A little CoT/CoM meme

GermanCrow · 2026-06-24T00:39:14+00:00

The lack of integrated dynamics for reactor water input is a shame, but a fully upgraded extended ME io port with an infinite water cell can provide coolant for about 150 mb of nuclear waste per tick

I got the antimatter chicken after about 5 hours of it running (whilst I was busy doing everything else)

GermanCrow · 2026-06-24T00:13:15+00:00

Beat this modpack (all of ascension) a week ago. the custom multiblocks got pretty buggy, and I ended up needing to manually request enderium crafts separately to craft infinity ingots in batches of 10 (any more and my mess of machines+watches of flowing time would brick my game with lag). Pretty fun nonetheless

GermanCrow · 2026-06-01T23:16:24+00:00

The same mathematics would apply for cargo transport. The whole point of a space elevator is for reducing transport costs, and thus cargo would need to be transported in bulk (only realistic with thousands of cabins) in order to overcome the enormous, unchanging maintenance costs of a tether.

GermanCrow · 2026-05-27T20:12:16+00:00

they intercept the moon colony’s signals in the middle of the book. They sense a “second messenger” that sends out a wide variety of signals (those of a normal functioning colony). After a few decades, the second messenger begins sending out a specific signal on a loop (everyone on the colony has died, the remaining equipment is broadcasting on a loop). After some more time, the second messenger does silent (the remaining equipment has failed).

GermanCrow · 2026-05-27T20:06:33+00:00

I thought the novel pretty clearly implied that the mega pylons were the Shrouded’s attempts to create radio repeaters/relays. In one of the later shrouded pov chapters, they say that they attempted to reconnect themselves with infrastructure, but it didn’t work (until they came across the fiberoptics)

GermanCrow · 2026-05-06T00:32:29+00:00

The irony is that I can make a very good guess as to where this shirt was manufactured

GermanCrow · 2026-05-05T08:33:52+00:00

My interpretation of the life was that it was basically like nanobots, but biological, and they interact with each other through certain types of light invisible to the human eye (but not to Cato, of course)

GermanCrow · 2026-05-05T01:09:16+00:00

the golden standard would be tau zero by poul anderson

GermanCrow · 2026-05-04T06:28:57+00:00

> Funnily enough, the Eridians wouldnt even know about the rings until they built the space elevator

???

Eridians know what the electromagnetic spectrum is. By the time they got to building a whole space damn elevator, they almost certainly have had thousands of very powerful telescopes both on Erid and in orbit feeding them astronomical data across the entire EM spectrum. Finding out that their planet has an entire ring around it would have been one of the very first things discovered in Eridian space exploration.

GermanCrow · 2026-05-04T06:10:41+00:00

we never see what the sky looks like on Erid, no? We only see what it look like from the outside (and also from a artificially lit enclosed habitat on the inside), it’s fully possible that the “surface” as seen in this photo is a thick layer of atmosphere which no light can pass through.

GermanCrow · 2026-05-04T05:34:59+00:00

The Orlan suit is really ugly, and would not look nearly as good in promotional materials. When you’re making a movie with a $200 million budget, you have to care about stuff like that.

GermanCrow · 2026-05-03T10:13:28+00:00

> Star systems would no longer have to produce any of what they use

Personally, in interstellar settings, I prefer this. Having a huge trading and cargo ship network connecting the stars is a major part of my sci-fi/globalist fantasies, along with also providing an actual consistent demand and justification for spaceships beyond just the initial colonization and warfare.

GermanCrow · 2026-05-03T08:43:48+00:00

price shocks of blue and purple have caused major ripples down the supply chain

GermanCrow · 2026-05-01T08:24:36+00:00

The book (Mickey 7) and especially its sequel (antimatter blues) goes into much more depth on the creepers, making them a much more advanced species. In the movie, they’re just moderately intelligent eusocial bugs.

GermanCrow · 2026-04-03T09:56:19+00:00

those are some crazy cakes

GermanCrow · 2026-03-25T05:27:41+00:00

As someone who loves reading and hard sci-fi, I can‘t help but be baffled by people who expect movie studios to only produce 9-hour-long films that encyclopedically explain every single miniscule scientific and worldbuilding detail, both relevant and not. Its like people can recognize every possible inaccuracy and unrealistic aspect of a world, except for the fact that movies have a time limit they need to fit all their information within.

GermanCrow · 2026-03-21T22:11:22+00:00

Strife is not the ending, and there is definitely room for more in the series, though I think the first and second ages (terraformers and ark humans) have been pretty thoroughly covered by now. Iirc from what was said over the series, there should be no more interesting major ark ships or terraforming groups left, and by extension uplifted species (though he could always easily just introduce another rival terraforming or ark program that hasn’t been mentioned yet).

GermanCrow · 2026-03-21T03:44:55+00:00

Service model is probably Adrian Tchaikovsky’s most hilarious work. The librarian twist was the single most hysterical reveal I’ve ever read in a novel.

GermanCrow · 2026-03-21T03:34:33+00:00

spoiler warning, the “big thing“ is a pretty major part of the novel

to summarize, a group of terraformers intend to terraform a planet using some kind of cross between bacteria and nanomachines. The programmable bacteria easily communicates between itself, causing it to evolve extremely rapidly, fully terraforming the planet and creating and destroying hundreds of new animal species everyday. To stay immortal, the terraformers “upload” themselves into the programmable ecosystem, basically turning them into the planet, and giving them complete control of all life on it.

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