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6 hours ago, RealKerbal3x said:
I'm sort of starting to agree with Elon Musk...The coronavirus panic is dumb.
Oh, but it gets better. It turns out this banning is from the state of Connecticut, and my district has also started cancelling or rescheduling more events. So far..
-All VEX teams in CT are legally forbidden from going to Regionals
-VEX Worlds is basically screwed at this point
-All students are legally forbidden to leave the state in school trips
-All awards ceremonies are cancelled
-All events in the auditorium are cancelled
-The orchestra trip to Florida is cancelled, which means 80 people just lost a total of $125,000 to $160,000 — and can’t get it back
-Prom (and possibly graduation) are being pushed back
-The school play is tentatively rescheduled for June, but is at risk for being cancelled
-All conferences are cancelled
-Multiple after-school events are cancelled
-All high school sporting events across the state have been cancelled, including the state tournaments
Essentially, the state (and especially my school district in particular) are trying to minimize large groups of people gathering, and don’t want students getting the Coronavirus from another state and bringing it back. However, my school has just been canceling literally everything that isn’t school in fear of the virus, and not only has it massively *quacked* up hundreds of students, but it won’t solve anything. The amount of people meeting in those events is nothing compared to how many people are in my school — over 3,000 — and how incredibly crowded it is. It’s so densely packed here that you’re more likely to get the Coronavirus in school than out of it. It’ll be so easy for it to spread here, and I heard the administration doesn’t want to cancel school because their mindset is basically “oh well, it’s probably already too late”.
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Some clarifications on what’s happening in CT:
It’s not just my school district banning all field trips. It’s actually issued by the governor; all out-of-state school trips are banned in fear of bringing the Coronavirus back, so going would be illegal. All of New England also appears to be out of the Worlds competition, no matter who wins Regionals (it’s just gonna be Massachusetts teams though). Also, the play and other activities (probably including prom and graduation) are actually being postponed into various parts of June, not outright cancelled (yet).
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12 minutes ago, Codraroll said:
That's where Italy is now. And honestly, I think it's smarter to take measures to reduce infections right now, than to wait for hospital beds to be filled up and then doing it out of necessity.
This excellent graph has been making the rounds on social media over the past day, and I believe it warrants a repost here as it illustrates the issue very effectively:
Unfortunately, right now people are only in “EVERYONE PANIC” mode, and the methods they school system is going to try and combat the virus will only make things worse. Thousands of dollars have now been wasted by hundreds of students and parents with everything being cancelled, and none of that is going to do any good, because my high school is probably the most likely place we’ll get the virus, because it’s so compact.
It’s important to keep something like this from being a widespread, deadly infection. However, it’s just as important to not jump the shark and panic so much over a few cases that it completely disrupts so much stuff people spent months and hundreds of dollars working for. There’s a difference between containment and spreading fear.
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My school district has banned me and everyone on the VEX Robotics team from going to the Regionals competition in Worcester, MA because of Coronavirus fears...even though there’s been no native cases in my state. If we try to go by any means, we will be punished. The school has also started banning and canceling just about everything else — the play, conferences, some after school events. And let me reiterate, we have NO native cases in Connecticut. Two are from people from New York, and one is from somebody who came from California. It’s completely unjustified panic, and other towns are following suit. At this rate, they’re going to cancel all activities and school for like a week.
For more positive news...um....it was nice out yesterday. That’s kinda it.
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With only one native case and two from people who came over from New York, Connecticut has officially entered panic mode. My school district has cancelled conferences and the play (which isn’t until the first days of April), and has banned us on the VEX robotics team from going up to the Regionals competition in Worcester, Massachusetts (which doesn’t have any cases). If any of us go up, we will be punished by the district. Other towns have wimped out and followed suit.
I can’t wait for the state-wide shutdown and getting banned from doing anything outside of school. At this rate, they’re going to cancel everything.
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Eve looks great with clouds. We also got our first look at that ringed Super-Earth mentioned back in August. I forget its name, though.
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What Disney needed for the sequel trilogy was a cohesive plan and a guy behind it, not unlike Lucas or Feige. Having a thought-out roadmap for any new trilogy, along with exploring a new time period that audiences might be more willing to see, could work out in the long run. However, at this rate Star Wars is going to have a much better future in television. The Mandalorian has proven to be a smash hit, the Cassian and Kenobi series hold a lot of promise, and there are apparently two new animated series in development.
I’m particularly hopeful for the Kenobi series. Not only is it something fans have been asking for for ages, it will also be directed by Debora Chow. She has directed episodes 3 and 7 of The Mandalorian, its two best episodes before the finale, so things are looking good for her own series.
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Looking back on the books, novels, and TV series of the new canon, there was a lot of foreshadowing for Palpatine’s return. Spoilers for TRoS, the Aftermath Trilogy, Star Wars Rebels, and Thrawn follow, along with a ton of lore-dumping.
