Share Your Shower Thoughts
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Is Jesus a sith? There is this quote: "Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters."Chimpzy said:Are pigeons secretly Sith Lords?
We need a Deadpool-Harley Quinn crossover. I don't care if it's live-action or animated. Make it happen Marvel & DC!
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I don't muse in the shower. I tend to sing. Sometimes in foreign languages (Swedish 80's hard rock/metal, specifically)
Holy sith, sith's gotten too real too fast.Chimpzy said:
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Been wondering for a while about time-stop, like if you could really freeze time, what happens to light and gravity? If all photons were to freeze in place, you'd go blind, surely? Would moving forward with your eyes open be able to bring a semblance of sight, assuming photons resume their motion as they enter your unfrozen corneas? Gravity is still a mystery to an extent, whether it's inextricably entwined with time or not, so what would happen there? Does it become an absence or something else? Has it already been explored in science fiction? I've never come across it before in that sense, so am wondering if just being crazy dumb or just literarily sheltered.
You know what? I?ve never thought about that. What we see is light reflected (moving) into our eyes; if one stops time, meaning nothing is moving, one wouldn?t be able to see anything. That?s 15 years of intense R&D into my ?time freeze ray gun? down the shitter! Granted, 15 years later, and all I?ve got so far is a stopwatch duct taped to an old Super Soaker filled with freon, but I was *THIS* close, damn you!Neurotic Void Melody said:
Yeah, that's something that's usually just handwaved, much like how intangibility should logically come with a whole suite of downsides. Literally the only example I can think of that defies this convention is My Hero Academia[footnote]Senses are rendered useless because everything they rely on just passes through without resistance. Can't breathe because oxygen just passes through the lungs, and any part that's intangible naturally doesn't have purchase on anything, even the ground...[/footnote], though Batman Beyond did go halfsies on it in Sneak Peak when the episode's villain dies because he loses control of his ability and gravity drags him underground.Neurotic Void Melody said:
Logically, truly stopping time for everything but yourself would be a truly useless ability. Setting aside for a moment the fact that light stops moving, so too would air molecules become completely static and thus render the gas functionally solid. The reason fiction never goes this route should be fairly intuitive: It's utterly pointless and there's really nothing you can do with it.
Don't stop. Believing. We need that data, renegade scientist! Remember to record everything with a contact-lens camera when it functions properly, otherwise your noble sacrifice will all be for nought. And swish your eyes about a bit in the air like one of those models in a shampoo advert. Something will come through hopefully.Xprimentyl said:
True, had considered the air and energy transfer issues too, though the way I'd first imagined it was that frozen material and molecule would still be affected by exterior force such as moving into it, and if one's body is unaffected by the freeze, then anything entering the body would resume original states until it exits, meaning breathing would be possible in some sense as long as you don't stand in the same place. Ultimately, it seems if it were possible to survive the process, it would be quite uncomfortable, disorientating and trippy, likely nauseating too. Rendering it pretty much ineffective. We shall have to await Xprimentyl's Xperiments!Asita said:
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Fermi's paradox...why? Why does it keep getting brought up for anything other than mockery? It's based on so many simplistic assumptions it legitimately annoys me that some consider it relevant at all. It's the theoretical equivalent of looking at the outside of a huge expansive forest and going "Nope! Absolutely no-one could be here. Otherwise they'd have visited us already. we've even brought gifts and meat buffets...how could they not notice our grandeur by now??" I'd give him some credit however, for his time, if it were me there, I'd be illiterate and dead by 20. But now it seems no less silly than flat Earth belief.
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The most common criticism this game gets is that it provides no choice to the player over certain unwholesome actions and that it punishes the player for doing them. However, I never saw it as a story of the player, but a story of the main character's descent...he is not you/me/us, we are just a cypher for his story just like any other pre-determined single player game character, and I never felt the game was punishing me, but showing instead the downward spiral of this person and his buddies. I think players take things way too personally when given control like that. And why is that criticism hardly ever applied to other games that force you to be the hero making heroic choices with heroic consequences as the game constantly fellates you about it? Why is that ok? Why can't I be allowed to shoot the baby in COD and carry on, eh? Stop forcing me to be the hero just to shower me with praise all the bloody time! I'm not a child!
