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Granted. As the human civilisation has become something else in Babylon 5, no human actors play there. I wish the Peter Jackson's LOTR series was not truncated (they threw out the episodes with Galadriel and Arwen talk and Arwen's fight.)

Enumeration is XIX century. std::multimap rulez.

The foil doesn't have water, and it burns.

This includes the blue light which makes you worry. Have you tried to break the blue lamp? It should work.

It doesn't interact with material objects in any way but gravitational. And as the elves can cross with humans, they are material objects.

The dark matter is by defintion invisible. It can't interact with usual matter in any way by gravity, and the Silmaril is too small compared to the gravitational wave length. Of course, some kind of road signs or beacons are used there, as his position in the sky is non-linear but predictable, but why need to see them when the exotic matter drive itself might be following the force lines and fly by wire. *** Some quickthoughts. We can remember that when Gollum performed his jump of faith, Frodo was standing hanging balancing at the cliff edge, exposed to the radioactive "lava" below. While Sam was standing behind and was protected from the radiation with land mass. Frodo was periodically suffering for three years before his escape to Valinor, and the symptomes were including some kind of anemia. It's normal when somebody received a high dose of radiation. The acute symptomes had been cured in hospital immediately after the evacuation by eagles, but the marrow was damaged, so his health got bad. And it looks like that's not the first time when Frodo was hit by radiation. Absolutely same symptomes were observed when he was wounded by nazgul with the "Morgul-knife", i.e. a steel knife made by the Melkor Industries. This knife was described as "poisoned", and indeed, Frodo had to spend in the Rivendell hospital several weeks, receiving the intensive therapy. And was suffering all the road after. The "poison" had survived too long for a chemical poison, and at the same time was affecting too slowly to make sense for a combat weapon. This makes to think that actually it was not really a poison, but either the knife steel was containing radioactive isotopes, or was covered with radioactive layer. Both variants are highly expectable for those who drink water from a radioactive lake, but very unusual for hobbits in their ecovillage. So, Frodo got radiation sickness twice. First from the knife, then being exposed to the molten salt reactor active zone. It happened in a half-year, then he stayed alive for three years, being ill. Taking into account the immediately applied countermeasures and healthy conditions in Shire, probably he received about thousand rem. For comparison, Sam, who was following him all the way, stayed healthy and gave birth to several healthy children, because he was shielded from the Orodruin radiation. This explains why Gandalf (The Gray one) was so compliant when two unplanned hobbits joined the party (Sam was hired as a told volunteer). When you send a group of expendables to the radioactive volcano, it's always better to have three backup hobbits than one. And that's why Frodo was ensured that he and only he can carry the Ring. Why expose to the potential radiation the backup hobbits when the currently used one still is able to walk. All of that again proves the wide usage of radioactive materials in Melkor and Sauron technologies. *** Gollum. Smeagol / Gollum was living in a cave (obviously full of underground radon which he was constantly inhaling), was eating the cave fish (probably full of isotopes washed from the rocks), and was once tortured in Mordor. So, he was full of radiation of all kinds, and it's not stramge that he was looking not healthy and going mad. Probably before he had found the Ring (on Deagol's body) he was an exclusively healthy person, so he lasted that long. *** Balrogs. The self-containing plasma clots would not exist for thousands years. On the other hand, who could talk to Balrogs to ask their names and be sure that it is the same Balrog like previous time? We can state that the names given to Balrogs by elves and dwarves (like Gothmog or Durin's Bane) describe not the exact balrog, but any balrog appearing at same place. This explains how the balrogs were surviving so long underground, why they were "sleeping", etc. The balrogs weren't sleeping. They were a temporary plasma cloud appearing at the "sparkling" something, at the same place. And this something can be only a piece of exotic matter from the broken Lamps, remaining where it fell. Thus, the "balrog lairs" were situated at the several exact places, known from legends. One of such pieces of exotic matter was under Moria, and it was spawning the balrogs. The cleft in the rocks which the hobbits crossed by bridge (and Gandalf didn't) appeared when this exotic matter fell there and crashed the rocks. This again probably means that the mithril was containing some unusual form of matter, like the heavy quarks, in form of hypernuclei. "Mithril <...> It could be beaten like copper, and polished like glass; and the Dwarves could make of it a metal, light and yet harder than tempered steel. " Obviously an alloy with such speciific properties could not have a "natural" origin. It was a result of bombardment of iron nuclei with a quark bomb of exotic matter, dramatically changing its elementary composition. *** Sting, the Frodo's "sword". So, the Sting was shining blue in presence of the radioactive creatures like the orcs. It means that its handle was containing an absolutely common scintillating crystal. The sword in whole was illuminated by its light, so the hobbits thought that the whole sword is shining. The interesting fact is that the goblins were radioactive as orcs, while they were living in Misty Mountains. This proves again that Melkor and Sauron were using radioactive materials very widely. Btw, it was not glowing in presense of the Willow, auntie Dora, and other evil. This ensures that it was detecting not an evil, but an ionizing radiation. *** A vocabulary. Valinormal Acceptable for Valinor (see "Frodo", "Gandalf", etc.) Validate To ensure that it's given by Valar, not by Melkor.

Granted. The Vogons got bankrupt. The Earth is for sale. I wish the Vorlons were described better in the Babylon 5.

Banned for making the green blue cyan teal darkgreenish-teal rectangle too small, so I don't see the "signal".

If remember, how many years were declared to be the last year of the ISS...

Or sooner.

