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Rent-A-Cop posted:Got the new iPhone and now I can only turn left. You're, uh, holding it wrong
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Rent-A-Cop posted:I am currently about 2 miles from Daytona international Speedway so this is accurate. Portland's speedway, too
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Sagebrush posted:Well, this is what I'm trying to convey with the lion analogy. Dirt Road Junglist posted:No they don't. The locals are just as dumb as the tourists.
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One cool potential energy storage device is the hydraulic accumulator. You need only a very small engine to run a very large piston. Basically you fill a big ole cylinder, like ten thousand liters, with water and then have a honking big piston on top compress it. The energy can be used in hydraulic lines coming off the reservoir. It's out of fashion now but was used to run heavy machinery with small engines back in the late 19th century. Oh and the correct answer to nuclear waste is to reprocess it. Thanks Carter administration for the nuclear waste problem that other countries don't have.
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Arglebargle III posted:One cool potential energy storage device is the hydraulic accumulator. You need only a very small engine to run a very large piston. Basically you fill a big ole cylinder, like ten thousand liters, with water and then have a honking big piston on top compress it. The energy can be used in hydraulic lines coming off the reservoir. It's out of fashion now but was used to run heavy machinery with small engines back in the late 19th century. they aren't out of fashion at all! they tend to be powered electrically is all, but they are used on ships all the time for hydraulics, valves, etc
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Yeah, they're thinking of "unfavorable geometry". "Dangerous geometry" doesn't appear to be a phrase, and more's the pity. There's something very Charles Stross / Laundry series over the idea, though I don't think he has used that exact phrase.
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If we're talking about "angles that are disruptive to human life just by existing", there's lots of fiction that uses concepts like that, from Lovecraft's nauseating non-euclidean architecture on up. My favorite being David Langford's Basilisks, fractal images that crawl right up your optic nerve and yank your hippocampus out through the eye socket. Now that I think of it, I'm sure Stross has specifically called out Langford Basilisks, and I don't just think in the Laundry books.
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There's also the vampires in Peter Watts' Blindsight that have a defect in their visual cortex that causes seizures when they see harsh right angles. This caused them to die out a couple thousand years ago when humanity started building better buildings and they couldn't look at them without seizing anymore. They're brought back through genetic engineering and given "anti-euclidean" drugs to keep them alive. If it sounds hokey I promise it's actually probably the best science fiction book of the twenty-first century and the vampire thing is a small but interesting part.
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Phy posted:If we're talking about "angles that are disruptive to human life just by existing", there's lots of fiction that uses concepts like that, from Lovecraft's nauseating non-euclidean architecture on up. My favorite being David Langford's Basilisks, fractal images that crawl right up your optic nerve and yank your hippocampus out through the eye socket. Mmh, the "images that cause the image processing parts of your brain malfunction" are closely related. I seem to remember one of the Scottish guys went a step further, with video that could hack your brain being used in warfare. Alastair Reynolds, perhaps? I was thinking more of the Stross style "this nested metal framework embodies a mathematical construct that opens a conduit to a dimension of noncorporeal energy eaters" dangerous geometry, though. 
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Dec 26, 2018 12:24
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SENSUAL DAD KISS posted:There's also the vampires in Peter Watts' Blindsight that have a defect in their visual cortex that causes seizures when they see harsh right angles. This caused them to die out a couple thousand years ago when humanity started building better buildings and they couldn't look at them without seizing anymore. They're brought back through genetic engineering and given "anti-euclidean" drugs to keep them alive. If it sounds hokey I promise it's actually probably the best science fiction book of the twenty-first century and the vampire thing is a small but interesting part. Blindsight and Starfish are two of my favorite stories, Watts is such a great hard sci-fi author. I particularly loved his take on how humans would survive long term in undersea labs (hardcore biological system replacement iirc).
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Phy posted:Now that I think of it, I'm sure Stross has specifically called out Langford Basilisks, and I don't just think in the Laundry books. Kind of. The Laundry had Basilisk Stare which was a weaponized camera system that entered through the optic nerve and kicked off a transmutation replacing (and I can’t remember exactly, and too lazy to verify) carbon with silicon in a body. Which essentially turned a victim to stone.
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Wikipedia claims Stross mentioned Langford by name in at least one thing he wrote, but doesn't specify where. I'd assume if it was in the Laundry they'd called them Langford hacks or something, since they already have basilisks.
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Proteus Jones posted:Kind of. The Laundry had Basilisk Stare which was a weaponized camera system that entered through the optic nerve and kicked off a transmutation replacing (and I can’t remember exactly, and too lazy to verify) carbon with silicon in a body. Which essentially turned a victim to stone. Scorpion Stare turns about 10% of the carbon in an observed target into silicon by tunneling in protons from another universe. This, as could be anticipated, yields a large bang and a heat flashover and leaves a corpse made out of very hot, highly carbonaceous concrete.
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Exit Strategy posted:Scorpion Stare turns about 10% of the carbon in an observed target into silicon by tunneling in protons from another universe. This, as could be anticipated, yields a large bang and a heat flashover and leaves a corpse made out of very hot, highly carbonaceous concrete. Very hot, highly carbonaceous concrete's a good way to describe my penis.
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Mustached Demon posted:Very hot, highly carbonaceous concrete's a good way to describe my penis. "Tunneling in from another universe" is a pretty good description of mine. 
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My junk is known as Large Bang.
