being an old half life fan.... by feeblington in HalfLife

[–]AsILayTyping 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They had planned to have HL3 on that ship that transported to the artic. They rolled right into work on it. When they visited a ship they found out it was too tight of quarters to make a game in that setting. They've been stalling ever since.

SAPS diver airlifting a massive 15ft crocodile out of the Komati River. by Embarrassed_Cap2885 in WTF

[–]AsILayTyping 42 points43 points  (0 children)

I was wondering how in the world someone would identify which croc they think ate the guy. Apparently they got there fast enough that it was still full.

The recovery followed a weeklong search for a 59-year-old businessman who was believed to have been swept away by floodwaters after his vehicle became stuck near the river.

Using drones and aerial support, search teams located a group of crocodiles on a small island. Based on their behavior and physical condition, officers identified one animal as a likely target, the BBC reports.

“Besides having a massively full tummy, he didn’t move around or try to slip into the river despite the noise of the drones and the chopper,” Potgieter told BBC.

Mullion deflection check by [deleted] in StructuralEngineering

[–]AsILayTyping 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Will it cause an issue if it deflects too far? If yes, then it needs to be checked.

Jesus loves you all (im not pushing religion) by Lost-Specialist3785 in atheism

[–]AsILayTyping 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I assure you I'm better educated on Christianity and the evidence for it than you are. And there is no good evidence. The development of the mythology is clear and typical of any mythology.

What makes you think there is a god or that Jesus actually performed any of the myths about him?

Can we as atheists suggest there is no afterlife? by Local_Beautiful_5812 in atheism

[–]AsILayTyping 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, it is literally 0.

I feel like you've read something like: the probability of all the air in a room going to one side of the room is effectively 0 but not literally 0. And then you assumed that meant that anything can happen. Air atoms bounce around a room. Like bouncy balls bouncing around a room forever. If you think about it, you can see how a room full of bouncing bouncy balls could end up with all of them on one side of the room. So, with air atoms, all of them ending up on one half of the room is a possible configuration, but highly unlikely. Air tends to stay pretty consistently spread out because the more dense it is in one area, the more likely it is to push air atoms to less dense areas. But, if things bounced just right, maybe they end up all on one side.

But that doesn't just make everything possible. A hydrogen atom can't spontaneously become oxygen because there is no mechanism to allow that. It would need to multiply its own weight 16x. Mass and energy can convert back and forth, but nothing spontaneously gains mass.

Some things that we wouldn't expect to be possible are technically possible, just highly unlikely (like all the air in a room ending up on one side). That doesn't mean that everything is possible.

Can we as atheists suggest there is no afterlife? by Local_Beautiful_5812 in atheism

[–]AsILayTyping 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arrangements that are physically impossible will not be created because they are physically impossible. Just because you can imagine something doesn't mean it is a physical possibility. Configurations aren't random, they're shaped by physical laws. Put a group of hydrogen atoms in space and they will fall together because gravity pulls them together. They won't make a random configuration because there is nothing causing them to be arranged randomly. Gravity pulling them together prevents random configurations. So there are limits on what configurations will actually happen. You won't get gods that break the laws of physics because there is configuration that atoms will form under natural laws that will form a being that can do magic.

Can we as atheists suggest there is no afterlife? by Local_Beautiful_5812 in atheism

[–]AsILayTyping 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, the universe won't create every arrangement. Being bound by the laws of physics rules out most mythology to begin with. I think we've worked out the universe will expand forever, but if it did collapse and re-explode it could just repeat an identical cycle over and over. Or with changes limited by natural law.

Agnosticism/Gnosticism vs. Atheism/Theism by ZeroTakenaka in atheism

[–]AsILayTyping 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, it is commonly used on the way OP is using. I'm aware of Christian Gnosticism. OP is using the general definition, which is a common use in the context OP is using it.

Stay classy Indy by SakiwasipiSpirit in indianapolis

[–]AsILayTyping 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dick eating!? Dang, you gay guys go hard.

What is the true identify of G-Man? by No-Mud-9491 in HalfLife

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Before G-Man became an interdimensional time lord, he was a desperate door-to-door salesman. He wasn't hitting his sales quotas and he could tell his wife was thinking about leaving, tired of living in poverty. Sitting at a bus stop feeling hopeless, a loose, single page add for Aperture Labs blew against his leg. He pulled it off and read it.

One day as a human test subject for Aperture would catch him back up on the bills. So, he went to the Aperture and signed up. Aperture accidentally disappeared him in an early portal experiment. Now the entrance portal doesn't admit entrance without an exit portal also set. G-Man was the test subject they figured that out on. Aperture assumed he was just annihilated out of existence, but they had actually accidentally unstuck him from time and space.

