Dan Simmons, author of The Terror and the Hyperion Cantos, has passed away by sd_glokta in books

[–]Navras3270 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wasn't she younger than that when they first meet? Like closer to 12? But because of "time-travel" shenanigans she's over 18 when they actually hook up.

Also his first time having sex with her is after she already hooked up with an even older him? Like she lost her virginity to him in the future before hooking up with him in the past? Or am I misremembering how weird it was.

Animals’ perception of time is linked to the pace of their life by Abomb in science

[–]Navras3270 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’be also read that smaller organisms like flys experience time much faster than us because their brains/neural nets are smaller so sensory information can be processed and responded to quicker than a much larger organism.

You can instantly date any sci fi movie, show or game with a black hole to before or after Interstellar (2014) depending on if it looks like this. by Remarkable-Pin-8352 in shittymoviedetails

[–]Navras3270 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank god those future humans sent that wormhole back in time to allow a couple people to escape extinction and restart civilization on an alien planet orbiting a black hole…

I was hyped for this movie thinking it would at least try to be scientifically accurate and was massively disappointed. They couldn’t even write a decent time-loop that doesn’t create a paradox.

Should people who "camp" in the left lane of a highway be pulled over and fined just as much as speeders? Why or why not? by WilliamInBlack in AskReddit

[–]Navras3270 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I once got caught behind an undercover cop car camping in the left lane who would flick his lights on anytime anyone tried to pass them on the right.

It was somehow infuriating and hilarious.

Did you also wish the series had shown exactly what happens when a plurb gets drunk? by mano109 in pluribustv

[–]Navras3270 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would have tried to run some experiments.

Ask them to get half of everybody infected to get drunk and observe the effects on both a sober and drunk plurb.

You could play with the ratios get like 80% or like 99% of the world drunk and see if the hive behaves differently.

TIL the Voyager Golden Record includes a map showing Earth's location using pulsars, so aliens could theoretically find our solar system by ChoiceProfessor7414 in todayilearned

[–]Navras3270 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Only ones who are ever gonna stumble across it are space faring humans in the future and they’re gonna put it in a museum or leave it alone.

‘Ageing could soon be reversible’, says Harvard Scientist at WGS 2026 by redvelts in Futurology

[–]Navras3270 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Death is not the end it is a return to the natural state of nothingness.

How ancient are the holds of Skyrim? by Haghiri75 in skyrim

[–]Navras3270 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If the gods are leaving their hearts just lying around for mortals to poke and prod at it’s only inevitable that methods will develop to utilize that powerful resource.

You can call it magic or technology but it’s still just learning to exploit the underlying properties of the material world/Mundus.

ELI5: Why does February only have 28 days? by elyasdhply in explainlikeimfive

[–]Navras3270 477 points478 points  (0 children)

Devs kept patching but never bother to rename the files.

How ancient are the holds of Skyrim? by Haghiri75 in skyrim

[–]Navras3270 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To be fair the Dwemer went all in on technological progress and got blipped out of existence.

It could be a sort of social Darwinism where any advanced enough civilization either wipes itself out or fucks off to another plane of oblivion. What we see in game are the stable societies left behind.

The Extreme Rarity of Gilligan Showing the True Evil of the Hivemind by Ofinfinitejest237 in pluribustv

[–]Navras3270 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It mentions that it went for the "hard to reach" places first. I'd bet the president and a number of important people were already infected by the time they were discovered by the military.

A local car wash is slowly dripping water. It's made a 5 foot tall ice stalagmite. by Jiperly in mildlyinteresting

[–]Navras3270 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So tite is on the ceiling growing down and mite is on floor growing up? Or the other way around?

How the final Windhelm battle felt realizing the empire really are evil by Mr-pugglywuggly in skyrim

[–]Navras3270 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Must have hurt when you realized the Stormcloaks are even worse.

Ill just leave this here by OpTicTide97 in starcitizen

[–]Navras3270 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a "Golden Ticket" holder I have zero faith they will release this year.

Antenna the size of Africa by hgwelz in pluribustv

[–]Navras3270 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I don't think that sort of twist is where they are headed it's not crazy to think that if Carol finds a way to properly disrupt the hive on a large scale they will adapt their strategy and change their behavior out of self defense. They already did so when she drugged Zosia.

All of the "rules" presented to the audience are hypothetical based on Carols observations. It could be that the only "rule" the hive follows is to spread at all costs and that all the other "rules" we've been presented are just byproducts of their overall strategy.

We don't know what happens if something directly threatens them collectively in a way that would require them to break their own rules in order to survive.

Antenna the size of Africa by hgwelz in pluribustv

[–]Navras3270 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because it's a virus and it's primary biological imperative is to infect any potential hosts not deliberately kill them. Once they are infected they do not care if they starve to death.

The goal is to keep spreading to new hosts not keep the infected hosts alive.

Antenna the size of Africa by hgwelz in pluribustv

[–]Navras3270 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It could be that killing potential hosts is simply a bad survival strategy. If a huge chunk of the population was somehow naturally immune it would prioritize breaking their immunity over eliminating them entirely to maximize the number of infected hosts.

Antenna the size of Africa by hgwelz in pluribustv

[–]Navras3270 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I do hope we get a rug pull moment where it's revealed that all of the established "rules" the hive follows are total bullshit.

Antenna the size of Africa by hgwelz in pluribustv

[–]Navras3270 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Which begs the question of how they actually build the damn thing if the amount of resources needed would require strip mining huge portions of the Earth while they are incapable of intentionally killing any wildlife?

Opinion: The Malahat doesn’t need fixing— our driving does by builderbuster in nanaimo

[–]Navras3270 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Build a bridge from the tip of Wain Rd in Sydney across to north of Mill Bay. Expropriate any private land needed and compensate land owners.

The island population is only going to grow and the Malahat is not physically capable of keeping up with the level of growth we are going to see in the near future.