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Elder Postsman
Aug 30, 2000


i used hot bot to search for "teens"

Smythe posted:

I fuckin hate jigsaw pUZZLES

me too, smythe

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ol qwerty bastard
Dec 13, 2005

If you want something done, do it yourself!
guys, go see gravity immediately on the biggest screen you can find

i have three complaints about the movie:

1. there's some dodgy orbital mechanics going on, but meh whatever it's just to expedite the story and it isn't insulting to one's intelligence like 99% of movies with space travel, and you won't even notice it unless you play a lot of kerbal space program
2. it gets a little too melodramatic in parts imo, but then again maybe i'm just a sperg who would rather look at spaceships than listen to why sandra bullock is sad
3. 24 fps makes some of it look like smeared-out blurry poo poo from an rear end; why are we still filming movies at such a low framerate is it 1904

but otherwise it is amazing so seriously go watch it

it's a little known fact that sandra bullock's last name is actually short for bad-at-airlock

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

ol qwerty bastard posted:


3. 24 fps makes some of it look like smeared-out blurry poo poo from an rear end; why are we still filming movies at such a low framerate is it 1904

change is scary and framerates that don't look like blurry rear end whenever the camera moves too fast look unnatural

nigga crab pollock
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax
people complaining about the 'soap opera effect' are like 90% people with lovely motion interpolation on their tvs that makes certain scenes look spooky unreal and others completely unchanged. proper high framerate is fine after like 30 seconds

Adult Sword Owner
Jun 19, 2011

u deserve diploma for sublime comedy expertise

Trig Discipline posted:

it's Vin Unleaded

:frogout:

Adult Sword Owner
Jun 19, 2011

u deserve diploma for sublime comedy expertise

Improbable Lobster posted:

change is scary and framerates that don't look like blurry rear end whenever the camera moves too fast look unnatural

no they look like an absolute garbage dump because its like watching THE NEWS~

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
"hey kids its raining lets do a puzzle" -fuckers

only the fkiner sperg kids would be like YAY i'd pretend 2 nails were space ships and fly em aorund gently caress puzzles

DONT THREAD ON ME
Oct 1, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
Floss Finder
how come half the things on my 'top 10 for you' list on netflix say "best guess for you: 1-2 stars"

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

nigga crab pollock posted:

people complaining about the 'soap opera effect' are like 90% people with lovely motion interpolation on their tvs that makes certain scenes look spooky unreal and others completely unchanged. proper high framerate is fine after like 30 seconds

ugh I despise when people have this on their tvs they say they can't tell or it's good for sports but it sucks for sports you see a guy running and just stuttering and poo poo everywhere

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

Please leave the room if you think this might offend you.
Grimey Drawer

ol qwerty bastard posted:

guys, go see gravity immediately on the biggest screen you can find

i have three complaints about the movie:

1. there's some dodgy orbital mechanics going on, but meh whatever it's just to expedite the story and it isn't insulting to one's intelligence like 99% of movies with space travel, and you won't even notice it unless you play a lot of kerbal space program
2. it gets a little too melodramatic in parts imo, but then again maybe i'm just a sperg who would rather look at spaceships than listen to why sandra bullock is sad
3. 24 fps makes some of it look like smeared-out blurry poo poo from an rear end; why are we still filming movies at such a low framerate is it 1904

but otherwise it is amazing so seriously go watch it

it's a little known fact that sandra bullock's last name is actually short for bad-at-airlock

just saw it. point by point:

1. don't care much
2. absolutely agree, and this is my biggest complaint (albeit still fairly minor) about the movie
3. don't care much

all in all it was pretty drat good, very suspenseful and intense. also lol at the intro basically saying "space has no air. you can't hear anything because there isn't air. also you can't breathe in space because there isn't air. we're only telling you this because we know many of you are borderline retarded"

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



so sound is fully in-helmet?

