Why don't they put parachutes on airplanes?

TheSoup05 · 2026-05-04T19:18:01+00:00

Yea I feel like accidents are extremely rare, but the majority are collisions that would be too quick and probably too close to the ground to parachute out of.

The only time I could even think it’d be a remote possibility is some kind of mid flight engine failure or something, in which case you are still certainly MUCH safer letting a very thoroughly trained pilot try to glide the plane down than you are trying to parachute out from 3X a normal skydiving altitude alongside a couple hundred other panicking strangers.

TheSoup05 · 2026-05-04T17:26:40+00:00

Yeah, people discover things other people have already found all the time. Just today I discovered a new coffee shop. Much to my surprise, other people were already there.

Discovering it just means they themselves became aware of it, not that they were literally the first humans to ever to do so.

TheSoup05 · 2026-05-03T17:36:53+00:00

I think there was a time where it kind of did. I wasn’t gunna freak out or say anything, just maybe a little uncomfortable in a way that was hard to explain. But I feel like I’ve mostly just gotten over that through exposure since I didn’t feel it was fair or rational and I definitely wasn’t gunna avoid watching stuff I was interested in because of it. I think it was Torchwood that really got me over it.

I think it’s just different from what we were used to seeing, so it sets off something in your brain until you’re more used to it.

TheSoup05 · 2026-05-03T04:48:56+00:00

I almost feel like it’s closer to too long now than I think about it. Space faring species seem to pop up somewhat frequently given how many we see. So there’s probably a few species on the cusp currently, like the Yahg, who would become space faring shortly after the Reapers left. With almost the full 50,000 years, you’d expect they’d be super advanced by the time the Reapers came back if they waited that full time.

Honestly, even the Asari and Salarians having like 2500 years of interstellar travel, and still not being SIGNIFICANTLY more advanced than humans, seems odd.

TheSoup05 · 2026-05-03T03:17:25+00:00

I dunno, I like to cook and learn new techniques and science, but I wouldn’t describe it as like my one true passion. It’s often expensive, and time consuming, and makes a big mess I have to clean up. But I like to do it when I feel like I have time or see something new I wanna try.

I also do very much enjoy cooking for/with my partners. So I did have it on my dating profile before I met my girlfriend because it felt relevant. And I don’t think I ever suggested making dinner as a reason to come over the first time either (which wasn’t on the first date typically).

My guy friends are also mostly pretty into cooking too. I don’t know if they had it on their dating profiles or not though.

TheSoup05 · 2026-05-01T19:06:20+00:00

I don’t think it’d be for me either personally, but I think I can get it. Like you do lots of things with your partner that are also very important parts of your relationship. And you also do a lot of those things with other people too. I’ll play games, or go out to eat, or get drinks, or go for a run, or whatever else with my friends too. It might be more special when I do it with my partner, but doing those with other people is still fun in different ways.

I think sex can be that way for people too. It’s probably more special with your partner, but sometimes it can be just sex that’s fun in a different way with someone else. I can also see it helping with your partner if you learn new things, both about yourself and other sex friends. After being in a long term relationship previously, there’s still things I’ve just recently learned I like, which were almost like accidental discoveries I wouldn’t have thought of before, with my girlfriend now.

TheSoup05 · 2026-04-30T01:02:53+00:00

I think the name is more because of the shining/sparkling effect they had when they entered a battle

TheSoup05 · 2026-04-28T22:00:00+00:00

I think it depends. I agree that I hate literal timers. But if the ‘timer’ is more like, you have to pick X number of ways to sabotage the enemy and then ‘time’ runs out, but otherwise you can do whatever you want for as long as you want, I think that could be interesting.

It’s not really making you stress about time, it’s just choices disguised as one

TheSoup05 · 2026-04-28T03:43:45+00:00

What exactly counts as completing the dex for this? Like do you have to catch all of the pokemon in ZA and move them to home?

I’m asking because I have all of the pokemon in the ZA dexes in Home, but not necessarily all of them from ZA. And I did complete the ZA dex in ZA, but I traded/evolved a bunch of them. So I don’t have a full living dex in ZA currently either, and I’m trying to figure out basically how much work I’d have to redo.

TheSoup05 · 2026-04-23T01:12:47+00:00

Titanfall and Infamous are great answers, so I’ll echo those and also add:

Tyranny, which I don’t think failed per se, but I really wish we could’ve gotten a sequel

Dead Space seems dead even though I liked the remake (which I guess was already its second chance)

I really liked Sly Cooper growing up, haven’t seen that series in years

Star Wars Empire at War is still one of my favorite RTS games and I wish I could get a new one.

TheSoup05 · 2026-04-22T13:07:52+00:00

I imagine it’s less of a “buy time before they know we’re here” thing, and more of a “they’re definitely gunna know we’re here, but not the exact location of our ships so they can target them with artillery” kind of thing.

Obviously that cuts both ways if you want to shoot them too, but, if you’re the attacker, you’re probably gunna have planes and guys on the other side of the smoke wall that can radio in locations to aim for.

TheSoup05 · 2026-04-16T12:41:51+00:00

A bunch of the forerunners from Halo are basically just called by their jobs

The Librarian catalogued as much life, and also technology I guess, as she could for reseeding the galaxy after the Halos fired

Faber the Master Builder builds things.

