Rhaedas

Remember, when he uses the “nobody knew this” that actually means he didn’t know it. And he says it a lot.

The trope of flying through the debris/explosion of the ship you just blew up is kind of ridiculous. That’s the last place you want to go.

Finding micrometeorite holes would actually be harder than you would think because it’s only 1 atmosphere pressure leaking (or less, you don’t have to have 1 atm to exist comfortably). Might be easier to find them from the outside first and then map out where to look.

Those battle scenes where the rail gun shot were visibly going through and just missing…that was frightening. And remember, any shot that misses ruins someone else’s day later on.

Using the upvote button to agree isn’t a problem, but it’s more of a problem to use the downvote as a disagree if you’re actually engaging with the person to debate the topic since it in theory lowers the visibility of the original post and your own commentary.

I always liked the idea of having a “recommend post” button, and let the better stuff with more recommendations and replies rise to the top naturally. It also avoids the weird feeling in clicking an upvote/agree/like to a topic that you want to discuss but is negative.

“It was defensive! They moved stuff!”

You should be more angry at the throwaway society we’ve become to create so much trash, rather than rant at the person who might be the sole employee until someone else comes in to do the regular morning cleanup duties.

So you think some full trash cans cause people to head out to the interstate and only then throw shit out their window? Guess they’re making a statement or something…

We already knew this was coming.

https://xkcd.com/1897/

It’s not about the cuts, it’s about sending a message.

“Bipedal??? WTF?”

Or simply “They’re made of MEAT?”

That was my first guess, false target. Like a lizard that loses the tail, only less involved. Evolution ends up with odd solutions, but if it helps favor a trait by leading to survival, it’s good enough. It could have just as easily been as someone else suggested, something that was passed on but not selected against either. Not all evolved things have to do with survival, some just are there.

I’m going to give him the benefit of doubt. It could indeed be true.

Yes, I know it’s the Onion, but they’ve been spitting truth lately so I’m going with it.

True except for coal, there’s a hell of a lot of still accessible coal. Coal is limiting of course and dirty. There’s also other resources like metals that we jump started society with that were easily obtained, even picked off the ground, and now are either buried in landfills or merged into alloys that even our technology can’t separate or reuse well.

And any other species’ chance. Given the expected lifecycle of the Sun that will affect the habitable zone we’re in, we have just under a billion years to go before the planet becomes unlivable by anything. Is that enough time for life to start over from some point and try again? Presuming minus a hostile period of time while Earth finds a new environmental balance, which always takes a while.

I think for whatever odds there are out there of other planets that can have the right conditions for life to become intelligent and expand further, they get one shot at it. If there were alien observers they’ve probably stopped by now. “That went like usual. Got close, but they did the typical mistakes.”

I think I dropped connection again.

The difference between the two is intent at the time, so either the defense was really good at showing she didn’t mean to shoot and kill (?!), or the prosecution did a crap job of showing that she did.

Tony Stark building his “completely harmless” arm flight stabilizer.

You tried, but your tone and wording was off. Some people would state all that fully believing things can continue and we’ll tech out way out of trouble. And we WILL absolutely jump to geoengineering to try and preserve status quo, cost or not. The alternative is to change society dramatically, and that won’t happen voluntarily. And the great news is once we start geoengineering, we dare not stop because the reaction will spike things even worse.

Not just the loss in cheap labor, but also in “free” social security taxes (that such workers don’t end up claiming).

Sagan always said we had the potential to be better, but he was also concerned it was an uphill climb. Where Carlin got angrier with age, I think Sagan would just have been disappointed in us. Especially in the fall back into ignorance and superstition, something else he warned about in The Demon-Haunted World. Every quote you can find from that book is profound, but this one is eerily hard hitting:

“We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”

There’s a scene in Sagan’s Cosmos where he’s exploring the possibilities of life elsewhere. He’s in the Ship of the Imagination, looking around at various potentials. He runs across one planet teeming with a civilization, from orbit it had even more lights and connections that our own at night. And then the lights suddenly go out. He discusses how even thriving life can suddenly die and speculates on a few reasons why this one might have, like resources or war or whatever. Summary from memory, I have no idea which episode it’s in.

In reality it wouldn’t be a sudden disappearance, but a longer decay. The lights shutting off was just to illustrate how easy it is to lose something assumed to be permanent. I’d also recommend the beginning of Revolution to get that same surreal feeling, although the rest of the series was blah.

The next question is what naming convention you used for them all.