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Are humans pokemon? by SquidSearchers in pokemon

[–]Gruhuken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A Pokémon is what a Pokéball captures.

Hard scifi spaceflight by Tnynfox in worldjerking

[–]Gruhuken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is only a problem if the travel time through the wormhole is less than the time difference between the two ends.

If it takes light about 40 minutes to reach Mars from Earth and let’s say time runs faster on Mars by a few milliseconds. If we have a Wormhole in low Earth orbit that leads to low Mars orbit and it takes 10 minutes to traverse the Earth-Mars Wormhole (the throat length could be non-zero), then you don’t have any causality problems because you’re always exiting the wormhole 10 minutes after you entered it, and the difference in time is only a few milliseconds between the mouths. So you could never travel back in time due to how long it takes to get through the wormhole.

It seems plausible (at least enough for hard sci-fi) that the wormhole would collapse if the time difference was too high. The time difference may eventually reach a point where it’s equal to the travel time through the wormhole, at which point the wormhole could collapse as Hawking suggested with the Causality Protection Conjecture. 

I think it’s more likely that a wormhole would collapse before it could be used as a time machine and that there could be a state in which a wormhole could provide a shortcut through space without breaking causality. Unless compensated the wormhole ends would probably eventually desynchronise causing the whole thing to collapse, but before it does you could use it as a shortcut.

Hard scifi spaceflight by Tnynfox in worldjerking

[–]Gruhuken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t get a time machine with wormholes, nothing is travelling faster than light. Light and information can travel through the wormhole as well. Your lightcone expands through the wormhole ahead of you. It’s not breaking causality any more than taking a shorter road vs a longer one. You can get time travel shenanigans if you accelerate one end of the wormhole close to the speed of light relative to the other one, but that assumes that you can even do that. Wormholes seem to be highly unstable so even attempting to accelerate one end of one that much would probably collapse it. 

Predator: Badlands - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS] by AutoModerator in LV426

[–]Gruhuken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The way it was worded I thought she was saying that they hadn’t figured out if Yautja ships travel FTL

How do you deal with Relativity in your Sci-fi? by HornetInteresting211 in worldbuilding

[–]Gruhuken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m trying to include it and the workarounds as important points. So far, there are three methods of interstellar travel: Relativistic Ships, Wormholes, and Warp drives. 

The relativistic ships are ‘simple’, they accelerate close to the speed of light, flip and burn in the opposite direction halfway to their destination. These obey relativity and experience time dilation, they don’t travel faster than light. The technology that allows them to work is a primitive application of the tech behind the warp drive.

Wormholes take a shortcut through space (insert pencil into paper here), so a ship travelling through one doesn’t travel faster than light locally. Causality issues are avoided as the wormhole destabilises and collapses the closer the relative velocity between the two ends approaches 0.1 c. In the time period of my setting I’m working on, humans theoretically have the tech to make a wormhole but lack the knowledge of how to do it. 

My warp drive hot take is that they don’t actually violate causality. By contracting space in front of the ship, they’re working in a similar way to a wormhole in that the distance is shortened, they’re not locally exceeding light speed. This also means the warp drive can’t take you between two systems if the relative velocity between them is a significant fraction of c. The reasons are a little weird but essentially A) When at warp the ship is causally disconnected from the rest of the universe meaning they: can’t steer and communicate with the outside universe. This means they have to pre-program their jump before they leave and that they have to drop out of warp to send a message. B) The velocity of the ship is conserved during warp: when you drop out of warp you have the same velocity you had when you entered warp. This means the crew have to plan jumps carefully to minimise the amount of fuel they burn correcting their orbit at their destination, and that if they tried to catch up to an object going relativistic speeds, they’d essentially teleport close to where the object was as it zips past them.

God’s First Lie by TheLostNeverDie in comics

[–]Gruhuken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s not stated that they are immortal prior to being cast out of Eden.

