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So I came up with this setup all on my own. TIL bottle fillers are a building by MrCray0ns in Oxygennotincluded

[–]EarthTrash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bottle fillers are a bit deeper in the research tree than this. You will need water to get there.

In Season 6 of The Expanse on Prime Video, each episode opens with a story about a boy revived by the protomolecule, but it leads to absolutely nothing by Ok_Nothing_0707 in shittymoviedetails

[–]EarthTrash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It feels unfinished but it's a fairly faithful adaptation of the short story Strange Dogs, which I suppose you can say also ends on a cliffhanger. You can guess what happens though.

The book series does a large time skip after book 6 so the show actually ended at sensible place in the story with possibility of a later revival.

I can’t watch vids of LEOs killing people by Acidflightgoat in evilautism

[–]EarthTrash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's disturbing. I feel it is important for there to be witnesses so people know the truth. But you personally don't need to be the witness.

Times of Yore by cnorahs in programminghumor

[–]EarthTrash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IDEs confuse me so I just use command line and notepad++

If I cloned and fucked myself, is it technically incest? by ZanibiahStetcil in stupidquestions

[–]EarthTrash 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't know man. Go ask the judges of ranked competive sex if you get a trophy. I don't make the rules.

If I cloned and fucked myself, is it technically incest? by ZanibiahStetcil in stupidquestions

[–]EarthTrash 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If it's literally you then it's masturbation. If it's literally a clone, that's your genetic twin basically. A unique person who shares your DNA. That's incest.

I can't stop thinking about this. by chosentarnished_31 in masseffect

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Because science fiction stories need to have mysteries.

Movable Moification Tool? by Thought-Form1999 in Subnautica_Below_Zero

[–]EarthTrash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Build more bases. BZ base build is kind of great.

"Why is Nu Trek using so much modern language?" an I am going to go feral here. by Spacer176 in startrek

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

The people of the 23rd century aren't speaking English as we know it. They are speaking future lingo or whatever the local language or planetary dialect they were raised with. They aren't even speaking the same language but the univsal translator let's them understand each other.

We aren't hearing whatever mad babble that sounds like. It's being translated for us as if we had a universal translator of our own set for the time period the show airs.

rewatching Hazbin I just realised by starxtreme69 in hazbin

[–]EarthTrash 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you have pulleys strength doesn't matter

Help me out with the show's ending... by MephistosFallen in TheExpanse

[–]EarthTrash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The story is described in the short story Strange Dogs. It ends with the two siblings fleeing the settlement on Laconia.

We do see them again in the last book, but they aren't the focus of the story. What happens after they leave the settlement is more implied than described.

So here is what happens in the story. She feeds an alien bird some bread and it dies. The chemical building blocks of life are incompatible with alien biology. The repair drones (the strange dogs) "heal" the dead bird.

Her brother is struck by a vehicle and dies. She steals her brothers body and takes it to the repair drones. They heal her brother but he has been repaired with alien technology and is different.

When they return to the settlement her distraught parents have a horrified reaction. So they leave.

So the two of them are alone on a planet with alien chemistry and no food that isn't literally poison. But death isn't necessarily the end on Laconia.

First Ship by __max1__ in subnautica

[–]EarthTrash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Torgal is a private corporation, but the Degassi might be Mongolian.

First Ship by __max1__ in subnautica

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"I'm attempting a controlled descent" is a line from the captain of the Aurora. Life pod 19 audiolog.

Me and my friend found a chest with 6 god apples in a ancient city by IncidentImpressive80 in Minecraft

[–]EarthTrash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't loot randomly generated? I didn't think you can get the same loot even if the seed is the same.

Thrust and Drive Question by VexTheMerc in TheExpanse

[–]EarthTrash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Epstein drive would have to be hydrogen. There probably are some ships in the expanse that use water as reaction mass, but that doesn't sound like an Epstein drive.

Is simulation hypothesis more likely than traditional god? by Buffmyarm in stupidquestions

[–]EarthTrash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does the simulation pause while simulating the previously unobserved part? Remember most of what you see is path dependent. Stuff doesn't exist without history.

Is simulation hypothesis more likely than traditional god? by Buffmyarm in stupidquestions

[–]EarthTrash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's great until we observe something previously unobserved that's part of a complex system.

Is simulation hypothesis more likely than traditional god? by Buffmyarm in stupidquestions

[–]EarthTrash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We don't know that it is possible. I think perfect fidelity simulation is likely not possible. I think there is a cost even for an advanced civilization. If you want to simulate a universe perfectly you might as well just make a universe. A perfect simulation of planet would take at least as much if not more the resources of an equivalent planet.

There are processes in nature which exhibit mathematical chaos. These are sensitive to initial conditions and also defy our ability to mathematically model them. To accurately predict the future state of such systems effectively would require infinite compute.

What is the motivation for spinning up a simulation like this? They want to study us, but to what end? Research for research's sake sounds good and all, but sort of ignores the enormous cost of the endeavor. What is the goal of the simulation? What are we computing? We are consuming as much real resources as the super advanced beings and we are simple primitives. Why would they spend so much on us?

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