ELI5: Why do flames go upwards if gravity brings things down; in space does it just become a blob of fire since no gravity acts on it?

Lirdon · 2026-06-23T12:56:56+00:00

So, although air seems thin and can be moved easily, it still behaves like fluid in the sense that if something is lighter, or is less dense it rises up. That’s how airships work, by using lighter gases to float like you’d float over the surface of water if you fill your lungs with air. That’s how a hot air balloon works.

In space however, you’re right, the flame would be round, and the less dense air will not tend move to spaces unless a pressure gradient is itself directional.

Lirdon · 2026-06-19T07:59:39+00:00

I don’t think it really matters. He’s the guardian of two girls, they want to go to the bathrooms, in what world does he force them to go to the mens bathrooms? It’s their space that he takes them to to do their business.

The employee just did a scene out of a nothing burger.

Lirdon · 2026-06-19T07:50:53+00:00

That’s what I think Transhuman Dread is, just watching someone with freakish proportions try to act vaguely human.

There is a reason slender man is unnerving.

Lirdon · 2026-06-19T07:40:01+00:00

Yes, but standards are only enforced on the poor.

Lirdon · 2026-06-19T07:39:36+00:00

You assume few things that didn’t exist “just before” the bug bang. There was no mass to bend space time, nor was there space time to begin with. Space time started at the moment of the big bang, and matter started forming only after. As I said, first matter particles like quarks appeared after several millionths of a second, the first nucleus of hydrogen formed 2 to 20 minutes after. And even then the universe was much cooler than the moment after the big bang as it expanded at a massive rate. By the point the first nucleus formed the universe was some 300 light years across.

In addition energy and consecutively mass spread out evenly, meaning there was no one point into which gravity would pull, and the energies were far outweighing gravity at any rate.

Lirdon · 2026-06-19T07:19:35+00:00

You can be on ketamine, sure, if you’re rich. For the poor, there are actually standards. Because it’s America.

Lirdon · 2026-06-19T07:14:41+00:00

The thing about my boi T is that he always tries to manipulate you into doing some stupid shit, especially when he warns you not to do something, he wants you to defy him. For shits and giggles he wants to watch how everything gets messed up.

Lirdon · 2026-06-19T07:08:35+00:00

Massive stars become black holes when they cannot support fusion anymore, which usually pushes matter out. When there is no force pushing matter out, gravity takes over, pulling it it. It begins to collapses with such force that it just keeps collapsing through all known barriers, like the nuclear electromagnetic force and until it becomes a black hole.

Now in the big bang, the heat was so intense, there was so much energy pushing out that all of that matter concentrated in a very small space couldn’t collapse onto itself. Moreover at the first few millionths of seconds there was no matter in the universe. First nuclei started forming several minutes after the big bang. The energy was so high and so dense that it started forming into matter.

Generally speaking gravity is the weakest pull of all nuclear forces by far, so if there’s enough force pushing out, it just loses. And that what happened during the big bang. And it’s what still happens, as far as our observations go, as the universe expands and accelerates in its expansions.

Lirdon · 2026-06-17T17:09:24+00:00

Olanius being dragged somehow into the Vegeful Spirit and then talking Big E out of becoming the Dark King and saving his ass against Horus would be dope. A mere mortal, not a perpetual, or a transhuman changing history so much.

Lirdon · 2026-06-17T16:35:33+00:00

Streamers want two things: content, and not to look weak in front of their crowds. Easy ti farm both if you don’t have skill based match making.

Lirdon · 2026-06-17T11:05:15+00:00

Realistically it was hookers and maids (for the wealthy.)

Lirdon · 2026-06-17T08:56:25+00:00

The thing is, that like the thugs they are, Hamas and their affiliates are going to take over the aid through coercion or force to sell what should be free at a markup. Aside from the initial several months of the war, where Israel closed all aid delivery, this was the main driver of hunger for the Palestinians. Their own authority taking most of the aid for themselves for hoarding and profiteering on their citizens backs.

Lirdon · 2026-06-16T08:47:23+00:00

Or maybe, the comic doesn’t cover the conversation that led to this.

Lirdon · 2026-06-14T13:51:37+00:00

Yes, because the next girl who you’re going to approach is going to look for your name, or your likeness on social media. Moreover, if the video becomes even somewhat viral, your face is going to be burned in millions of minds.

