Fair enough! For me, it scratched the itch of “procedural exoplanet biogeochemistry” that I always had, but could never scratch.

If you love seed ship, you have to try beyond the Chiron gate. It’s genuinely the culmination of what seed ship started. Its amazing.

Orson Welles’ War Of The Worlds broadcast

Just when you think that this, the worst timeline, had found the human limitation of “stupid”, it seeks to hurl feces into your eye in ever-more-inane and obscene manners, like a caged ape with no outlet for its struggles.

Is this why everything went south after Harambe died? He found heaven vacant, the throne abdicated and the world forsaken, and thus took that high most seat and wept, having no greater spaces to conquer, and so began to hurl reality itself like shit through the bars of heaven?

FOSS (no ads, available on FDroid):

Puzzle games:

• Simon Tatham’s Puzzle Collection
• Gurgle (Offline, infinite Wordle Dupe)

Strategy games:

• Mindustry,
• Tanks of Freedom
• Unciv (It’s Civilisation V, but free)

Mindless games:

• Ricochlime

Emulator:

• RetroArch (just need the ROMs)

Free (no ads): Seedship (by John Ayliff)

Paid (no ads): Beyond the Chiron Gate (also by John Ayliff)

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There are at least four more appropriate appendages by which to hang someone who has committed crimes against humanity.

Inb4 the next Ramanujan sidles up onto YouTube and breaks the entire concept of mathematics

“Rules for thee, but not for me” is literally the foundation of conservatism.

Yes

I think they meant “isn’t it also much better at blowing up when you want it to?”

So, did a bit of research and, when you get to the scale of “a laser that can destroy objects”, it turns out that the reflectance of natural materials is just utterly insufficient. Consider the following: suppose that a mirror finish reflects 90% of the light from a laser in the range you’re looking at (a fair assumption, from what I’ve read). Now, let’s do some basic back-of-the-napkin math: we’ll use a 30 kW laser, which is apparently standard for current destructive laser weapons. Let’s further assume that the laser light is spread over a surface area of 0.04 m^2 (because a spot 20 cm on a side seems to me a fairly high estimate for the spread on a precision laser, even on a moving target, if it’s motion-tracked, I should think). Let us be generous and assume that this reflective paint coating is 0.5mm (0.0005m) thick. Given the paint’s approximate specific heat of 2.302 J/gK (polyethylene) and density of 1400000 g/m^3 (PVC), and let’s also assume the breakdown temp of the reflectance is near the boiling point of PVA (spray paint), which is 112C.

So, the mass of paint absorbing the energy is 0.04*0.0005*1400000=28 g.

To heat the entirety of these 28 g of this material by about 90C (from 22 to 112), completely destroying the protective layer, we would need 2.302*28*90 = 5801J

Now we know that we have 30000*0.9= 3000J/s, so it would take about 2 seconds of lancing to completely destroy the protection. Given that it already takes 2-5 seconds to destroy things with the laser, and it doesn’t actually have to destroy the entire area for the reflectance to deteriorate and let the laser through, this would only be adding another second of work. I think that, no matter what you do, the laser’s gonna win.

I can give sources for any of these estimates.

You know the actual reason why these things aren’t on every military vessel? The lasers stop working if there’s fog, dust or rain

Honestly, I memorised the bands once in orgo, and never looked at them again, so you’re more likely to know than I.

I think that wouldn’t necessarily work once you get to the right wavelengths for it to start interacting with the organic bases of the paints. There’s only so much you can do when someone shoots an infrared laser at the resonant frequency of a C=C double bond.

I would think that a Kia-branded version of gasoline fumes would fail to sufficiently cause cancer when huffed, or be disappointingly unlikely to cause death by spontaneous combustion.

I believe that, nowadays, it is generally accepted that dinosaurs, crocodilians and birds are all “archosaurs”. In a similar way to how Australopithecus, Humans and Chimpanzees are all “hominids”.

The problem is not that any outage occurred. This still happens often. Things just refuse to work sometimes. The issue is that SO MANY eggs were in ONE basket.

He is a king, a burger berder king

FTFY

If the penalty for breaking the law is a flat fine, it isn’t a penalty, it’s a price.

May I recommend that we, as a global community, not decide to allow rot to fester in a country with more nuclear warheads than any other on the planet and continually degrading safeguards for their inventory and security?

That rot can go metastatic very quickly.