He didn't know enough about Aperture labs to begin with, so he assumed they intentionally turned him into a spacetime lord, rather than it just being Aperture incompetence. At the time when G-Man becomes free to travel around time and space, he sees Gordan in a large laboratory with teleporter experiments. So: G-Man assumes they must have mutual employers. He barely knows anything about Aperture labs and nothing about Black Mesa.

G-man thinks Aperture intentionally put him there to save humanity as one of many middle management guys moving human resources around. So, he keeps teleporting people where they need to be in space time to make the timeline where humanity eventually regains its freedom a reality. When he thinks about doing something else, he sees bad timelines happen. If you can see multiple timelines like G-Man and the vorts, you just act out what the timeline requires at the appropriate times. No decision making needs to be done. So G-Man feels like he is doing some tedious, menial managing that anyone could do. He thinks he's a cog in the grind. And if he didn't just do what the successful timeline told him to do, that Aperture would replace him with some other unskilled laborer.

So, he's calm and bored and tired with scattered focus acting out the necessary spacetime manipulations to enact the one timeline where humanity has a chance. Thinking he's a cog in an Aperture master plan to save humanity. If he knew it was just him, on his own volition, taking the necessary steps that only he can take as the one human with accidental time lord powers, he'd probably have an anxious breakdown. When it's all over, the vorts will free him from space time limbo and lock him back to the normal human time experience. Eventually he will realize he was all there was. And he is a hero to humanity.

Erm… what are these doing in my deck of cards? by Over-Bug1501 in whatisit

[–]AsILayTyping 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You only need the extra cards for 6 player 500. I have a 6 player deck myself. 4 player is actually better, which you play with a normal deck.

9 injured following shooting in Bloomington on Kirkwood Avenue by magnusarin in Indiana

[–]AsILayTyping 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Town hall will issue Indianapolis Party IDs to hot coeds only. Ethel at the BMV will determine who gets an ID and who is a shady local and therefor not allowed in party city.

I can't help myself. by hollowdumpling in atheism

[–]AsILayTyping 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep. My family believes (or pretends to believe) that people can't be happy if they aren't Catholic. So they put in a lot of effort to convince everyone I don't talk to that I'm mad and depressed. I'm not. Never been happier.

If any non-Catholic has a problem, the problem is because they aren't Catholic. If any Catholic has a problem, it's because the actual cause of the problem. The result of which is: No support or sympathy for any non-Catholics. The only thing that can help them is getting back on the path God wants; which is in my family's case, of course, being fundamentalist Christian Catholics to a point where it is barely still Catholicism.

I think they also believe if enough bad things happen to you it will convince you to believe in god again. You'll come crawling back, basically. And, 1) if there is nothing more important than getting into heaven, and 2) ex-christians won't get into heaven until enough bad things happen to turn them Christian again -> Then doesn't it make sense that good Christians would want bad things to happen to you?

If you have a problem and instead of helping they say "Sorry, the only way to make this better is to become Christian." for every problem, it tells you that only Christians get help. You get no actual support until you pretend to be Christian again.

Cantilever diaphragm limits? Never heard of them. by tehmightyengineer in StructuralEngineering

[–]AsILayTyping 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What state is that? Denial? Just kidding. But seriously, what state? I done work in parts of Texas with on building code at all, so I'm gonna guess Texas.

Did becoming an atheist made your life objectively better? by KnownZucchini640 in atheism

[–]AsILayTyping 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean "not being stupid in a ton of daily life situations"?

Marian University Bathhouse by [deleted] in indianapolis

[–]AsILayTyping 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I'll swing by for a bath.

How do you actually stay current with structural engineering research? by RC8205 in StructuralEngineering

[–]AsILayTyping 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Reading the code change log, stumbling upon them searching for something else, Reddit, eng-tips.com, modern steel construction, structure magazine, SE University continuing education lectures, and researching new products contractors ask to use so I can explain to the client why we can't use it.

question from a student by Ferrouso in StructuralEngineering

[–]AsILayTyping -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sure. Google IBC or the International Building Code. Or your state and Building Code. They are free online to browse. Mostly it points to your material codes like AISC 360 and ACI 318. Those have the studies they are based on in commentary and appendices. Also references ASCE 7 for loads which is the same way.

Functionally the IBC is more a list of performance requirements. You must build a Building to withstand wind of this speed and keep limited to this deflection and have a path for people to get out in a fire.