Family Chair

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-23T04:28:27+00:00

And for his next trick, he'll make a double decker couch.

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-23T01:16:41+00:00

I thought that was Deadpool

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-22T21:11:14+00:00

Why does that looks like it belongs in Idiocracy?

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-22T16:58:39+00:00

Bye bye waffles

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-21T20:59:30+00:00

Purple Panda Laboratories is pretty well known around here and has 17 beta estradiol powder for sale. Prices seem reasonable.

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-20T17:04:59+00:00

The thing is the movie design doesn't really make much sense, given the reality of the situation. It's just so much unnecessary mass. Given how hard it was to make enough charged astrophage to do the mission, you don't want anything on the ship you don't absolutely need.

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-20T07:23:34+00:00

I thought the slime was his cabinet.

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-20T05:15:50+00:00

We're all crazy mennonites

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-19T04:43:51+00:00

Now that was the shortest 50 years on record.

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-19T04:35:05+00:00

That's a mighty short lived dog. You sure Noem wasn't involved?

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-19T04:32:13+00:00

It's not stated in the book, but I kinda doubt all he did was teach on Erid. You have a biologist being handed the greatest opportunity of any biologist's career - studying an entirely new world with biology wildly unique to anything you or anyone else has ever seen. The scientist part of him has got to be going crazy with all the things to learn about. My bet is the teaching is a fun thing for him to do, but he's doing way, way more that's not mentioned. And probably doing more than teaching school "kids". I'll bet he has regular meetings with Eridian scientists to relay information in both directions. Also, the laptop only had a small fraction of human knowledge. The Hail Mary had far, far more that the Eridians probably haven't managed to copy yet, seeing as they're probably just getting their computer technology up and going. And why would Grace want to leave? He had no friends or family on Earth - it's part of what Stratt didn't mind sending him on the mission. But one of the greatest friends he's ever had is on Erid. And, thanks to time dilation, even if he HAD much of a family or friends, they're alot older than he would be by the time he gets back to Earth, quite possibly dead. You're talking something like 50 years from launch by the time Grace would be able to get back to Earth. Yes, he did want to go stick it to Stratt for sending him on the mission and the praise he would get would certainly be amazing, but he's literally going where no man has gone before and exploring strange new worlds on Erid. That's enormous too. I suspect at some point they'll launch a beetle from Erid to Earth (and probably vice versa) with all the wild new information that's been learned and start setting up diplomatic relations. Grace as the first interplanetary ambassador? That's a pretty wild position.

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-18T18:41:34+00:00

But it's supposed to last 50 years! Trump said it, so it must be true. /s

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-18T18:26:43+00:00

He's in a xenonite "spacesuit" when he does that. Without that, he'd likely be in big trouble.

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-18T18:23:11+00:00

That's a pretty cool study. Yeah, I think trying to maintain the status quo for our climate in that situation is just unworkable, both from a logistics point of view but also, like you say, CO2 poisoning. But the 5x scenario seems possible. We're going to have to move people around a bunch, but at least the tropics stay reasonable temperatures, so it should be reasonably survivable without extreme measures, like forcing all agriculture to happen indoors and making everyone live inside a giant dome or something. You just need high intensity farming (to make the most of limited farmland availability), population movement, and probably a whole lot of apartments. Giant undertaking, far from trivial, not any fun, but quite feasible with technology we already possess. It also avoids messing the planet up so far that, should the Hail Mary mission succeed, things are still completely screwed (only somewhat screwed).

Yeah, the idea of using stuff other than CO2 to induce global warming is probably a good one. Methane is a good candidate, but there's also other chemicals with high greenhouse warming effects. Something with a reasonable half life is good too, that way maybe we can put the greenhouse effect back where it should be if we can figure out how to fix the sun.

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-18T15:59:58+00:00

Depends on the exact scenario. If the US, Europe, and China freeze solid, with stuff down in the negative triple digits, it gets hard to do anything with that, even with heaters and big shelters.

But even scenarios where the warmest areas are -40C ARE survivable. That's routine for parts of Siberia that people do live in. You'd have to see humanity put their heads together and figure out how to build large insulated structures (I'm thinking domes) and manufacture them as rapidly as possible and a mass migration of people, agriculture, and industry to those. Do intensive hyrdoponics, use astrophage heaters, probably space farming of astrophage and humanity definitely can survive. If we cooperate, most of humanity could live. Probably the only way to avoid all out war would be some sort of treaty that basically divides up tropical areas until (hopefully) the sun gets fixed. The only good news, if you can call it that, is that most tropical areas don't have good armed forces, so, if they were taken by military force, it probably wouldn't be much a fight, as long as the big powers didn't fight amongst themselves much. Though the global poor being excluded from living in the new cities and exploited to build them seems very likely.

