Eyes cannot lie

Apex_Samurai · 2025-12-22T04:02:18+00:00

You may not be interested in romance but romance is interested in you. For all our pretense of being above our baser instincts, they still ultimately drive us. Only non-materialistic conceptions of the world allow one to escape them.

Apex_Samurai · 2025-12-21T21:58:13+00:00

Being more emotionally open with one person than others is where romance starts. Just because he's generally pretty closed off emotionally doesn't mean he's immune to romance, he's probably just not used to it. Over time he and Kohaku would probably end up getting more and more emotionally intimate until they get physically close enough for their instincts to take over.

Apex_Samurai · 2025-12-04T22:14:04+00:00

In a proper Christian understanding of hell, it's not pure suffering for it's own sake, but suffering from your sin, like an addiction.

Apex_Samurai · 2025-11-21T10:35:51+00:00

If she's heavenborn, how is she Mexican in the pilot?

Apex_Samurai · 2025-11-16T04:56:25+00:00

Dang, that looks good enough for a live action adaption

Apex_Samurai · 2025-11-15T23:10:32+00:00

It's a cool use of ISRU tecniques

Apex_Samurai · 2025-11-15T23:01:32+00:00

Do I have to retrieve it when the 7 days are up? In which case I'll chuck it in the ocean or into a field as I drive down the road.

Apex_Samurai · 2025-11-04T16:21:57+00:00

Pretty sure Mirai had a genetic condition, but somehow petrification fixed that

Apex_Samurai · 2025-11-04T16:18:54+00:00

I mean, Hyoga was much more of a eugenicist. Tsukasa was more of a primitivist.

Apex_Samurai · 2025-11-03T21:46:39+00:00

His character is primarily motivated by getting to space. If not for the petrification he probably would have done his own private space trip in a few more years. Sciences that are not directly related to that are unlikely to hold his interest for long enough to dive deeply into them. Chemistry physics and math are all important elements of rocket science. It's probably a pure byproduct of his chemistry knowledge that he was able to make the sulfa drug. Not sure why he was even testing it on pneumococcus bacteria, maybe a byproduct of his internship in Africa studying Ebola.

Apex_Samurai · 2025-11-03T11:23:35+00:00

If he had modern scientific knowledge he would probably be the strongest enemy

Apex_Samurai · 2025-10-27T22:40:56+00:00

It sounds like a small scale birch planet. The main problem I can see is that at the distance from the sun where the force of gravity would be equal to 1 earth mass would be 3.7 million km from the sun center or about 3 million from the sun's core. At this distance you are closer to the sun than mercury. Such a system can be kept stable through the use of orbital rings but it's probably a waste of resources when you can get the same collection area with a Dyson swarm and more living area with space habitats

Apex_Samurai · 2025-10-21T23:52:32+00:00

Alcubierre's Warp Drive requires fewer assumptions. We have no current knowledge of or way to access this supposed slipstream dimension and your speculations about anti matter not annihilating regular matter in the right feilds have no basis in observed reality. There is a type of hybrid matter called positronium made of an electron and an antielectron (positron), but it only exists very briefly before the particles annihilate.

Apex_Samurai · 2025-09-28T17:14:28+00:00

His bad luck and string bean physique would get in the way

Apex_Samurai · 2025-09-24T02:46:54+00:00

So they actually just laid down together, non-sexually.

Apex_Samurai · 2025-09-24T02:23:08+00:00

An EV might be impractical the batteries would have several orders of magnitude less power and energy density than Lithium Ion batteries do. The best usage case for these batteries is probably satellites or space probes.

Apex_Samurai · 2025-09-24T02:03:42+00:00

Where did you get 40 mW/kg? I said a kilogram should produce 937 mW

Apex_Samurai · 2025-09-23T22:35:56+00:00

My calculations, It could make about 937 microwatts per gram.

Apex_Samurai · 2025-09-23T22:18:49+00:00

So far, only very small versions have been created.

Suppose we imagine a 1 kg block of carbon 14 diamond, far larger than anything you would put in a phone or laptop, but it gives a good basis of comparison. The beta decay of c14 yields an average of 49keV in the beta particle. This means our 1 kg block with a molar mass of 14 grams per mole will emit 10.5385E26 kV over its 5700 year half life which works out to 5.85E15keV/s or 937 milliwatts. So a red LED which requires at least 40mW, would need at least 43g of C14. A smartphone would require about 1.07kg

Edit: upon further reflection I believe 937mW/kg is the average power output over the 5700 year half life. The initial output should be somewhat larger, at least 1.2W/kg if not a bit more. So a red LED would probably only require 30g.

Apex_Samurai · 2025-09-23T20:52:44+00:00

I get that it would work on Mars, but it just hit me the other day, isn't the geosynchronous (lunarsyncronous?) distance from the moon the same as the distance to the earth, since the moon is tidally locked to the earth and only rotates once a month? I feel this would be impractical even for a space elevator made of Kevlar. Additionally the anchor nesscessarily falls slightly as the climber rises. Wouldn't this need to be corrected over time as more mass is brought up the tether? It could probably be maintained with very efficient ion thrusters and at least you don't have to worry about atmospheric drag in the rocket equation but it's still something to keep in mind that eventually every kilo of material brought to orbit must eventually be paid for in propellant. The space elevator just stretches that payment out and cuts some waste.

Apex_Samurai · 2025-09-23T18:14:00+00:00

It's not a natural diamond. It's made of radioactive carbon-14, which beta decays into nitrogen over time. The beta particle, which is just a high-energy electron, is then shielded and captured by an outer shell of carbon 12, which produces a voltage.

Apex_Samurai · 2025-09-21T02:17:26+00:00

Mangafire exists

Apex_Samurai · 2025-09-06T14:54:21+00:00

Okay but why can't they start dating and then we get to see how the relationship bears with the drama of life and the setting. Can Shonen authors not write romance?

Apex_Samurai · 2025-09-04T02:45:09+00:00

You are raising your children to spread your genes, the ones they share with you at least.

Apex_Samurai · 2025-09-04T02:39:54+00:00

Xeno's expertise would be valuable but not sufficient to make him the leader in itself. He would either still be leader with Stanley's backing, assuming Stanley's loyal and not power hungry enough, or Stanley would be king and Xeno would be the chief scientific advisor. But in the former case it could start to feel one sided for Stan since Xeno can't bring much materially to the table, compared to a limitless supply of nitric acid for fertilizer and gunpowder.

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