GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 20 hours ago:
It was referenced in every episode, but one episode was about the people who had one.
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 20 hours ago:
It’s a greentext from 2013 apparently. It can be found on reddit, and I’ve seen it here, but I doubt I could find it.
- Comment on Ouch 2 days ago:
To be fair, all names are made up, and not just for places. But yes, Farmington is a little more simplistic than say Louisiana.
- Comment on Top DuckDuckGo Image Result for "Morse code chart". It gets worse the longer I look at it. 6 days ago:
As a non-American, I should be unsurprised I’m more familiar with International Morse Code.
- Comment on Fuck the IRS 1 week ago:
Here’s a quote I stumbled across a couple decades ago.
I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
- Comment on Must be nice 1 week ago:
One definition of humor is pain plus distance. The pain is possibly moderate, and the distance for me to do that is impossible to bridge. Sounds pretty funny to me.
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 1 week ago:
I think what they mean by “community blocklist” is a blocklist maintained by the community which users can have applied to them. This means, rather than everyone having to deal with blocking the trolls individually, only one user has to and the rest get the benefit of that.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 1 week ago:
Is that the sound of the warp drive in space? It certainly isn’t the sound effect the explosions in space use.
If it wasn’t for artistic license, they could have gone with what happens when the inertial dampers fail in the spaceships in David Weber’s books, which is a more realistic outcome (assuming realism is what you’re looking for in a setting with warp drives and inertial dampers), but writing off the crews of ships that don’t matter to the storyline in a red paste probably wouldn’t go over well in a family drama. About as well as people sitting around in a pitched battle with the occasional hum or shudder.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 1 week ago:
I suppose if they’d been in a more relaxed pose they would have flown farther?
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 1 week ago:
And where are the seat belts?
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 1 week ago:
These ships all had inertia dampers, otherwise the crew would be paste during most maneuvers. Seatbelts would just cause a different kind of mess. And even if they didn’t, are you suggesting Picard’s grip is sufficient to combat those forces? Because he didn’t have a seat belt, either. Maybe it was the force of his presence that you think was going to keep him seated?
- Comment on Been putting a lot of thought into this 2 weeks ago:
The ideal technique for when they’re sweaty or sticky.
- Comment on Been putting a lot of thought into this 2 weeks ago:
The ideal technique for when they’re itchy.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer 2 weeks ago:
The motorbike can be fun, getting big jumps can be awesome, and you can explore caves easier. Other than that, yeah.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer 2 weeks ago:
And when you say now, it’s been that way since about a year after the game was released.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 2 weeks ago:
Well, it’s a good thing laws are never wrong!
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 2 weeks ago:
I guess the question is, is ripping up a golf course more or less antisocial than having a golf course?
- Comment on CATL unveils battery with 12-minute charging and 1.5 million mile life 3 weeks ago:
That’s a much more interesting comment and link. Hopefully the production batteries do better than the trial run. We will see soon enough.
- Comment on CATL unveils battery with 12-minute charging and 1.5 million mile life 3 weeks ago:
Wild claims? “’We did this thing in the lab.’ It could be a breakthrough provided they can scale production.” The only thing that would make this a wild claim is if they didn’t actually do what they said or if it didn’t work like they said. They didn’t even claim this could be commercialized.
Also, Professor Zhao works at Western University, in Ontario, Canada. Here’s an article about this same research on their website.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 3 weeks ago:
Well, the same applies to social services (welfare) and education, and the rich and powerful already know all this. So why do you think they don’t want us comfortable, educated, healthy, and secure?
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 3 weeks ago:
Best. Parasite. Ever.
- Comment on Anon finds a sugar daddy 3 weeks ago:
Fake: loving father….
- Comment on PC gamers win the first battle against Valve Corporation as £656m competition claim receives judicial approval 3 weeks ago:
Probably closer to 20 pounds if they are awarded the full amount, and the general rule seems to be that the lawyers get about 30%, but the overall sentiment of your statement is correct.
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 5 weeks ago:
It requires more material and financial resources, but isn’t necessarily harder. Transmitting energy effectively to reduce heat, or managing the excess heat starts running into some pretty tough limits of physics. Most of the issues with spinning habitats are engineering problems within the capabilities of our current technology level and materials science. It’s just super expensive and has terrible ROI for now.
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 5 weeks ago:
How is it a bad analogy? You seem to be treating it like a scale model, which i don’t think was the intention. Moreover, most of the effects map over fine.
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 5 weeks ago:
There isn’t a requirement for a Dyson shell to transmit energy. You could just envelope the sun in habitats that use the energy they collect locally and that would meet the criteria of a Dyson shell (and a K2 civilization).
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 5 weeks ago:
It needs to weigh enough that it counters the momentum/drag of the cable plus the net of whatever mass is going up. Keep in mind that cars going down add to that overall value while cars going up subtract. Also, the general opinion is for the station/anchor to be slightly above geosync so the net effect of the orbit on the station is to be pulling away from the earth (there is some wiggle room depending on how robust your earth anchor to be and the mechanics of your tether with respect to tension vs. compression, but most models plan for a little net lift). In other words, you also attach to an anchor on the earth (which could just be a chunk of bedrock) to counteract that net force. Since the net force of the tether (not counting the earth tether) would be away from earth, any net loss of momentum would be regained from the earth’s spin (which happens whenever we launch a rocket right now). You could also have a spool at either end to maintain the desired tension on the tether while accounting for slight elevation changes due to net momentum loss or gain. On top of all that, the space anchor mass isn’t really dependent on the mass of the earth so much as it is on the net amount of mass being lifted or lowered to the earth and the amount of time you want to wait to return to it’s desired orbital altitude. And finally, if the tether was severed only the part whose center of gravity was below geostationary orbit would actually fall to earth - the rest would leave orbit.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 1 month ago:
Your inhibitions are also, to a degree, part of what make you who you want to be. Not excusing him, certainly not defending him, but sometimes a little inhibition is a good thing.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Be sure to tell your grandkids it has real potential and they should check it out once the series is complete.
- Comment on Woops 1 month ago:
English has at least 5 (French, Germanic, Greek, Latin, Arabic, doubtless more) and it’s up to the user to know which is used in any given context. Or not. It’s really kind of stupid.