“No, you justify your position.”

Futurama did it, S2E12 - The Deep South:
https://comb.io/pFCAib

Imagine an infinitely large box with nothing in it. Where is the center? There isn’t one.

Imagine that box suddenly fills with pieces of stuff, more or less evenly distributed. Still no center.

Imagine the box starts getting bigger, but the amount of stuff stays the same and the distance between stuff quickly increases even though the stuff isn’t moving that fast. Where’s the center of the infinitely large box?

I unironically love parking lots & garages, and feel like a city without parking is a prison.

If I had my druthers, existing bike lanes would be turned into medians, side of road parking would become bike lanes, and enough real estate converted to parking garages to meet peak demand.

Sharing a bus or train with a lot of other people every day isn’t appealing because of the way a lot of other people are.

Yes, photons were released when the universe began to cool enough for electrons to combine with protons to make the first neutral hydrogen atoms. Those first photons are now observed as the Cosmic Microwave Background.

This article presents evidence that the cause of those primordial neutral hydrogen atoms having their electrons stripped away again was not primarily huge celestial formations like supermassive black holes or giant galaxies. Instead, it looks like the early universe produced such a large number of small galaxies that the light from stars in those small galaxies did the deed.

yeah, it seemed like it went down for a little bit, then presented a new cloudflare verification check

Where will you be when the zoomies wear off?

DOOM

Fuck your Blue Key.

This administration is a wrecking ball, but if there’s a next one, they’ll be well positioned to rebuild - unburdened by past mistakes that were kept around through momentum and the unwillingness of savvy career politicians to trash their reputations by passing extremely unpopular policy like the current admin is doing.

The Senate Lunch System was flawed from the start. Its not a space program, its a political pork & white collar jobs make-work program.

The goals of those programs are laudable, but the mission profile was optimized for domestic politics rather than achieving the stated goals.

There are cheaper ways than a Lunar Gateway to accomplish building a fusion & rocket fuel refinery on the moon. Orion only makes sense in conjunction with a Lunar Gateway & SLS. SLS is disposable oldtech & a triumph of pork barrel politics over sound engineering.

1st person > 3rd person

Souls-likes suck.

I thought it was interesting that heavy elements are not necessarily formed from the crush of gravity deep inside the core of a collapsing star, and instead might be produced in the nebula around the jets coming off a black hole.

I wonder if its a product of colliding galaxies?

That’s fair.

People like that will say “just block them” with one fork of their tongue, and then “sort it out through discussion and voting” with the other fork.

Aviassembly.

Its fun in the way that building airplanes in KSP is fun. The game is small, and the physics are simple, but for $10 its a good value.

you can balloon the box out a ways to get more volume

In PlanetSide, there’s just one big map that never resets.

The team I played with would try to bring the front line to a bridge before logging off for the night. Contested bridges were notoriously difficult to cross, so you could count on no major territorial changes happening while you sleep. The zerg was content to snipe across the bridge all night, and when organized Ops resumed the next day, the bridge would simply be bypassed by mass airlift.

IIRC, there have been a few times when one of the three factions controlled the entire map, but it never lasted more than a few minutes. During the PlanetSide 2 beta test, one side came close to taking the entire map, but the whole game crashed because the entire population of all three factions was trying to pile into the same base at the same time. They eventually implemented a mechanic where if too many people were in the same place, the ones who arrived most recently would be teleported to an adjacent map tile.

I’m still kinda salty that my computer would crash every time I tried landing something bigger than a probe on Eve.

PlanetSide 1, the MMOFPS that was the former record holder of “Most players in an online FPS battle,” which was eventually surpassed by PlanetSide 2.

In its heyday it was a fascinating sociology study.

During EU prime time, players would self-organize into squads of about 10 players. They would apply light pressure to the entire map simultaneously. Territorial gains would be made by attacking undefended bases.

During USA prime time, players would self-organize into platoons of about 30 players. They would press a few strategic locations with medium force. Territorial gains came from fixing operations (using a small force in an easy to defend location to keep a large population of opponents busy) and local numeric superiority at lightly defended bases.

During Chinese prime time, players would group up into a singular mass. Everyone just ran face first into the meatgrinder. No territorial gains were made.

I’m curious about the orbital parameters of the companion galaxies. Maybe we’re just looking at them during a period of conjunction? Like if you look at our Solar System, sometimes all of the planets are on the same side of the sun.