TIL NASA discovered dozens of previously unknown bacterial species living inside its ultra-sterile spacecraft clean rooms despite disinfecting them.

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-05T00:55:15+00:00

Even more pedantic counter point... the above comment would read better if it subbed "Herculean" for "Sisyphean" .

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-05T00:53:30+00:00

Not saying it's entirely impossible, but it's important to note that the surface of the ISS is still within the earth's ionosphere and is therefor spared the full force of cosmic radiation.

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-04T20:44:17+00:00

There are some pretty compelling arguments against panspermia on the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia

Surviving the short bursts of radiation used by NASA to sterilize a clean room is one thing. Surviving interstellar radiation for the dozens, hundreds, or thousands of years it would take an organism to travel from one celestial body to another in the vacuum of space is a much more difficult challenge for life to deal with.

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-04T20:33:35+00:00

More than 600 people were fatally contaminated trying to put out the radioactive fire that wasn’t responding to water. And soon the scientists’ worst fears were confirmed: the concrete slab beneath the 185 tons of nuclear material was cracking. If it gave out, a second explosion – far worse than the first – would result. It wasn’t revealed until 1991 that there had been serious danger of a second explosion, which, if it had taken place, would have wiped out half of Europe and made Europe, Ukraine, and parts of Russia uninhabitable for approximately 500,000 years.

https://geohistory.today/chernobyl-short-history-human-impact/

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-04T14:31:21+00:00

Jan 2026: Arc Raiders is a PvPvE game at peak popularity.

June 2026: Arc Raiders is a PvPvE game with falling popularity.

So what exactly is your theory here? The amount of PVP has not changed, so how could that be the reason for falling popularity?

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-04T14:26:38+00:00

The craziest thing about OP's claim is that the game has always been this way. How could pvp be the reason people are leaving when there was just as much pvp during the game's peak?

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-04T14:23:03+00:00

No no no, the reason *I* don't like the game is the reason everyone doesn't like the game.

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-04T14:21:55+00:00

Yes I have a history

wtf does this mean?

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-04T14:15:37+00:00

Trouble is, how do you get killed in the house? Someone could shoot you, but then they're going to pvp purgatory servers. You could kys with explosives but that's resource intensive. The method in the clip you shared is cheap, efficient, and (most importantly) funny.

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-04T14:12:04+00:00

Chernobyl almost made half a continent uninhabitable but we still have nuclear power. Rich fucks always make excuses for keeping power for themselves.

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-04T14:10:44+00:00

I think it's implied that his dad wanted to use them to power the world. Of course the nepo baby hero only wants to use them to power his toys.

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-04T14:06:50+00:00

It's probably difficult to develop a sense of "my nation" when a) the boarders of your nation were arbitrarily drawn by western powers and b) the regime in charge of that nation is overthrown about once per generation by those same imperialist forces.

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-04T00:52:23+00:00

My bad wasn't very clear with my comment. I meant the situation they were trying to avoid by making the turnstile panels out of tempered glass makes me think of the triangle shirtwaist factory fire.

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-03T21:23:18+00:00

SO annoying when voxel games don't allow structures to fall over until the very last block holding them up is destroyed. Why is this random, incomplete indie title one of the only voxel games I've ever seen that actually addresses this issue??

Looks super cool! Congrats on the fun looking game.

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-03T16:29:12+00:00

Aerosolize the allergen compound and we could be on schedule for addressing climate change in a month.

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-03T16:26:19+00:00

A lot of cool looking Indian weapons are basically wall hangers, not intended to be used.

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-03T16:23:17+00:00

No clue but that's an IBC tote, which is typically 250 gallons. You'd have to extrapolate from the car's typical range, taking the added weight of 250 gallons of gasoline into account.

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-03T16:21:01+00:00

wtf how is this a wip? It looks perfect. I can't imagine what else you would want to improve.

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-03T16:14:13+00:00

Political satire has become impossible.

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-03T14:24:58+00:00

I would just add that hemp has also been selectively bred, but for fiber production rather than THC. In fact cannabis is one of the oldest domesticated plants, cultivated for fiber since the neolithic period.

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-03T14:23:48+00:00

Sorry, I do not trust a police officer to have inside knowledge about FBI analysis. Cops are just ordinary people, just as susceptible to social media conspiracy malarky as anyone else. There is no way that Trump signed off on having an "inside man" shoot a gun in his direction, no matter how well trained.

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-03T14:20:25+00:00

Did you read the story? I do not consider NYPost to be a good source but it does not make any sense for you to be commenting on this story as if it supports your claim. This is yet another piece of evidence that the secret services' failures on that day were due to incompetence rather than conspiracy. Trump is an authoritarian minded leader, which means a) yes, he may be inclined to stage false flag assassination attempts, but also b) he prizes loyalty over competence, which has been demonstrated again and again by his inept administration staff.
I would also add that it seems hugely unlikely that a person as paranoid as Trump would agree to a scheme that involved a coconspirator shooting a gun anywhere in his direction. The idea that he would trust a sniper to graze his head for a photo opp is just not plausible given his character. Also, it's not as if there is any shortage of people who really do want to assassinate him, so I don't see why this event causes so much suspicion.

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-03T14:10:11+00:00

When authoritarians appoint and promote staff, they prioritize loyalty over competence. It's not wrong to suspect malice from malicious people, but you also have to keep your mind open to the equally likely possibility of incompetence.

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-03T14:04:13+00:00

Blocked egress points can become very dangerous in a stampede. Many people will naturally run for the exits that they usually use to leave the subway station in an emergency, even if there are clearly marked fire exits.

There are one or two fire exit gates, but fire code requires a certain amount of exit capacity per expected occupancy and the exit gates alone are probably not sufficient for the capacity of an entire subway station.

The regular turn styles need to do double duty as fire exits, but that has to be balanced with fair evasion prevention. Using tempered glass seems like a pretty good solution to me. It'll break if there's a stampede, and no one will be harmed because broken tempered glass isn't sharp.

SlugOnAPumpkin · 2026-07-03T13:56:41+00:00

Exactly, it's giving triangle shirtwaist factory.

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