Shower thoughts

[AstroWolfie]

I am now aware that if you have an iPhone, you can translate the little laundry symbols using the camera.

[SunlitZelkova]

I wonder if Russian cosmism ever caught on with post-1991 philosophers.

Spoiler

I really like the weird blend of Soviet nostalgia, Christian iconography, and futurism that exists in Russia.

 

[kerbiloid]

9 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said:

I really like the weird blend of Soviet nostalgia, Christian iconography, and futurism that exists in Russia.

It doesn't exist in Russia.

Just a temporization.

An attempt to resurrect the religious discourse and attach it to the Soviet anti-religious society.

[kerbiloid]

Yes.

Spoiler

 

[magnemoe]

Some was talking about the sims and I remember an insane episode long ago. Some had set up a sims game there the sims just hanged out, played games, had barbecue and used the pool. 
It looked cool and interesting as game was pretty popular and it would run forever if set up correctly. 
Then some joker entered edit mode and removed the pool ladders, before sims 4 sims could not leave without ladders. 
So the sims started drowning. And the clerk who knew nothing about the sims or games in general I assume kind of panicking. 
I assume the one setting this up simply made an save and copied it around so closing and restarting the game should solve it. Just killing the games would also work. 

[StrandedonEarth]

4 hours ago, magnemoe said:

Some was talking about the sims and I remember an insane episode long ago. Some had set up a sims game there the sims just hanged out, played games, had barbecue and used the pool. 
It looked cool and interesting as game was pretty popular and it would run forever if set up correctly. 
Then some joker entered edit mode and removed the pool ladders, before sims 4 sims could not leave without ladders. 
So the sims started drowning. And the clerk who knew nothing about the sims or games in general I assume kind of panicking. 
I assume the one setting this up simply made an save and copied it around so closing and restarting the game should solve it. Just killing the games would also work. 

Ah yes, I remember having one Sims game where I was building up quite a cemetery, and the pool was one of the kill zones.

As an aside, a buddy created a dungeon with a few slaves with the most basic furniture and no way out. They spent their time making paintings and gnomes for the dungeon master to sell. The dungeon master made their meals and the rest of the time just sat around watching TV...

Edited January 28 by StrandedonEarth

[StrandedonEarth]

Right now, I'm watching the original Predator,  and just passed the point where one of the soldiers is yelling at the native tracker, "You know something!" (The response was "I'm scared.") Now, I also watched Prey (the most recent Predator movie), which was set ~200 years ago, involving a Predator's encounter with North American natives and French colonizers. Prey puts that line in a new light, suggesting that the legend of an alien predator was handed down through the generations. I like that idea.

Of course, since the Predator movie predates Prey by some 35 years, it's really just coincidence, unless that line started a train of thought that led to the script of Prey...

And yes, Prey was worth watching, IMO.

[kerbiloid]

"NASA" still means "National Aeronautics and Space Administration".

Does it report about the balloon festivals or watch guard airships on its press-conferences?
No. It repots about rockets, ISS, Moon, Mars, whatever else.

Spoiler

***

What is "space"?

It's an empty place, free of objects.
In your room, in the mid-air, between the planets, so on.

What is "aeronautics"?

It's when you take a thin lightweight envelope, fill it with gas, start heating with a torch below.
Once you start warming it with the torch, the envelope starts lifting up to the sky, pulling the cabin with cargo and ballast (sand or water) in it.
From time to time you drop the ballast.
The higher you get, the more bulky is the gas bubble above you.
The longer you fly, the less ballast remains onboard.
Finally, the envelope starts hanging at some altitude, being almost spherical (from a thin cloth of little volume at ground), and it's unlimitedly floating around the Earth.

What is "space rocket"

It's a thin envelope, filled with small amount of gas and huge amount of liquid.
It has a torch below.
Once you had ignited  the torch, it starts warming the envelope and the air around.
The liquid starts dripping out, the gas bubble inside starts growing, the "rocket" starts climbing up.
The higher you get, the more bulky is the gas bubble above you.
The longer you fly, the less ballast remains onboard.
Finally, the envelope starts hanging at some altitude, and it's unlimitedly floating around the Earth.

