I was gonna say Yuggoth confirmed but Remina is much more terrifying. I both want to read that manga and totally don't want to.
What have you learned today?
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One thing I learned to appreciate from playing Kerbal Space Program. Yes, its a simplified aproxitmation of our Solar System and Space Travel and it's space compressed to boot and YET, it still shows how much SPACE is in SPACE. Like when I struggled two get two spacecraft to meet up in Low Kerbin Orbit because of just how much space can be between them because that's HOW MUCH SPACE THERE IS(and that's not even getting into actual interplanetary space).
So when I see shit like In Starship Troopers where ships are crashing into each other because one ship got destroyed, I can only ask "Why the fuck are those ships practically on top of each other? THERE'S TONS OF ROOM TO SPREAD OUT!" Or movies like Gravity where they can just zip between different ships and stations and orbits like it was a short walk.
Ona vaguely similar note, Nixon, for all his faults, was a Decorated US Naval Officer from Serving in WW2 and a Quaker. Which is kinda interesting considering Quakers are generally anti-military service(as in they generally believe in conscientious objection).
KSP is wayyyyyy the fuck better when you add on some good mission planning mods... you get to see how badly fucked your guesstimates would have left you with sacrificing lives to the cold vaccum (instead of blowing them up on the pad with experimental vehicle designs, as is tradition)
For all the valid criticisms of David Weber's Honor Harrington series, by fuck he writes a good space battle that avoids that sort of shit.
Explosions on the pad means it's slightly easier to find pieces to bury. Logic!
Which mods would you recommend? Kerbal lives rent free in my head at almost all times, and right now my many deaths in ER is saving so many Kerbals from stupid deaths when my well meaning but poorly thought out spacecraft ideas go wrong. It's fun when my Duna mother ship becomes a boomerang ship, as it in boomerangs from the launch pad, up into the air and then back to the ground in a big arc.
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Erm, your maths is a bit off. Andromeda is about 3 million ly away (wiki says about 2.5, but close enough), but one light year is about 6 trillion miles (wiki says about 5.88, but close enough).
The closest star to our own is Proxima Centauri, about 4 ly away (wiki says about 4.265). If you travel 6 trillion miles, if you were going to our nearest neighbour, you're not even a quarter of the way yet. If you are going in almost any other direction, you're going nowhere in the foreseeable future.
Tom-A-to, tom-AH-to; same result: space is incomprehensibly massive.
Good question... None really come to mind as I seem to get different ones everytime I reinstall KSP (I have a love-hate relationship with the game).
"We call it progress!"
That former slaves following the thirteenth amendment committed crimes to a very large degree which helped form the narrative of black people being essentially uncivilizable in proper society... Only the crimes were in essence "doing somewhat disagreeable things while black"(vagrancy, walking on a railroad) or laws otherwise set up in a way to preserve the social order of the times when slavery was legal.
(^this video was really fascinating, although on the long side.)
(^this video was really fascinating, although on the long side.)
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Today I learned that Paul Darrow - Avon from Blake's 7 - had both his legs amputated in 2014 after complications from surgery for treating an aortic aneurysm.
On a lighter note, he - with fellow Blake's 7 alumni Michael Keating (Villa) - appeared on 'Pointless' with a slew of British sci-fi actors. According to wikipedia, they nearly won the night.
On a lighter note, he - with fellow Blake's 7 alumni Michael Keating (Villa) - appeared on 'Pointless' with a slew of British sci-fi actors. According to wikipedia, they nearly won the night.
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Today I learned that OmegaBall is a sport. It's basically soccer, but with three teams on a circular field. Interesting...
Huh, I'd been considering something like that. Also, to get the same teams to play soccer, then cricket then basketball or something so they'd have to learn multiple sports.
Women pants' pockets are the worst! I have in the past been in possession of pants that was made with women in mind and I always hate that there are basically no space in the pockets.
It's down to two biases: "Women always want to show off their hips" and "women always have a purse to carry things in".
Actually, I think it's less about "is Hans going to shoot him" (because I feel Hans was always going to shoot him), but rather whether or not Takagi was going to beg and plead for his life or was going to hold his ground. They even have a brief exchange between each other during Hans questioning of Takagi. Such a great movie, that's full of these little moments sprinkled throughout.
That's because you gotta keep it sexy, or you don't eat.
Back on topic, learned today that certain elements can exist is all three (solid, liquid, gaseous) states at the same time;