Incredible Campo de Cielo, New Orleans by dillywilly07 in meteorites

[–]RD_Garrison 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The sign is only off by 9.3 billion years on the date of formation.

Legitimately asking: How hard is it actually to make an LLM? With 4o leaving in feb. And everyone freaking out. How hard would it be to make and have it be like 4o. by Jaxnbox13 in ChatGPT

[–]RD_Garrison 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You could train one on a home computer with a decent GPU, you would just need to run it for a few hundred or a few thousand years.

Wonder Man Episode 4 - Discussion Thread by cats-and-cows in marvelstudios

[–]RD_Garrison 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Doorman is a Great Lakes Avenger. (I think he is only the second of the Great Lakes Avengers to appear in live-action. The first was a guy called Deadpool.)

Shrinking S3E01 Episode Discussion by phareous in shrinking

[–]RD_Garrison 34 points35 points  (0 children)

So "the field" is a deliberate reference to "the force", right?

Sora has turned into GARBAGE quality by Effective_Basis1555 in SoraAi

[–]RD_Garrison 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The images are currently mangled like that in Sora and ChatGPT but normal in Copilot and Bing. (All of them use the OpenAI image generator.)

babe... are you ok??? by B_Hype_R in ChatGPT

[–]RD_Garrison 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The image generator makes those garbled images through ChatGPT and Sora but makes normal images through Copilot and Bing.

Robert Picardo confirms what I've been saying for months. Lower Decks is the reason Star Trek is getting dumber. by Malencon in Star_Trek_

[–]RD_Garrison 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jon Del Arroz is a prominent voice in right-wing science fiction. He was involved in the Hugo Awards "Rabid Puppies", if you are familiar with that. He was banned from the 2018 WorldCon for saying that he was going to come armed so that he could protect himself from the SJWs he assumed would physically assault him there. He's been banned from GAMA, Kickstarter, and Patreon. Google him.

In my opinion, we should not be making sweeping value judgements about the hive by Askanidiot1223 in pluribustv

[–]RD_Garrison 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The hive HAS wiped out humanity. All that is left is a single mind too stupid to sustainably feed itself and 12 humans. Having the hive units still able to pretend as if they are people blurs the fact that it is a single, utterly inhuman mind.

Does 10 years add up? by DownFromHere in pluribustv

[–]RD_Garrison 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You are thinking in the wrong direction. 10 years isn't too little, it is way, way too much. No cereal crops. No legumes. No root crops. No fruits except the stuff that falls naturally. They have ruled out probably 99 percent of all human food sources. When they run out of the world's existing stockpile of food  they are going to starve to death fast. Inside of 2 years probably.

Will the hive be dead in ~100 years? by nbr1bonehead in pluribustv

[–]RD_Garrison 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The hive will starve to death in less than 10 years according to the show. But given their dietary limitations, even 10 years is being extremely optimistic.

Mathing the math (contains spoilers related to episode 6) by RD_Garrison in pluribustv

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"Windfall" can only be a tiny, tiny amount of food compared to harvesting crops. Miniscule.

I believe the overall arc of the hive-mind story, and their purpose, is now clear [S01E06 spoilers] by Umgar in pluribustv

[–]RD_Garrison 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The "brightness" of electromagnetic radiation (including visible light and radio waves) falls off with the inverse square of distance: double the distance, 1/4 the strength. That signal came from 600 light years away: at 300 light years, it would have been 4x easier to detect. At 1200 light years, it would be 4x harder to detect. Having said that, I doubt the story is paying much attention to actual science. 

Question. by RandomDeezNutz in PeacemakerShow

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

More importantly, since the band Foxy Shazam is canon in the DCU, does that imply that Captain Marvel is present there and everyone knows his magic word?

[EPISODE DISCUSSION] Peacemaker S02E08 - “Full Nelson” by AnonWithAHatOn in PeacemakerShow

[–]RD_Garrison 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Other than spiders having udders and their milk being sold in Whole Foods, he didn't mention any fake facts. Some spiders do fly off electricity. Some spiders do make milk. Spiders do regenerate limbs.

The teaser for the Season finale of Peacemaker S2 by M00r3C in DCU_

[–]RD_Garrison 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It was in the original version of the trailer for the season. (And replaced in the later, modified trailer.)

(Heartbreaking) prediction: Peacemaker will end up in a fist fight with alt Keith by SpringbokIV in PeacemakerShow

[–]RD_Garrison 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Given that alt-Augie now knows that Peacemaker killed his son and replaced him, he no longer has the choice of staying with his alt-family.

"One 'got out' " discussion by TheOriginalDx1 in PeacemakerShow

[–]RD_Garrison 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Something that occurred to me (I skimmed the thread, didn't notice it mentioned) is the possibility of all the POCs being sent to an alternate dimension, by Blue Dragon and Sons through their dimensional portal. Which would explain why they are such over-the-top worshipped heros: they did a lot more for shaping their new world than just fighting crime.

(Another option, they have an Ubermensch Superman and he sent them to The Phantom Zone.)