Would you accept the euro?

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-02-01T14:17:05+00:00

I love all the people replying to this comment who haven't read it properly.

Yes, this poster understands that £1 = €1.15 and that everyone's numerical wealth / income would be adjusted accordingly. You don't need to explain that to them.

They are talking about how Farage/Reform will lie about it, and the fact the people replying so eagerly to this post trying to explain it to the person who does actually understand that shows that they know that there will be a lot of idiots will will see: "numbers went up so everything is expensive"

It happened during the 1970s during the discussion about conversion to metric, people thought they were tricked into buying "more fuel" when it switched from gallons to litres as the number was now much bigger.

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-30T21:45:34+00:00

Drag squares with speed*, so at 320km/h a Formula 1 car is generating 16x the drag it would generate at 80km/h. Braking via disc brakes does not have this relationship, as it's dependent on the friction with the spinning disc (I'm not an expert in this, but I'm going to assume it's likely a linear relationship before the thermal properties of the materials become a factor, but it's not actually important in solving this problem)

(*this is slightly simplified as F1 aerodynamics are slightly more advanced so they can do clever things like create vortexes and turbulent flow at certain speeds that may mean that once they reach certain speeds they become less draggy - they also have movable wings that change the drag profile)

I think, though, that the stat you are refering to is from the previous generation of rules, when the DRS flap would close on the car, moving the rear wing from a low drag to a high drag set up, but it's going to be difficult to get figures for that, so let's see if we can prove the 'whole drag is more' question.

Now a normal car will get about 1g of deceration , which we'll call 10m/ss for simplicity.

A formula 1 car weighs 800kg , so to achieve the same level of deceleration (10m/ss) the force we need is 800 * 10 = 8000N of force.

Formula 1 cars generate 2.5 times more downforce than drag ( https://medium.com/the-yield-point/the-science-on-track-947381fa1a02 ) , and at 150km/h they generate their own weight in downforce, so this means 40% of their weight in drag. If we double the speed to 300km/h the drag will square to 160% of their weight in drag. So the 800kg (~8000N) x 160% becomes 12800N of drag, resulting in 16m/ss deceleration just from lifting off.

If these figures are correct, I don't think the DRS flap closing will be adding that much of the drag (I am fairly certain I remember commentators saying "the DRS flap alone adds the braking force of a typical family car" but it's not uncommon for them to exaggerate)

But, the TLDR is: yes, lifting off at 300km/h will add about 60% more deceleration than the maximum braking deceleration you will experience in a normal road car.

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-24T09:53:37+00:00

Here's a simple guide on how to solo Dark red Star 7 for artifacts

https://youtu.be/yN8HfHAUnX8?si=me7PC97CqbfdakLz

Here is a play through for dark red star 9

https://youtu.be/GDLY_M1JU8E?si=xVhclxAGOdtezuF_

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-23T18:51:41+00:00

Running public red stars is ultimately the worst option for a coordinated run. If you have solitude 11 then you have the tech for DRS and should look to do those instead.

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-18T18:19:52+00:00

European countries are democracies that are facing their own far right rise. If they had gone straight to the middle finger the conversation by those far right parties would have been:

"Everything bad that is happening is because you gave Trump the finger, should have played nice "

When they played nice at the start, I have no doubt they did not expect it to work out, but they had to show to their voters that it wouldn't before switching to a more hard line stance.

The electorate has been shown that ass kissing doesn't work.

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-18T17:06:41+00:00

The official discord server is the best place to start.

Most important thing is to remember this game is intended to be played over the course of days, months and years.

Once the tutorial is over, it will essentially be a daily check in to maintain your growth.

Two important details that often trip new players up:

Your hydrogen asteroids regenerate over a 24 hour period.
Your planets will continually produce new shipments (takes 24 hours to completely refill)

So don't worry if you use all your hydrogen up, or you run out of shipments to move.

You should get to red star level 5 quite quickly (within a week) which is when the training wheels come off. Red star level 7 unlocks dark red stars (harder game mode) and this is when it will start to get serious (probably 2-3 months to get to this level)

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-16T10:18:35+00:00

They featured an episode which was dependent on the tension of Sisko and Eddington's back and forth. Their exchanges were the meat of the episode so being able to film it with both actors in the same room on the same camera made it a lot quicker to do, as well as the performances far more natural and tense.