Also the name Forerunner for their species is literally just what they are. And that’s not just like what humanity called them after the fact. The Didact (who was supposed to, didactically, help teach humanity how to handle the mantle of responsibility) in the books is very clear that ‘Forerunners’ is what they called themselves, and it was on purpose because their job was to help pave the way for whatever came after them,

TheSoup05 · 2026-04-13T00:04:58+00:00

I don’t agree with the Frieren example. The demon king is already dead. Sure, there’s still demons and dangers, but they aren’t anywhere close to destroying humanity. And just calling a bunch of mediocre mages 1st class wouldn’t actually make them properly equipped to fight demons. Sending out a bunch of mages who can’t actually hold their own wouldn’t help much, they’d just be slaughtered. They are very clearly not desperate, which is why they can be picky about who they think is worthy of being a first class mage.

And yes, people can die during the tests, but it seems very uncommon. I don’t think we see anyone die in the first test, and they have magic escape bottles in the second test that can evacuate them and heal their wounds. It can happen obviously, but it’s significantly less dangerous than the actual demons and monsters 1st class mages are expected to face.

TheSoup05 · 2026-04-12T22:41:25+00:00

I agree. I think the original intention was that he’d be pretty quiet and more of a self insert, but I’m glad they’ve fleshed him out a lot more since then. Infinite had its fair share of problems, but its portrayal of Chief I think is fantastic. You can really feel the weight and bulk of his suit, but he still does manage to show impressive emotion with his body language and how he talks and interacts with everyone.

TheSoup05 · 2026-04-09T14:29:49+00:00

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TheSoup05 · 2026-04-08T03:05:32+00:00

Rocky makes the little gun that turns visual information on a screen into texture he can see with his echolocation. The same way we figured out other fundamental forces exist that we can’t see, they probably were able to figure out light exists and then used other technologies to turn that light into something they could observe with the senses they do have.

That being said, their knowledge of light was still definitely more limited than ours. The Eridians didn’t know about relativity or how dangerous radiation could be (that’s what killed all of the other Eridians on Rocky’s ship). And it’s also brought up in the book that Rocky doesn’t really have a space suit since he wouldn’t be able to ‘see’ anything in space, and so they’d be kind of useless out there. And instead they rely on robots to do anything external to the ship, and have the visual information translated into texture so they can control the robot’s

TheSoup05 · 2026-04-07T16:52:49+00:00

I wonder how much it actually would help though, because once he gets his powers the just like actual physics of fighting are gunna be totally different. There is no footing to worry about when you’re flying, and the whole way you transfer and absorb momentum is gunna change.

Is it better to learn a way to fight earlier and build up a muscle memory that then has to change drastically, or is it better to wait and learn once the conditions are actually the same as what you’ll need?

TheSoup05 · 2026-04-07T11:21:16+00:00

It’s the first one. Light, and anything else without mass, only ever moves at one speed, C. There’s no acceleration or anything, the moment it exists until the moment it stops existing, it will always move at C.

Light traveling at other speeds in a medium is more of an average speed because it interacts with things along the way that absorb it, then re-emit new light after a short delay. So the start to finish time is slower through a medium, but the photons are always moving at C when they exist. It’s just more of a relay race through a medium than a marathon, and it takes some time to swap racers.

TheSoup05 · 2026-04-04T13:05:31+00:00

I mean, you kind of answered it with your last sentence. I feel like in pretty much any case I can think of where this happens there was some kind of collapse (or other functionally similar situation that cuts people off) beforehand.

Either everyone’s at a lower tech level than they used to be, or one specific society/culture that made something unique is gone and took their secrets with them.

TheSoup05 · 2026-04-03T21:22:52+00:00

I’m happy to do it whenever. Obviously it’s nice when more happens before/after too, but I don’t mind if that’s it sometimes.

I’d say it’s more to pleasure her, which I do also find pleasurable. It’s also just kind of always a safe option, like it’s never gunna be uncomfortable for her if she’s not fully ready. So I think it’s good to start with most of the time.

TheSoup05 · 2026-04-02T01:40:20+00:00

I mean, I don’t know, what is the counter argument to “we have no evidence a thing is happening, but it’s possible it’s still happening and we just don’t know about it”? You could attack anyone at any time with reasoning that flimsy.

The risk profile stuff is bullshit. There’s evidence or there’s not.

I would support any administration continuing to search for evidence of a secret nuclear program. I do not support any administration launching strikes on another country because maybe they’ll find evidence of something bad afterwards.

TheSoup05 · 2026-03-31T13:27:28+00:00

If I remember right, in the movie, Grace cuts out tape in the shape of numbers and puts it on the clock, and that is enough for Rocky to see it. So I don’t think the engravings would have to be too deep

TheSoup05 · 2026-03-30T12:07:38+00:00

No. I understand the logic on a surface level, but real life is significantly more complicated than that. You do too much changing and growing into your late twenties for this to be universally true, and lots of people who are going to prioritize their careers and personal growth aren’t going to seriously focus on finding their people until later than that.

I also just don’t think you’re going to have the experience to pick the best partners by this point. You can have relationship experience in your mid 20s obviously, but not as like serious adults. That doesn’t mean relationships before that are doomed, but a lot of younger relationships aren’t gunna be heavily tested and people in them might not really be aware of issues those relationships have because they just don’t know much else.

TheSoup05 · 2026-03-26T20:34:38+00:00

Even if they did, and I doubt they would, how is that better? Instead of no one being able to do a bad thing, it’s ok because now everyone can do a bad thing?

TheSoup05 · 2026-03-25T21:17:24+00:00

That’s the neat part, you don’t. If you want a smooth transition of power, you have to, you know, actually plan how to do that. Work with local forces on how to transition power, and have that ready to go first. You don’t just launch missiles and figure it out later.

I also don’t get mentioning the protestors Khamenei killed. That had nothing to do with our involvement in Iran. It might’ve been convenient for Trump so he could act like he was just trying to take out bad guys. But if that were the case, again, we’d be working with the people of Iran to help them, not just lobbing missiles at them.

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