So, it looks like the NASA abbr. is not an old joke, but an exact description of this organization main objective, and its greatest secret.

The so-called "space rockets" are actually airships with rigid metallic envelopes.
The growing gas bubble inside provides zero bouyancy, while the huge torch warms the air around, causing the updraft which is pushing the "rocket" (in fact - a balloon) to the sky.
The liquid inside the rocket "fuel tank" is actually a liquid ballast, and at the same time a fuel for the torch, to heat the air.                            f

At some altitude the "rocket" reaches some atmospheric layer, where it can just float without the help of the updraft. They call it "orbit".

So, the lunar expeditions were actually airship travels to the huge spherical body, hanging above the Earth, which we call "the Moon".
It's unclear, if this body is a dense ball or a hollow balloon.

Interesting fact: the "rocket torch" is also not forged from an iron ingot.
On exploded view it's a set of thin envelopes, one inside another.

So, NASA honestly calls itself "aeronautic", just avoids explaining the true nature of this term.

[SunlitZelkova]

32 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

watch guard airships

When I read this it just made me think of an aerial version of the Pr. 2 class guard ship lol.

[magnemoe]

12 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

"NASA" still means "National Aeronautics and Space Administration".

Does it report about the balloon festivals or watch guard airships on its press-conferences?
No. It repots about rockets, ISS, Moon, Mars, whatever else.

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***

What is "space"?

It's an empty place, free of objects.
In your room, in the mid-air, between the planets, so on.

What is "aeronautics"?

It's when you take a thin lightweight envelope, fill it with gas, start heating with a torch below.
Once you start warming it with the torch, the envelope starts lifting up to the sky, pulling the cabin with cargo and ballast (sand or water) in it.
From time to time you drop the ballast.
The higher you get, the more bulky is the gas bubble above you.
The longer you fly, the less ballast remains onboard.
Finally, the envelope starts hanging at some altitude, being almost spherical (from a thin cloth of little volume at ground), and it's unlimitedly floating around the Earth.

What is "space rocket"

It's a thin envelope, filled with small amount of gas and huge amount of liquid.
It has a torch below.
Once you had ignited  the torch, it starts warming the envelope and the air around.
The liquid starts dripping out, the gas bubble inside starts growing, the "rocket" starts climbing up.
The higher you get, the more bulky is the gas bubble above you.
The longer you fly, the less ballast remains onboard.
Finally, the envelope starts hanging at some altitude, and it's unlimitedly floating around the Earth.

So, it looks like the NASA abbr. is not an old joke, but an exact description of this organization main objective, and its greatest secret.

The so-called "space rockets" are actually airships with rigid metallic envelopes.
The growing gas bubble inside provides zero bouyancy, while the huge torch warms the air around, causing the updraft which is pushing the "rocket" (in fact - a balloon) to the sky.
The liquid inside the rocket "fuel tank" is actually a liquid ballast, and at the same time a fuel for the torch, to heat the air.                            f

At some altitude the "rocket" reaches some atmospheric layer, where it can just float without the help of the updraft. They call it "orbit".

So, the lunar expeditions were actually airship travels to the huge spherical body, hanging above the Earth, which we call "the Moon".
It's unclear, if this body is a dense ball or a hollow balloon.

Interesting fact: the "rocket torch" is also not forged from an iron ingot.
On exploded view it's a set of thin envelopes, one inside another.

So, NASA honestly calls itself "aeronautic", just avoids explaining the true nature of this term.

NASA is about research, use of planes and other stuff is not their domain. Something like an high attitude drone airship could easy be. They worked with high attitude solar powered drones. 
Other aeronautics stuff in the silent supersonic plane, not sure how interested they are stuff like improving airliners but believe they are more about more bleeding edge stuff. 