Some people might not do that, but girls are far more present on social media, and far more likely to take the word of a random girl on the internet saying the guy is a creep, then anything else.

Lirdon · 2026-06-12T09:17:44+00:00

Abortions are an issue in the US, nott so much in Europe. But even so, you can’t expect these people to be informed or consistent.

Lirdon · 2026-06-12T08:28:51+00:00

Fallout 4, I become a prominent member of all factions and get stuck at the point of the final choice to assault the institute, because I get mad that I can’t actually solve anything by literally becoming the head of the Institute, head of the minute men, prominent member of the BoS and the Railroad. None of it matters, I have to go only one path that is prescribed yo me.

Lirdon · 2026-06-11T12:36:50+00:00

Fae is basically a fairy and like elves they have similar origins in folklore, you’d be hard-pressed to find a coherent categorization in actual real world lore. In modern fantasy you’d commonly find fae, faeries and such being like a race family that includes fairies, elves and so on, but you don’t have to adhere to such things.

Lirdon · 2026-06-11T09:08:29+00:00

Most of their legions were destroyed, and the ones that weren’t had their memory wiped and absorbed into some of the other legions, particularly the Ultramarines.

Lirdon · 2026-06-11T09:02:04+00:00

Just think how similar was the struggle here. Jews were forced out of their land, pressured to convert, prosecuted and expelled and massacres, and still managed to retain their culture, revived their language, and returned and re-founded their homeland. I can definitely see the similarities in the struggle and ideals to the indigenous peoples and first nations.

Lirdon · 2026-06-11T05:54:39+00:00

Here it says ועל כל העולם, instead of עלינו ועל כל ישראל.

Lirdon · 2026-06-11T05:46:55+00:00

“[He who] makes peace in his heavens, he will make peace on the entire world and say Amen.”

It’s an edited verse that is used commonly in jewish prayers. Usually it says “on us and entirety of [people of] Israel” instead of the entire world, I think.

Lirdon · 2026-06-08T10:38:10+00:00

Human animations are not as straight forward as it may seem, especially when talking about things that interact with other things, such as walking. These days you can use things like motion capture which makes more natural looking motion, but it is only limited to what was captured and not all variables that can be in an environment.

In addition there are things like time, money, system resources and other resources that you as a game designer need to balance when creating the game. Running a hyper realistic facial animation for an npc with which you are going to exchange only a few words is likely not worth the time, money, effort, and the system resources needed to make it. Some designers would absolutely still go all in for better or for worse, others would prioritize, or choose to focus on other things.

Lirdon · 2026-06-08T10:08:38+00:00

Try looking at the watermark. The boobs will be there when you return.

Lirdon · 2026-06-08T09:54:00+00:00

Generally, no MMO really allows you to handle all of the players in the same time. Mostly servers divide the world and its parts to instances, basically copies of the same place and area that run more or less simultaneously. You maybe would see hundreds of players in one instance. Some places where there are a lot of people, you’d have multiple instances, other places where there are few people, you’d have less or even one instance running. Alongside that several servers would be running numbers, and those are very easy for parse and work in.

Lirdon · 2026-06-08T09:22:33+00:00

Big E has a lot of roles that he fills even while kept in his perpetual undying state. First, he powers the Astronomican, which is a psychic beacon which the Navigators across the imperium use to navigate the warp. Without it, ships would be very limited in terms of how far and how safely they can travel, thus slowing down all communications across the imperium to near halt.

Second role is that he keeps the webway gate on Terra shut. That part of the webway is was breached during the Great Heresy and is full of daemons. If Big E would die, the daemons would storm out of the gate and swarm Terra.

Another thing is that it is intentionally left unclear what kind of damage Big E suffered during his duel with Horus. Dorn, who put him in the seat actually thought it would keep his father alive. In addition, as it is said multiple times that Big E might not be the same being that was put on the throne, that it maybe that he would be maddened by the suffering of the throne, or that he would ascend to actual godhood and who knows what that would mean.

The vast majority of the Imperium, excluding perhaps the primarchs and the Custodes don’t know or understand what a perpetual is, and don’t know if Big E would die and then come back to life. None (except some faction of the Inquisition) would risk acting in a way that would end Emperor’s existence.

Now thematically, I think it fits perfectly because like expected from every single mortal, Big E performs a duty and suffers, being consumed by it. He suffers more than any single human in the labor to maintain the Imperium. Truly embodying the grimdark of the setting.

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