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

Please leave the room if you think this might offend you.
Grimey Drawer

Carthag posted:

so sound is fully in-helmet?

p much yeah

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang




alright now im kinda intrigued

hubris.height
Jan 6, 2005

Pork Pro

Improbable Lobster posted:

change is scary and framerates that don't look like blurry rear end whenever the camera moves too fast look unnatural

gently caress hollywood forever

sony has been touting this for years and honestly i think its so they can get away with not putting the work needed to push things above 30fps


going to see gravity tonight with my fiance p excited

Kirk
Sep 22, 2003
Sandra "Bullocks!" Cocks it up again in her latest movie, Miss Congeastronaut - or rather Gravity , as the title puts it !

Kirk
Sep 22, 2003
A wooden performance from a nutty woman and her oak of a man make this weightless thriller a 'must miss' for October. Ham fisted trajectories and a predictable orbits make this reviewer think --- "George Clooless?"

Kirk
Sep 22, 2003
INstead, save your momentum and see a real attractor - the family. A tight nit nucleus is what the funny one needs

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Kirk posted:

A wooden performance from a nutty woman and her oak of a man make this weightless thriller a 'must miss' for October. Ham fisted trajectories and a predictable orbits make this reviewer think --- "George Clooless?"

angry_keebler
Jul 16, 2006

In His presence the mountains quake and the hills melt away; the earth trembles and its people are destroyed. Who can stand before His fierce anger?
i kinda wanna see gravity but the trailer makes it look dopey as poo poo

like, does the woman who's been training for yers to spend a few days in orbit seriously start screaming and crying like an idiot?

when whatever accident happens and she starts spinning away is there any explanation for why she doesn't click on her attitude control and then jet back to safety?

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

angry_keebler posted:

i kinda wanna see gravity but the trailer makes it look dopey as poo poo

like, does the woman who's been training for yers to spend a few days in orbit seriously start screaming and crying like an idiot?


im pretty sure they dont train you on what to do when the space shuttle blows up because the only time that happens the astronauts had exactly enough time to go "welp" before the disintegrated/hit the surface at 300 m/s. i bet part of the "astronauts are totally calm and stoic at all times" thing is because nobody survives when the poo poo really hits the fan like when Soyuz 11 depressurized or when Soyuz 1's parachute failed.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
haven't seen the movie yet but the dv of a real-life astronaut jetpack is minuscule and probably wouldn't have helped much


e: the total dv of the emergency recovery jetpacks used on the iss is THREE. the total dv of the mmu used in that famous image is ~24

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
do the regular suits even have thrusters? I thought they needed that chair thing for that.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Shaggar posted:

do the regular suits even have thrusters? I thought they needed that chair thing for that.

not really, they have a SAFER unit that is supposed to be useful if you let go of the hull or something but it only packs like 3 m/s of dV which is equivalent to less a third of a second of freefall on the surface.

e: like for comparison if you were moving at 7 miles per hour in space, 3 m/s dV wouldn't even be enough to stop you, let alone start pushing you back. and thats still a best case scenario were you happen to be pointing in the exact right direction with no rotational velocity and no need to correct course.

Constant Hamprince fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Oct 5, 2013

angry_keebler
Jul 16, 2006

In His presence the mountains quake and the hills melt away; the earth trembles and its people are destroyed. Who can stand before His fierce anger?

haveblue posted:

haven't seen the movie yet but the dv of a real-life astronaut jetpack is minuscule and probably wouldn't have helped much

well the trailer seems to show sandy spinning away and tumbling at way less than a combined 3m/s

like step one, spread eagle to reduce spin and tumble step two click on attitude control(the safer pack automatically maintains attitude anyway?), step 3 assess the situation

not step one panick and start screaming what do i do

Gus Hobbleton
Dec 30, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 3 years!
i dont think you know how fast a meter per second is

Cocoa Crispies
Jul 20, 2001

Vehicular Manslaughter!

