Killed to death? As opposed to killed to mostly dead?
We went on a family holiday to India when I was 14, and one of the places we visited was Ootacamund, which we reached by taking the Toy Train. The travel agent we bought the tickets off told us about an incident a few years previous when one of the bridges had been washed out and the train had fallen into a ravine, leading to, in his words, "Two hundred and sixteen peoples, completely dead."
That was on a quiet, rural road in New Hampshire. Unfortunately, this could never happen here in California, since the other drivers do stupid, unpredictable things so often that if you're not "actively driving" 100% of the time, you'll be killed to death.
I'm not so sure it couldn't. I often don't remember exact details of my journey home, and it's 45kms sharing roads with Perth drivers, but multiple times I've been tootling along with my brain switched off and snapped out of it to find the car already braking at the limit, or having swerved into another lane (after checking blind spots, even) to avoid some retard who's pulled out in front of me. My guess is that the bits that do the driving are all working perfectly and my brain just doesn't bother recording the run-of-the-mill stuff.
Ok, so it was mentioned, but it MADE NO DIFFERENCE. This was, after all, a VERY BIG THING. After finishing book 9, everyone couldn't wait to find out what VERY BIG CONSEQUENCES resulted from it. And Book 10 instead focuses on some stuff that goes on at the same time.
Exactly! It's like if some small startup company invented zero-point-energy modules that were cheap, would fit in a backpack, and would power a medium sized star indefinitely... and everyone heard about it on the news and said "that's nice" and carried on mining coal and chopping firewood without bothering to investigate.
I dunno about you but I prefer my soup to be a "proprietary solution" made by a "single vendor" and advertised as, say, "pumpkin soup". I would really hate to try and eat soup made by a group of volunteers, some of whom think they're making pumpkin and leek soup, but most of whom are busy arguing over whether they're making greek salad, hot-and-sour soup, or nachos.
Maybe because MS hasn't changed the.NET API every 5 minutes with stupid trivial changes, then deprecated the old versions? Java had a horrible case of too many cooks.
Squick.:( Still, since our destiny is ultimately to turn into Fremen in stillsuits, I guess it's a necessary step.
You know, I'd never wondered quite how the stillsuits cooled themselves... the body is so terribly wasteful of its water precisely because it needs to cool down in desert conditions, maybe it's just that stillsuits were well insulated and very shiny?
Nope, book 9 was back to petticoats and stamping one's tiny delicate feet. I hear that book 11 actually has some plotline. (I stopped reading after I bought book 10, took a 4-hour flight to a conference and an 8-hour flight back, tyvm jetstream, and still couldn't get more than a couple of hundred pages into it.
Is it now? Or is it "the hero discovers his inner strength and struggles against the great evil, aided by his three wise women and his two trusty companions"?
I still lol'd. And I'd modify your tip to "after book three, skip every 20 pages or so, after book 5 skip to book 8 (was that the one where they, um, without spoilers I can say 'did the very important thing at the evil place which fixed something important'?) and then to book 11.
Yeah, we're pretty gullible. We even believed that Area 52 was just an airbase with some experimental planes on it. Hell, we didn't protest much against fluorinated water and its effects on our precious bodily fluids either.
What will they call this new agency? It's Australian, and it'll probably serve our local region too. And space is "the final frontier" so the primary role of this agency is exploration.
Australian Regional Space Exploration. How's that sound?
Actually, rudimentary invisibility cloaks do exist. The illusion cloak presented is a computer model showing that it's theoretically possible, but I agree that it should probably be phrased as "it may be possible that..." rather than as "hay gusy look wut i did".
Why the thing about pencil necks anyway? Does anyone actually WANT huge trapezius muscles, making them look like a smaller, less attractive version of The Hulk? Honestly, I see some guys at the gym who've built up their traps and they look fugly compared to the guys with decent balanced musculature. If you're going to insult nerd physique, at least aim your nasty remarks at the pidgeon chest, cooked spaghetti arms, scrawny legs or perma-keyboard hunch.
True, but the invisibility cloak, at least, exists. If you moved your 'painting' around on the wall and it acted as a window into a larger scene, it would indeed be like this cloak.
As for the black hole thing, I presume that the red matter has to be heated to a certain temperature in order to 'detonate'. The fact that the planet's core is probably no hotter than the capsule would become on impact is a mere technicality and the big drill was cool, ok?:P
(Did anyone else see the mysterious 'red matter' and instantly think of the 'allotropic iron' from the Lensman series? This was also a red liquid which could be used as a near-infinite power source.)
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Killed to death? As opposed to killed to mostly dead?
We went on a family holiday to India when I was 14, and one of the places we visited was Ootacamund, which we reached by taking the Toy Train. The travel agent we bought the tickets off told us about an incident a few years previous when one of the bridges had been washed out and the train had fallen into a ravine, leading to, in his words, "Two hundred and sixteen peoples, completely dead."
