Nah, we all know the Great Pyramids were part of the “Giza Mass Autism Array” fired during the Finno-Korean Hyperwar. RIP Finnish social skills

A bunch of teenagers tricking diplomats into insulting the minority-species president of the galaxy’s most powerful empire… they’re lucky we have a sense of humor and wasted too many perk slots to return planets to monke (this Kryydur himself was basically an emu before the humans uplifted his tomb world for universal colony-builders and an instant forge world)

Ah yes, Jack the Ripper. What a brutal way to die, castrated with a knife

So basically… plastics are the new wood? Surface-dwelling sea creatures suffered from ingesting ”microfibers?”

Yeah, only one unoccupied fortress world remained (and as of this screenie the lithoids’ capital had just been taken), with suns being dropped on it by one of my many huge fleets with trash-dispensers, a 37k fleet from the nearest federation member, another 3-star fleet from the second-strongest member after me AND the 111k shared fedfleet WITH A TITAN.

Once I realized why they wouldn’t surrender and noticed the 3 non-federated AI xenophiles still scolding me for being a world-flattener, I later warp-drived in a brand-new legion of xenomorphs and several psionic armies of my strongest ex-presapient species, combined it with the one already there and then easily swiped the planet. “A scratch? Your navy’s gone!” “Oh I’ve had worse” “You liar, you’ve got no starbases!”

If only Rosalind had found it out this way, instead of all that radiation giving her cancer

Maybe they’re also bickering and arguing about who killed who in the Guejenjdjja-Otoenenjda conflict, taking place in the desert of purple sand, with very geographically-literate Ghdisixoosbdbjzoakan college students obnoxiously cosplaying it in the quads

According to the drake equation we’re looking at at least a few million planets with at least ordinary carbon-and-water-based life in this galaxy alone- and in such an unimaginably huge place as even the galaxy (never mind UNIVERSE) there’s bound to be at least 2 of everything, including sentient species.

Nuclear threats against enemy countries have been overused so much by Ruzzia being a tough-guy and more recently by Iran and Israel that they are now meaningless. When America legalized gay marriage in 2015, Iran shat a brick and fantasized about nuking us, but no nukes flew. Iran and Israel routinely threaten each other with each of their 3 warheads, but no nukes have flown. Ukraine started buying tanks, ordering F-16s and attacking Crimea, but no nukes flew. NATO recruited Finland which Ruzzia said was an attack on them, but again, no nukes flew. Ruzzia started directing its legions of keyboard warriors to salivate over Alaska, but no nukes flew. An Israeli politician fantasized about the country committing hara-kiri by nuking Gaza, but no nukes flew. Whenever someone fears that WW3 will start, I remind them of that fact.

It was invented by some scottish guy long before we had the means to measure things that would need it, and ever since that multibillion-dollar satellite thing fell to pieces even American scientists use metric units, we learn them in every grade level’s science class and our scientific community has this understandable atmosphere of regret that Congress was too lazy to completely kill off imperial units when they had the chance

It added so much lore to the human empires and the gameplay in general, I find it hard to tell the difference between vanilla and the mod. But one thing I do know is modded, is the 21 farm district squares my Mars got after the terraforming (when my empire isn’t Ocean Paradise with water worlds)- as well as the 20-ish mining squares I got on the hot Trappist planet, and the precursor ruin modifiers on that planet which made it build mining districts super fast.

To be fair it was in the same system as Earth, the world whose people uplifted the races that would later form most of our population, and removed the “de-evolved” trait from the victims of some ancient colossus war while gifting them special traits.

Isn’t Rankine the Kelvin of Fahrenheit

Paradox have been known to not optimize their games

What if there was once a sentient civilization tens of millions of years before us, but then it either destroyed itself at some point (leaving behind what are now our uranium deposits) or was wiped out by a flood basalt or something? What if the feared “bad ending” for humanity a la a nuclear war is the only civilization apocalypse that has already happened?

Kelvin mostly seems to be used to measure unimaginably hot (like ovens, metal forges, stars) or unimaginably cold (e.g. planets beyond Mars) things, Fahrenheit still exists only because the US Congress was lazy (though as an American I do find it somewhat useful for comparing weather and Earth’s climate zones in finer detail than just -1 in winter and 28 in summer), and I’ve never heard of that last one.

Ah I see, I should’ve worded that paragraph better

Yeah. I hear NASA and India are planning to send 3d-printer robots to lava caves to seal them off, cover/get rid of all moon dust and build permanent bases there (but as of now the priority seems to be researching the polar water-ice and using moon rocks to study what the early solar system’s geology was like)

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The Moon’s daytime is half a month long and can reach 120 C so we’d need some pretty powerful heat shielding. And there’s no ozone layer to protect the electronics from radiation, and I’m pretty sure the Moon orbits outside of Earth’s magnetosphere. And the shielding used for such a project could also be used to fix climate change here (and terraform Venus later) with orbital parasols. And whatever unimaginable technology we’d need for such an ambitious project may as well be used to run a grid of electromagnets and power lines across Mars to give it a magnetic field