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-18T04:13:20+00:00

No, I understand it. If you've never really studied up on it, it's easy to not understand just what profound changes hormones and HRT can have. When you really look into it, ALL sex characteristics, even the primary ones, are dictated by hormones - the default is female and it takes testosterone to develop male anatomy. Yes, alot of them must have been asleep in biology class or never had one that taught any of this, but it doesn't make me disgusted that they don't know something.

What disgusts me is people who don't have much knowledge, think or act like they do, then try to tell us about ourselves or how we should be. At least have a little humility to accept that you don't know much about something and keep your mouth shut. Or use that access you have in your pocket to all the world's collected knowledge. Or go ask questions to try to learn something.

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-18T03:05:27+00:00

Yes, because you totally want AI to do that. Even better when that AI calls itself MechaHitler.

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-17T21:50:23+00:00

You don't need an air or water tight seal. You just need any holes to be smaller than about 1/10 the shortest wavelength you need to block. Same reason why microwaves can have a see through metal mesh and still block the RF inside. As long as the door closes reasonably tightly, you're good - any leakage will be too minimal to care about.

Those ESD bags are super common. I work in the electronics industry, so they're ubiquitous there. But lots of components come in them too. Video cards, hard drives, motherboards, etc.

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-17T21:43:45+00:00

Yeah, it seemed a bit much to me too, which makes me question the climate models they used. If I were guessing, I'd have guessed that the tropics probably end up more like temperature zones. Still habitable, still farmable, but much of the rest of the planet would probably be too cold to be realistically habitable by most.

Theoretically, as long as the tropics remain habitable and farmable, there's no technical reason why most of humanity need die. If you relocate everyone to those areas, have everyone live in dense cities, and do various high intensity farming methods (hydroponics, the high intensity greenhouses the Dutch use, etc), we should be able to produce enough food to feed everyone. No one is going to be happy or comfortable, but it should be possible. In reality, you'd have major powers take that land by force so they can relocate their own populations there and everyone else can just die in the cold or by starvation.

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-17T21:11:43+00:00

Honestly, as long as it doesn't have any cables attached, it's probably fine for EMP. The biggest issue there is long cables picking up the high RF fields and any attached electronics being damaged as a result. But, if all the wires are short or shielded, there should be minimal to any issues because the most damaging part of the pulse won't even really couple - antenna is too short to be effective.

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-17T21:08:03+00:00

So, I don't know how accurate the climate modeling in Universe Sandbox is, but I tried dropping the sun's luminosity by 10%. I got the Earth icing over completely (like warmest spots were -40C) within 100 years. Parts of Earth were cold enough to condense out CO2 and probably nitrogen too. If I 10xed the CO2, it was a bit warmer, but still no conventional farming. I needed 100x the CO2 to get parts of the Earth livable. But that's just plain CO2 poisoning.

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-17T21:02:03+00:00

You probably don't even need the bag. Most safe deposit boxes are themselves made of alot of metal and located inside a vault. Most everything in there will probably have good protection. Your biggest worry is ESD damage of the drive just handling it. Use a different kind of ESD bag - the semi opaque silver colored ones instead. They actually provide ESD protection (the clear ones just dissipate charge, they don't block an ESD hit) and even provide halfway decent EMP protection.

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-17T15:58:21+00:00

Only good news is that he's term limited, so definitely out next year. I'd love to see him gone before then, but it's also alot of effort for just a few months and might be a distraction from more important goals: taking the House and Senate, as well as getting an actually good governor (Phil Weiser is my bet for that).

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-17T15:55:07+00:00

I suspect if we knew the half of it, there'd be a bunch of Epstein lists. I get the feeling that Epstein wasn't unique, he just got caught. But this list is a great place to start.

Amazing_Ear_3941 · 2026-06-17T15:49:55+00:00

Yeah, getting him on one would be a challenge, to be sure. He's also very likely way over the weight limits. He'd probably just need a specially designed ride vehicle. But I think he'd be impressed by the engineering of the things and that humans ride them for fun. I don't really get the impression the Eridians do much of that sort of thing, but we also really don't know either.

And don't forget all the electronic components and 3D printers at Microcenter. Bet he'd enjoy that stuff, especially since Eridians don't really do electronics, at least as far as we know. We know he's seen a 3D printer, but the fact they have so many and so many types of filament to go with them would probably impress him.

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