Skua
@Skua@kbin.earth
- Comment on What do you mean there was a coup in Bolivia? 2 days ago:
Anglicisation of golpista, I assume
- Comment on Domestication 3 days ago:
We thought we were the ones domesticating grass when we invented agriculture, but the grass isn't the one that stopped moving around all the time
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 3 days ago:
Never mind the depths I was already on edge when I met the fucking crashfish
- Comment on wizard posting 4 days ago:
Power word: erektiohäiriö
- Comment on wizard posting 4 days ago:
Power word: impotence
- Comment on It's sort of apt by mistake, but it's still stupid 4 days ago:
It's actually in England, although funnily enough the part of England it's in is called Cumbria, which has the same origin as the Welsh for Wales "Cymru". So it's sort of in Wales, just not the Wales that we call Wales in English.
Anyway it's Old English torr, Middle Welsh penn, and Danish hoh. And like many British place names the pronunciation is not what you would expect at all at first glance. It's "tra-pen-uh"
- Comment on A beautiful thing... 1 week ago:
It's also known as the kINGdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- Comment on if jupiter gained enough mass to trigger fusion and ignite into a star... 1 week ago:
Oh, good call, I didn't think of that! Assuming I did my sums right, the Roche limit probably destroys the fourth innermost moon, but it still leaves the big four (which are the fifth through to ninth in ascending order of size of orbit). They're quite substantially farther out than the prior four
- Comment on if jupiter gained enough mass to trigger fusion and ignite into a star... 1 week ago:
The sun and Jupiter are pretty close in terms of density, and Jupiter would need to get at least an order of magnitude heavier to start fusion. I think it's just a coincidence that the outward pressure of the sun's fusion makes these numbers roughly line up.
Thirteen Jupiters seems to be a commonly-given lower limit for fusion, so let's go with that. To increase mass by thirteen times while maintaining density (and assuming the whole thing is a perfect sphere, which it obviously isn't), Jupiter needs to increase its radius by a factor of about 2.35. This increases its equatorial radius to about 168,000 km, which does swallow up the three innermost moons, but leaves the four big ones alones
- Comment on if jupiter gained enough mass to trigger fusion and ignite into a star... 1 week ago:
The IAU's list of requirements to be a planet is:
- Orbit a star
- Be big enough that it becomes round
- Clear the neighbourhood (meaning you're way bigger than anything else in your orbit)
The last one is the one that disqualifies Pluto. For comparison, Pluto is roughly 8% of the mass of the other stuff in its orbit (not including Neptune, given that their orbits cross), whereas Neptune is thousands of times more than the rest of its orbit. The closest non-planet to meeting this criterion is Ceres, which is roughly one third of the rest of its orbit (in the asteroid belt).
Based on this list, I think Jupiter's four biggest moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto) would make the cut.
- Comment on Gonna stab 'em good. 1 week ago:
I genuinely expected this to be Tunic-related. There's a whole area of frog assassins and the isometric viewpoint looks just like this too
- Comment on Greece introduces the six-day work week 1 week ago:
I don't understand how legislators can look at the fact that their country already works longer hours than anyone else in Europe and conclude that the problem is that they aren't working enough hours
- Comment on Salad people go burr 1 week ago:
"I can't believe people I'm intentionally antagonising are downvoting me"
Dude, your original conversation that the prior post was about was in a vegan community and specifically on a post about how vegans can't discuss veganism in peace in the vegan community. Regardless of which side of the veganism debate anyone falls on, you're acting like a dickhead.
- Comment on True story. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Futuristic movies timeline 3 weeks ago:
The bar is from actual release year to setting year, that's why the left edges aren't aligned
- Comment on Lampreys 3 weeks ago:
I have some bad news for you: those things that ate Lumpy are pretty much entirely real other than that the real ones are "only" about 30cm / 1 ft long. They're bloodworms. Apparently they make good fish bait
- Comment on VFX artist explains why CGI in films is worse now 3 weeks ago:
I think you're right that it's just that they depicted more and more fantastical stuff over time. Like they stopped pretending that Iron Man's armour was actually a plausible mechanical thing and just made it magic. It still looked exactly like it should, but it felt less real because it was designed to be less realistic. But the effects on the Hulk, who looked consistent throughout, stayed just as believable for the whole series
- Comment on VFX artist explains why CGI in films is worse now 3 weeks ago:
Did Infinity War have bad effects? Marvel have definitely missed the mark plenty of times, but I recall that one looking pretty solid. I think the only part I remember looking janky was Mark Ruffalo's head in the giant Iron Man armour, and that was pretty brief
- Comment on Riven | Official Launch Trailer | Available June 25th 4 weeks ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Riven | Official Launch Trailer | Available June 25th 4 weeks ago:
Very interested in this. I haven't played Myst, because I've just always found point-and-click to be quite unpleasant. Do I need to have played it to understand what's going on here?
I am seeing that there was a remake of Myst in a similar fashion, so I will take a look at that in its own right
- Comment on Could a bird propel a skateboard by flapping its wings? 2 months ago: