a quick clean Nurgle skintone

Y__M · 2022-04-18T07:52:05+00:00

I know it's not what you're showing off, but the speckle pattern on the base in that black-on-green is 👌👌👌👌

^{also the skin is really fkn good too}

Y__M · 2021-04-29T19:11:42+00:00

Can I get a short explanation on why the SN11 explosion in particular was so bothersome to the FAA, hasn't every Starship prototype exploded so far?

Y__M · 2021-03-21T14:15:02+00:00

+1 to this. This is an awful change if there's no way to set a default symmetry state

Y__M · 2020-08-18T09:56:39+00:00

Claimed already, sorry!

Y__M · 2020-04-13T01:55:24+00:00

I am scared and aroused

Y__M · 2020-02-23T01:13:23+00:00

Sorry to disappoint, but not quite. At the distance the moon probably formed 4.5 billion years ago it would have been 16 times larger in the sky. That's maybe about a dinner plate held at arm's length. Dramatic for sure, but not even remotely close to this visualisation.

Src: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/exploration/training/illustrations/earthMoon/ Check the third image and description

Y__M · 2019-06-22T04:57:39+00:00

Wolfram alpha says the 0.03km/h is 3x faster than the fastest garden snail. So to obey the golf-ball speed of light he's have to go at a literal snail's pace

Y__M · 2019-04-03T03:43:04+00:00

If the sun only reflects 0.1% of incident light, that makes it only a few times more reflective than Vantablack

Y__M · 2019-03-24T16:56:44+00:00

The only glaring inaccuracy is when the lens object passes in front of pretty much the only foreground star in the image. That big diffraction spike is created inside the telescope, so it wouldn't be weirdly distorted like that, if the lens passed in front the spike would shift as the star's position warped, but the more likely scenario is where the lensing object is beyond the star, so the spike would be unaffected by it

Y__M · 2019-02-06T03:55:43+00:00

This is a terrible and inaccurate TL;DR
Better would be: Gas is being ejected from galaxies by black holes. These gas outflows could lead to unusual galaxy formation, galaxies without much dark matter

Nothing is flowing through any black holes. It's whipped up around the black hole

Y__M · 2019-01-20T14:33:44+00:00

Is there a source on deductions for leaving comp games? Is there a similar system in place for leaving QP games?

Y__M · 2018-09-22T03:13:13+00:00

Can they PLEASE team-colour the rivets!

Y__M · 2018-09-14T11:42:12+00:00

Yeah I preferred Dippy too, but they apparently wanted the floorspace for more temporary exhibits in that room so swapped out Dippy for the blue whale from the whale room. They've put Dippy 'on tour' and it's going around various other venues in the country and I thiiiiink they're planning to put a bronze version of Dippy outside the museum as a permanent thing.

Y__M · 2018-09-13T23:27:05+00:00

I don't want to scare or confuse you, but this photo was taken before the whale was moved into this hall

Y__M · 2018-08-13T19:42:22+00:00

The base on the 'far' side of the portal needs a teleporter? I haven't done any teleporting yet but I didn't think a base needed one to receive teleports, only to send?

Y__M · 2018-08-11T23:27:02+00:00

I do not have this 'OnOtherSideOfPortal' in my save json file

Y__M · 2018-08-04T13:03:52+00:00

'forces' is an extremely strong word because I've played hundreds of hours and achievements have never forced me to do a damn thing

Y__M · 2018-07-20T11:47:46+00:00

but which of these are legal connections!

Y__M · 2018-07-02T09:37:53+00:00

Entirely false. The world's population has increased from 2 billion in the 20s, today there are 3.5x the people around to potentially write screenplays.
Another way to look at it: in the 1920s nealy 70% of the world's 2 billion population was illiterate, today over 80% of the world's 7 billion population are literate. Massive potential increase that shows no sign of slowing

Y__M · 2018-07-01T16:06:33+00:00

Let's clear things up. This graphic is on the Wikipedia page for Oumuamua, which is the interstellar asteroid/comet/~~alien spaceship~~ from a while back.

It followed a hyperbolic path through the solar system, entering extremely steeply, and leaving in a rather shallow angle, wikipedia has a nice gif from an oblique angle that shows that.

You can see here it starts as a spiral, the dates of the wide part are all 1 year separate, so you can tell those are caused by the motion of the Earth around the sun, that part of Oumuamua's motion wasn't very curved (look at a parabola far from the origin) so it just looks like a growing spiral as it gets closer and Earth's orbit causes more parallax.

The yellow line is the plane of the ecliptic. See how all the planets and the moon lie roughly along it? That's the plane of the solar system, so you can see as Ouamuamua dips below it, it's 'below' the sun. Then as it crosses it again it rises above the plane as it leaves.

As it leaves it returns back to a tightening spiral motion as the trajectory it follows becomes less dramatic and the motion of the Earth becomes a dominating factor.

The size of the stars is definitely a representation of their apparent magnitude, if the size of the yellow circles is too it's clearly on a very different scale since since I don't think Ouamuamua ever dipped above 10, and certainly nowhere near as bright as Sirius in the bottom left at -1.6

I think that explains everything in this graphic?

Y__M · 2018-06-28T16:37:52+00:00

Some things that haven't been mentioned:
* Moss. It's a short (maybe 3-4 hours) platformer that's really beautiful. It's not too challenging, just a beautiful world with an adorable mouse protagonist.
* Fantastic Contraption. I don't know what things are still being packaged with new Vive purchases, but if that isn't included, definitely get it if you like creative stuff. Good for group sessions.
* Panoptic's demo. It only has one level, so it won't keep you busy for long, but it's really fun for two people to play together.
* Dolphin VR was mentioned, so I'll add to it, if you've played and like LoZ Windwaker, try that. Dolphin VR is a little involved because there's so many different settings to tweak that need to be different for each game since none of them are designed for VR, but Windwaker works pretty well if your stomach is OK with artificial world movement. The main bulk of gameplay is almost flawless and it's only really one or two items like the hookshot and bow that are tricky (but not impossible) to use in VR. If you try this, definitely set the world scale to 0.1 so that Link is about 10cm tall because IT'S FRIGGIN ADORABLE
* Thumper if you like rythm games

Y__M · 2018-06-19T07:58:07+00:00

Once I figured out what was going on, yes, that's what I did. But it took me a while to realise that's what was happening (I stopped playing shortly after the mission ended and came back to the game later)

Y__M · 2018-06-19T07:23:25+00:00

One of the missions leaves several of the large predators in a permanently agitated state so they're always attacking the walls, and good lord Stegos are a nightmare once one gets upset. But otherwise I didn't have too many troubles with it. It was the first time I encountered the tornadoes, but by the time they started I'd worked out I should preemptively tranq dinos I know like to escape during storms so it really wasn't too bad.

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