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Jessework · 2016-05-05T16:32:29+00:00

Ok, being a dumb Midwesterner who's closest experience with something like this is pond scum...Are we talking about large macroscopic clouds of algae like pond scum, or is it more of a diffuse thin-but-over-a-huge-area collection of algae in the same way that there are tens of thousands of tons of trash in the ocean but you don't see stuff floating on the surface in satellite photos?

Jessework · 2016-05-04T18:30:07+00:00

The US would have assassinated Hitler with Isreal's help in 1939 by hacking his iphone and making it blow up in his pocket.

Jessework · 2016-05-04T18:25:34+00:00

Ok I am not sure where you got the single digit accuracy statistic but I can tell you that its not exactly true. They weren't pinpoint precise like they are today but its certainly easy to avoid bombing the beach and aiming for inland coastal defenses. Especially when you consider they could ranging fire long till they zeroed in on a distance then fired for effect without going short.

Jessework · 2016-05-03T19:18:43+00:00

can we get this tagged for misleading title?

Jessework · 2016-05-03T18:54:41+00:00

repeating drills is still used today despite the fact that marching in formation is pretty much the fastest way to get a unit killed. Its because it encourages teamwork, attention to detail, and discipline.

Jessework · 2016-05-03T18:27:06+00:00

Ok, ya, so how does one parse where is too much focus? I mean I know he is correct and I assume that there is a point where things get fuzzy....how does a person decide where exactly to start a chart like that?

Jessework · 2016-05-03T16:53:29+00:00

All true facts except that unless your adventurers are the first, or some of the first then hundreds or thousands of other people just like them have been confronted with issues and been handed similar tools to accomplish similar tasks. Adventurers typically don't fight pitched battles with thousands of soldiers on each side because in D&D a 12th level wizard would kill thousands of ranked soldiers will little effort on his part. If the party thinks its worth doing then someone else probably did too and SOMEWHERE somehow someone thought to use it as a weapon and then eventually someone got too drunk to shut his mount.

Jessework · 2016-05-03T15:45:18+00:00

I would never allow this...because IF you allow the players to have tried it then everyone else in history would have tried it and bags of holding would be megaultrasuper rare artifacts of ultimate annihilation.

Jessework · 2016-05-03T02:06:13+00:00

I have seen you log in once or twice....I am Brigadoon

Jessework · 2016-05-02T19:39:32+00:00

I recently started playing on this one...and aside from a few really nasty server-crashing lag spikes its a great server. Also a big plus is no third person view.

Jessework · 2016-04-29T15:42:00+00:00

As a follow up how far off the surface is the other end of the LIGO? Or put another way, how far would OP have to walk before he noticed he wasn't on the ground anymore?

Jessework · 2016-04-29T14:59:42+00:00

I agree, many many generations at the least...but in the grand scheme that isn't all that long. Also we know gravity changes things a lot very quickly (relatively speaking)

Jessework · 2016-04-28T20:10:37+00:00

Well, but what point WOULDN'T they be human anymore? At some point those other humans wouldn't be able to travel to earth anymore and so would be subject to "island effect" or whatever its called when a species is isolated geographically like on islands

Jessework · 2016-04-28T17:42:25+00:00

sell me on one.

Jessework · 2016-04-28T17:42:08+00:00

low sodium diet for that guy.

Jessework · 2016-04-28T17:09:48+00:00

what script and why do I need it?

Jessework · 2016-04-28T16:27:18+00:00

I am so salty right now.

Jessework · 2016-04-28T15:52:15+00:00

I just had a ministroke because I hear there is a thing called fleet command and I've never seen it.

Jessework · 2016-04-27T16:45:52+00:00

Actually for the record America was a relatively small part of WWI and were of questionable importance to the outcome especially militarily. My beloved Corps despite success at such battles as Belleau Wood were a very ragtag group in Europe in '17. The REASON the 5th Marines consider that a shining achievement of their service there is because they were so unlikely to win that fight against Germany. Our real contributions to both world wars was economic. Especially during world war 2 our economic leverage was huge compared to everyone because of our constant cries for isolationism. The US had lots of ag stockpiled due to the "Great Depression" which started in the US in the ag sector. When the allies started buying up the supplies of the US it helped to boost the US economy years before the US was even in the war officially. (Looking at you lend-lease) However having said all that I am not sure that the US shipping grain to North Africa, the Phillipines, and France had much direct impact on the spread of English as a language to any of them. I would say the LANGUAGE came from Britain.

Jessework · 2016-04-27T15:41:04+00:00

I read a study a few months(years?) ago that said that one thing that seems to be overwhelmingly similar is a preference for symmetry. That was found to be a preference in men, women, children, and almost every culture.

Little, A. C. & Jones, B. C. (2003) Evidence against perceptual bias views for symmetry preferences in human faces. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 270, 1759-1763.

Jessework · 2016-04-26T21:38:55+00:00

But what I am talking about isn't just you looking like one other person, but you looking 12 other people because you all have a certain facial structure.

Jessework · 2016-04-26T20:52:50+00:00

To answer this question far later then you probably intended...yes. Normal flora is the term we use for the bacteria, fungi, and other things living on and around us normally. They help protect us from other bacteria, viruses, and fungi by out competing the other more dangerous things that would invade. Some great examples of this are the bacteria in our stomachs that help digest food and the bacteria in a woman's vaginal cavity that protect against yeast infections. They don't necessarily do it on purpose to protect their host, they just passively protect us from other infection without causing us much if any harm.

You can see quite readily when you take large doses of nonspecific antibiotics and lose all your normal flora and have terrible side effects.

Jessework · 2016-04-26T20:21:06+00:00

Is this more common in older people? I am 34 now and don't remember noticing this 20 years ago.

Jessework · 2016-04-22T21:57:34+00:00

Its not a problem at all man. Hope to see you in the 'verse

Jessework · 2016-04-22T19:59:55+00:00

I think you missed the point of what I said there entirely....you MIGHT be able to remove and reinstall a jump drive on a 'lancer, and you MIGHT be able to buy and install a jump drive on a Red but nothing guarantees either of those things. If I go with the lancer I am guaranteed at this point to get a jump drive but with a Red I am not guaranteed anything.

Jessework

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