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Road of Death in Bolivia: https://i.imgur.com/EKKlb6v.mp4 
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Dec 12, 2022 16:36
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His Divine Shadow posted:Otherwise it was a pretty Baxter novel, cool on concepts, boring in execution. I enjoyed the parts between chapters where it had entire civilizations and lifeforms exist in the first planck lengths of the big bang like before inflation I think, and then had similar things happened each time the universe reached another phase, like quark based lifeforms but before nucleosynthesis. It was a real head twister. I think it's some of the whackiest but coolest concepts I've ever read. You should check out Greg Egan. He's got things like: 1. Aliens build a quarantine bubble around the solar system because wavefunction collapse is indeed caused by observation but it's only *human* observation that counts and the other things that live in the rest of the universe don't like us observing them. 2. A four-dimensional universe, like ours, except instead of three spacial and one time dimension there are two spacial and two time dimension. Be careful not to trip and fall over. 3. Whoops, our research experiment triggered false-vacuum decay (I think Baxter did this too, but I haven't read that one). 4. Another universe where light has rest mass, and plants make food by emitting their own light. 5. 5-dimensional universes where no stable orbits exist anywhere. Reading this is the closest I've ever been able to get to visualizing higher dimensions. Like Baxter, not so much in the way of characters, or sometimes even plot, but very cool if you're in the right mood.
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Dec 12, 2022 16:42
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Cartoon Man posted:Road of Death in Bolivia: I guess you die pretty fast and possibly painless from passing out from fear
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Dec 12, 2022 16:45
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Cartoon Man posted:Road of Death in Bolivia: Wherever that road leads, I don't need to go to.
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Dec 12, 2022 16:55
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Phanatic posted:You should check out Greg Egan. He's got things like: If I were on the hunt for Christmas presents and were to pick up one Egan book, which should it be?
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Dec 12, 2022 17:20
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Slugworth posted:Sad to see the beheading machine I invented used for simple agricultural tasks, but what can you do?   (fictional graphic violence) Caligula, is that you?
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Dec 12, 2022 17:40
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jackhunter64 posted:https://twitter.com/bmay/status/1602233449636675584 my favorite part is the guy yelling not to pump the brakes, a thing you havent had to do ever since they released anti-lock brakes designed to do it themselves. and then they get mad at the black van for sliding straight into a post when they are telling them to pump ABS on an untreated road lol
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Dec 12, 2022 17:43
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Deteriorata posted:Preheating the gas increases the efficiency. Brilliant design! My hot water heater also comes with a turbocharger and intercooler
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Dec 12, 2022 17:46
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Bad Munki posted:That sounds fun, how's the writing? Worth diving in to? Always looking for some new sci-fantasy poo poo. Baxter is great if you have any interest in hard sci fi. I'd say start with Vacuum Diagrams - it's a short story collection, a lot of which got expanded into full fledged novels.
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Dec 12, 2022 18:05
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Dec 12, 2022 18:15
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Blue Footed Booby posted:If I were on the hunt for Christmas presents and were to pick up one Egan book, which should it be? Well those five I mentioned are 1. Quarantine. Of those that I've read, this is his most conventional in terms of plot, protagonist is a private investigator hired to investigate this woman who keeps vanishing from a psychiatric institute. 2. Dichronauts. I haven't read this one yet but it basically looks like a riff on Flatland, invoking aliens living on the surface of a hyperbolic world in this 2-space/2-time dimension universe to explain what that would all look and behave like. 3. Schild's Ladder. Starts out talking about a made-up version of loop quantum gravity, goes from there. This is the one I've read that I think is the least grounded; while his other books start talking about an actual real mathematical construct and presenting the valid physical implications of that, this one just makes up pretty much everything. 4. Orthogonal (trilogy). Haven't read this one either. Kind of like Dichronauts except instead of the dimensions being two space and two time there's no non-local difference between the four and which ones you perceive as spacelike and which ones you perceive as being timelike depend on your own motion. This is next on my list. 5. Diaspora. Basically, whoops, a blind spot in fundamental physics leads humanity to miss that this neutron star exploded and the wave front is going to hit Earth in four days and wipe away most of the atmosphere. You've got uploaded humans living in silicon and humans still living embodied in meatsacks and AIs living in robots all figuring out what to do about this problem. There's also Incandesence (wouldn't recommend), Permutation City (nature of consciousness, would recommend), and I haven't read the others. Of the ones I have read, I'd say Quarantine's the most accessible and Diaspora is the most "Whoa."