Spoiler- In the Aftermath Trilogy, it is revealed that Palpatine has a contingency plan in the event of his death. If he were to die, the Empire would be destroyed from within, culling the weak and punishing those who let him fail. A select few worthy survivors — including Hux and his father — would be sent into the Unknown Regions to rebuild the Empire. This group, led by Grand Admiral Rae Sloane, became the First Order.
- The Aftermath Trilogy also introduced a group of Dark Side fanatics called the Acolytes of the Beyond, who essentially worshipped the Sith and were led by one of Palpatine’s advisors. It has been confirmed that they were involved with or formed the Sith Eternal, Palpatine’s group of cultists in TRoS.
- In Aftermath: Life Debt, Sloane is searching through the Imperial archives and finds that up to 25% of the Empire’s Star Destroyers have vanished without a trace. Some of those were hidden in nebulas and joined the Imperial fleet at Jakku, but it’s plausible others went to the construction of the Sith Fleet on Exegol.
- Yupe Tashu, one of Palpatine’s advisors who led the Acolytes of the Beyond, kept mentioning that the former Emperor was searching for the source of the Dark Side in the Unknown Regions. It looks like that must’ve been Exegol.
- Palpatine’s protege was a man from Jakku named Gallius Rax. In several flashback scenes, we see Palpatine planning for his Contingency as early as a few years after The Phantom Menace, and other meetings during the Clone Wars and prior to the Battle of Endor. Palpatine says that Jakku is very important to his plans and is confident he will win regardless of the outcome at Endor. Those could be attributed to the Battle of Jakku and his overconfidence, but now we know Rey — also from Jakku — was crucial to the revival of his Empire. That, and it now seems likely he had the Final Order and the Sith Fleet as his backup-backup-backup plan for decades.
- In the novel Thrawn, the Grand Admiral mentions a source of evil in the Unknown Regions, which now seems to be Exegol and its strong affiliation with the Dark Side.
- Palpatine kept Thrawn around to learn more about the Unknown Regions. The maps and navigation he created were used for the survivors of Jakku to enter the UR, and I assume they were also going to be used to navigate the Sith Fleet into the known galaxy.
- In Star Wars Rebels, it is revealed Palpatine was trying to gain access to an entry point to the World Between Worlds on Lothal. It is another plane of existence with pathways between all of time and space (and probably connects to Force nexuses and temples), and whoever controlled it could control the Universe. Palpatine himself calls it “a conduit between the living and the dead”. He was probably going to use it to expand his Empire and as a way to cheat death. This didn’t work out, since the access point on Lothal was closed, and only users of the Light Side of the Force could open any others.
- One of Palpatine’s advisors, Minister Hayden, was overseeing the private military operation to uncover the WBW access point. He may have been in-league with Palpatine and Tashu in what would become the Sith Eternal and the Final Order. I think it’s quite likely Palpatine planned to use the WBW for his Final Order to conquer the entire galaxy in a very, very short amount of time.
- During Snoke’s first scene in The Force Awakens, the same music during the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise scene is used. I recall several people using this as evidence that Snoke was Plagueis, but now that we know Snoke was created by Palpatine who references that scene from RoTS, it may have been a bit of foreshadowing to The Rise of Skywalker.
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I did like this movie, and there were plenty of things it did very well (which I won’t do into detail on because spoilers), but at the same time it feels like it had several missed opportunities. The biggest thing I have against TRoS isn’t the movie’s fault; it’s how the film makes it very obvious that there was no coherent vision for the Sequel Trilogy and JJ really wanted to get out the story he wanted to tell. This can be seen with the pacing issues and several of the creative choices.
Did this impact my enjoyment of the movie? No, not really, and I don’t want it too; there were still parts of TRoS that blew me away, and it had a ton of game-changing lore. But at the same time I can’t not see how this shows the clash of vision between JJ and Rian Johnson.
Maybe this can all be fixed up with whatever new animated series Filoni has in store.
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If there’s any good news, Matt apparently has regained access to his channel (he just posted a new KSP video), and he mentioned on his Discord that the copyright stuff is being worked on.
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If anyone’s interested about what the new COPPA ruling means for YouTube, MatPat just made a video on it:
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5 minutes ago, HebaruSan said:
Note that in most cases Youtube's reactions to those factors are not optional. You mentioned COPPA; Youtube was fined $170,000,000 for systematically violating that law. Do you really expect them to openly defy a law and keep paying huge fines in order to satisfy your demand for "a place for creators to thrive and post quality content"? Same for the copyright stuff; if Youtube deliberately established itself as an anything-goes platform, copyright holders all over the world would file the mother of all class action lawsuits and shut Youtube down within a year.
