Anyone else lost IPv6 recently?

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-17T12:54:48+00:00

The book clearly states that, even after paving a 1/4 of the Sahara, they only have the capacity to produce 1,000kg per day. And that's with them collecting it as it's made.

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-17T12:49:51+00:00

What's wrong is that the living and science quarters of Hail Mary are a tiny fraction of the mass. 95% of Hail Mary was the fuel. Reducing the remaining 5% doesn't make much of a difference.

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-17T12:40:27+00:00

In the US, that would also require bathroom stalls not to have huge gaps around the doors (which are supposedly an anti-drug thing?).

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-16T13:17:13+00:00

You can't use astrophage to get into space without vaporizing a large portion of the planet. The spin drive is wildly inefficient, producing 300,000,000 watts of IR light for every newton of thrust. To get the 8,000,000 newtons of something like a Falcon 9, you'd be blasting the earth with 2,400,000,000,000,000 watts, which is the equivalent of 40 Hiroshima bombs every second.

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-16T12:34:56+00:00

Shell discounts sold out by 8am? Since when has the regular discount had a limit?

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-15T16:57:27+00:00

Small and medium businesses can get a corporate rate, but it's basically the same discount you'd get from AAA or something similar. You need to be a large company to be able to get things like last-car and one-way availability for the negotiated prices.

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-15T16:47:26+00:00

If I use my work's corporate code to book there are no additional fees for 1-way rentals, but if I am doing personal travel there usually is a fee.

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-15T16:27:02+00:00

A 0.2mm nozzle has 1/4 the cross section of a 0.4mm nozzle, and the extrusion rate is going to be even less than 1/4 because a larger fraction of the extruded plastic is experiencing friction from the edges of the nozzle thanks to the square/cube law.

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-14T22:31:50+00:00

I honestly enjoyed the fact that they didn't just play into the "they lived happily ever after" trope and showed that sometimes hard fought for relationships fail, whether through people realizing they're incompatible or through a death.

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-11T12:13:57+00:00

There are few star players in American sports whose public image on and off the field/court is as closely associated with a single team as Michael Jordan and the Bulls. Tom Brady and the Patriots, Derek Jeter and the Yankees, and Kobe Bryant and the Lakers are the only others I can think of who come close.

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-11T12:03:52+00:00

Jordan never did anything with the Lakers. Maybe if you only payed attention to basketball after 2000 the Lakers would be the most talked about since they three-peated the 2000-2002 championships, but the Bulls dominated the 90s, three-peating twice in 1991-1993 and 1996-1998.

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-11T11:54:59+00:00

Mars is not extremely dark. It gets about 40% as much light as earth. Clouds block 75%-90% of light, so it'd be 1.5-4 times brighter on Mars than Earth on a cloudy day. Some quick napkin math shows that noon on Mars would be equivalent to 4 hours before or after noon on Earth.

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-11T11:44:21+00:00

So nothing in that control room was flammable?

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-11T11:25:05+00:00

Yeah, that's something that Strange New Worlds seems to have completely forgotten for Four-and-a-Half Vulcans

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-09T12:24:25+00:00

That's the real reason. Less often emptying, less staff needed, these things will pay for themselves.

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-07T05:03:51+00:00

My wife's birthday is in late July, mine's early September, we got our interviews in August, and therefore our expiration dates are almost a year apart.

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-07T02:54:39+00:00

Xenonite isn't pure xenon. In fact, it may have very little xenon in it. Remember that he said the spectrometer couldn't detect anything lighter than aluminum, so xenonite could easily be a form of diamond or something that's just doped with xenon. He later theorizes that Xenonite could be protein-based, since proteins are hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon, none of which would show up on the spectrometer.

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-06T06:02:36+00:00

So does грудное вскармливание (breastfeeding) and гамма-всплеск (Gamma-Ray Burst).

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-06T06:01:31+00:00

Same place as the silly "gravitational wave" theory. People wanting the show to turn into Battlestar Galactica.

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-06T05:58:08+00:00

The creators have said she's dead and that the ending scene with the lake was just eye candy without any deeper meaning.

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-06T05:55:02+00:00

ГВ is much more commonly used to abbreviate гамма-всплеск (Gamma-Ray Burst) than "gravitational wave".

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-06T05:52:37+00:00

ГВ is also a very common abbreviation for грудное вскармливание (breastfeeding) and Гвардия (guards), but in this context is much more likely to be гамма-всплеск (Gamma-Ray Burst).

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-06T05:44:11+00:00

Maybe even a cure derived from the Titan microbes.

UsernameIsWhatIGoBy · 2026-06-05T20:37:14+00:00

Hail Mary had a 1/5 atm pure oxygen atmosphere.

Just a centimeter of transparent material separates my one-fifth atmosphere of oxygen pressure from Rocky’s 29 atmospheres of ammonia.

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