EndsOfnversion

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by EndsOfnversion 1y ago
After entering Chilean territory illegally perhaps they should send him to killer whale Alcatraz?
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by EndsOfnversion 1y ago
Dinosaurs don’t take credit cards
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by EndsOfnversion 1y ago
Lets drop you into the mid Cretaceous period and see how far your education takes you. Without the contributions of millions of others on a daily basis you’d have nothing.
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by EndsOfnversion 1y ago
I think you understand how labor statistics work about as well as Trump.
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by EndsOfnversion 1y ago
Microsoft. Microsoft never changes.
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by EndsOfnversion 1y ago
It’s a good point: I’d assumed that the plan was to make the payload of basically the same material as the tether/structure, and have it destructively tear-off at the right moment (maybe by having a watching supervisor structure laseri
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by EndsOfnversion 1y ago
Ah, but that’s the thing it’s not compression it’s tension. Try hanging the same steel cube from the ceiling with a scrap of paper and things get decidedly more difficult. And even if you can find some magic superglue left in the tube to ho
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by EndsOfnversion 1y ago
You can certainly make the tethers longer, but that re-introduces other problems with the tensile strength that the current proposed shape is intended to mitigate. I’m very skeptical about Spinlaunch, but even if you can pour enough epoxy o
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by EndsOfnversion 1y ago
I think the idea is very interesting, but please correct me if I’m wrong, isn’t the payload experiencing a sustained acceleration of hundreds of thousands of Gs, if not millions? I am not sure that anything useful could survive that kind of
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by EndsOfnversion 1y ago
Notice how quickly it cuts? I wonder why. But I guess you never did.
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by EndsOfnversion 1y ago
What a useful and timely reminder to delete your data from 23andmes website. Thank you.
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by EndsOfnversion 1y ago
Just assume 100% of them are unless they can prove otherwise.
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by EndsOfnversion 1y ago
You might be interested in making a donation to “The Human Fund” - their slogan is “Money for people”. Kruger Industrial Smoothing are a major donor. Ask about the Festivus special.
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by EndsOfnversion 1y ago
They found the dwarf bread! Still looks and tastes like the day it was made.
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by EndsOfnversion 1y ago
You will never sell anything to any of those people ever again.
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by EndsOfnversion 1y ago
I think you’ll find “Hurt me plenty” is sufficient for all but the toughest baked on food stains.
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by EndsOfnversion 1y ago
From memory, the primary advantage of the 386SX was the ability to use a cheaper 16-bit motherboard layout and components. The lack of a 32bit bus mattered less when most software was written with 286 compatibility in mind, and the ISA bus
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by EndsOfnversion 1y ago
So basically you are fine living in a imperialist, totalitarian dictatorship, where the slightest descent is punished by years in prison, because the boot on your neck is Russian made? The rest of the world having to clean up the mess left
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by EndsOfnversion 1y ago
Just to clarify further, we are talking about the Katyn massacre Soviet Union?
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by EndsOfnversion 1y ago
You mean former-Nazi allies the Soviet Union?
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by EndsOfnversion 2y ago
Why not just host it in the same place every time? Greece would be the obvious choice. Think of all the money and co2 You could save. But oh wait - that would make it much harder for IOC members to extract bribes… so it’ll never happen.
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by EndsOfnversion 2y ago
There are several issues with remastering Babylon 5: 1) the variable frame rate: live action is 24p anything with CG is effectively 60p (both in a 60i container). This is difficult to do in HD. 2) a lot of the source materials for the CG ar
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by EndsOfnversion 2y ago
Gotta read that one with a copy of The Wasteland, and From Ritual To Romance handy. The command systems train as lance smashing into the inverted chalice (grail) dome of the station at the end. Death by water. Running round in a ring, Tons
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by EndsOfnversion 2y ago
That is literally the viewpoint of the protagonist of Consider Phlebas.