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And here I thought there'd be absolutely no use for that amazing thing
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Proteus Jones posted:Kind of. The Laundry had Basilisk Stare which was a weaponized camera system that entered through the optic nerve and kicked off a transmutation replacing (and I can’t remember exactly, and too lazy to verify) carbon with silicon in a body. Which essentially turned a victim to stone. I may be wrong, but I think that worked the other way around: Medusa turned you to stone if you saw her - but basilisks turn you to stone if they see you. The Basilisk Stare system used a stereoscopic camera hooked to an ASIC that reproduced just enough of the basilisk visual system to get the same effect. Computer viking has a new favorite as of 03:15 on Dec 27, 2018 |
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The basilisk effect was found to be caused by a tumor in the cingulate gyrus of both animals (forming a cockatrice or a basilisk) and humans (forming medusae). When these afflicted neural networks view something containing carbon atoms, eight additional protons tunnel in from another continuum forming silicon ions with a -8 charge, which is Really Bad for the surrounding bonds. The result is an oven-hot soup of carbosilicate compounds, none of which is remotely stable. The Scorpion Stare technology simulates a diseased gyrus on a neural network fed by two cameras (one won't work). When the cameras are turned on and the neural net "observes" the carbonaceous target, the basilisk effect occurs and wham bang, something is dead. In terms of cool sci-fi tech, it's definitely one of the more memorable things to arise out of 21st century literature.
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Sir, this is a Wendy's drive-through, not an insufferable nerd convention.
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packetmantis posted:Sir, this is a Wendy's drive-through, not an insufferable nerd convention. packetmantis posted:not an insufferable nerd convention PYF Dangerous Chemistry: Curiosity got the better of me. Now I'm likely on some list 
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packetmantis posted:Sir, this is a Wendy's drive-through, not an insufferable nerd convention. Careful with that joke, it's an antique.
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Chillbro Baggins posted:Same. Is there an English-language place to buy it, or a friendly person in this thread who can read Japanese that can order it for me? Google translate craps out on the "shipping address" page, there's a dropdown that isn't translated, nor is its title, but it seems to be essential. I managed to get it to translate the shipping drop down (In Safari), every entry is a prefecture in Japan. So it looks like no international shipping on a t-shirt I must have.
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mllaneza posted:I managed to get it to translate the shipping drop down (In Safari), every entry is a prefecture in Japan. So it looks like no international shipping on a t-shirt I must have. Yeah, they won't ship international (which is solvable) and they won't take a credit card from outside Japan. We'll need a Japan-based goon to make this happen. 
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Midjack posted:Yeah, they won't ship international (which is solvable) and they won't take a credit card from outside Japan. We'll need a Japan-based goon to make this happen. You might have luck in ADTRW with that.
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If anybody finds someone to proxy ship, I'm in for one. Demon core cat shirt must happen! Otherwise, I'm going to continue to drink my yearly beverage, and maybe try to vectorize it or otherwise get it up on redbubble. It's been a long time since highschool .svg wrangling, but I'll see what I come up with.
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I live in Japan. Won’t be back until mid-January, but I am sure something can be arranged.
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Queen Combat posted:If anybody finds someone to proxy ship, I'm in for one. Demon core cat shirt must happen! Shipping isn't the problem, having a Japanese bank credit card is the showstopper. Grundulum posted:I live in Japan. Won’t be back until mid-January, but I am sure something can be arranged. If you have local plastic we're in business! Midjack has a new favorite as of 07:39 on Dec 27, 2018 |
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Working on a vector right now
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Queen Combat posted:Working on a vector right now I love you Queen Combat
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Yes, I have a Japanese credit card. Happy to be the proxy for a handful of goons if Queen Combat’s vector recreation doesn’t satisfy. Please repost the link to the store page, though, since I didn’t notice it the first time through.
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Uhh, I am not good at computer, but here it is: https://www.redbubble.com/people/queen-combat/works/35932371-i-love-science-demon-core I set the markup to the minimum (1%) because this isn't mine. Redbubble is trash but the shirt is available. I have no idea how their clothes are. 
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Grundulum posted:Yes, I have a Japanese credit card. Happy to be the proxy for a handful of goons if Queen Combat’s vector recreation doesn’t satisfy. Please repost the link to the store page, though, since I didn’t notice it the first time through. Here's the one from earlier: https://minne.com/items/6616493
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Queen Combat posted:Uhh, I am not good at computer, but here it is: That vector'd image is delightful! Redbubble shirts are meh at best, but they're better than Café Press. I got one for an obscure minor league sports team cuz they don't have real merch online, and the quality is acceptable.
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Queen Combat posted:Uhh, I am not good at computer, but here it is: Man this is really good and even more so for just doing it off the internet.
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Queen Combat posted:Uhh, I am not good at computer, but here it is: My contact fell through (they're moving the shop to a new location, and probably wouldn't do more than the one for me anyway, because they're a real sueable business), and your redraw is better than mine would have been anyway. I'm buying that one and wearing at least until I can get my friend to make me one on a better base shirt. Now I just have to pick a color. Hmm. To swing this back on-topic, y'all should get the cheapest option, it's 100% cotton. Have I posted in this thread about that time the front of my father's shirt went up in a ball of flame? Edit: Apparently not! Don't wear polyester when doing hot work, kids. The incident in question, I was working for my father one summer in high school, being the muscle to help him install air conditioners. We'd swapped out a unit and he was torch-brazing the copper tubing together while wearing the standard 100% polyester Dickies work shirt. A drop of sweat fell from his brow onto the joint he was working on, and the resulting tiny steam explosion threw a drop of molten bronze onto his chest. FWOOMP  and he was left standing there, chest hair burned off, beard a bit singed, no shirt between button placket and armpits, while I and the friend-of-the-family whose A/C we were replacing laughed. Luckily, it just went up in a fireball and didn't melt to his skin, and even Dad thinks it was funny looking back. Chillbro Baggins has a new favorite as of 00:52 on Dec 28, 2018 |
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