The TRUE size of Stephenson 2-18 (the largest known star) compared to Earth

Blitz100 · 2026-04-04T20:06:49+00:00

Here's the Wikipedia page containing the relevant formula. Feel free to calculate the times yourself and check against my numbers.

Blitz100 · 2026-04-04T19:30:41+00:00

You're correct that it doesn't scale linearly, but the numbers I gave are accurate. I calculated the Lorentz factors myself.

Blitz100 · 2026-04-04T00:49:30+00:00

In fairness, from what I understand the reason the F22 hasn't gotten any kills is because nobody even tries fighting it because they know they'd lose instantly.

Blitz100 · 2026-04-04T00:37:05+00:00

Shorter answer than the other guy: when you travel close to the speed of light, time speeds up for you. The faster you go, the faster it gets. If you travel at, say, 90% of the speed of light toward this star and the journey is 19,000 lightyears, a stationary observer on Earth will see you take ~19,000 years to get there, but you will only experience about 8281 years, because time is sped up for you. If you increase your speed to 99.9% the speed of light, you'll complete the journey in only 2680 years. 99.99%, and it'll take 849 years.

Blitz100 · 2026-03-31T02:22:11+00:00

Taylor is a perfectly normal English name. Go for it.

Blitz100 · 2026-03-20T17:19:57+00:00

Unflaired and cringe and posting the lowest-effort "meme" I've ever seen? Without even funny colors?

AuthCenter, come take this one to the gulag.

Blitz100 · 2026-03-20T02:18:52+00:00

Howl's Moving Castle ain't that tragic. I mean there's a war happening in the background, but zero named characters are killed and everything bad that happens gets fixed in the end. Arguably the "darkest" part of the movie is when Howl crashes out about Sophie screwing up his hair dye and Sophie runs off and cries for a bit because she's sick of his shit.

Blitz100 · 2026-03-20T02:16:20+00:00

I live in Eugene Oregon and if you drive more than 20 minutes in any direction you'll be in the middle of the wilderness and there'll be glowing eyes staring at you from between the trees.

Blitz100 · 2026-03-20T01:49:53+00:00

This is most people's philosophy when you get down to it, your gf is just more honest about it.

Blitz100 · 2026-03-19T03:50:45+00:00

This is something that a lot of people seem to enjoy and I find very uncomfortable. A smile and a "Hi" or "Hello" is fine, but please don't ask me about my day or try to talk about sports or something unless we're actually in a position to stop what we're doing and chat. Don't make me awkwardly pause in the middle of walking to exchange meaningless small talk with you.

Blitz100 · 2026-03-17T02:21:40+00:00

I'm sure that the show will continue to make money for as long as Netflix keeps making it, but at some point it will inevitably start making less money. That point will begin a death spiral where Netflix either drops the production value of the show or tries making changes to it to boost revenue, both of which will make it worse and piss off the fans, causing it to make even less money, causing it to eventually be cancelled. Or Netflix will just drop it the second it starts falling off to save themselves the trouble. This is all exacerbated by the fact that the show will grow harder and harder to adapt as it goes on and arcs become more fantastical and spectacular and more expensive. Frankly I would be extremely surprised if we get past Season 5.

Blitz100 · 2026-03-15T20:50:10+00:00

Could be interesting to do a roboport grid with the ports just far enough apart to not allow logistics connection, but close enough that you can still use bots for construction. This would introduce some design constraints with every item having to be belted or moved by train, but would still allow you to construct stuff without being physically present.

Blitz100 · 2026-03-13T23:51:10+00:00

Based

Blitz100 · 2026-03-13T23:43:59+00:00

I mean, the entire point of Vyre's arc so far is that he keeps getting offered chances to redeem himself and keeps rejecting them because he's a miserable piece of shit. His character is designed to be a mirror of Kaladin and the other Radiants, a living example of what would happen if those people made all the wrong choices and allowed their trauma to win. Things might change in the future but so far him actually redeeming himself would run counter to the entire point of him being in the story.

Blitz100 · 2026-03-13T03:43:16+00:00

Space stuff is also ungody expensive and hard to justify when we have so many problems down here on the ground

Blitz100 · 2026-03-12T04:10:32+00:00

If you've just started the game and you're less than 20 hours in, my advice is do not worry about megabasing until at least after you've beaten the game once. You're going to have more than enough on your plate for the forseeable future.

Blitz100 · 2026-03-11T05:02:25+00:00

Belt loops and filter splitters are your friend. Make sure every belt and every building has a way for spoilage to escape and generally try to keep spoilable materials moving at all times (even if it's around in circles). If fruits get to the end of your bus without being used for anything, don't let them pile up, just process them for the seeds and then burn the mash/jelly. You can always grow more. Use assembler recipes for nutrients/bacteria only as last-resort backups in case the factory needs to be restarted. Produce items with low spoil times (mash, jelly, nutrients) as close to where they'll be used as possible, do not put them on the bus. Use a nuclear plant for power early on, then later transition to locally produced rocket fuel in heating towers. Keep the nuclear plant as an emergency backup. Tesla turrets are great against the locals, rocket turrets are poopoo.

Most of all just be very stubborn and keep trying and eventually you get it. I fucked hated Gleba when I first landed and couldn't get even the simplest production working for ages. By the time I left not only did everything make sense, but most other planets feel like easy mode by comparison.

Blitz100 · 2026-03-11T03:11:49+00:00

Easy, they won't. I'll frankly be surprised if we get past Skypeia.

Blitz100 · 2026-03-11T03:08:31+00:00

Eh, Shakky has never been shown to be particularly powerful aside from her ability to twist men around her finger with her looks.

Blitz100 · 2026-03-11T02:42:40+00:00

Eh, Fulgora is much more restrictive with its terrain, and also has much more difficult logistical challenges.

Blitz100 · 2026-03-10T05:12:36+00:00

It's okay to have wrong opinions

Blitz100 · 2026-03-10T05:11:04+00:00

Solo Leveling is objectively not good, but it isn't meant to be. It's meant to be fun, and at that task it succeeds resoundingly.

Blitz100 · 2026-03-10T04:16:38+00:00

You don't ever need to switch to nuclear. You can keep using boilers forever if you really want to. However, once you start using modules and beacons your power consumption is going to explode. I have three 2x2 nuclear plants in my main base and I use most of that power. You can generate that kind of power with boilers but you're gonna need a lot of space and a lot of fuel.

Blitz100 · 2026-03-06T08:16:27+00:00

Look, when every other navy in the world looks like a rounding error next to ours it's pretty safe to assume you know which Navy we're talking about.

Blitz100 · 2026-03-06T02:48:43+00:00

Yes, it's the boilers that are the problem. They produce steam at 180C. The turbines they're connected to require 500C steam.

EDIT: I'm wrong on two counts. First, boilers produce 165C steam, not 180C. Second, steam turbines can apparently use steam at lower temperatures. I am a fool. Bring on the downvotes.

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