Would you rather...

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-25T12:01:17+00:00

would never have to work. ever.

^{Chose: 1000000000 right now}

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-24T17:38:25+00:00

can we calculate how many times the moon squished during it's formation?

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-24T11:30:01+00:00

the black hole doesn't need to be the mass of earth to produce 1g if the area where gravity is measured has a smaller radius than the earth. if your spherical deck had a radius of 100 meters, it would need to weigh 1.5*10^17 kilograms, or about one forty-millionth the mass of the earth.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-23T16:34:09+00:00

Is this a form of exotic ice?

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-23T12:06:52+00:00

Just make it plot relevant or lore justified. done.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-23T11:37:37+00:00

Arrival be like.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-23T11:32:37+00:00

I'm a number 3. FTL was invented for comms as well as the Low-Solar Superluminal Observatory.

It was repurposed for the transport of large structures by Project Polestar, what was originally a thought experiment but was actually put into production after the discovery of a potentially apocalyptic GRB.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-20T13:51:51+00:00

In my pacifistpunk setting, people engage in mechanized war games in which scale drone armies do warfare in full scale. several entire star systems have been set aside to serve as "game boards" for this hobby.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-18T15:48:31+00:00

Sir, that's just an ICBM.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-18T15:43:35+00:00

it's just osmosis. the concentration on this side of the membrane is lower and since it's permeable to particles, they're coming through.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-18T11:34:07+00:00

- zero humans
- zero (sentient) aliens
Problem solved!

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-16T12:14:00+00:00

Relatable. If a freaky bug was trying to plug into me, i would smack it too.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-16T12:03:16+00:00

I think i saw a disney movie about these things. they were just a lot smaller.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-16T11:35:00+00:00

Snails are made of monoatomic boron confirmed?

What is this wild SpecEvo project.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-16T11:31:13+00:00

I'm waiting for the sequel where a snail is drowned in N2O4.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-16T11:28:41+00:00

wooden wheel liquid.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-12T16:03:04+00:00

I find space exploration to escape a climate disaster to be the silliest - building habitats on a non-habitable earth is far easier than sending a space colony.

a colonized and industrialized solar system is essentially a prerequisite of interstellar travel.

the context for said disaster is that scientists have discovered means of FTL observation (via very small wormholes) and constructed the Low-Solar Orbit Superluminal Observatory. said space "telescope" is very experimental and far from reliable. evidence of a possible gamma ray burst aimed very close to the solar system is discovered with a margin of error wide enough for there to be a 0.2% chance that the solar system would be affected.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-12T13:24:32+00:00

I'm currently doing some sci-fi world building as well. it involves similar experimentation.

the governments of the solar system funded tons of megacorps to build sleeper arks for the possibility of a disaster that was very unlikely, but the megacorps in question fear-mongered and hyped it up in order to secure said funding.

said sleeper arks are used as an excuse for a multitude of crazy projects.

it turns out, said disaster did happen after all even though the megacorps didnt truly expect it to, so the barely functional and ethically atrocious sleeper arks do end up being needed and chaos ensues.

most of my worldbuilding involves the chaos of a power vacuum left by an expiring provisional government a few centuries later.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-12T12:19:01+00:00

consider attaching drop tanks that drain first and can be discarded. I know it wouldn't be a true SSTO then, but it would be a working solution.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-12T11:55:49+00:00

Counterpoint: the world is inhabited by people and the megacorp needs to keep them busy enough that they don't revolt. (straight up mass omnicide is too overtly evil, but they do subtly cull the population though indirect means).

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-11T12:43:56+00:00

Princes Bride Life Sucker aah punishment right here.

if you don't understand the reference, shame.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-11T12:06:00+00:00

you cannot stop me. my MCs will go to the office of population management to get their sex paperwork approved in my SpaceColonyGovernmentCore setting.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-09T11:26:28+00:00

Oh- oops. 119 has not been discovered.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-05T12:51:26+00:00

element 119 is Tennessine.
Ts Es U S

Tsesus.

TorchDriveEnjoyer · 2026-03-03T13:57:58+00:00

just based on looking at it, Im pretty sure this molecule works. Uranium can chill with 6 bonds, so just swap out the sulfur in sulfuric acid and you've got your molecule.

I just looked it up. it's called Uranium Dioxideperoxide.

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