It's Valentine's Day, and while normally I wouldn't care, for various reasons, this time I do. Alone, miserable, and resigned to the fact that I'll always be the former.
...now who wants chocolates?
...now who wants chocolates?
According to Esio Trot, apparently not.saint of m said:
Eh, if society stopped blathering on about how people's one true purpose is to match up with someone, Valentine's Day would be much less depressing.
On a related note, it's also the day that Australia adopted decimal currency, so each year I'm grateful not to use pounds shillings and pence.
On a related note, it's also the day that Australia adopted decimal currency, so each year I'm grateful not to use pounds shillings and pence.
Consider the scale.Neurotic Void Melody said:
The big bang happened around 13 billion years ago.
Our solar system formed around 4.5 billion years ago.
Life appeared between 3.5 and 4 billion years ago.
The cambrian explosion happened 0.5 billion years ago (500 million years)
The first hominids evolved 0.02 billion years ago (20 million years)
Modern homo sapiens evolved around 0.0002 billion years ago (200,000 years).
The first cities appeared around 0.00001‬ billion years ago (10,000 years)
So, let's assume the universe was pretty chaotic and hostile for a couple of billion years after the big bang. That still leaves us 6.5 billion years during which other habitable, life-supporting planets could have formed before earth. Let's say one of those planets produced intelligent life, and a mere one billion years ago, a pretty short time compared to the age of the universe, they launched their first space craft..
If that were the case, then at the time these aliens were making their first attempts at space travel, multicellular life doesn't exist on earth yet.
However huge the task of populating the galaxy might be does not matter much at this point. The aliens have inconceivable amount of time. Without some kind of faster than light propulsion, it will take them millions of years to colonize every star in the galaxy, but they have a billion years. Whatever setbacks, whatever political concerns or whatever local circumstances might block our alien super society from exponential expansion, the timeframe is so great that it is ultimately not going to matter. Heck, even extinction might not stop them, another species could simply evolve and do the same thing without really eating into the timeframe very much.
If you look at it in these terms, the question becomes less "why haven't these aliens come to visit us" and more "why can't we find evidence of their existence". Why doesn't every star in the sky have a dyson swarm? Why has our solar system not already been disassembled for its resources? Heck, even if aliens evolved in other galaxies, there's a decent chance we'd be able to see them because once they become advanced enough they should start leaving marks on the galaxy itself, and there's no reason we can imagine why they wouldn't become that advanced. Again, they have time. They have more time than we can possibly imagine.
Even worse, there are so many stars and, potentially, so many habitable planets in our galaxy that this should have happened many times. So even if our hypothetical aliens wanted to hide their presence out of some kind of respect for the prime directive, and could somehow sustain that belief for literal aeons across countless star systems where (assuming they were still recognizable as organic life) the inhabits would have long since ceased to be the same species, there should be so many aliens at this point that you'd think there would be some evidence of their presence.
The Fermi paradox isn't meant to indicate for certain that advanced alien civilizations don't exist. Heck, a billion year old civilization would be so unimaginably ancient that it may have long since stopped according with any technological or cultural paradigm we can imagine or observe. It's just pointing out something that is weird and incongruous.
Man Enough for MS-DOS has taught me a lot about relationships. They key to dating is a non-stop exchange of terrible pick up lines and one liners until you've dated enough women to go sky diving.
So I spend two hours last night trying to get my Xbox One controller working with PC. I can't. I'm pissed because I got it working in the past, but why isn't it working now?
From what I can see, I'm using a USB-B cable, when I need a USB-C cable. I look around, but don't have a USB-C cable.
I wake up and think, wait, what about the USB cable I use for my phone? I try. It works. Immediately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX5u6hLxnhM
And all this before I actually got in the shower.
From what I can see, I'm using a USB-B cable, when I need a USB-C cable. I look around, but don't have a USB-C cable.
I wake up and think, wait, what about the USB cable I use for my phone? I try. It works. Immediately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX5u6hLxnhM
And all this before I actually got in the shower.