Yeah, that’s a temporary condition, lol.

Do it

So to sum up the article, most meteorites (the ones that actually hit earth) are the result of just a few (perhaps three) large asteroid collisions some time in the past.

Most asteroids seem to be in relatively stable orbits which is basically necessary for them to still be orbiting. So it follows that it would take something altering that orbit for them to end up in an earth intercept course. Ejecta from a collision makes sense.

I guess the truly surprising part is that most of the samples we have are such good matches that we can conclude they belonged to the same individual asteroids.

You know kids today, they yearn for the mines…

I can’t get mine to stop mining.

The probe that just won’t die. Pretty amazing!

So, as far as I can tell, the primary difference with this version of the game is that it uses question registers?

What does that mean, functionally?

Like how does that affect the software? How would the software run on an actual quantum computer?

My understanding is that black holes naturally evaporate, releasing energy and sometimes matter out through their polar jets. I believe this is called hawking radiation. Now proton sized black holes can exist (I believe we’ve created them in the LHC), but at that size, the hawking radiation makes the black hole evaporate extremely quickly, like within nano seconds.

In other words, tiny black holes are very short lived, they rarely have time to absorb more material and grow.

Edit: well it seems that I was definitely wrong about hawking radiation having anything to do with the polar jets. But I just double checked and it looks like everything else I said is pretty accurate. I’m not sure why the 1 minor inaccuracy was worth downvotes, but whatever.

Truly, the Ron Swanson of toast.

Wtf… There’s no narrative or throughline, it’s just like… if you distilled “unsettling” and put it on paper.

Well, successful art I guess, it made me feel things…

Why isn’t it targeted at the entire fanbase?

Is that a serious question? Because the answer is obvious…

Ok, let me start out by saying I have an 8 year old, and he fucking loves Minecraft. And hey, I played the game a bunch back when it was in beta and I was like 25. But I did not love the game the way that he loves the game… He’s obsessive about Minecraft, some days it’s all he talks about. How many adults do you know like that?

And here’s the real question, when’s the last time you bought Minecraft merch for yourself? Because my kid has a Minecraft lunchbox, a Minecraft hoody, a Minecraft Lego set, some Minecraft figurines, and of course the Minecraft sheets and PJs.

Alright cool, thanks for the recommendation!

I played 2070 and had fun with it. More recently I played 2205 and honestly, I hated it.

My theory is that city builders are evolving and anno isn’t, but I’ll watch the trailer for this.

Yeah, I recently played two city builders one after the other, and oh man, did anno ever let me down.

I played this game called Ixion, which is a city builder in an interstellar colony ship hurtling through space in a last ditch effort to save humanity (from a calamity you may have also accidentally caused). This game was epic.

After finishing that I was like “give me more awesome city builder!”

I fired up anno 2205 and proceeded to be bored to tears. Yeah, some aspects of the interface were better (Ixion can be clunky and unforgiving). But all and all anno 2205 doesn’t even compare, it was just tedious.

That looks really cool!

This game is so unique and so fantastic.

Yeah, I bet there are some fishy sequences.

Don’t feel bad, on my first flight I ran into the sun by accident.

There’s an achievement for that though, so it all works out.

If you haven’t done it yet, read the rest of the books. The show sticks pretty closely to the books, so you can pick up right where the show leaves off.

The audiobooks are great too, the narrator does a great accent for Alex, it’s fun.

Anyway, the story is totally worth finishing.

I think that’s called teasing a sequel…

I think you’re missing the point, they point to our extinction by our own hands. If millions of alien species have tried to survive through an era of technological advancement, and all of them have failed, that suggests that we don’t have much chance of surviving either. We’ll probably fall into the same talks that all of them have.

If on the other hand, we saw lots of alien civilizations existing somewhere out there, or even some civilizations, that would suggest that as long as we don’t totally screw things up, we at least have a chance. Survival is at least possible.

And while it may look like we’re screwing it up, to be honest, things aren’t so bad. There have been a lot of mass extinctions on this planet, but there’s still life. The planet has both been much cooler and much hotter at various times in the past, there’s still life. There’s really no guarantee that we’re going to kill ourselves, things could turn out fine. But on the other hand, what we’re seeing when we look around the galaxy is not super encouraging…