Y'all gonna pretend that while COVID-19 had us all hiding at home, a bunch of y'all didn't learn to knit, play guitar, bake bread, and all sorts of other things to pass the time and not think about the apocalypse going on outside?
Shit, Bo Burnham made a god damned masterpiece during lockdown.
I remember I watched Brian Cox do some maths. Think it was rocketry.
He had a bit of paper explained everything and said "In only a couple of minutes I have managed to work out what is required to get to the moon. I can only do this because Newton gave me the second law of motion, if I had to derive the second law myself I wouldn't be able to do it in a lifetime. Newton was a genius"
It really put it into perspective for me. I wish I could find the clip.
Just because the largest outbreak was bot during newton's lifetime, many smaller ones were. The biggest would be the great pest from 1708 to 1714 with more than a million deaths.
Considering how casually we took covid after just a year or two, if it had been going on for the past 300 years, I don't think it would stop a guy from playing around with pieces of glass :D
For a brilliant historical fiction account of life and science during that period, read Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World) for a brilliant
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JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 100 pts · 2y
Y'all gonna pretend that while COVID-19 had us all hiding at home, a bunch of y'all didn't learn to knit, play guitar, bake bread, and all sorts of other things to pass the time and not think about the apocalypse going on outside?
Shit, Bo Burnham made a god damned masterpiece during lockdown.
derpo@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 2y
Okay good point but now you’re not allowed to try my sourdough
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
How about me?
derpo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
I could never say no to you, TacoButtPlug 🌮 I also have been growing this rosemary that goes great with it. Let me know when you’re heading over
nero@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Can i come by too?
grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Now there's a fiddler for the kitchen party!
Falmarri@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
I'm not pretending anything, I had a great pandemic
Ricaz@lemmy.ml · -9 pts · 2y
Bo Burnham? Masterpiece? He made some funny songs 15 years ago
hihello@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
“The stuff he made when he was a teenager is better than what he does now”
Now that is a hot take.
Custoslibera@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Have you watched Inside?
Sabre363@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 2y
He also invented a new math, moving things, and universal gravity.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 2y
He invented gravity whoah
Where would we be without him??
idiomaddict@feddit.de · 11 pts · 2y
Afloat
Wanderer@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y
I remember I watched Brian Cox do some maths. Think it was rocketry.
He had a bit of paper explained everything and said "In only a couple of minutes I have managed to work out what is required to get to the moon. I can only do this because Newton gave me the second law of motion, if I had to derive the second law myself I wouldn't be able to do it in a lifetime. Newton was a genius"
It really put it into perspective for me. I wish I could find the clip.
Destraight@lemm.ee · 17 pts · 2y
What was he supposed to do? Get smarter and invent a cure? He was playing it smart already by isolating himself 60 miles away from anybody else
sewerkat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Privilege is when you do something creative while im quarantine
gmtom@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y
Isaacs Newton creates the first gay agenda, 1672 (colourised)
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 2y
The LGBTA agenda, ty.
Throw out some recognition of the Ace King.
Vormadikter@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
Largest Pest Epidemic in Europ; 1350 Birthday of Newton: 1642
Priorities? Privilege? Nae, Propaganda ;)
Norgur@kbin.social · 10 pts · 2y
Just because the largest outbreak was bot during newton's lifetime, many smaller ones were. The biggest would be the great pest from 1708 to 1714 with more than a million deaths.
So the meme is accurate enough.
FlyingPiisami@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 2y
Considering how casually we took covid after just a year or two, if it had been going on for the past 300 years, I don't think it would stop a guy from playing around with pieces of glass :D
Norgur@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
You're absolutely right about that ;)
correcthorsedickbatterystaple@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_London?useskin=vector
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton?useskin=vector#Optics
SquareBear@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 2y
He discovered Pink Floyd.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 2y
Check your history. Color came into the world around 1855
sirico@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 2y
I have isolated ultra violet it's antimicrobial now get me some opium some brightly colored oil paintings and leave me be
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 2y
What should he have been doing instead?
snowyday@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
For a brilliant historical fiction account of life and science during that period, read Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World) for a brilliant