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I was just watching Titanic and spent 20 minutes looking up the effects of hypothermia and discovering that Jack may have been alive and in stage 3 hypothermia when Rose let go, and because he sank instead of floated, he was in fact alive. It was a fun little time sink. What rabbit holes have you done down recently?

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[–] Lorela@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Absurdly long video essays on video game lore.

Do I want to watch a 90min movie? God no, that's literal torture.

Do I want to watch a 3.5hr video essay evaluating the story of every mainline PokΓ©mon game? Yes please.

[–] golamas1999@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Learning about Space. There we’re working miniature prototypes of a ship to get humans up to 12% of Speed of Light. Project Orion worked by blasting nuclear bombs behind a ram jets once per second.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All of the humans or just parts of them?

[–] dotslashme@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago

Flat earth. It's like a mix of bizarre comedy and a Japanese game show after a while.

[–] ktpossible@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I like to google the cast of whatever tv show/movie I’m watching and look at their Wikipedia page.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 2 points 1 year ago

Do we have a /c/angryupvote yet?

[–] webjukebox@mujico.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ham Radio.

It started with a pair of two-way walkies, talking with a friend in the backyard while sitting in my bed and then you're pointing to satellites and the ISS to download weather and old space images.

[–] fruitywelsh@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love radio stuff, but I just haven't dove into Ham yet. That said there a local radio shack with their call signs posted on the window so I might just dig in.

Maybe find my excuse to actually use gnuradio for something.

[–] webjukebox@mujico.org 2 points 1 year ago

Sure. Ham people are always open to share their knowledge.

With gnuradio you can download weather imagery with a RTL SDR dongle.

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Discovering how to extract game sounds into common formats from a Nintendo switch game catridge

[–] Blaze@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That’s cheating. TV Tropes is literal crack. Never ever open that website if you have anything important to do in the next 48 hours

[–] Blaze@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It's kind of a shadow of its former self, though. I can't put my finger on why.

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

To Catch A Predator and its spinoffs/follow-up acts, Takedown with Chris Hansen being the newest.

[–] Ubettawerk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The concept of time and higher dimensions. I don’t understand the physics, but listening to others explain the concepts and spending time to think about it can keep me busy for hours

[–] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I always have such a hard time with the 4th dimension concept. (Not the time one though, the other one) Sometimes I grasp it for a bit and then minutes later I'll be confused again.

[–] momentary@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I really enjoyed the book "Einstein's Dreams". I similarly don't understand the physics, but find some of the concepts so engaging.

[–] blegh@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like deep dives into neon genesis evangelion. I doubt theres anything else I can get out of a show I've seen multiple times and watched who knows how many analysis videos on, but I still like listening to someone talk about it.

[–] buco@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I start out with the Fermi paradox and might end up anywhere. And once every now and then I read about those two Dutch girls who got lost in the Amazon jungle.

[–] its4am@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I think about that incident about the two Dutch tourists every few months. It's just crazy imagining what they went through.

[–] itadakimasu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Also Titanic. Spent a lot more then 20 mins myself though. I'm on like week 3 of my Titanic rabbit hole

[–] TPetrichor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The Titanic is endlessly fascinating. Curse OceanGate for reawakening the Titanic Beast deep within me.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Computer Science ATM. I'm slowly dancing around the subject of how the CPU scheduler works with modern hardware and resource allocation, and I mean SLOWLY. Like this has been on my back burner for a couple months.

[–] Poeticbiscuit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Once in a while, I visit Vsauces old videos. They're thought-provoking.

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