Finding new and unique ways to make parabolic mirrors more efficiently and inexpensively

Imagine being into generative AI when the moon is literally red as I type this. You could be looking at the Orion Nebula right now instead of staring at a screen playing charades with a soulless marionette dancing under the hands of billionaires who you’re giving a direct line straight into your brain, bypassing all critical thought

I’m so incredibly okay with this, no matter how the universe opts to interpret it

Ghost In The Shell, Haibane Renmei, and Gurren Lagann share the #1 spot for animated

Psych takes 1st place for live action

This is fair. Even though I didn’t create the demand for this particular flight, I contributed to the demand for the next one.

I’ll find some wildly expensive way to travel that doesn’t cause pollution

I was thinking way too small with my answer. I didn’t even consider the idea of telling NASA that I could fund any and every project they want done, if they just send me to the Moon

If money is no object, then you can find some incredibly expensive way to travel which does not contribute to pollution. So no, there is no moral dimension

True, but also that flight is going with or without you so you may as well jump on

Mount Blue Sky, Colorado. Home of the highest elevation optical astronomical observatory who’s operators I share a language with

I think it’s tremendously funny that you saw a list including Stalin, Putin, and Mao, and your only response was "I’ve never seen anyone defend Pol Pot.

Proves my point, there are plenty of leaders that users of this instance think were good people.

Kinda like how the only thing John Brown did wrong on May 24th, 1856 was stop at 5

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Below average redwood

My favorite video title of all time is still “alkaline water …with lemon”

Thunderf00t is smart about physics, I liked his science videos, but I really stopped paying attention to him when he started doing gamergate stuff. Is he still whining about feminists, or has he gotten better?

A Catholic socialist, a Jewish anarchist, and a Muslim communist walk into a bar, and they make a podcast about engineering disasters: Well There’s Your Problem. It’s great for that intersection of people for whom the phrase “crimes against TERFs aren’t crimes” resonates and like listening to an engineer complain about low quality as-builts 2 hours into a 3 hour episode about 9/11

I was sold on the show when I found out that the episode about the Titanic was split into two parts, totaling around 5 and 1/2 hours. That’s partially because they spend a lot of time bullshitting, and partially because they go really in-depth about how and why structures fail

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Jerboa. It’s not the most functional but it reminds me of RIF the most.

I switch to Sync any time I need to use the search function

A dragon has been attacking trains going into and out of a mining city. The party has been hired to deal with it. They planned on taking an empty train out of the city, hoping to lure the dragon into a fight. I was thinking it would be cool, an epic dragon fight on a train. “Hey, this is a mining town. They have explosives right? Can we borrow some?” Roll for persuasion. DC20 persuasion check, passed.

I don’t have the math on me anymore, but I spent a couple minutes working out how much damage the dragon would take based on how much blasting powder they had, and how close the dragon was before it ignited it, and it was just enough damage to bring the dragon down to like 20 HP

I realized later on that I forgot to convert pounds to kilograms, so it should have still had closer to half its health, but whatever. The idea of a dragon basically killing itself by accidentally blowing up a train car full of blasting powder is sick as hell

It depends on where you live. Some regions have a limited list of acceptable names, some places just have limited lists of unacceptable names, but I can’t find anywhere that explicitly bans Null.

It does suck to be named Null, though. It’s like two steps down from not being given a social security number as an infant

The Perfect Suicide

Backpack full of C4 blows up while skydiving over the ocean? Nice