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THS
Sep 15, 2017

who even is left in guantanamo, god drat that has to be one of the shittiest fates ever. death to america

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THS
Sep 15, 2017

incredibly cool, however, that the cuban government has access to secret sonic weapons which fry the brains of CIA agents

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY
Feb 3, 2006

indigi posted:

so why couldn’t you build a room that big on The Moon or Mars

Or on Earth.

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

earth is full of dumb rear end holes

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

BONGHITZ posted:

earth is full of dumb rear end holes

you would love season 5 of The Expanse then

THS
Sep 15, 2017

Taintrunner posted:

you would love season 5 of The Expanse then

the problem with holden, obviously, is that he has no ideology

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

THS posted:

the problem with holden, obviously, is that he has no ideology

Holden is trying to save everybody, no matter the cost, and he's the only true respectable centrist

Xand_Man
Mar 2, 2004

If what you say is true
Wutang might be dangerous


Taintrunner posted:

Holden is trying to save everybody, no matter the cost, and he's the only true respectable centrist

One of the things I enjoy about the expanse is that everyone has damage and Holden's just so happens to make him a good person

THS
Sep 15, 2017

Taintrunner posted:

Holden is trying to save everybody, no matter the cost, and he's the only true respectable centrist

i'm still mad about fred johnson. he shouldn't have hid the protomolecule from Holden, i think the weakest part of the new series is just watching them gently caress up constantly, but i guess if you were in that position, that's how it'd feel, because history's judgement is far away. it's the ultimate "stalin situation" - can anyone have actually made better decisions than Holden, considering the information he has at the time?

dex_sda
Oct 11, 2012


ymgve posted:

I mean, no one has so far been able to prove why it would fail, though the negative mass materials and energy requirements makes it not very practical

You want us to prove a negative about a toy model that requires by your own admission both a thing that likely doesn't exist outside a piece of paper AND a possibly planetary masses worth of energy?

THS
Sep 15, 2017

anyway i'd say "The Expanse" is probably the best TV ever created

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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dex_sda posted:

You want us to prove a negative about a toy model that requires by your own admission both a thing that likely doesn't exist outside a piece of paper AND a possibly planetary masses worth of energy?

no, just want you to observe that scientists are talking about it like a serious idea and not crackpot crap

Take the plunge! Okay!
Feb 24, 2007



THS posted:

anyway i'd say "The Expanse" is probably the best TV ever created

someone hasn’t seen “TASS is authorized to declare”

dex_sda
Oct 11, 2012


ymgve posted:

no, just want you to observe that scientists are talking about it like a serious idea and not crackpot crap

They're talking about it as cool speculation, not something realistic. No practical considerations except some theoretical framework things has been done. There are loads of things like that in physics that are completely impossible or useless in reality, for instance most of string theory is useless yet it's being done and considered realistic. You are speaking as if it was a thing that's solved, it is not and it will not be for centuries, if not millenia, if it's even possible which is contingent on multiple speculative theoretical assumptions.

dex_sda has issued a correction as of 12:35 on Dec 31, 2020

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

THS posted:

anyway i'd say "The Expanse" is probably the best TV ever created

The Expanse is the politics show that liberals think The West Wing is

THS
Sep 15, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR7n4Gg-_ac

Feral Integral
Jun 6, 2006

YOSPOS

THS posted:

anyway i'd say "The Expanse" is probably the best TV ever created

i find myself skipping through a lot of it to get to the action scenes

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


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dex_sda posted:

They're talking about it as cool speculation, not something realistic. No practical considerations except some theoretical framework things has been done. There are loads of things like that in physics that are completely impossible or useless in reality, for instance most of string theory is useless yet it's being done and considered realistic. You are speaking as if it was a thing that's solved, it is not and it will not be for centuries, if not millenia, if it's even possible which is contingent on multiple speculative theoretical assumptions.

think you misinterpreted me because I agree with everything you just posted

it is on the level of string theory yes, another thing that hasnt been proven conclusively wrong yet

ymgve has issued a correction as of 12:41 on Dec 31, 2020

THS
Sep 15, 2017

dex_sda
Oct 11, 2012


ymgve posted:

think you misinterpreted me because I agree with everything you just posted

it is on the level of string theory yes, another thing that hasnt been proven conclusively wrong

Ok, my apologies then, I might have conflated you with someone upthread saying it's just bingo bango we need some antimatter

it's just a peeve of mine because a lot of really lovely consumptionism things capitalism does are excused under the umbrella of 'science/inventions/physics will fix it :downs:'

THS
Sep 15, 2017

THS
Sep 15, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZycXmyq1qk

THS
Sep 15, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tj4qfe9afs

THS
Sep 15, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKmD6-piK2A

THS
Sep 15, 2017

who are you?

what do you want?

THS
Sep 15, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6ykXocDhUY

Algund Eenboom
May 4, 2014

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva

Gripweed posted:

"Cryosleep" is just being dead. So all we gotta do is figure out a way to kill someone, and then centuries later bring them back to life. Another thing that sci-fi has convinced us is possible, based on nothing.

hey it's not like you're just shooting them in the brainstem, you only have to kill them in a very specific reversible way!

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva

Antonymous posted:

the nearest extra-solar planet is more than a parsec away from the solar system, and it just beamed a pure tone to us (982.002 MHz ) this week that has no known natural cause,

so I'm OK for us to go there, I will allow it

edit: the planet it came from is in the habitable zone and is four (4) lightyears away from earth, 1.3 parsecs

wait what the gently caress for real

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I still need to play the Babylon 5 mod for free space 3

Armacham
Mar 3, 2007

Then brothers in war, to the skirmish must we hence! Shall we hence?

SniperWoreConverse posted:

wait what the gently caress for real

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLC1

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
fuckin crazy that planet has the same gravity as earth, but the temp is maybe -39° so it's probably cold as gently caress and also the solar winds there are out of loving control and it might not have an atmosphere, or if it does have one it would be thin.

obviously mole people have beamed us.

MightyBigMinus
Jan 26, 2020

the message they're beaming us is "hey don't do what we did, destroy your atmosphere and be forced to live underground as mole people"

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

https://twitter.com/ZelfBart/status/1344362429967429632?s=20

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

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

Taintrunner posted:

Holden is trying to save everybody, no matter the cost, and he's the only true respectable centrist

Holden still upholds Inner hegemony despite his efforts to save individual Belter lives from disaster. he’s #BEB

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

BONGHITZ posted:

earth is full of dumb rear end holes


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

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eujwxh_r43E

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

MightyBigMinus posted:

the message they're beaming us is "hey don't do what we did, destroy your atmosphere and be forced to live underground as mole people"

maybe being mole people kicks rear end.

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9t-slLl30E

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MightyBigMinus
Jan 26, 2020

Gripweed posted:

maybe being mole people kicks rear end.

i saw a documentary on this once and it produces extremely manic mentally diminished redheads

so lets called it mixed at best

MightyBigMinus has issued a correction as of 17:12 on Dec 31, 2020

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