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Hollywood showing things instantly exploding or shattering the second they hit a vacuum does that to us, but the actual physics of space and the biology of cells are a lot tougher than the films make it seem.

Neither the human body nor the bacteria inside it would burst, and the cold space environment behaves much differently than some expect lol

The pressure difference between the inside of a human body and the vacuum of space is exactly 1 atmosphere (which is not that much in the grand scheme of things).

And bacteria are tiny tanks, because they are microscopical, the physical forces acting on them are minuscule. Scientists have tested exposing bacteria directly to the vacuum of space outside the ISS, and many species survived for years.

And about the cold, because space is a vacuum, counterintuitively, heat is actually hard to lose lol, it can only escape slowly through thermal radiation (there is no cold air to whip past and steal heat away), so they would still be gradually working for some time. And even when finally reaching extreme cold, we usually think of it as destructive, but for microbes it's actually "preservative". When Labs want to keep bacteria alive for decades without them changing or dying, they freeze them. So a lot of them wouldn't even die, but stay "suspended".

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Hey man, coincidentally, I've just released an update today that includes opening movies in a new tab (alongside fixes for mobile navigation and missing language in some media)!

    Regarding the Discovery filters/scroll, I'll be going out on holiday this week, so I won't be able to fix it very soon, but it's in the To-Do list for sure!

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago

    Took a bit since I was out of town, but it's fixed! Arte now shows up as expected for The Bridge in France/Germany/etc!

    *I manually forced an update on this show to test, but all other media should update themselves over the course of the next few days!

    Thanks again man!

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago* (2 children)

    I got very confused at first, but holy shit! What a legend!

    You just spotted a significant bug with the streaming services code which can randomly cause services to disappear! Will fix it soon, huge thanks! It's always good to have an extra pair of eyes on stuff!

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago

    Yeah, I saw this too, but there was no easy way to fix it with the data I have.

    I do intend to try to solve it. In the future I'd like to add an "American/Foreign owned" warning / badge, but I need to investigate where to "mass find" this data, or perhaps manually insert it / community input.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    This is actually something I have on my list, the data source I'm using only supports Youtube and Vimeo.

    It's not a priority, but it's something I want to find an alternative to, down the line.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Hey man!

    You said that it "does not appear on WFEU", but the link you added takes me directly to it! It also appears when I search for it. Was that a typo? Or did it not appear to you at first (could be a bug)?

    I didn't see senscritique initially, but it does seem focused on the French context, but who knows, I'll look further into them. Thanks!

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 8 months ago

    Thanks man!

    Even just checking out the Trending stuff on the front page (updated weekly) from time to time should let you find something nice!

    I actually found a lot of cool movies myself while developing it and seeing it update over time!

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    Hey everyone!

    Last month Hideo Kojima was talking about his new favourite Sci-fi animation, and I got mega surprised to know it was 🇫🇷 French! Not only it is awesome (if you like Cyberpunk and Sci-fi), but it premiered in Europe from 2023! Somehow I completely missed it! :(

    I've been adhering to the "movement" for a while, but not too much on media. After this I decided to watch/support more European media, but I very quickly realized that it's fairly hard to find what even is European 😅

    Almost all I could find was static "Top X European Movies" lists. So I decided to built something better myself, which resulted in WatchFrom.EU!

    It's a discovery website specifically for European cinema and TV.

    Europeans are more than capable of producing awesome media, but we don't seem to consume much of our own! (Watch stuff in other languages!)

    While building the site, I actually found out that several English-language blockbusters I always thought were Hollywood were actually European produced! Movies like The Fifth Element (which I love), Lucy, and Resident Evil are some examples! (If you're curious, I’ve started listing some of these in the "Curated Lists" section of the site)

    Badge system:

    Every movie or TV show on the platform is assigned a specific badge so you can quickly visualize where it's from (or its "Europeaness" lol).

    The media is categorized them into tiers so you can choose exactly how "European" you want your viewing experience to be. (This is done algorithmically, so I manually adjust/complete data all the time, let me know if something is wrong!)

    Tech Stack:

    In the same spirit, the infrastructure is built using as much European tech as possible too!

    The servers are hosted in Germany by the French OVH and the code is stored in the German Codeberg!

    Privacy:

    I also happen to be delving more and more into the privacy-focused group lately, so the platform collects absolutely zero data. There are no ads, no third party cookies, and no accounts required. I intend to keep it that way as long as the infrastructure costs and my pocket allows it.

    Not finished:

    I'm not done, it's still early stages, so bear with me!
    I'm making it public now because I'll be leaving on holiday soon, and it's already in a launchable/usable state now, but I still have several features in mind to be added down the line!

    I’ll be working on tracking European streaming platforms, better sorting, related media, mailing list with new releases, other UI languages, random recommendations and etc.

    There's also missing data, algorithm quirks on badge attribution and minor bugs left to squash, but it should be only up from here!

    Hopefully WatchFrom.EU helps you guys find something new to watch tonight! 💪

     

    In fact, 99.999999% is an extremely low estimate. The number of ways that a deck of cards can be shuffled is 52! Which is equal to 8065817517094387857166063685640376697528950544088327782400000000000 possibilities.

    If you shuffled cards every second from the birth of the universe until now, you still wouldn’t even come close (statistically) to getting the same arrangement twice.

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42773245

     

    In fact, 99.999999% is an extremely low estimate. The number of ways that a deck of cards can be shuffled is 52! Which is equal to 8065817517094387857166063685640376697528950544088327782400000000000 possibilities.

    If you shuffled cards every second from the birth of the universe until now, you still wouldn’t even come close (statistically) to getting the same arrangement twice.

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