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Just christmas break, retirement still approx 3 decades away D: You'll never go broke betting on the strength of human denial. "It wont happen to me" "I'll jump out at the last moment" "Ill notice way before its too late" But probably most appropriately: "I know how to swim, I even went to the pool 8 years ago, I can do the sea."

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IIRC, ice sheets make quite a lot of noise as they crack, grind and collide, I think you'd have tough time. BUT, if you drilled a hole through to the water you could lower a fully blown sonobuoy down there and get pretty good detection. However I will eat a metaphorical hat if the sea floor under the arctic ice isnt littered with US and Russian hydrophones already.

Stop! Slow down you're making me dizzy! Please <sob> I want to get off!

Its a neat, compact tale, I like it. But I gotta say, I hate that alien! War, famine, persecution, destruction of our own biome....but base ten is where it draws the line? And it didnt realise until it landed in your garden? Flippin tourists...

I browsed a forum for a space simulation game that I rarely even play any more, because its one of the few places in the whole world with large numbers of like-minded-ish people to shoot the breeze with Also, to further document my geekinerdiness, my first thought when I saw the hand was:

Sure you can, its just "experimental acid jazz"

Soooo...ummm: "Spider Milk Is Real and Their Babies Love It, New Study Shows" https://gizmodo.com/spider-mothers-produce-milk-for-their-young-incredible-1830740895

TipTopTip of the day: when searching in google, you can enter the term "filetype:pdf" (without quotes) with any search terms and it will only return results that are links to PDFs. Of course you can put any file extension instead of PDF.

For sure, heavy urban centres. Since they introduced the "congention charge" for traffic in London, I think it has improved a lot, although to be honest you still wouldnt voluntarily drive into central london unless you knew you had an hour to get back out. We have these new "cycle superhighways" too but Im not sure if they are well-loved or if they were just a political thing by the mayor.

Thats a good point actually about the roads being clearer. But one thing - Im not in the US, I think that the distances and critical need is a global point. Who chooses a 2hr commute over 1hr? That is objectively stupid. ** edit: oh actually, *crammed* commuter train? For an hour? Hmmm...perhaps I was hasty... No, maybe not, I would deal with quite a lot to cut my commute in half, even a crammed train - but they are the worst. Its not like you cant handle it, but you have to handle it at your most tiredest, twice a day, 5 days a week...forever. But 2hrs? No way. ** Still, I know Im not "true" good, chaotic good at best, but its not because I drive PS: I would cycle more, bike was one of the first things I bought when I moved to London. But then it was stolen, no money for new bike and life changing anyway and a car became the best option. It is almost never as simple as "You should cycle/bus/walk so go do". Tell you what though, Im looking forward to the next generation of electric cars, I will have no problem swapping over. Not that they are a golden bullet until we have clean electricity, but its a step in the right direction. Its hard to believe that combustion engines will be a thing of the past on our roads (here in europe) within the next few decades, thats happening.

Even paramedics? This doesnt quite pan out in the modern world, the distances are too great and the need for long distance, rapid travel is too critical. You know we all starve if we take all the lorries off the road? At the very least, putting it up as the boundary of "true goodness" is quite harsh. I drive my commute because its cheaper than public transport, prices are crazy here.

I wish that on our birthdays there was an actual "level up" process where you get a few points of different types to spend on things like core attributes, skills and perks. Like, i could really use a few points in the "morning person" trait and definitely a point or two more of "will", and someone invested way too much in "trivia". And, y'know, it'd be nice, sometimes, to be able to inflict +3 frost damage on a critical from time to time.

Are the chemical burns work related? Like is the assumption they occurred at work? Because if so - and my job is industrial chemical safety - this is a really, really big deal. Like temporarily shut down the plant until we fire the right person big. She might even be liable. If its not work related then...well then everythings fine, excepting the untraced chemical burns that is.

Thats so cool! You hardly would ever imagine a star casting a shadow!

