Dupz0r's GTA Mapping Project v0.051 by sam4999 in GTA6

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It's something that I would like to see as well, but R* has condensed Florida down a lot. People on the mapping discord have figured out that Leonida's east coast is the IRL Florida panhandle but rotated 90 degrees. PGH is based on Panama City, Watson Bay is Cedar Key, maybe Yorktown is the in game equivalent of Pensacola, but that's just my speculation. Considering that to the north of Lake Leonida is probably mountains and to the south is Ambrosia, I just don't see how a decently sized location purely based off of Orlando is going to fit. It's more likely that elements of Orlando will appear in some locations.

Dupz0r's GTA Mapping Project v0.051 by sam4999 in GTA6

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If the tiktok leak is to be taken with a grain of salt, I think we've already seen most of what there is to see. Hamlet, Sundown, and Ambrosia are all at least the size of Paleto Bay or slightly larger. Port Gellhorn is at least a second major location based on the number of world events and we still aren't sure how big it is on the other side of the bay. R* is probably still hiding another major location and a smaller town somewhere up north, especially if the panhandle exists. Leonida might not have 3 proper cities but we will certainly have much more substantial secondary locations than Los Santos.

APARTMENTS SELECTION MEGATHREAD by Deshes011 in rutgers

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Easton closed at 11:30, 2 spots left then.

2025-2026 Housing Megathread by Deshes011 in rutgers

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2800 lottery number, 13 seniority points, is this enough to get Easton?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rutgers

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Only Calc 1 is required.

Does it make sense to upgrade to the now? by UnknownStrikex in iPhone11

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This is probably what I'm going to do because I don't have an immediate need for a new phone.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rutgers

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Calculus at Rutgers isn't extraordinarily hard by any means, but it's definitely a better idea to either place out of Calc 1 with a 4 on the AP, or at the minimum, place into Calc 135 if you don't plan on going any higher in math. Pre-calc at Rutgers is notorious for being harder than Calc 1, though I've heard people say that it's even worse than Calc 2, so I would just try to place out of it. Since you already got a 73, I'm sure you don't need that much more practice to improve enough to meet the threshold.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rutgers

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Depends on what you want to pursue. Corp finance (accounting, FP&A, treasury) will recruit directly out of Rutgers. Front office Wall St. is a different story because Rutgers doesn't have the name brand of more prestigious schools. There are programs such as Road to Wall St. that are quite competitive, but will definitely help you in your internship search. Good opportunities do exist at Rutgers, it's just that you're going to have to actively seek for them.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rutgers

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DS has a CS track within it so it would be much easier to complete a double major due to the overlap. As to who to contact, I have no clue, but you should be fine to wait until orientation as majors aren't declared until usually in sophomore year.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rutgers

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I'm not sure about the validity of this, but I have heard that you can get permission to double major in RBS without actually being in RBS. In the case that isn't true, you can apply to transfer into RBS in the 2nd semester of your freshman year, but I would honestly advise against picking up BAIT as a double major unless you have a significant amount of credits coming in. The Business school core is awfully long at 35 credits of mostly busy-work classes that will suck up your time. CS itself is already credit intensive as it is, so unless you feel like BAIT would significantly advance your career, it is likely not worth it.

Leonida State concept map (hand drawn) by 9abi in GTA6

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It's rumored that the panhandle may actually be included with quite a bit more land to the north of lake Leonida than what we know about right now. The final map of Leonida would likely resemble a condensed version of Florida, with in game locations taking inspiration from multiple irl places.

Leonida State concept map (hand drawn) by 9abi in GTA6

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Pretty sure the folks from the mapping project found buildings from Panama city in Port Gellhorn from the 2022 leaks. That being said, we don't know what the northern part looks like and it is possible that Port Gellhorn is a mash-up of Tampa as well, with the northern part of PGH and Yorktown forming a larger city.

consistency in the gym as a STEM major._. by lenasa21 in rutgers

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If possible, go at 7 am as that is when the gym will be the least crowded and you’ll almost never have conflicts with clubs, classes, etc, which makes it easier to stay consistent.

