Why should a game developer go out of their way to obfuscate the console commands, or even cheat codes? If a game has functions, I want easy access to them, thank-you-very-much. I paid for the damn thing.:)
Not to mention a standard candle that is challenging to resolve with your best instruments at relatively close range isn't much good for measuring distances.:)
First, neutron star material is NOT stable outside of the conditions of a neutron star. You can't 'take a small piece of it'... that piece would just explode, excessively violently, if it were unconstrained. Second, fusion at the surface of neutron degenerate matter takes place at an enormous rate due to gravitational compression (we're talking an escape velocity of half the speed of light at the surface). Jupiter'd likely just get disrupted, not continue to burn, star-like.
True, the old 'absence of proof is not proof of absence' thing almost always applies in science. But as stars go, the lower the mass, the more common they are. It's very unlikely that they'd not see at least one lower-than-this-limit star with their instruments if they were out there; there'd be enough of them that they couldn't all coincidentally be hidden.
You sound like the sort who would also claim something like paintball is some sort of death squad training sim.
A game is a game. You -know- it's a game when you're playing it. There's no personal sense of risk, of danger, of imminent death. Desensitizing someone to the point of being able to point a weapon at another human being and knowingly and deliberately killing them takes a lot more than playing UT and fragging your friends, or even lighting up those same friends on the paintball field.
There are exceptions to every rule or condition, of course. There are those who might be desensitized by such things. The problem lays with them, not the game they're playing.
That 'rule of English' is actually completely made-up, and should be ignored. A bunch of high-brow idiots in the 19th century decided that Latin was the pinnacle of all Earthly language, and figured they ought to shoe-horn English into its form. Since you can't actually end a sentence with a preposition in Latin, they proclaimed you can't in English, either.
That sounds weirdly familiar, though that was before my time. I have some vague recollection of reading an article describing an effect like that caused by pumping microwave energy into the ionosphere. I could be completely off-base here, though...
Nuclear blasts at high altitudes generally look like huge, glowing auroral blobs, from what footage I've seen of them.
Wasn't there also a fairly major meteor storm in the early 60's as well?
Exactly how many times did various nations detonate high-yield nuclear devices in low-orbit space? Funny, the atmosphere and the biosphere still seem to be here after that. What makes you think that this proposed process is going to do any worse?
Just because nobody can read the encoding in my brain doesn't mean that it's not tangible. Alright everyone, make sure you forget any music you might currently remember!:)
The expansion of spacetime isn't 'velocity', this is where things get kinda confusing. No massy object can accelerate to the speed of light (this would require infinite energy). No massless object can travel at any speed other than the speed of light (eg. light itself).
However, spacetime isn't moving, it's expanding. It's 'making more space'. And the more space that separates two objects, the more space is being created between them over time. If two objects are separated by a large-enough distance, then the amount of space being created between them over time is greater than the distance light can travel in that time. These objects will never be able to see each other, as the light can never travel the whole distance.
The objects themselves aren't 'moving' or 'expanding' with respect to their local spacetime due to this; they're not bound to spacetime in that fashion. As far as the spacetime metric is concerned, these objects are happily obeying the light-speed limit.:)
I believe they did, actually. I vaguely recall a scene in one of the Dune novels where someone was, while not totally immobilized, slowed down by a barrage of projectiles. I could be mis-remembering, however.:)
"Event horizon" is a very specific term, describing the boundary or threshold that forms when a mass collapses within its own Schwartzchild radius. It's called an event horizon because it is the horzion beyond which no events can be observed.
The Sun absolutely does not have an event horizon, nor will it ever unless it collapses within its own Schwartzchild radius.
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After a few hundred turns...it got to be a bit stupid as you simply could not avoid war.
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That's because it's game-AI, not simulation-AI.
Technically, it's a solar power plant. :)
Those teleporters became even more interesting in the sequel, A Signal Shattered... :)
Ever watched two ant colonies meet? Social species can be particularly brutal to other groups of their own species.