FunFactTM: amino acids (apart from glycine) come in L & D enantiomers, and the vast majority in all biological organisms are the L enantiomer. (there are instances where D-versions are present but there are extreme exception and are often translated in-situ from the L-variant). Things start to go deeply, deeply wrong if D-enantiomers are introduced where they should not be. IIRC some forms of Alzheimers have been linked to D-enantiomer amino acid exposure. Apparently this is just a quirk of evolution on Earth, at some point the L-enantiomers were used and from then on its just what we went with. "We" meaning all protein-forming organisms on the planet with very few exceptions (and none in actual proteins AFAIK, some D-aminos can be found in some bacterial cell walls or used as neurotransmitters in higher organisms )

That is a pretty big spanner to throw into the universe, think you might need a supercomputer to start drawing conclusions. I dont think things would become "nonsensical" but, for example, the universe might not form (as in elements, clouds, stars, galaxies) or it might collapse or possibly almost anything in between. Does that narrow it down enough Although a thought just entered my head that repulsion would be weakened by the same amount as attraction, so there is a chance that chemistry may be unaffected, which means you still get elements and chemicals. Its anyone's guess what happens to fusion or the aggregation of matter via gravity, with gravity cut down to inverse-cube the big bang might just fling everything into the void to be lost forever. But what effects it would have on the Big Bang itself? That definitely sounds like supercomputer stuff. And what if the BB doesnt happen? What if the conditions needs for a BB never occur? What is there instead? Some other form of universe? Its kind alike asking "See this windows PC? What would happen if we replaced every binary "1" digit with a "3" ? " Nope, binary doesnt work with 3's, and gravity/EM/etc. dont tail off with an inverse cube, you'd be breaking the system. But something would happen to the computer, it would still exist, it just wouldnt work anywhere near the same, it may only be capable of producing randomised static garbage or may not be able to turn on, but it'd still be there. And the universe might behave the same way if futzed with in a similar manner. Or it might be like replacing every binary digit "1" with a "100" meaning nothing changes, who knows!?

No, I was making a "pun"

Your issue sounds familiar....I cant quite put my finger on it though....I think updating drivers should be first. But I definitely remember having the same "no other ports work when this mic is plugged in thing" and the super quiet recording thing... Oh, make sure the USB port you are using is a powered one, USB ports dont all provide power. A mic I think needs some power to be sensitive, but will slightly work without. I think. Worth a look anyway. I take it its a desktop? Double check those tiny cables on the motherboard that go on those individual electrode spikes are arranged correctly, i've messed up an audio port that way before.

Without actual content, this thread is going to get a bad rep.

Also "save as" filetype JPEG

He will have to re-take his test though, and likely several extra lessons. That maybe doubles or triples the financial cost, and with the points and extended probation, he stands a very good chance of losing his license again on any other infraction for the next 2 years, and with this on his record would stand a very high risk of a much longer ban if that happened.

@cubinator @razark @Delay HotTake: in one specific example, IMO the original effects are better than the modern ones. That specific example is the weapon effects in ship-to-ship combat. To elaborate: (I couldnt find any examples on google image but) in the early episodes of the original-old-original, the battle effects consisted of a series of very brief, circular, white flashes,and the torpedos/projectiles themselves would not be visible in transit. Consider the photon torpedo, a matter/antimatter warhead, essentially a very large (!!) nuke. In the modern series' the impact of a photon torpedo on a target is...underwhelming. More comparable to a WWII battleship shell. And they would travel at, apparently, a few hundred mph, max. Whereas in reality it would look more like...a very brief spherical flash appearing out of nowhere.

No, but whenever I read anything, its the same person speaking it. Like I have a default "character". I can only vaguely describe them and I think its based on myself. Exceptions are if I actually know what the person looks like, or like, say, if I watch Game of Thrones before reading it, I know what they look like.

I stopped reading because it started sounding cool and i didnt want the spoilers. How bad is it? Is it worth a watch?