[kerbiloid]

6 hours ago, magnemoe said:

NASA is about research, use of planes and other stuff is not their domain.

It can be treated in different ways.
Say, they don't hesitate with using rigid aluminium balloons to the Moon, but I can't see "rocket" or "vacuum" in their name, in addition to "aero-", while they are telling, that the "rockets" don't need the surrounding air.
When it looks like a Montgolfier, flies like a Montgolfier, has the gas bubble, the liquid ballast, and the torch onboard like a Montgolfier, then it's a Montgolfier.

But they keep in secret, that one can reach the Moon by airship.

P.S.
Btw, this proves that the Earth is not flat, otherwise how could the "orbital" wind blow around a flat Earth?

P.P.S.
Also, the very first lunar objective to be done, is to try drilling the Moon surface as deep as possible, to check if it's hollow.

Edited January 29 by kerbiloid

[ColdJ]

[Bej Kerman]

8 hours ago, magnemoe said:

NASA is about research, use of planes and other stuff is not their domain.

Not to be pedantic, but...

 

Spoiler

Bit quick to dismiss planes as "not their domain" when they can be just as capable of doing wanted research as drones and rockets.

(Yes, the Space Shuttle did go to space, but its glide to base was performed very much like a typical plane - how is that "not their domain"?)

[ColdJ]

As the author : "David Webber" informed us in "
Mutineers Moon", the Moon is aclually a disguised battleship.

"It's not possible," MacIntyre said stubbornly. "If this thing is the size you say, what happened to the real moon?" "It was destroyed," his informant said calmly. "With the exception of sufficient of its original material to make up the negligible difference in diameter, it was dropped into your sun. It is standard Fleet procedure to camouflage picket units or any capital ship that may be required to spend extended periods in systems not claimed by the Imperium."

"You camouflaged your ship as our moon? That's insane!" "On the contrary, Commander. A planetoid-class starship is not an easy object to hide. Replacing an existing moon of appropriate size is by far the simplest means of concealment, particularly when, as in this case, the original surface contours are faithfully recreated as part of the procedure."

[OrdinaryKerman]

4 hours ago, Bej Kerman said:

Not to be pedantic, but...

 

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Bit quick to dismiss planes as "not their domain" when they can be just as capable of doing wanted research as drones and rockets.

(Yes, the Space Shuttle did go to space, but its glide to base was performed very much like a typical plane - how is that "not their domain"?)

I think "use of planes" was referring more to commercial and hobby aviation (fair), but this is completely true

[Ryaja]

There is a non zero chance every electron appears in front of you. Theoretically making a blackhole 202700565864339400 times larger that the most massive star.

Edited January 29 by Ryaja

[kerbiloid]

They should cancel the StarWars on the episode V finale.

Anyway, everything going after, is just comatose hallucinations of the "frozen" Han Solo.

That's why they destroy the Death Star once again,
that's why Luke is taught by a green swamp goblin,
that's why peasant Luke and princess Leia have appeared to be siblings (like in a silly fantasy sitcom, which Han Solo was a big fan of),
that's why there is a whole planet of mini-Chewbaccas,
that's why nobody but drunken Solo understands Chewbacca's speech (he's actually just a trained sloth, won in a card game from his previous owner, his speech means nothing, but Han thinks out his phrases),
that's why things get more senseless on every next episode.

Edited February 4 by kerbiloid

[Bej Kerman]

34 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

They should cancel the StarWars on the episode V finale.

Anyway, everything going after, is just comatose hallucinations of the "frozen" Han Solo.

That's why they destroy the Death Star once again,
that's why Luke is taught by a green swamp goblin,
that's why peasant Luke and princess Leia have appeared to be siblings (like in a silly fantasy sitcom, which Han Solo was a big fan of),
that's why there is a whole planet of mini-Chewbaccas,
that's why nobody but drunken Solo understands Chewbacca's speech (he's actually just a trained sloth, won in a card game from his previous owner, his speech means nothing, but Han thinks out his phrases),
that's why things get more senseless on every next episode.