Sorry, I misspoke. The issue with the new COPPA rule is that it is so vague and has such a high consequence — a $42,000 fine for mislabeling a video as child-friendly or not.
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10 hours ago, Mars-Bound Hokie said:
Only as a last resort. After all, if YouTube finally gets shut down, we'll still need some place to watch each other's videos, right?
Which brings me to this question (aside from any action plan ideas): Should we try to
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Save YouTube
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PROS:
- We'll get our beloved content-sharing platform back
- Innocent content creators that have nothing to do with what happened to Matt won't suffer in the end.
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CONS:
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Executives may betray us.
- Will need some kind of "Leverage"-style contingency plan and/or legal agreement
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Executives may betray us.
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PROS:
- Let it live/die on its own
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Kill it
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PROS:
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RevengeJustice for their repeated civil rights violations. - They're hurting normal content creators anyway, so YouTube's death may make no significant difference to them
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CONS:
- Average everyday content creators (YT victims or not) who don't even know Matt will be hurt as well.
- We'll have to rebuild on our own
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PROS:
YouTube is killing itself at this point. It’s trying so hard to appease massive corporations and groups like the FTC that it has completely lost sight of what it was supposed to be: a place for creators to thrive and post quality content. The more YouTube continues their poor practices or implements even worse systems (like the new COPPA rule that is probably going to demonitize most kid-friendly channels), the more creators will be leaving the site for others that don’t have corporations exploiting faulty copyright rules to get a quick buck out of someone else’s hard work.
As much as I enjoy watching YouTube, it’s very likely we will see it collapse within the next few years, especially with Article 13 on the horizon. Unless YouTube has a major change and decides to be better to their creators like they used to, they’re doomed. More and more people will leave, and the problems faced by smaller (<1 mil subs) channels will almost certainly be felt by even the biggest.
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Save YouTube
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Matt lost his first appeal: https://mobile.twitter.com/Matt_Lowne/status/1197262055549607936?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet
Is YouTube going to answer his pleas? Of course it won’t.
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1 hour ago, Mars-Bound Hokie said:
They're OBVIOUSLY lying. [snip] we need to dig up the facts on our own.
That’s why I put it in quotations. Once YouTube says that, you know they’re not going to give you a second thought, especially if you’re so far under 1 million subs like Matt. It’s a cheap way of letting you think they might do something when in reality they’re just going to forget you and focus on the money-making 10+ mil channels.
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Matt posted an update video:
As you may have guessed, YouTube is doing nothing other than saying they’re going to “look into it”. SonyATV has also copyright claimed a few other videos that didn’t even have the “Dreams” song. But KSP content will continue regardless.
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4 hours ago, KerbolExplorer said:
It's already in popular!
Its been like this since yesterday!.I think it should be in r/all too!
I think it’s too old to be in r/all today. Maybe it was last night when it was nearing 10k upvotes.
The next best option, surprisingly, is to make a meme about this and post it to r/Dankmemes. They sure love ripping apart companies/organizations/people that do terrible or stupid stuff (PETA saying Steve Irwin deserved his death, Disney saying no to Spider-Man being on a kid’s grave, J K Rowling giving us WAY too much Harry Potter info, etc). A good meme about YouTube’s flawed copyright system allowing for Sony to unfairly target a small creator (<500k subs) is sure to get plenty of updoots and attention.
And yes, it may sound stupid that a meme could help save an entire channel from corporate exploitation, but we’ve gotta work with what we’re given.
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I recommend as many people as possible post this around:
The more upvotes, the more likely it will get to r/all and get much needed attention. Matt’s channel isn’t big enough for it alone to get people to know about this issue
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Welp, I’m back...except without the best of news.
Most of Matt’s KSP videos were copyright claimed by SonyATV, because apparently they’re claiming this song he uses in his intros is theirs, even though it came from a collection of copyright-free songs. He explains the situation here:
This really shouldn’t be happening, but you know 2019 YouTube. They care more about money and looking good for other companies than being there for creators trying to make good content.
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1 hour ago, sh1pman said:
Why is it bad for the development of life? Maybe there's a liquid water ocean where heavier elements and ions are dissolved. Nitrogen and carbon would be much more difficult to get, but there could be geological sources.
The problem with a hydrogen envelope is that it would probably trigger a runaway greenhouse effect, and/or smother the “surface” under extremely high pressures that would make almost all life impossible.
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On Wednesday, two separate teams of astronomers released their findings about water vapor detected in the atmosphere of the temperate Super-Earth/Mini-Neptune K2-18b. Naturally, the press went nuts with this story. I’ve seen a lot of articles calling K2-18b a “rocky” and “habitable” planet, and several annoyed astronomers in response to said articles. The thing is, even though the detection of water clouds in a small habitable zone planet is a landmark discovery, it does NOT immediately prove that K2-18b is habitable.
