Man what a throwback! I really liked this one too.

And yet, in the end, it was Amerigo Vespucci who the entire western lands were named after.

I got: “We only use 10% of our brains. Modern neuroimaging has shown that we use most of our brain.” In the 90’s I thought this was not in fact, but urban legend, the whole time.

Also: “Christopher Columbus discovered America. Indigenous peoples had been living in the Americas for thousands of years before Columbus arrived.” I didn’t realize that it was implied no one was here when he came.

That’s quite a big instance you got there

That sounds like such a neat childhood! I wish I had those documentaries growing up.

Mufasa says:

Mario:

As an American, it feels more like looking around in your cage.

Regi is just short for Parmigiano Reggiano

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I got New York, but I just moved out of New York. Was born and raised there, but I don’t think I’m going back.

I can only imagine it, but I feel you on both. 😩

Interesting, so for you it was about reaching the point of nonconsent. Glad you had the pleasure to break it down for your coworkers 😁

Interesting perspective. There has never been a regret - not even once? Are you the type that wouldn’t mind if someone told you a surprise party was being planned for you? Just wondering.

Lol @ the CAPS. Thanks for sharing!

Yes that’s right! (With Heather Anne Campbell, Nick Wiger and Matt Apodaca) That’s true - it made me try all kinds of games. And for some, I feel I wish I’d have tried them without knowing what was coming. Though I wouldn’t have tried it without knowing… so it’s a bit of a paradox.

I think it’s cool you let your brother experience it raw like that, since you couldn’t.

But the light that reaches us is constantly getting stretched (red-shifted), so I’m not sure that our bubble is growing. Instead when they’re stretched too thin, we won’t be able to see it. I’m not 100% sure on the expansion rate of the universe and the pace of red shifting. Also, eventually all the galaxies are expected to be pushed so far away from each other due to the pressures exerted by Dark Energy, that soon we’ll only be able to see just the stars of our Milky Way.

Thanks for sharing! Avoiding major plot twists, in our era, seems to require constant vigilance.

Sit-down to Stand-up desk!

That expansion at an accelerated rate - that’s just so eerie when you think about it. The furthest objects we can see right now will slip away out of reach forever for the next generation, and so on. It’s crazy to think that as time goes on, there will be less and less universe to observe.