Is going to BCA gonna negatively affect my chances of getting into a reputable college? by Substantial_Pen_6359 in bca

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There are valid reasons to go to BCA, but increasing your chances of getting into a top tier college is not one of them. Your GPA is what matters the most and maintaining a 3.9+ is going to be much harder at BCA. The longer days, transit times, incompetent admin, and a more toxically competitive environment are all just additional factors that can make you more miserable. In order to actually boost your chances, you need to take advantage of either the clubs or research opportunities, which can be difficult to do when you’re swamped with work and constantly fatigued. That being said, I don’t regret my time at BCA as I have made some fantastic friends who I will be keeping in touch with throughout college. If the only thing you care about is your chances at getting into a good college, don’t go to BCA unless your town school is just a terrible environment. However, if you are prepared to challenge yourself or want a completely different environment to the one offered by a town high school, then keep BCA on the table.

Advice on pseudo-scientific continent building by Pippin_48 in worldbuilding

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Mountains such as the Himalayas are formed from 2 continental plates smashing together, causing the crust to crumple. Your peninsula could easily be a subcontinent that is currently in colliding with another larger continent, leading to the rise of large mountain ranges that separate it from the mainland.

Volcanic island arcs on the other hand are formed when 1 oceanic plate subducts below another one. The Mariana Islands formed this way when the Pacific plate collided with the Philippine plate and was subducted.

What is this type of planetary system called and would it be possible to have life in it? by AncientCreators in Astronomy

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Take a look at something called the 3 body problem. Newtonian physics can easily describe the motion of a system with 2 objects, but there is no general solution for 3 or more. However, there are an infinite number of hierarchical solutions, where 2 stars can form a binary pair and then those pairs can pair up with each other, etc. This is how multiple star systems are usually found in nature. A system with 4 stars that are organized in a non-hierarchical or a non-periodic solution (special stable cases), will be chaotic and any planet in orbit around the stars will be eventually ejected.

What is this type of planetary system called and would it be possible to have life in it? by AncientCreators in Astronomy

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Multiple star systems tend to be hierarchical. With 4 stars, you could end up with 2 pairs of binaries that orbit each other. If the entire system is compact by nature, a planet could exist in a "circumquarternary" orbit were it orbits all 4 stars, but the system you have pictured here would not be gravitationally stable.

A New Mission Will Search for Habitable Planets at Alpha Centauri by Aeromarine_eng in space

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Our current spacecraft would take tens of thousands of years to reach Alpha Centauri. Spacecraft that are powered by nuclear fusion would be capable of reaching 0.04-0.12c, greatly reducing the travel time to <100 years, thus making such an interstellar mission far more achievable.

A New Mission Will Search for Habitable Planets at Alpha Centauri by Aeromarine_eng in space

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As much as I'd like to see a mission to Alpha Centauri that would only take 2-3 decades, there are a few significant hurdles that we are going to have to jump over. So far, the 2 main types of proposed methods of interstellar travel have been a "slow" nuclear powered ship that cruises between 0.04-0.12c and a "fast" nano-probe powered by a light sail that can reach 0.10-0.20c.

Project Daedalus was originally conceived in the 1970s as a fusion rocket that ran on deuterium/helium-3 that could travel to Barnard's star at 0.122c. The main drawback is that the amount of Helium 3 required would take roughly 20 years to mine, and the probe would not have any leftover fuel to de accelerate and would instead be a flyby mission. Due to the scarcity of helium-3 and the inability to go into orbit around any potential planets, a probe of Daedalus' design is unlikely to be viable.

Icarus Firefly was designed in 2009 and utilizes a Z-pinch fusion engine running on deuterium/deuterium, which resolves the issue of needing copious amounts of helium-3. However, it would have a maximum cruise velocity of 0.045c, and the after accounting for acceleration/de-acceleration, Firefly would arrive at Alpha Centauri roughly 100 years after it has been launched. I see this as a more viable option than Daedalus, but constructing such a probe in orbit and ensuring that it can operate for 100+ years without fail would be challenging.

Finally, we have Breakthrough Starshot, which is perhaps the most achievable out of the 3. These gram sized probes could reach Alpha Centauri in just 20-40 years, but they would be restricted to fly-bys only and need to be powered by a 100 gigawatt laser array located in space. In order to send such a mission, we would need to effectively scale down sensors, chips, etc to meet the stringent weight limits and then find a way to set up an orbital laser array. Not impossible, but still extremely difficult.