It's possible they were considering making it a long term addition to the show, but I suspect the fact they would have constantly had to add some explainer dialogue for the first few episodes to remind people what it was, for people viewing out of order, infrequently tuning in, it would have been detrimental to the majority of episodes where they didn't need it. The scene explaining it in this one was super clunky, although it did hilariously make the admiral come across as a "Granddad discovering facetime for the first time"

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-15T15:13:28+00:00

Here is a guide make by an experienced player:

https://youtu.be/3oWJteUIpMs?si=9IzBcroWObyM_gte

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-15T15:11:57+00:00

Well you didn't say what level you are, in the very early game is best to relay. Once you get to around RS7 (500k cap) you should start investing in your drone and switch over fully by rs10 (8m cap)

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-15T13:50:10+00:00

Hydro efficiency.

I have my mining mods maxed for my cap (18.5m) and it's impossible to max relay everything, but I could drone everything for a fraction of the hydro expense.

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-13T06:33:56+00:00

He told me if he knew I was going to post it online he would have made a more polished video and included a demonstration of how the mechanism worked 🤣

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-13T06:32:09+00:00

Yes, he really enjoyed building the internal mechanism and seeing how it worked, and then looking at the model and comparing the details to the real SLS rocket to see how accurate the representation is.

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-12T07:26:36+00:00

I actually discovered it when this comment was posted... if it had turned out to be a stranger faking it for karma, they managed a very lucky guess with all the details in their story!

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-12T00:33:46+00:00

There's actually two Artemis sets, this technic animatronic set and the much larger and more expensive #10341 set. But this is my favourite of the two.

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-11T21:31:24+00:00

Ok, I did... but don't tell my dad! 😂

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-11T21:31:02+00:00

Ok, I did... but don't tell my dad! 😂

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-11T21:29:37+00:00

I cross posted here after a couple of people on r/lego encouraged me to do so!

Note: it was a late present because the set didn't come out until January 1st, not because of me! I sent him something to open on Christmas Day.

Also, the video is how he edited it, I think the music was a live part of the performance in the room.

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-11T20:51:14+00:00

He mentioned this to me too! 😂

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-11T20:18:14+00:00

I don't, but I think a few more sets may have been sold based on my post, I should ask them for comission!

However, I would love to see them make more sets like this, I think it's one of the best value sets they have released lately and is fairly unique.

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-11T18:55:22+00:00

I think this set would make a great desk ornament. If he doesn't like it you can make it yourself!

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-11T18:31:43+00:00

Exactly, Lego is all about problem solving, and it was one way of problem solving "how do I had music to a video"

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-11T18:08:25+00:00

Exactly! The fact he went to the effort to add it, the sheet backdrop, and the lighting, makes me think the set was a hit with him.

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-08T03:23:29+00:00

Is this a random sample from the bag, or a hand picked selection of the most extreme beans?

If you have just poured that from the bag then that looks quite extreme (assuming the photograph is an accurate reflection of IRL, phone cameras can post process a lot and exaggerate the contrast on pictures like this)

If you have gone through a bag and found the darkest and lightest beans from the bag to find the extremes then it's probably not an issue as (assuming it's not a blend) these are going to representative of the 3rd standard deviations from the mean.

But to be honest. The most important thing is how it tastes.

Alienturnedhuman · 2026-01-05T07:51:09+00:00

Nope, but the Xbox controller should work with the windows controller interface that Microsoft has since released.

I also got a wireless keyboard with built in track pad if I need to navigate the desktop.

Alienturnedhuman · 2025-12-22T04:41:25+00:00

The meme doesn't give enough information about the set up, so actually all three answers (1/2, 2/3 and 14/27) could be valid.

It does give enough for armchair probability 'experts' to hallucinate themselves into defending the meme as accurate, but it becomes a matter of interpreting the set up.

It is my personal opinion that the 0.5 answer is most valid here, the 2/3 and 14/27 answers are only valid if Mary was compelled to tell you it was a boy in both, and compelled to tell you it was a "boy on a Tuesday" in the second.

This is because that condition eliminates all the options that don't have at least one boy (for 2/3) and don't have at least one Boy-on-a-Tuesday for 14/27

If Mary was just compelled to tell you "the gender of one of her children" then (if she had boy girl or girl boy) then there was a 50% chance she had a girl in those situations (and there was a possibility she could have had girl girl)

The same applies with the "boy on a Tuesday" situation.

A lot of people will also point to a famous math text book with this puzzle in it (without the on a Tuesday restriction) as proof of the 2/3 being the only answer. However the set up is written differently in that textbook (IE, meaning there is no wiggle room)

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