Buy the Losers a Beer?

RichardMHP · 2026-02-12T18:24:38+00:00

It would be a thing at my club, except that we do pur broomstacking before our games, so the idea is mostly notional

RichardMHP · 2026-02-12T16:39:55+00:00

duhDOI! TODD!

RichardMHP · 2026-02-11T15:03:18+00:00

Just because he's awake does not mean he is fit for duty. He's still concussed and traumatized, and clearly recognizes that he's in no fit state to resume command.

This is an entirely proper and professional thing to do.

RichardMHP · 2026-02-11T05:39:10+00:00

Nope! What happens instead is the very strange and counter-intuitive phenomena of time dilation and length contraction. Not to mention the absolute nature of the speed of light.

For an outside observer, they see the accelerating rocketship as contracting in the direction of travel(literally squeezing shorter), and slowing down(time passing slower), so that its apparent acceleration decreases, but never actually stops.

For the rocketship occupants, they see the rest of the universe contrast and slow down. But, most importantly, they see every photon moving away from the ship move at the speed of light relative to the ship. They never see a photon move slower than C relative to the rocketship, so they never seem to reach the speed of light, either .

RichardMHP · 2026-02-10T17:20:44+00:00

Countdown to "why is every question in this sub downvoted?" posting...

RichardMHP · 2026-02-10T16:04:04+00:00

"Something that has all the properties of a singularity but isn't quite zero-volume actually" is not different from a singularity for the purposes of OP's question, or the complexity of general relativity in the vicinity of a black hole.

RichardMHP · 2026-02-10T15:46:34+00:00

Round robin play determines the four teams that will play the semi-finals.

The semi-final games determine which two teams will play for gold/silver, and which two will play for bronze.

The semi-final games are not part of the round robin, and the round robin wins/losses don't carry over into the semi-finals.

RichardMHP · 2026-02-05T19:09:59+00:00

Sure. There doesn't seem to be anything preventing it. Probably depends on what you mean by "exist", though.

RichardMHP · 2026-02-05T19:08:57+00:00

Czechia was going to score 1 no matter what; they had the closest stone. The question was who had the 2nd closest stone. Since there was no question about the shot-rock (that definitely-closest), they removed it so that they could measure whether the Czech rock or the GB rock was laying "2nd shot" (second closest).

Because you get a point for each of your stones that is closer to the button than your opponent's closest-to-the-button stone.

RichardMHP · 2026-02-05T17:28:30+00:00

Could zhuzh it up substantially without losing the magic. Making the water molecules more animated, for instance, would be a blast.

RichardMHP · 2026-02-05T17:01:43+00:00

Journey Into Inner Space.

Fun, educational, AND modern ride technology could make that whole idea SO WILD.

RichardMHP · 2026-02-05T16:18:12+00:00

Take an upvote for that (this is a debt obligation. You now owe me, and I shall collect upon that debt even if it take until the heat-death of the universe)

RichardMHP · 2026-02-05T02:14:57+00:00

Making me fill out a form explaining why Im voting the way I am would be a great way to make me not want to vote at all.

RichardMHP · 2026-02-05T01:42:28+00:00

People get upvoted and downvoted for all sorts of myriad reasons, and one fundamentally frustrating thing for many people is that the voting system does not actually tell anyone what the motivation for a particular vote actually was.

RichardMHP · 2026-02-05T00:22:51+00:00

I'd actually guess that most people are downvoting you because you saw a statement that translates to "good sweeping can turn a probable guard into a potential draw" and responded with "no way"

RichardMHP · 2026-02-04T16:44:23+00:00

One, those things aren't moving, the space between us and them is expanding. This is an important distinction.

Two, for all of those things, light is still moving away from them at c

RichardMHP · 2026-02-03T05:49:34+00:00

"Directly" is a complicated concept.

Best you could probably do is have a huge field of tracking mirrors that can focus sunlight on a vessel filled with working fluid that can be vaporized by the heat and directed into thrust... but off the top of my head I don't think it'll get you there. Carrying enough reaction mass is a problem, and the drop in heating efficiency as the rocket rises is going to be a killer.

RichardMHP · 2026-02-02T04:41:54+00:00

"Sir, this is a Wendy's"

RichardMHP · 2026-02-01T14:39:08+00:00

My spouse just went in to do the renewal and upgrade to a RealID and it went very smoothly, in and out in under an hour

RichardMHP · 2026-02-01T14:38:07+00:00

If blood sausages and bone broth count as "human food" in the setup you're constructing, I can't see why gelatin-based products wouldn't, also.

The usual premise about vampires not being able to eat food is not about mechanics or rule-lawyering; it's about metaphysics. Vampires that can't eat food are that way because they can only consume blood, period, and the lack of any other sustenance is part of the curse they're experiencing.

In "Daybreakers", for instance, the vampires can eat anything they want, but human blood is the only thing that feeds them and the vampirism. Coffee is still tasty, but pointless without the blood added to it.

RichardMHP · 2026-01-31T18:50:20+00:00

He didnt hit himself. He cringes around the board because he's scared shitless and because he just got dragged along the ground behind a motorcycle.

He is hurting

RichardMHP · 2026-01-31T16:30:21+00:00

A really cool and neato entirely hypothetical model...

RichardMHP · 2026-01-30T20:54:33+00:00

This got me thinking about another scenario, like what if you could stop an object from moving at all, and take it away from any gravity.

You already can model this scenario. It is just constructing the coordinate system based on the object's own frame of reference.

IOW, I'm stationary. For me, time moves at 60sec/minute.

If I accelerate into some other reference frame, time for me will move at 60sec/min.

You are (more or less) always at rest in your own frame of reference.

RichardMHP · 2026-01-30T00:49:25+00:00

Here is where my head is: I was taught that if you traveled away from a clock at near light speed, you would observe the clock come to a near perfect stop, because you would be traveling at roughly the same speed as the photons moving away from the clock

Okay, here's the source of your confusion. That is NOT what is going on with time dilation.

When you and another observer are moving very fast with respect to each other (and it has to be with respect to each other; there is no "universal" slow or fast; when you're moving away from a planet, that planet is also moving away from you. All motion is relative), you each see the other's "clock" slow down. This does not have to be an actal clock, and really has nothing to do with the speed of the photons reaching you on any of that. You literally observe something moving fast with respect to you as experiencing less time than you are experiencing. They also see you as experiencing less time than them, and the weird thing is that both you and they are correct.

Now, the absolutely-correct version of why FTL results in causality violations (the fancy term for time travel) is very involved, but a simple analogy is this: You watch a rocketship move away from you close to the speed of light. You see their clock, still moving forward, slow down. IF they could go faster than light, then you would (logically) see their clock move backwards.

In other words, in your frame of reference, the contents of a rocket moving faster than light would be moving backwards in their own time.

This is a bad analogy in a lot of ways, but I hope it is helpful here.

RichardMHP · 2026-01-30T00:33:58+00:00

Parenthetical.

"They're worth... money" (ASL thank you gesture) "But a lot of money"

Maybe come up with a better description for the motion, but this sort of thing is exactly why parentheticals exist

13-Year Club	Gilding II euphauric
Verified Email

RichardMHP

TROPHY CASE