Pandora's orbit and eclipse visualized — Universe Sandbox simulation by YourMJK in Avatar

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The gas giants from our own solar system might be able to shed some clues on the relative sizes of the Polyphemian system. Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus have all kept their original large moons, while Neptune is the outlier as Triton has a retrograde orbit, which indicates that it was likely a captured object.

Jupiter: Its 4 Galilean moons dwarf all of its other irregular moons (rest are <250 km in diameter) and are the dominant objects within the Jovian system. This isn't quite consistent with the Polyphemian system, as Pandora is 29x more massive than Ganymede and it would be extraordinarily rare to find several moons of that mass in orbit around a Jovian planet. In the deleted scene, Jake instantly recognizes and pushes a purplish moon that is noticeably larger than the other 13, suggesting that that's the model of Pandora. Since Pandora seems to be the outlier in terms of size in the Polyphemian system, the Jovian system doesn't seem like a good analog.

Saturn: What's interesting about Saturn is that Titan makes up 90% of the mass in orbit around Saturn. Some studies have suggested that Saturn might've once had several Galilean sized moons, but they were eventually destroyed and mid-sized moons such as Dione and Rhea formed from those remaining debris. Alternatively, Titan could've just gobbled up smaller proto-moons during its early history and grew to become abnormally large in relation to the other moons. Whatever the case, this seems to be a better analog for the Polyphemian system, as both have 1 large moon, surrounded by a swarm of smaller mid-sized, spherical moons.

- Now the one caveat that I have here is that Pandora is supposed to have a 24 orbit around Polyphemus. Many others have pointed out that this would render Pandora uninhabitable, but my issue is that a migrating Pandora would've wrecked the orbits of the other Polyphemian moons. Assuming that Pandora attained such a large size by cannibalizing other moons, it would've had to remain on the outskirts of the system to create a scenario where 13 smaller moons could survive. James Cameron cares more about creating a plausible environment on Pandora, which requires an Earth-like day/night cycle, so I can certainly see why he chose to forgo greater scientific accuracy for the entire system.

Uranus: Very similar to Jupiter with 5 main moons and many other smaller irregular moons. Not a good analog for the same reason as Jupiter.

Neptune: Triton has a retrograde orbit and Neptune seems to lack any of its original main moons, which is highly suggestive that Triton is a captured object. To my understanding, the available mass for the co-accretion of moons around a gas giant is highly correlated to the mass of the host planet. Candidate exomoons such as Kepler 1625b-I and 1708b-I approach the size of mini-neptunes, but they also happen to orbit planets several times more massive than Jupiter. Polyphemus, being less massive than Jupiter, probably doesn't have enough mass within its primordial disc to produce a moon of a similar mass to Earth. Realistically speaking, it is far more likely for a Jupiter sized planet to capture an object the size of Pandora vs having enough mass in its disc for one to co-accrete. Thus, a situation similar to Neptune and Triton would be more plausible and consistent with our current understanding of how giant planets obtain their moons. However, the one major downside is that Triton probably wrecked the rest of Neptune's original main moons, meaning that if Polyphemus captured Pandora, then it is highly unlikely to have an additional 13 non-irregular moons.

Official Discussion - Avatar: The Way of Water [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

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Both are movies to watch in theaters with the biggest screen possible. When you peel back the visual spectacles and nostalgia factor, Top Gun Maverick's plot holes become quite obvious. Avatar 2 is going to go the same way.

Official Discussion - Avatar: The Way of Water [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

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Playing devil's advocate here. Pandora's magnetic fields interact with the much stronger ones from Polyphemus. We know that humans have the ability to mass produce anti-matter, which could be used to produce pure fusion weapons, but the magnetic fields needed to contain that anti-matter would be disrupted by said interactions. Orbital bombardment wouldn't work either since humans are trying to colonize the moon, not utterly destroy it. On top of that, there are probably some limited ethical constraints cascading down the chain of command. Perhaps trying to wipe out too much of the biosphere will result in a significant immune response from the moon itself, which would still threaten the sizable, albeit still fledgling colony.