It's a light beacon for the surface travellers, the brightest star in the sky. But as he was just sent away from the world to keep the Silmaril safe and to guard the Melkor's prison, he doesn't need a guidance as he doesn't have a destination. It's saud that the Silmaril was illuminating hos path, which sounds strange because what to illuminate in the empty media where nothing reflects. A lamp is useless without reflecting objects. The only thing he could see is the "Earth" below, but it's illuminated by Tilion and Arien. The dunction of the prison guard is also somewhat strange for the epic hero with no necessary experience. It looks more like the Silmaril is a hyperspace lock or key whose exotic matter energy can open a portal, so he guards not the Melkor's cell, but the key to it. *** Back to the Sea of Nurnen. It's said that Mordor population was using its water for melioration. So, their crops and other food should contain high concentration of thorium, and they get poisoned by heavy metal. This additionally explains their psychics instability and bad color of skin. *** After further reading it appeared that not only the US (and probably the SU) have tested a U-233 nuke, but also India did it in 1998. The Shakti V experiment was tested a Th/U-233 charge of 0.2 kt yield. (Probably, they used thorium as pusher/tamper and uranium-233 for the pit). Another reading has explained how they refine the 233. They just enrich the initial thorium, sorting out the Th-230, take the 232 from the reactor early, and chemically extract the produced protactinium-233, which in several months turns into U-233. That simple. Just more expensive than 235 and 239, so usually not needed. *** Thorium could be used in the secondary stage of a fusion bomb if Sauron was going to blast Laurelindorenan or Gondor. But strange, he didn't. This raises another question: was Sauron able to enrich lithium at least up to 40% like in Castle Bravo and its weaponized descendants. Since 1940s the main US (and probably worldwide) method requires a mercury. Can't say from memory if the mercury or its ore cinnabar are mentioned as something typical for Mordor, but if they are it can show their efforts. *** Based on that, the Sauron scientists were obviously able to refine uranium-233 from the Orodruin molten-salt thorium-cycle reactor and manufacture low-yield charges (required for the Orion drive) widely. This makes to think that the Mordor industry was building both Orion (Saurion) and molten-salt rocket (Zubrion). Of course, they were intolerant to mythril, so its usage was restricted, but the quality of their steel looks sufficient. Angband is known as a steel fortress. So, the Sauron's Orion project was using a traditional steel pusher plate, and Th/U-233 low-yield propulsion charges. *** About the Shire. As we know, there is a quasi-sapient killer tree in the forest next to Shire, the Old Man Willow. And as there is not many travellers there except the hobbits, it looks strange that the brave Aragorn Rangers hadn't eradicated this monster years ago. Either they don't think it's a monster, or it's a monster on its proper place. And the only actor in the Middle Earth who has the power over trees are elves. Sau and Mel were hating trees, Saruman was treating them as nothing special, so only the elves were able to create this monster. It's explained that the Old Man Willow belongs to Huorns, a primordial ent-like race. So, as we can see, the worldwide forest had already existed, and the plants were forming a worldwide communication network. It's just said in the source. This explains the intentions of the Laurelindorenan elves and Alatariel herself. As said before, they were planning to recreate the ancient wooden network to put the whole Middle-Earth under control. And the balrog-powered Orion was the way to do it. *** Another question is: who are the Huorns? The text of elvish origin call them ancient race which was existing on its own. But every other sapient race in the Middle-Earth was brought to life by Iluvatar directly (elves, probably humans) or indirectly by hands of Aule (dwarves). Orcs were mutated elves. Trolls probably also were a product of Melkor experiments. Speaking Eagles are pets of Manwe. It looks like only the quasi-sapient trees are noone's. This makes to think that "huorns" are the original, bugged prototype of the ents, developed by the elves in the years when the worldwide forest was still existing. That's why the Rangers didn't touch the Willow, and why the Willow was under Tom Bombadil control. Who was Tom still is unclear, but probably the elvish experimental farms overseer since early times. (Probably known as Beorn when he was taking a vacation and leaved the forest, moving to another forest, with his man's lair (literally, lair, because Beorn), when he could have a rest being unshaved, smelly, and brutally speaking, taking off the PR image of a friendly good man from faery tales).

In KSP-2? It's not released yet. Sic.

To worship the destructive force and theriomorphic personification of the developer's negligence? Nice. Also the only force in the Kerbal world moving Kerbals and deciding everything for them is The Player, so it would be very immodest to self-worship. Shouldn't it? Any example of an implemented KSP-2 suggestion?

The images have been cheatingly embedded themselves.

Banned for hunting the SSTV PM.

When your teachers dream about the times when you have finished the school and stop playing a smartclass .

Based on the today's debate the "LGBTQIA+" will be officially renamed into "LGBTQIAK+". Upd. Just a hypothesis, not insisting.

The Jupiter satellite is called Banymede.

They know cheatcats. In the popup concatsole.

When they understand what you've said, and you realize that you belong to the nerd school.

Banned for having written this in 1907.

Yes.

I once made the mistake of buying white LEDs. Oof. Turned the bedroom into an operating theater. The red light keeps you calm.

This Direct Ascent trajectory was being planned for lunar missions since 1950s, but 1. It requires more fuel. 2. It doesn't forgive errors. You can't slide around the Moon and return like Apollo-13 did. If you crash, then you crash. SLS barely can deliver something in the economic trajectory mode, let alone the direct ascent.

I can't see the idea of such detalization in the game about human-like cartoonish bugs in spacesuits where you need a zooming glass to see them detailed, and all of them are either sitting in cabin, or hidden in saves, or crashing, or exploding. It's understandable in the highly detailed role-playing games like Skyrim or Fallout, but what's next? Gendered tetris?