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Dec 12, 2022 18:19
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Something similar was posted earlier in the thread: My comment remains the same: emf posted:It's kind-of like an old lion taming act: there's that small probability that as you watch it the show will morph suddenly into a phantasmagoria of twirling viscera and spraying blood.
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Dec 12, 2022 18:20
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I was expecting this to be full of wasp nests or something
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Dec 12, 2022 18:30
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Phanatic posted:Well those five I mentioned are 
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Dec 12, 2022 18:32
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Thanks for the sci-fi recommendations, I put a bunch on my wishlist. I really enjoyed the Baxter/Pratchett Long Earth series before. türkiye.mp4 https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rmq40rwwNA1qejbir.mp4
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Dec 12, 2022 19:25
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Idiot cops should have left this to the fire department. They would have known better.
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Dec 12, 2022 19:41
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ekuNNN posted:Thanks for the sci-fi recommendations, I put a bunch on my wishlist. I really enjoyed the Baxter/Pratchett Long Earth series before. Tuna Skimmer
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Dec 12, 2022 20:06
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Cartoon Man posted:Road of Death in Bolivia: lmao and this is a commercial 2 way road
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Dec 12, 2022 20:33
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Dec 12, 2022 20:46
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Blue Footed Booby posted:If I were on the hunt for Christmas presents and were to pick up one Egan book, which should it be? His short story collections are all great, particularly Axiomatic and Luminous, of his novels I really liked Diaspora and Quarantine, though I haven’t really kept up with his recent stuff. Axiomatic is probably the best starting point IMHO if it’s still in print.
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Dec 12, 2022 20:49
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Dec 12, 2022 20:52
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Cartoon Man posted:Road of Death in Bolivia: LEGOLAS: There is a foul voice on the air GANDALF: It's Saruman!
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Dec 12, 2022 20:53
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Harry_Potato posted:LEGOLAS: There is a foul voice on the air  Fell voice
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Dec 12, 2022 21:48
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Costco Meatballs posted:lmao and this is a commercial 2 way road I see at least three ways it can go.
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Dec 12, 2022 21:48
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piL posted:I see at least three ways it can go. Off ramps aren't counted as lanes, usually.
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Dec 12, 2022 21:56
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Dec 12, 2022 22:34
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Thomamelas posted:Texas A&M campus police? dark, but accurate hook em horns LOL
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Dec 12, 2022 22:53
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The guy driving this Brussel sprout harvester must be really short
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Dec 12, 2022 23:22
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bertolt rekt posted:The guy driving this Brussel sprout harvester must be really short this poster has definitely seen a brussels sprout plant
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Dec 12, 2022 23:24
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Pham Nuwen posted:this poster has definitely seen a brussels sprout plant The first time I saw those, it felt like a joke the locals put together to fool gullible tourists and laugh at them behind their backs
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Dec 12, 2022 23:41
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Captain Hygiene posted:The first time I saw those, it felt like a joke the locals put together to fool gullible tourists and laugh at them behind their backs I felt the same way when I first saw an asparagus plant, I was like "my dude, you clearly just stuck an asparagus spear in the ground to mess with me, now show me the asparagus bush" Also, it's messed up that pineapples don't grow on trees
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Dec 12, 2022 23:47
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Paper Tiger posted:I felt the same way when I first saw an asparagus plant, I was like "my dude, you clearly just stuck an asparagus spear in the ground to mess with me, now show me the asparagus bush" Pineapple plants are pretty high up on the "wait, it can't just grow like THAT" scale  The stem on top isn't even actually a stem.
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Entropic posted:Pineapple plants are pretty high up on the "wait, it can't just grow like THAT" scale It's not a stem until after you eat the pineapple and plant the top. Then it becomes a stem.
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