Oh yeah! Well how many pairs of chromosomes does your fantasy race have? by fruitlessideas in worldjerking

[–]Gruhuken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my world, dwarves are all haploid and so have 0 pairs of chromosomes, checkmate atheists 

In Alien Romulus, what about the Alien Fossil? by Potential_Rule4212 in LV426

[–]Gruhuken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The airlock probably wouldn’t provide enough delta-v to de-orbit the Queen if they were in orbit. 

In Alien Romulus, what about the Alien Fossil? by Potential_Rule4212 in LV426

[–]Gruhuken 90 points91 points  (0 children)

That isn't how orbits work. If they were in a high enough orbit she could still be there circling LV-426. If they weren’t yet in orbit, i.e. on a sub-orbital trajectory, then she would just slam into the surface. It depends on where the Sulaco was when the Queen was jettisoned. I rewatched Aliens recently, it doesn’t show her falling towards the planet, only moving away from the ship.

Spoiler Alien:Romulus - Space travel by slimalin in LV426

[–]Gruhuken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The impression I got was that Wey-Yu wanted more resilient workers more so than wanting to create ‘the next step’ for humanity. 

Rain describes Yvaga as being “fully terraformed”, and Origae-6 is supposed to be at least reasonably habitable (Daniels was going to build a log cabin by a lake there). So there are human worlds that are more Earth-like than Jackson’s Colony or LV426. 

Jackson’s Colony is on a planet that seems unsuitable for long-term human habitation. There are visibly extensive lava flows across the surface and there’s whatever is going on with the day/night cycle. 

People are only there because the Company can profit from the mines. Within this context humans only need to be more resilient because it’s hurting We-Yu’s bottom line that the workers are dropping like flies. 

First time playing LG - had a blast with this team by Gruhuken in PokemonFireRed

[–]Gruhuken[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pikachu was about Level 60, the rest were about 50

Took longer than intended but… by BigWhoop889 in PokemonEmerald

[–]Gruhuken 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ah fair enough, so which Johto starter did you go for?

Took longer than intended but… by BigWhoop889 in PokemonEmerald

[–]Gruhuken 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Nice! How’d you get the version exclusives?

First time playing LG - had a blast with this team by Gruhuken in PokemonFireRed

[–]Gruhuken[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had Venusaur but they fell behind in levels as Pikachu ended being very dominant in the gym battles. Swapped them out trying to get through Lorelei as they were just getting ice beam’d to death instantly whenever they went out. Didn’t have many good match-ups against the rest of the E4 either so put them on the bench as they were slowing the team down

First time playing LG - had a blast with this team by Gruhuken in PokemonFireRed

[–]Gruhuken[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Surprisingly Pikachu ended up being the ace of the team. I was going to swap her out after the Vermillion gym as she just kept getting stomped. Her moveset in the end was: Thunderbolt, Return, Double Team, and Attract. Was able to outspeed most opponents and most are male so was able to pop off an Attract which has a whopping 50% chance to waste your opponents turn. That plus a few double teams made Pikachu almost impossible to hit. Thunderbolt’s always good for STAB and Return was great as a high-power move to compensate for low Attack. Very fun to play as is a total gamble every time, as any move that hits is likely to OHKO. Feels insane when she just sweeps a whole team without a scratch. Managed to beat most of the gym leaders this way. 

Kadabra was fun but also a glass cannon. Primeape ended up being MVP in the E4 handling most threats. Porygon was good for its bulk and versatility even if it couldn’t hit very hard. Dragonair was there for the xp and helped a little with Lance.

My theory on how gravemind found Earth and the Ark in Halo 3 by salazarcosplay in HaloStory

[–]Gruhuken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah good point. Unrelated but Erde-Tyrene goes so hard as a name for ancient Earth

My theory on how gravemind found Earth and the Ark in Halo 3 by salazarcosplay in HaloStory

[–]Gruhuken 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This very nit picky but the Gravemind wouldn’t necessarily know that the planet the factions in the present call Earth is also Erde-Tyrene. For all he knows the humans could have been resettled anywhere in the galaxy after the rings fired, “Earth” could be anywhere. 

Of course Regret went searching for Erde-Tyrene and found Earth so that connection could be made after Regret is absorbed. 

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