Let’s start with the basics...which are already a little confusing. There are two sets of parameters for the host star; the first, which has been used most often and in the initial discovery and RV result papers on the planet, put K2-18 at around 39-42% the radius and mass of the Sun. The second, newer set uses Gaia and 2MASS data, and puts the star at about 47-49% the radius and mass of the Sun. This discrepancy is important because it radially changes the composition of K2-18b. All studies agree that the planet is in a 33-day orbit around a small red dwarf, gets similar sunlight as Earth, and is between 8 and 9 times the mass but is significantly less dense than Earth.
Here we get into the first thing many of those news articles got wrong: K2-18b is NOT a purely rocky world. The older papers put the planet at 8-8.5 Earth masses and 2.2-2.4 Earth radii, with a density of roughly 3.5 g/cm3. This implies K2-18b has a large rocky interior, but also a significant fraction of volatiles, either a water mantle, a thin H/He envelope, or a combination of both. The H/He envelope for a planet of this size and density would be less than 1% of its total mass, likely below 0.5%. However, the newer radius estimate of 2.7x Earth (with a density down to 2.2-2.4 g/cm3) can allow for a thicker H/He up to 2-3% of the planetary mass. Even with this level of uncertainty, K2-18b can be ruled out as having a solid Earth-like surface.
The detection of water vapor actually makes the chances of K2-18b habitable even worse. If the atmosphere was made of heavy molecules (N, O2, CO2, etc), water vapor would be hard to detect because such an atmosphere wouldn’t be as high up. However, a primarily hydrogen and helium atmosphere would allow for water to be detected more easily, even if it’s less than 0.1% of K2-18b’s atmospheric composition. The strong detection of water vapor means that K2-18b has retained at least most of its primordial H/He envelope, which is very bad for the development of life.
One important thing to note is the exact abundance’s of water and H/He are still unknown. Could K2-18b only have a small amount of hydrogen on top of a water mantle? Sure, but it could also be a dry rocky core with a thicker H/He envelope and no chance of any sort of life. The point is, K2-18b is a pretty bad “potentially habitable” planet; it may be a great stepping stone to characterizing the atmospheres of small temperate planets, but it certainly isn’t the jackpot just yet.
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I guess one of my wishes has been granted: I was hoping for an LHS 1140 b like planet (a gigantic temperate Super-Earth with >2g), and one of the few planets revealed in the Q&A does seem to fit this description. No hints to whether it orbits a red dwarf or a more Sun-like star.
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1 hour ago, insert_name said:
One of TESS's earlier discoveries atmosphere (or more accurately lack thereof) and albedo have been characterized
http://nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-gets-a-rare-look-at-a-rocky-exoplanets-surface
I’m not surprised about the lack of an atmosphere; orbiting closer to a feisty red dwarf than Callisto does to Jupiter, LHS 3844b is practically staring down the gun barrel of its star, and is subjected to far greater radiation than most other red dwarf planets. What I am surprised about is its relatively cool temperature. Yes, a day side temperature of ~1100 K is high, but the planet is orbiting so close to such a dense star that I expected significant tidal forces to warm LHS 3844b to higher temperatures, probably at least 1300-1500 K. There is currently no evidence of tidal forces melting parts of the crust all around the planet; however, tidal-induced volcanism on a smaller scale cannot be ruled out. I spoke to Laura Kreidberg a few weeks ago, and she said that her analysis was not sensitive enough to detect night side temperatures below ~700 K, which means that less dramatic tidal heating would’ve gone by undetected.
LHS 3844b would be an absolute nightmare to land on if someone ever makes a mod for KSP with it. It lacks an atmosphere like Tylo, but 1.) orbits very close to a star, 2.) probably has magma on the surface, 3.) is hotter than Eve, and 4.) could have up to TWICE the surface gravity of Tylo.
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I hope we get some new systems that are based on known exoplanetary systems, like some around red dwarfs or with very compact orbits or with several habitable planets, maybe even analogues to nearby systems like Alpha/Proxima Centauri, LHS 1140, TRAPPIST-1, Tau Ceti, etc. The first glimpses of the new planets are already extremely promising (a ringed Super-Earth, tidally heated binary planets) and I hope there will be a large selection of unique places to go to.
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Connecticut has reached peak panic levels. Just about everything school-related that isn’t being at school (trips, sporting events, conferences, awards ceremonies, etc) have been cancelled or postponed, which is not only excessive, but also ineffective, because my school is so insanely crowded that it’ll be easy for the Coronavirus to spread if someone gets it.
I posted the full list of what’s been going on here. Suffice to say, it’s absolutely ridiculous, and all it’s doing is spreading fear and anger.