Why should a game developer go out of their way to obfuscate the console commands, or even cheat codes? If a game has functions, I want easy access to them, thank-you-very-much. I paid for the damn thing. :)
Not to mention a standard candle that is challenging to resolve with your best instruments at relatively close range isn't much good for measuring distances. :)
First, neutron star material is NOT stable outside of the conditions of a neutron star. You can't 'take a small piece of it'... that piece would just explode, excessively violently, if it were unconstrained. Second, fusion at the surface of neutron degenerate matter takes place at an enormous rate due to gravitational compression (we're talking an escape velocity of half the speed of light at the surface). Jupiter'd likely just get disrupted, not continue to burn, star-like.
True, the old 'absence of proof is not proof of absence' thing almost always applies in science. But as stars go, the lower the mass, the more common they are. It's very unlikely that they'd not see at least one lower-than-this-limit star with their instruments if they were out there; there'd be enough of them that they couldn't all coincidentally be hidden.
If it's round and dark, it's a planet
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Or a very old stellar corpse of various kinds.
You sound like the sort who would also claim something like paintball is some sort of death squad training sim.
A game is a game. You -know- it's a game when you're playing it. There's no personal sense of risk, of danger, of imminent death. Desensitizing someone to the point of being able to point a weapon at another human being and knowingly and deliberately killing them takes a lot more than playing UT and fragging your friends, or even lighting up those same friends on the paintball field.
There are exceptions to every rule or condition, of course. There are those who might be desensitized by such things. The problem lays with them, not the game they're playing.
That 'rule of English' is actually completely made-up, and should be ignored. A bunch of high-brow idiots in the 19th century decided that Latin was the pinnacle of all Earthly language, and figured they ought to shoe-horn English into its form. Since you can't actually end a sentence with a preposition in Latin, they proclaimed you can't in English, either.
:)
In other words, it's BS.
Is prior art really relevant in a 'first-to-file' patent system?
That sounds weirdly familiar, though that was before my time. I have some vague recollection of reading an article describing an effect like that caused by pumping microwave energy into the ionosphere. I could be completely off-base here, though...
Nuclear blasts at high altitudes generally look like huge, glowing auroral blobs, from what footage I've seen of them.
Wasn't there also a fairly major meteor storm in the early 60's as well?
Exactly how many times did various nations detonate high-yield nuclear devices in low-orbit space? Funny, the atmosphere and the biosphere still seem to be here after that. What makes you think that this proposed process is going to do any worse?
Just because nobody can read the encoding in my brain doesn't mean that it's not tangible. Alright everyone, make sure you forget any music you might currently remember! :)
Why not just apply the second amendment and remove the current administration?
The expansion of spacetime isn't 'velocity', this is where things get kinda confusing. No massy object can accelerate to the speed of light (this would require infinite energy). No massless object can travel at any speed other than the speed of light (eg. light itself).
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However, spacetime isn't moving, it's expanding. It's 'making more space'. And the more space that separates two objects, the more space is being created between them over time. If two objects are separated by a large-enough distance, then the amount of space being created between them over time is greater than the distance light can travel in that time. These objects will never be able to see each other, as the light can never travel the whole distance.
The objects themselves aren't 'moving' or 'expanding' with respect to their local spacetime due to this; they're not bound to spacetime in that fashion. As far as the spacetime metric is concerned, these objects are happily obeying the light-speed limit.
Astronomers think that the Moon still has a molten core, IIRC.
The entire Earth could fall into the Sun, and the Sun might, might just go "buuuurp; oh, excuse me!" That's about it.
Everything that the Earth is made up of is already in the Sun. We formed out of the leftovers, remember?
Ever tried shattering a glob of it with a hammer? :)
I believe they did, actually. I vaguely recall a scene in one of the Dune novels where someone was, while not totally immobilized, slowed down by a barrage of projectiles. I could be mis-remembering, however. :)
Define 'single item'. Everything is made up of smaller bits in groups, bound by forces, until you get down to the quark-lepton scale.
More like "gone for a very long time" as opposed to "forever". Assuming, of course, that they're right about Hawking radiation. :)
"Event horizon" is a very specific term, describing the boundary or threshold that forms when a mass collapses within its own Schwartzchild radius. It's called an event horizon because it is the horzion beyond which no events can be observed.
The Sun absolutely does not have an event horizon, nor will it ever unless it collapses within its own Schwartzchild radius.
Yeah, but it's not costing them THEIR money, just that of their backers. It's a legalistic FUD campaign, remember?