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What is the most powerful flying bug?
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🦋 15 3.71%
🦇 115 28.47%
🪰 12 2.97%
🐦 67 16.58%
dragonfly 94 23.27%
🦟 14 3.47%
🐝 87 21.53%
Total: 404 votes
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PhilippAchtel
May 31, 2011

euphronius posted:

you are traveling faster than the speed of light from some perspectives

Also :wrong:

Stick to politics, CSPAM!

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Dixon Chisholm
Jan 2, 2020

Ytlaya posted:

I notice people are discussing both interstellar travel and the country India

On this topic, my best friend growing up was this Indian guy. We once got into a big argument because he was convinced that you could travel faster than light by simply continuing to accelerate for a really long time, due to the lack of friction in space. I said no!

hes right idiot

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

please don’t hamper me with your western materialist attitudes.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

only every day

dieselfruit
Feb 21, 2013

https://twitter.com/ReutersPitchbot/status/1623352642993852416

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

PhilippAchtel posted:

Also :wrong:

Stick to politics, CSPAM!
no, that's correct. due to space expansion, some thing are moving away from us faster than light

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

superluminal motion is a thing. there is a Wikipedia entry.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Majorian posted:

Dial back the totally ironic satirical bloodlust please k thx

it’s a legitimate military target

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp

euphronius posted:

superluminal motion is a thing. there is a Wikipedia entry.

apparently

Ash Crimson
Apr 4, 2010

paul_soccer12 posted:

you suck shut up

lmao

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp

who the hell gave you that title

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Truga posted:

no, that's correct. due to space expansion, some thing are moving away from us faster than light

only in specific frames of reference

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp
there aren't a whole lot stupid enough to make it so lovely

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

Raskolnikov38 posted:

only in specific frames of reference

well yes, that's what he said

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Cuttlefush posted:

who the hell gave you that title

Could do worse, Paul Rudd’s a handsome dude.

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo

Hatebag posted:

Yeah but then you're making GBS threads against momentum. Better have a rowdy rear end in a top hat!

quote:

Exposure to repeated nuclear blasts raises the problem of ablation (erosion) of the pusher plate. Calculations and experiments indicated that a steel pusher plate would ablate less than 1 mm, if unprotected. If sprayed with an oil it would not ablate at all (this was discovered by accident; a test plate had oily fingerprints on it and the fingerprints suffered no ablation).

Just spray some oil on that sucker! :psyduck:

CongoJack
Nov 5, 2009

Ask Why, Asshole

Futanari Damacy posted:

Just spray some oil on that sucker! :psyduck:

this is not the first time my greasy hands have led to scientific advancement and it won’t be the last

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo

lobster shirt posted:

i hope they remake alpha centauri in less than 44 years

Sid Meier, Will Wright et al are never making another game again :negative:

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

PhilippAchtel posted:

Also :wrong:

Stick to politics, CSPAM!

you don't know what you're talking about lol

BULBASAUR
Apr 6, 2009




Soiled Meat

Futanari Damacy posted:

Sid Meier, Will Wright et al are never making another game again :negative:

Sid is a super christian dude that we had to fight in order get the word 'poo poo' into xcom

Will Wright is now into crypto

Ash Crimson
Apr 4, 2010

Cuttlefush posted:

who the hell gave you that title

Some disgruntled gently caress

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo

BULBASAUR posted:

Sid is a super christian dude that we had to fight in order get the word 'poo poo' into xcom

Will Wright is now into crypto

Goddamn that's depressing

BULBASAUR
Apr 6, 2009




Soiled Meat
I'm sorry :(

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

apology accepted

Ardennes
May 12, 2002
Honestly, if it was remade, it seems like Alpha Centauri would be better as a RPG than strategy game. The selling point is the different factions and their ideologies.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Futanari Damacy posted:

Sid Meier, Will Wright et al are never making another game again :negative:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_51_YJQpeg0

Simcity was powered by racism

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


BULBASAUR posted:

Sid is a super christian dude that we had to fight in order get the word 'poo poo' into xcom

Will Wright is now into crypto

nothing a good nerve stapling couldn't fix

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

sürgünden selamlar
yıkıcılar ulusuna
have the disco elysium guys do the alpha centauri rpg

John Charity Spring
Nov 4, 2009

SCREEEEE

OctaMurk posted:

I enjoyed civ beyond earth. It wasnt a remake of alpha centauri, it was its own thing and it was ok

i liked that the 'African Union' was led by a guy who always told you "A village has never been ruined by trade" when you opened diplomacy with him. a thing that a real African would say

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Zedhe Khoja posted:

have the disco elysium guys do the alpha centauri rpg

They seem pretty stuck in a legal suit at the moment.

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo

gradenko_2000 posted:

Simcity was powered by racism

No! No!!

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Modding Alpha Centauri to replace Academician Prokhor Zakharov with Orgrim Doomhammer

January 6 Survivor
Jan 6, 2022

The
Nelson Mandela
of clapping
dusty old cheeks


( o(
Top Finnish diplomat successfully negotiate with Russia towards decreased tensions in Scandinavia through masterful rhetoric of shared interests

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Granted, couldn't you use the stock and flow system to model a Chinese city?

PhilippAchtel
May 31, 2011

Truga posted:

no, that's correct. due to space expansion, some thing are moving away from us faster than light

God drat it

Cpt_Obvious
Jun 18, 2007

Nothing can move faster than light!

*Literally everything else in the universe moving away from our galaxy in all directions faster than the speed of light*

No, see.....SPACE!

I know, I'm joking.

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp
not the videogame thread but if you want to get a sense of how hosed up relativistic physics are http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/

PhilippAchtel
May 31, 2011

Expansion of space!?!

God drat it, I'm so mad right now...

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp

PhilippAchtel posted:

Expansion of space!?!

God drat it, I'm so mad right now...

the information can't move faster than light gotcha. you hate to see it.

there a bunch of weirder cases of non-information moving faster than light though. motherfuckin phase velocities

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Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


Zedhe Khoja posted:

have the disco elysium guys do the alpha centauri rpg

They got fired because good things aren't allowed

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