Of course, all the things Solo was alive to see before then - hyperspace tunnels, planes in space, giant space lasers, some insane spiel about using the force to aim a photon torpedo blind, those were perfectly logical. Nah, it was all a coma - Han Solo is obsessed with guns and that's why the heroes are sharpshooters while the aim of the stormtroopers border on Deus Ex Machina, and his insanely boring office life results in him drinking 

[kerbiloid]

1 hour ago, Bej Kerman said:

all the things Solo was alive to see before then - hyperspace tunnels

They say, everyone sees a dark hyperspace tunnel with bright light at the end in its moment...

That moment state is what Han Solo is living in.

1 hour ago, Bej Kerman said:

planes in space, giant space lasers

The first Death Star was real, the ep. IV was real.

He got frozen in the ep. V.

1 hour ago, Bej Kerman said:

some insane spiel about using the force to aim a photon torpedo blind

He knows this blind from the Luke's words.

And he can now see the Force, which is breaking the physics, like everyone can in his dreams.

1 hour ago, Bej Kerman said:

and his insanely boring office life results in him drinking

You are trying to explain the ep. IV and V.

I'm talking about what happened next.

Han Solo is still decarbonized (?) in the black monolith.

Luke is still hanging on the truss, or has already fallen.

P.S.
This theory also explains the sick obsession of the SW fan with Boba Fett person.

Boba was the last, whan Han Solo had seen irl.

P.P.S.
I would kindly ask the moderators to move the last three posts into the "SW, Mandalorian, etc." thread, please, as I feel that the Boba Fett part is an exact match.

Edited February 4 by kerbiloid

[magnemoe]

On 1/29/2024 at 7:30 AM, Bej Kerman said:

Not to be pedantic, but...

 

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Bit quick to dismiss planes as "not their domain" when they can be just as capable of doing wanted research as drones and rockets.

(Yes, the Space Shuttle did go to space, but its glide to base was performed very much like a typical plane - how is that "not their domain"?)

I say shuttle is not an plane its an rocket who land on a runway. Sophia, here you are correct. 

On 1/29/2024 at 12:24 PM, OrdinaryKerman said:

I think "use of planes" was referring more to commercial and hobby aviation (fair), but this is completely true

Yes, boom is NASA stuff with planes. 

[Bej Kerman]

22 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

You are trying to explain the ep. IV and V.

Yep - fun movies but not any less insane than everything that came after them

[SunlitZelkova]

8 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

They should cancel the StarWars on the episode V finale.

Anyway, everything going after, is just comatose hallucinations of the "frozen" Han Solo.

That's why they destroy the Death Star once again,
that's why Luke is taught by a green swamp goblin,
that's why peasant Luke and princess Leia have appeared to be siblings (like in a silly fantasy sitcom, which Han Solo was a big fan of),
that's why there is a whole planet of mini-Chewbaccas,
that's why nobody but drunken Solo understands Chewbacca's speech (he's actually just a trained sloth, won in a card game from his previous owner, his speech means nothing, but Han thinks out his phrases),
that's why things get more senseless on every next episode.

I prefer the theory Star Wars is just a long dream of Indiana Jones during his nap with Marion by his side on that steamer they took that later got intercepted by the U-Boat.

[TheSaint]

18 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said:

I prefer the theory Star Wars is just a long dream of Indiana Jones during his nap with Marion by his side on that steamer they took that later got intercepted by the U-Boat.

"That's it. No more Japanese food before bed."

[kerbiloid]

19 hours ago, TheSaint said:

"That's it. No more Japanese food before bed."

Marion?

The things aren't that simple.

Not Marion, but Marian. Made Marian.

Spoiler

Indiana Jones is actually a reincarnation of Robin Hood.

 

Edited February 6 by kerbiloid

[SunlitZelkova]

There is a hut in Buryatia, wherein lives a psychic. The entire mass of digital technologies and historical developments since 1845 are an illusion. We have been hypnotized. The Empire never ended.