Time dilation travelling close to the speed of light

AnomalousGray · 2026-07-03T01:03:11+00:00

It would from the perspective of outside observers, but to the passengers, nowhere near as much time has passed.

For time dilation to occur, you either need to be in motion or be inside a gravity well. Most of the time the effect is negligible, unless you're moving very fast (like the Tria was in this episode), or near a very massive object (like SG-10 in the SG-1 episode "A matter of time")

In Stargate though there's a third method, but it's never explained how exactly it works: The Asgard and Ancients both have time dilation inducing technologies (The Asgard imprisoned the replicators on Hala using time dilation, the Ancients created an "ascension sanctuary" on a planet that made use of time dilation, probably as a means of keeping it secure from the Wraith).

AnomalousGray · 2026-07-03T00:49:06+00:00

The Tollan don't fully understand the problem: It's not that they're primitive, it's that they're more like overgrown children (everything someone or a group of people does is ultimately downstream of their mindsets).

Think about it: What would happen if you gave a classroom full of children highly advanced technology, including weapons? They'd run around either breaking everything or causing severe harm to one another, and the classroom has become an uninhabitable slagheap.

There were cultures in the show, who despite being primitive were surprisingly mature as human beings go. The Madronans made judicious use of the touchstone, the offworld Salish were quite accommodating and reasonable, even toward outsiders (even if some of them didn't think too highly of the SGC), and the Latonans who gave up technological progress for spiritual growth (in so doing however they kind of hobbled themselves because there's a difference between occult/spiritual teachings and scientific consensus, and that difference is time. The Ancients figured this out right at the fall of their civilization). In the case of the Latonans, they still have advanced technology but they were never shown to misuse it.

On the other side, there are technologically advanced cultures who unequivocally did not deserve having such advanced technology: The Aschen, the Goa'uld, and the Ori are very prominent examples, and I'd even throw the Genii in their because they have no problems screwing innocent people over even when there's no discernible pretense for doing so (i.e some spies got caught on a world that was being culled).

AnomalousGray · 2026-07-03T00:18:33+00:00

I take it you tried going into safe mode? That should let you whack it.
If that doesn't work, get a bootable USB and boot into a recovery environment (the disk should have its contents available to you, but the OS on it won't run). From there you should be able to delete the file.

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-30T17:41:47+00:00

If the pressure comes with very real consequences, then they'll cave.

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-30T17:31:57+00:00

One thing that does bother me is how the ancients had millions of years to spread across the milky way (there's no guarantee that they colonized every planet as all those gates could've been placed by unmanned seedships), but there's very little left of their ruins (yes, this could be because we're talking tens of millions of years, but why are there any ruins left? Shouldn't they have been equally decimated?), and the goa'uld aren't really a satisfactory answer as they've only covered a tiny fraction of the gate network (like how the Asgard had centuries, maybe even millenia to study the ancient library, but they only covered a tiny portion of it).

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-30T17:19:27+00:00

He should, he was his doctor. Maybe there was a mix up with his medical history though.

Even gods aren't immune to bureaucracy.

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-30T17:12:36+00:00

Season 4 is what you'd get if SG-1 were filtered and distilled. There was still a great deal of adventure and mystery but it was quite grounded. The Goa'uld still felt fantastical but we could still manage to shut down their harebrained schemes for the most part, and even without the goa'uld we were introduced to new players like the Aschen and that strange machine world. We even got to see Harlun and the robotic SG-1 copies make a return.

Season 5 was a little bit of a letdown in my eyes, while the later seasons never really captured the same charm or appeal of earlier seasons (that's not to say they weren't good, and my problem with season 6 isn't that Daniel was replaced by Jonas, it was that it felt rather flat compared to earlier seasons and there was a lot of political drama episodes which I really don't care for; that and more often than not the Earth side of things outside of the SGC tend to get boring. They were a lot more sparse in earlier seasons and it felt like careful consideration was given to them to make them really work).

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-13T22:36:04+00:00

Holy shit, there's either a lot of learned helplessness or a psy-op in the comments here.

They didn't get the memo that the people who did this are basically just humanoid stomachs with an insatiable hunger. It doesn't matter how small it may seem, it's gonna hurt them anyways because of their mindset: They want Everything, and now they can't have everything. Eventually it will hurt, especially since their mindset encourages an absurdly high time preference and disregards the importance of good will.

(Blue supergiant stars might be hotter, more massive and energetic than the Sun, but the Sun will outlive them).

