cubinator

Tonight as I was getting ready to come home I legitimately checked to see that I had my lightsaber, and only after a moment remembered that it was in fact an umbrella.

That's not entirely correct. Both examples are perfectly good tesseracts. The line drawing is as good as a cube drawn on paper, and the cross-section appearing on your desk could just as easily be a triangular prism, or an octahedron, or a truncated tetrahedron, or a number of other shapes depending on the orientation of the full object. Your claim is like saying a cube drawn on paper is not a real cube, because the drawing is actually two-dimensional. While it is technically correct, it misses the point of the projection being a completely functional and useful representation of a higher-dimensional object.

Solo had a bit of a Blade Runner aesthetic at times.

Let's push it off and see what happens. *discovers gravity*

New Cone:

A good step towards 14 km/s...

Yeah, the fairing itself is fairly light, and the entire net structure seems to be fairly light compared to the boat. Remember that boats like this are fine: And Mr. Steven seems to have its weight a lot lower than that.

Every movie that wants a sciency-sounding macguffin that enables time travel or warping or something tends to call it a tesseract. A tesseract is not something that gives you God Mode over the universe's laws. A tesseract is a box. This is a tesseract: If you want to get really fancy, you can even make it into a desk toy:

"Cubinator" is an accurate descriptor of my self.

They'd better pick someplace that isn't constantly windy.

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I dunno, but I've been replaying Banjo-Tooie for the first time since I was really young, and it's really uncanny how some of the levels are similar to scenes I've been in in dreams. Every time I dream about a beach, there's a wall at the back and a narrow entrance at the left side when facing the water, and Jolly Roger's Lagoon seems organized really close to that. It's really weird what parts of the game I do and don't remember at all. I am almost certain I never beat the game as a kid, but several times when I've replayed old games I end up feeling like I remember the ending, even though I specifically thought I had gotten most of the way through, but not all the way through the game. It's happened with Super Mario Sunshine, Half Life, and Pikmin 2.

Considering the ship would be bigger than BFR...We wouldn't be using this until even BFR is too small for us.

If we are correct about reusable chemical rockets costing similarly to airplanes, then I don't see any reason to shy away from them. Space tugs with electric propulsion wouldn't hurt either. I don't see space tethers becoming viable very soon, but something like BFR could be operational in ten years.

________________ / / / / / / ____________________ | | | | | | |___________________| | APPRENTICE | |___________________| | | | | | | | | | | | | / \ | | \ o / \______/ Always two there are. No more, no less.

Piercing the Sky - VVVVVV I listened to this today and thought: damn, I need some sheet music for this!

Of course it's round! Why would we ever think otherwise? It's as round as any other circle!

When your feet are red and hurt because they got cooked by the ionizing radiation from a giant nuclear reactor. the sun is a deadly lazer

And then you can have your crew get out and train there! Sounds like a great deal to me.

A large impact is one leading hypothesis for why Mars' magnetic field is so messed up.

BFR can land in Antarctica...hmmm...

16 Psyche seems to be part of a planetary core.

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Very cool! I like seeing the lumpiness of the asteroid as a whole and the rocks scattered on its surface.

You can't win, Darth.