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Prism Addict

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As if you all didn’t have stupid hobbies during COVID lockdowns.
- https://lemmy.world/post/32192752/17946487
  
  What’s a repost?
To be fair after ~300 years of plague almost every 10 years you get a little numb to it.
- The pre-vaccine, pre-public health world was just kind of nuts.
  “Have a bunch of kids, because the ones who aren’t strong and lucky aren’t going to make it.”
  
  For reals!
- What you mean ~300 years? Has there been some interruption since late Rome that I failed to notice?
  
  As I understand it the period often referred to as The Black Death started in the early 1300s and ended in the late 1600s. Newton I think was mid to late 1600s. So that's about 300 years depending on when people will argue it started and all.
  Right!?!
Way more entertaining than plague tbqf
- AfaIk, the novelty was, that the fractions of the rainbow, e.g. yellow, themselves do not split into a rainbow again if they are sent though a prism. That led to the conclusion that white sunlight is actually composed of light of different colours which cannot be decomposed further.
"Hmmmm, it appears that the sun is secretly gay"
- Based and rainbow-pilled
His discoveries kinda helped down the line. Thanks to him we learned how fast the rates of plague progression was going.
- Besides, it’s not like not studying prisms would have made the plague go away.
  There have always been wars, plagues, catastrophes. And now, the hard times are coming again. Somehow we moved forward anyway.
Imagine how dusty that room would have to be, in order to see that effect.
Is this meme referencing the Plague of Marseille?
The Hooke/Newton beef needs an epic rap battle.
Newton invented gay :O

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