cubinator

Must be a KSP expert.

I think there's some function that sends statistical data to Microsoft, and it's on by default. I remember having to turn some stuff off after I switched to Windows 10. Here's a potentially useful link (although by no means exhaustive): http://www.howtogeek.com/249254/how-to-stop-windows-10-from-using-so-much-data/

It's pretty darn cool.

It's below 40°F where I am. And it's only November...

Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs on a Tokyo skyscraper.

I don't really care that much about it. After 1k I was like "yay I'm appreciated" but now it just accumulates kind of by itself and I enjoy reading comments more than getting imaginary internet points. There are a few posts of mine that have gotten an exorbitant amount of rep, and those are the ones I'm most proud of. I think my stock Rubik's Cube post has by far the most likes for a single post of mine, but a comment is worth a thousand likes. It sounds like a cliche phrase, but I think some of the comments in that thread made me feel just as good as reaching 1000 rep did.

I did see the smiley. I don't want this thread to get derailed, though! Whatever that means...

It's only relevant, I would have said the same thing if that thread had a different author.

This is the game for you:

Not as old as Xevious or Galaga, which I still play.

You get rep when someone presses the "Like" button of one of your posts, like I just did.

Someone should build a stone temple in a jungle, with booby traps and elaborate carvings and paintings of deities and monsters on the walls, and in the center is a typewriter connected to an Oculus Rift.

I agree, it still can be useful technology, but using it on waste heat from nuclear or solar plants is a far more worthy application than on fossil fuel plants.

I think it's an interesting concept, but finding ways to make fossil fuels slightly less bad is way worse a strategy than finding ways to ditch them altogether. If we are to use this, it should be converting the heat from the sun or the Earth directly.

When you wish you could use formatting while texting. When you write formally when texting with friends.

"Star Destroyers are too big."

Need to send a video to someone? Follow this guy's advice!

Oh, I'm terribly sorry, I can take care of that for you. *shoots fly with kilowatt laser* Soup, there's a fly in my waiter!

What did one astronaut say to the other before starting a dangerous EVA? "No pressure!"

I'm either a fifth of the way through my life (if I live a long normal life), halfway though (if I die going to Mars), or barely starting (if we do end up uploading our minds to computers and becoming immortal). That makes me feel old because I'm not counting on the third option. Also, we definitely are in The Future.

A SSD impacts Death Star II in VI. There's also the bit where one breaks up on reentry over Coruscant in episode III.

The Death Star had big shields, I suppose. It probably wasn't going as fast as the Chicxulub impactor. It likely wasn't going very fast in the first place and also had a chance to brake. But if it had been traveling at 20 km/s, Jakku would likely have had Problems™.

The Chixulub impactor was about 10 km wide, and it is largely accepted as the primary cause of the Cretaceous extinction. A typical Star Destroyer is a little over a kilometer long, and the Super Star Destroyer Executor was reportedly 19 km long: This implies that, if Executor ran off course and impacted a planet, it would have as much effect or more than the apocalyptic asteroid. Of course, it depends on it's speed on impact, and what happens to any nuclear reactors on board, but I find it interesting that the ship is large enough to have such an effect on a planet if it crashed. Thoughts?

-Earthquakes happen all the time. Big ones happen pretty often but not so often in places that affect people. -The full moon is at perigee, so tidal forces are slightly stronger and you can see better at night. This happens occasionally. -Solar flares occur pretty often but less often in our direction. I think it's kind of rare for something like this to happen, and the Moon being at perigee might have had a small effect on plate tectonics to make a few extra earthquakes, but I'd wait to call it an apocalypse until a) Yellowstone erupts, b) something nearby goes supernova, c) something more than a kilometer wide hits Earth, or d) humans instantly ruin everything with their nukes or slowly ruin everything with fossil fuel use.

That makes history seem small. Interesting! A typical used mattress can contain anywhere from a hundred thousand to ten million dust mites.