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2 months ago by LadyButterfly she/her to c/science_memes

marretics 67 points 2 months ago

The exact moment when Isaac Newton invented the LGBTQ+

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gooballer -1 points 2 months ago

invented? so LGBTQ+ just didn't exist before Isaac Newton. that sounds prety homophophic to me.

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QuinnyCoded 1 point 2 months ago

what would they use as their flag? :/

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gedaliyah 50 points 2 months ago

Newton's work in optics → refraction and better lenses → the microscope →germ theory →vaccines.

Well, he couldn't have known that, but fascinating that he was inadvertently helping to solve disease. Just a few centuries ahead of being useful.

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Artisian 23 points 2 months ago

This is what you can expect from a mathematician. Always ahead of the curve.

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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 8 points 2 months ago

And calculating the area beneath it.

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gooballer 1 point 2 months ago

And the slope within it

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cheers_queers 40 points 2 months ago

this seems pretty gay.

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marretics 8 points 2 months ago

Damn, you beat me to it

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far_university1990 5 points 2 months ago

Damn, should beat meat to it.

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gooballer 1 point 2 months ago

Damn, should beat meat to it.

🤨so what are you beating meat to

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JusticeForPorygon 25 points 2 months ago

Isaac Newton discovers Led Zeppelin circa 1666

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SwingingTheLamp 17 points 2 months ago

He was into Pink Floyd before they were cool (or were born).

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Honytawk 3 points 2 months ago

Back then they were called Sepia Floyd

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Airfried 24 points 2 months ago

What else should he have done? People of course isolate during a pandemic and this isolation made some people very productive. We've seen it during the covid pandemic as well.

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Artisian 12 points 2 months ago

Wish we'd do this to academics more often. Give them enough to live on, no responsibilities, and beat anyone who tries to socialize with them with a big stick.

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PlasticExistence 7 points 2 months ago

IMO, we need that outside of academia too.

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Zwiebel 23 points 2 months ago

As if you didn't try new hobbies during lockdown!

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MehBlah 23 points 2 months ago

Looks like a typical pandemic project to me.

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ech 21 points 2 months ago

We made sourdough. Newton defined the foundations of math and science.

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jaybone 5 points 2 months ago

First read as Sourdough Newton. Thought maybe that was like a fig newton you made during lockdown.

Or maybe sounds like a classic rock cover band singer who would have opened for Meatloaf in the 1980s.

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FuglyDuck 17 points 2 months ago

So prisms anc color theory were lockdown discoveries. Gotcha

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endlessnebulae 14 points 2 months ago

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glitzer_gadze 4 points 2 months ago

Wrong time periodes

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Dagobah 25 points 2 months ago

I thought so too so I checked. The plague came in many waves (famously the black death was in the 1300s which may be why we were confused) but there was a major plague outbreak in 1665-1666 which is when Newton was doing his work on optics.

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adam_y 15 points 2 months ago

Yep we had Optics, the plague and the great fire of London in one golden year.

Interesting fact that the fire probably helped curtail the spread of the plague and led to more sanitary conditions in London in general.

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Honytawk 2 points 2 months ago

Were all the anti-vaxxers also fire-deniers?

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HeavenlySpoon 6 points 2 months ago

If I’m not mistaken, he also calculated pi by hand (to several decimal places) during lockdown. So it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows for ol’ Isaac.

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toynbee 1 point 2 months ago

He should have just used a TI-86.

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MrMakabar 3 points 2 months ago

Thomas Müntzer fanboy.

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saltnotsugar 2 points 2 months ago

Gay is stored in the prism.

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Engywuck 4 points 2 months ago

They come out due to UV light. It is know as the photoeclectic effect.

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