That was on a quiet, rural road in New Hampshire. Unfortunately, this could never happen here in California, since the other drivers do stupid, unpredictable things so often that if you're not "actively driving" 100% of the time, you'll be killed to death.
I'm not so sure it couldn't. I often don't remember exact details of my journey home, and it's 45kms sharing roads with Perth drivers, but multiple times I've been tootling along with my brain switched off and snapped out of it to find the car already braking at the limit, or having swerved into another lane (after checking blind spots, even) to avoid some retard who's pulled out in front of me. My guess is that the bits that do the driving are all working perfectly and my brain just doesn't bother recording the run-of-the-mill stuff.
Ok, so it was mentioned, but it MADE NO DIFFERENCE. This was, after all, a VERY BIG THING. After finishing book 9, everyone couldn't wait to find out what VERY BIG CONSEQUENCES resulted from it. And Book 10 instead focuses on some stuff that goes on at the same time.
Exactly! It's like if some small startup company invented zero-point-energy modules that were cheap, would fit in a backpack, and would power a medium sized star indefinitely... and everyone heard about it on the news and said "that's nice" and carried on mining coal and chopping firewood without bothering to investigate.
Awesome, I'll go hunt down a copy. :D
I dunno about you but I prefer my soup to be a "proprietary solution" made by a "single vendor" and advertised as, say, "pumpkin soup". I would really hate to try and eat soup made by a group of volunteers, some of whom think they're making pumpkin and leek soup, but most of whom are busy arguing over whether they're making greek salad, hot-and-sour soup, or nachos.
Maybe because MS hasn't changed the .NET API every 5 minutes with stupid trivial changes, then deprecated the old versions? Java had a horrible case of too many cooks.
Nah, their thesis was just marked in fine increments.
And he'll call you 'dawg'? :P
When you are dealing with a chemical stew, it may be better to assume the worst until they knew otherwise.
I dunno, I generally just add salt until it tastes good.
So you would say that his post effected your post... in effect? ;)
Squick. :( Still, since our destiny is ultimately to turn into Fremen in stillsuits, I guess it's a necessary step.
You know, I'd never wondered quite how the stillsuits cooled themselves... the body is so terribly wasteful of its water precisely because it needs to cool down in desert conditions, maybe it's just that stillsuits were well insulated and very shiny?
Nope, book 9 was back to petticoats and stamping one's tiny delicate feet. I hear that book 11 actually has some plotline. (I stopped reading after I bought book 10, took a 4-hour flight to a conference and an 8-hour flight back, tyvm jetstream, and still couldn't get more than a couple of hundred pages into it.
Ah, you must be from the Internet.
Is it now? Or is it "the hero discovers his inner strength and struggles against the great evil, aided by his three wise women and his two trusty companions"?
I still lol'd. And I'd modify your tip to "after book three, skip every 20 pages or so, after book 5 skip to book 8 (was that the one where they, um, without spoilers I can say 'did the very important thing at the evil place which fixed something important'?) and then to book 11.
As long as he doesn't DIE before finishing it... I'm still wary of getting into another huge fantasy series, thanks R.J.
I can see you've played knifey-lasery before!
Yeah, we're pretty gullible. We even believed that Area 52 was just an airbase with some experimental planes on it. Hell, we didn't protest much against fluorinated water and its effects on our precious bodily fluids either.
(As I said above :) Australian Regional Space Exploration. It's got a nice ring to it. ;)
What will they call this new agency? It's Australian, and it'll probably serve our local region too. And space is "the final frontier" so the primary role of this agency is exploration.
Australian Regional Space Exploration. How's that sound?
I have yet to see a pink elephant regardless of how much I've had to drink. That provesh I'm not alcholholicksh.
Seems to me that this tech would make the cloaked object more expensive for the same power, not less. :P
Actually, rudimentary invisibility cloaks do exist. The illusion cloak presented is a computer model showing that it's theoretically possible, but I agree that it should probably be phrased as "it may be possible that..." rather than as "hay gusy look wut i did".
Why the thing about pencil necks anyway? Does anyone actually WANT huge trapezius muscles, making them look like a smaller, less attractive version of The Hulk? Honestly, I see some guys at the gym who've built up their traps and they look fugly compared to the guys with decent balanced musculature. If you're going to insult nerd physique, at least aim your nasty remarks at the pidgeon chest, cooked spaghetti arms, scrawny legs or perma-keyboard hunch.
True, but the invisibility cloak, at least, exists. If you moved your 'painting' around on the wall and it acted as a window into a larger scene, it would indeed be like this cloak.
:P
As for the black hole thing, I presume that the red matter has to be heated to a certain temperature in order to 'detonate'. The fact that the planet's core is probably no hotter than the capsule would become on impact is a mere technicality and the big drill was cool, ok?
(Did anyone else see the mysterious 'red matter' and instantly think of the 'allotropic iron' from the Lensman series? This was also a red liquid which could be used as a near-infinite power source.)