Pillbug

Gus Hobbleton posted:

i dont think you know how fast a meter per second is

1 m/s is a slow walking pace

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Science Nerds State Unequivocally What They Would Do In Crisis

angry_keebler
Jul 16, 2006

In His presence the mountains quake and the hills melt away; the earth trembles and its people are destroyed. Who can stand before His fierce anger?

Gus Hobbleton posted:

i dont think you know how fast a meter per second is

in my expert analysis of roughly 2 seconds of a trailer that i didn't pay much attention to i accurately determined her combined roll and tumble looks like slightly less than 1 rotation a second so ~1.7 m/s or so that's 1.3 m/s Δv budget left to spare to scoot back to safety

DONT THREAD ON ME
Oct 1, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
Floss Finder
will one of you kerbal players please explain what this is



http://spacefellowship.com/news/art...e-universe.html

i mean i know what the CMB is but i dont know how to read this picture

LP97S
Apr 25, 2008
Don't cross the streams.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
that is a picture of beams of light traveling from the CMB towards us. as they travel they are being distorted by massive objects near their path. the article is about analyzing the distortion to make deductions about the objects and that they have just discovered something about the very early universe from it

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:

will one of you kerbal players please explain what this is



http://spacefellowship.com/news/art...e-universe.html

i mean i know what the CMB is but i dont know how to read this picture

it's a model of how the trajectory of cosmic background radiation is bent by the gravity of celestial bodies as they pass through space, which is what they mean by 'gravitational lensing'. it's similar to the phenomenon scientists use to find large extrasolar planets: they point a telescope at a star and look for irregularities in the light coming from it, then do calculations to see if they're caused by the mass of a gas giant bending light from its parent star.

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

Can-O-Raid posted:

it's a model of how the trajectory of cosmic background radiation is bent by the gravity of celestial bodies as they pass through space, which is what they mean by 'gravitational lensing'. it's similar to the phenomenon scientists use to find large extrasolar planets: they point a telescope at a star and look for irregularities in the light coming from it, then do calculations to see if they're caused by the mass of a gas giant bending light from its parent star.
-Marissa Explains It All-

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Sham bam bamina! posted:

-Marissa Explains It All-

angry_keebler
Jul 16, 2006

In His presence the mountains quake and the hills melt away; the earth trembles and its people are destroyed. Who can stand before His fierce anger?

USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:

will one of you kerbal players please explain what this is

the squiggley lines are being wiggled by gravity so we can kinda infer that there must be some pretty heavy stuff in space

e: what those guys said said also another possible application is to refine estimates of dark matter and its distribution in the early universe which could provide evidence to explain whether dark matter is mostly uniform or disparate wimps or if it's more machos

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:

will one of you kerbal players please explain what this is



http://spacefellowship.com/news/art...e-universe.html

i mean i know what the CMB is but i dont know how to read this picture

that is a Game Cube from the show Reboot, actually

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Smythe posted:

that is a Game Cube from the show Reboot, actually

Nice!

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Smythe posted:

that is a Game Cube from the show Reboot, actually

I heard they were rebooting Reboot






for its 20th anniversary :corsair:

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
yea i heard that too and im gonna jerk off to Dot again and also that babe enzo meets online and its gonna feel just like old times

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Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

Please leave the room if you think this might offend you.
Grimey Drawer

angry_keebler posted:

like, does the woman who's been training for yers to spend a few days in orbit seriously start screaming and crying like an idiot?

she actually didn't have that much training, she was a mission specialist.

angry_keebler posted:

when whatever accident happens and she starts spinning away is there any explanation for why she doesn't click on her attitude control and then jet back to safety?

well she probably didn't have the thrust for it if she had any at all, but also she is in a blind panic at that point for obvious reasons. i've never been adrift in space and spinning wildly, but i have been in some pretty hairy situations underwater and it's not at all uncommon to do incredibly stupid things, particularly in the first minute or so. you hope your training kicks in immediately and you just do the right thing as a first response, but sometimes it doesn't

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