SpacetimeMachine
@SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world
- 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? 15 hours ago:
Not certain about the mars trilogy but there is a collapsing space elevator in the foundation series (at least on the show, haven’t read the books yet.)
- 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? 19 hours ago:
I think that depends on how big the tether is tbh. It has to be usable as an elevator so it can’t just be a thin cable. And your scenario is assuming that it would be cut down near the base, if it’s damaged anywhere higher up anything below the cut will fall down to earth.
- 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? 23 hours ago:
Ah thanks, I was a dingus and looked up the diameter instead of the circumference. Still doesn’t really matter where you build it. No matter what it’s fucking up a a good portion of the equator if it falls.
- 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? 1 day ago:
By the necessities of its design a space elevator has to reach geostationary orbit, which would make it tall enough to wrap around the planet twice if it fell. Wouldn’t really matter if you built it on a west coast or not.
- Comment on Ready set go 3 weeks ago:
In the matrix humans were used as batteries, not processors. Although that was the original writing before an exec thought the average person would be “confused” by that
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 3 weeks ago:
Using a Linux terminal and coding are extremely different things.
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 1 month ago:
You are correct! Here’s a really good video on the topic.
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 1 month ago:
Here is a great video talking about the dwarf galaxies around the milky way and how they have shaped and affected our galaxy.
- Comment on how do plants in a green house get enough co2? 1 month ago:
Yes but CO2 concentrations might grow high enough to impact you.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Wow I never put 2 and 2 together. That is the reason my sandwiches always fall apart. Man the more you know I guess.
- Comment on When the nice guy 2 months ago:
Okay, this has to be like one of the best trolls I’ve ever seen, right? Claiming to be a nice guy and then like 3 comments later calling someone else a “spoon eating cunt” is a just incredible.
- Comment on grocery shopping 2 months ago:
Not true, at least a couple of the but chains, e.g. target, will keep track of you even at different stores.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 4 months ago:
Well, we have the golden records on the Voyager probes, a similar one on New horizons, and our geo-stationary sats will pretty much last until the end of our solar system. So there will be some evidence of us for at least a few hundred million years or so.
- Comment on Xbox Drops Work on ‘Contraband’ Video Game After Four Years 5 months ago:
I’m still really looking forward to clockwork revolution. Hopefully that actually gets released but at this point it seems like almost everything Microsoft touches is doomed.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 5 months ago:
My LG TV (not connected to the internet) lets you disable all startup icons and sounds. It goes from off to on in about 2 seconds.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 7 months ago:
Afaik they don’t. Something about storing them at low temp changes the thickness of the skin. At least that’s what I’ve been told working on produce.
- Comment on LEGO Party! Official Announcement Trailer 7 months ago:
The most recent Mario party added a mode that reduces RNG heavily to allow for more competitive matches.
- Comment on ‘Stranger Things 5’ Premiere Date Announcement Breaks Netflix Records With 250 Million Impressions 7 months ago:
Good for you.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 | Gameplay Tech Demo 7 months ago:
Have you gone and looked at what W3 looks like recently? It’s not a bad looking game by any stretch but this still looks significantly better imo. The vegetation density definitely looks way better, as well as the lighting.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 7 months ago:
Just for the record, the in game OST was properly done by MG and was great. It was the Official OST album that was taking bits from that OST to make full songs that were very sub-par. The music MG was making us very dynamic in game, and each level had multiple musical phrases that start and stop dynamically during gameplay (this isn’t unique to doom of course, lots of games do this.) in game the music is some of his best work imo, and really brings the gameplay to another level.
Some people have released better mixes of the songs taken and edited from those music clips in the game files to make better mixes than the Official OST album.
- Comment on Neutronium would like a word. 8 months ago:
You need to supercede the speed of light to exit the singularity, not enter it. Now we would see an image of the box entering the black hole on its “surface” until that faded, but the box itself would still very much enter the event horizon and be destroyed.
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 8 months ago:
America is so large that it’s very possible that person has no friends or family who voted for trump at all. I know I don’t.
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 9 months ago:
Serious question. Do ANY of those have track pads? Because so far those seem to be something that only the deck has and I find them to be its most important feature.
- Comment on shrimp colour drama 9 months ago:
Brown is just darker orange
- Comment on Found money. What do? 9 months ago:
I am 99% certain the police would just say the cash was probably going to be used for drugs and then they would just take it themselves.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion 9 months ago:
If you are a fan of HP your choices are few and far between. If you are a fan of electric cars there are tons of better options that you can choose from. Adding on to that, the level of investment in both are orders of magnitude apart. What’s more, Tesla as a company has a reputation of having lots of issues of racism and misogyny in the workplace. I think the two are different enough that one can buy the blame and boycott Tesla without any hypocrisy.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Unless you can show any research done that indicates micro plastics influence intelligence I wouldn’t be using that as an answer to this.
- Comment on David Bowie Criticizes MTV for Not Playing Videos by Black Artists | MTV News 10 months ago:
That’s a poor excuse that doesn’t justify anything.
- Comment on Sun God 10 months ago:
My fav sun fact is that it burns 400 million tons of hydrogen each second, and will be doing that for billions of years. That’s 400 million tons of the lightest possible element there is. Just absolutely insane how gigantic the mass of the sun is.
- Comment on Not the same 11 months ago:
That’s the joke…