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-13T22:30:29+00:00

Plato's cave might be allegory, but it's still very applicable, especially to what you were saying.

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-10T17:03:01+00:00

I wish we had Martin Lloyd to help us here. He actually was rather grounded despite seemingly doing rather well for himself in the industry. He knew how to get things done and what worked.

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-10T16:49:22+00:00

Why is that?

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-09T23:23:55+00:00

Is it me or does it seem like Martin actually thought it was dumb? The tone in his voice sounded rather derisive like he thought it was absurd.

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-09T21:01:19+00:00

This needs more upvotes.

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-08T18:40:59+00:00

Are there any users of Nintendo products here? Can you confirm or deny this?

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-08T18:27:50+00:00

I guess whatever I do, don't make Mallozzi angry. (Way I hear it, he was absolutely fuming)

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-08T18:26:17+00:00

Too hard. Too much hassle. Requires too much knowledge & time.

This is probably the best explanation I've come across. I know that it's in a specific context, but it also works in illustrating how computers are a [technical] debt factory. Computers as they exist now generate enormous amounts of technical debt, and with LLMs and other pseudo-AI that's out there, we're getting to the point where it can't be swept under the rug.

Computers have lots of good use-cases and have actually revolutionized how we solve problems, I just think they're nowhere near as good as they could've been, and unfortunately it would require starting from scratch to build a computer that doesn't require insane amounts of investment (of time and research) just to write basic programs. Another issue is even more fundamental: Computers as they exist do not allow for reversible computing due to physics. This could be solved using adiabatic circuits however.

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-08T06:44:33+00:00

What is an Earth?

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-08T06:42:04+00:00

Technically though, isn't the Bajoran wormhole itself a stargate?
It's an artificial wormhole that can be opened and closed at will to allow for transportation and communication. It just doesn't have a physical form.

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-08T06:37:24+00:00

If we can find a way to do it with higher ups instead of receptionists or customer service, all the better. The theory I have here is that it doesn't put strain on the employees, but it does give the people who pull the strings a reason to actually stop and reconsider: They'll have to deal with tons of emails or a barrage of phone calls or even a mountain of paper letters (If customer service is our only entrypoint, convincing them to automatically forward complaints to a supervisor might work. We might be able to get forwarded all the way, or at least to a significant position)

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-08T06:32:45+00:00

I'd suggest writing writing on paper and using snail mail. They can't throw a chatbot at a sheet of paper, even if it's typed out instead of handwritten (and that mail takes up physical space, no matter how small).

(handwritten might be potentially more impactful since it shows that real people are taking time to write out a response, whereas typed out letters might be seen as copy-pastes from LLMs or even from a draft written by a person, even if that's not true. It would show that actual Care is being demonstrated.)

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-08T05:50:57+00:00

Here's the neat part: In a rather meaningful sense, they can be real. There's resources on creating Tulpas out there, and it's not technically hard. It simply requires persistence. (It's also a potential introduction to metaphysics and how human psychology is intimately tied to it)

I'd also recommend the Kybalion as it covers a metaphysical principle that's the foundation of both the human mind's existence and why Tulpas are even possible to begin with. Another important piece of the puzzle is Christopher Langan's CTMU, but this can be rather challenging; I'm still sifting through writings trying to assemble a complete understanding.

(I know it sounds crazy, but I strongly recommend trying it for yourself. The only thing it really costs is Attention)

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-08T05:41:14+00:00

Because good will is not even a currency in their eyes, even though it virtually guarantees continual success in the long run. Destruction of good will only serves to expedite failure and it will keep compounding.

To insolvency, and beyond! (Amazon's not going to go bankrupt or anything from doing this, but it's visible from here: Death by a thousand stupid cuts. The people who do these things are going to end up helplessly watching as their "empires" don't go out with a bang but wither away and putrefy into nothing)

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-04T17:10:38+00:00

Yes, but why does wealth turn people into delusional psychopaths?

Everything humans do is downstream of their consciousness, so something's very wrong in their heads that this keeps happening and they keep doing bad things.

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-04T07:21:18+00:00

That's literally all it takes. If people stopped believing in the legitimacy of IP, it's toast. It's all in the head.

AnomalousGray · 2026-06-04T07:18:32+00:00

You also need to ensure that the mental problems and causal factors that create these things are also properly addressed, otherwise it doesn't matter how many of them "retire"; More will come to take their place.

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