-on-a-stick]

One time I spent 4 hours of what should have been sleep time researching the evolutionary age of sharks instead. Enjoy!

Fun Fact:

Sharks first came into existence ~400-450 million years ago. This is nearly unfathomably old, so here’s some comparisons:

In geography, sharks are older than:

The Atlantic Ocean, which formed when Pangea split ~150 million years ago

Pangea itself, which formed through the collision of Gondwana and Laurussia ~330 million years ago

And possibly, the Tethys Ocean; the ocean that was between Gondwana and Laurussia before they formed Pangea

In biology, sharks have been around:

1,800 times longer than homo sapiens, who evolved ~250,000 years ago

Before trees, which evolved ~385 million years ago

Before the first land vertebrates, which evolved ~390 million years ago

Almost as long as plants, which first evolved ~500 million years ago

Half as long as the first animals, which evolved ~800 million years ago- this means the first sharks are likely closer to the evolution of the FIRST EVER ANIMALS than they are to modern times (disclaimer: we don’t really know when the first animals evolved, but upwards of 600-800 million years ago seemed to be somewhat agreed upon from what I read)

Sharks have survived 4, or possibly all 5, of the biggest mass extinction events, as listed by the American Museum of Natural History (https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosaurs-ancient-fossils/extinction/mass-extinction):

Ordovician-silurian Extinction: 440 million years ago.

Devonian Extinction: 365 million years ago.

Permian-triassic Extinction: 250 million years ago.

Triassic-jurassic Extinction: 210 million years ago.

Cretaceous-tertiary Extinction: 65 million Years Ago

In astronomy, sharks:

Have existed for just under 10% of the Earth’s 4.6 BILLION year life span

Are 6 times older than the North Star, Polaris, which formed around 70 million years ago

Are upwards of 40 times older than the rings of Saturn, which formed around 10 to 100 million years ago (https://science.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/nasas-cassini-data-show-saturns-rings-relatively-new/)

Have orbited the Milky Way almost twice now, with one full orbit taking 230 million years

Have travelled 345,000 light years while orbiting the Milky Way (calculated based on data from https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question18.html)

Other sources: Wikipedia, Google (take exact numbers with a grain of salt. Though, many of the relative comparisons should still hold up even with a few million years of error)

dad dad dad dad dad do you know anyhthingbsbout sharks

yes but im too tired to think rn

lemon shark babies grow up in mangrove pools because the adults are too big to fit in between the roots so its safer for them

[stickman-on-a-stick]

If you trust the floor’s cleanliness and your friend’s non-judgmentality enough, you can try going up on all fours; I find it really helps. Still haven’t figured out a good way to go down though.

my friend has Death Stairs they are so thin and steep and the spacial awareness is not being very spacially aware and im probably overstimulated and im so tired

oh god i hate those kinds of stairs. they scare me

[stickman-on-a-stick]

I love hearing about the vibes I give off cause I honestly have no idea

[stickman-on-a-stick]

There is something oddly heartwarming about an old calculator; one that you’ve used until the button labels have worn away. Handed to anyone else, it would be entirely unusable. No one else could understand it, and even your own memory of what the buttons once said has long since faded. And yet, you pick it up just as you always have, and as you settle down into your latest problem, your fingers move and begin to type- their own sorts of memories guiding them over the speckles of paint that once formed symbols. And, with a final click on a key long since rendered bare, the calculator displays its answer, as faithful as it always has been. How many problems has this calculator solved? Hundreds? Thousands? As you reach for another piece of scratch paper, you are filled with an odd sense of determination.

[stickman-on-a-stick]

Spreadsheets are the ideal incarnation of the classic CS axiom: “Why spend 5 minutes doing it when you can spend 5 hours automating it?”

i love spreadsheets so much you guys don't even understand

[stickman-on-a-stick]

Quantum Entangled Lovers

A couple who wants to be gay, but neither cares what pronouns people call them. So, their gender is in a superposition of all possibilities, until someone genders one of them, at which point the superposition collapses and the other’s gender is determined to maintain gayness.

[stickman-on-a-stick]

Here is a haiku I made in English class featuring two of the ducks:

the cashier at barnes & noble just gave me this duck at checkout and they said “i give these to children and people with a certain vibe.”

floored to know something about me aligns with this duck

[stickman-on-a-stick]

Back in high school, I had a friend who bought several packs of squeaky rubber ducks for really cheap at the dollar store. I never actually saw them all at once (you can only fit so many ducks in your pockets, after all), but I’m sure there must have been at least 20-30 of the guys, maybe even more. And they weren’t quiet, either: a good, hard squish could get loud enough to cause discomfort for anyone leaning in too close. Which was entertaining enough, but the real kicker is this: my friend was quite generous. And we were in high school. See where this is going? Soon, whole friend groups were armed with their own rubber ducks, and for the next week or two I would hear the *WEE WAAH* calls of plastic ducks, reverberating through the hallways, and I would think to myself, “Ahh, the glorious work of the Duck Dealer.”

the cashier at barnes & noble just gave me this duck at checkout and they said “i give these to children and people with a certain vibe.”

floored to know something about me aligns with this duck

[stickman-on-a-stick]

Pondering my corb (cat orb)

[stickman-on-a-stick]

Neil my dude, after showing my mother season one of Good Omens and my dad seeing a bit of it I mentioned you also wrote Coraline and either my mom or dad (don't remember which one said it) said you must have been a weird kid.

Could you please confirm or deny whether or not you were a Weird Kid™?

I was a weird kid.