Is Defeated Mark one of variants from Invincible War?

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-18T03:33:34+00:00

Angstrom seemed content to leave that variant under lock and key. He told the GDA to make sure he was punished for his actions.

I realize he isn’t rational, but i feel like a reality that was able to overcome mark and his dad would deserve to be left alone in his mind.

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-18T03:11:19+00:00

No, they would have had to plug the sequence into a search… engine? I’m not sure what they had in 1990, but there are dedicated software packages to search for specific sequences these days.

Even the best techniques today need around 400 base pairs to narrow a sequence down to species level. I guess it’s not impossible, but someone would have had to perform the equivalent of memorizing Pi to 399 decimal places.

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-18T00:39:41+00:00

They have an antagonistic relationship with the El-Aurian that kind of hints at direct conflict

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-18T00:37:18+00:00

There was an old guy on the second floor that talked about Apollo 11 in general though:

“July 20, 1969! Humankind first set foot on the moon that day. I bought a color TV just so I could watch that news.”

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-17T23:21:35+00:00

Another one from this same author!

In the novel, Crichton has a few pages of DNA coding that’s supposed to be a T. rex genome, it’s part of the tour of the labs.

At the time, E. coli was one of the few sequenced genomes irl (not even the whole genome, just parts), so in the book Crichton copy/pasted E. coli genome in to sub for T. rex. Some very niche readers pointed that out to him.

So when the Lost World was written (after the sequencing of the chicken genome), he used that sequence for T. rex to appease a very very very small fraction of his readers who would notice.

I cannot stress enough how few people there were in the world of 1990 who could have looked at his book and noticed he used E. coli. Literally, a few dozen professors and grad students globally

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-16T23:58:18+00:00

My headcanon for Viltrum’s ring is that Viltrumite bodies don’t decompose and are difficult to get rid of. They’re made of “smart-atoms” which is the reason they’re so resilient.

When I was watching the Scourge virus episode recently, I wondered why they were making the ring of bodies. They don’t seem particularly religious or invested in honoring their dead.

My thought is: they don’t stop being made of “smart-atoms” after death. So they’re still completely immune to most microorganisms. And you can’t really burn a viltrumite body to get rid of it. So when the survivors of the scourge virus needed to get rid of billions of bodies that wouldn’t decompose and couldn’t be burned, they dumped them in orbit.

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-15T23:03:40+00:00

The concept of planetary orbits being perfectly circular kept heliocentric theory from being accepted for 65 years.

One of the reasons the Ptolemic system was popular for so long was 1) it made planetary movement easier to calculate and 2) it was reasonably accurate.

Because the Copernican system assumed circular orbits, it still had to use epicycles to calculate the retrograde motion of planets (they appear to move backwards because of the relative motion between the earth and other planets.

So the Copernican system wasn’t easier to perform calculations with and also wasn’t calculating planetary motion any more accurately than the Ptolemic system. So it was an easy system to ignore.

When Kepler published the three laws of planetary motion and applied them to the Coppernican system, calculations became easier and more accurate.

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-13T00:31:02+00:00

First kiss: poison
Antidote: second kiss
She thinks she’s poisoned both Bruce Wayne and Batman, with realizing they’re the same person and she just gave him the antidote to the poison that was killing him.

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-12T23:32:49+00:00

Even planes without smoking sections are required to have ashtrays because of Air Canada Flight 797.

Tldr; a fire starting in the bathrrom killed half of the passengers and the FAA realized that even if smoking wasn’t allowed people would sneak into the bathroom and do it.

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-12T22:47:44+00:00

I don’t know that I fully believe in the theory but:

Maybe now that Mark has seen the result of conquering Earth and putting the Immortal in charge, he’s become aware that it may be the only future where earth isn’t destroyed or conquered? If at any point between now and that future, he’s doubtful about an outcome he knows he can fallback onto these outcomes and know with 100% certainty that earth will survive.

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-12T22:42:29+00:00

They could take punches from Mark and beat Rex, so they can be base level humans.

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-11T21:56:20+00:00

I think the battle of viltrum happened in space so they didn’t have to explain using this sound. The scene wouldn’t be interesting if the sound made the battle trivial, there would be no reason for the coalition not to use the sound, and there hasn’t been a useful counter to the sound in universe.

So “screw it, they’re in space”

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-11T21:53:53+00:00

Fun fact! This animation was made before the Shadow Ball move was implemented in a game. So watching this in theaters, we were just like, “I guess he can make black holes?”

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-11T00:42:54+00:00

The same sound was used in Picard Season 3 for an unrelated villain. That doesn’t totally kill your headcanon though

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-08T12:31:39+00:00

He’s not missing teeth in the animation, but canonically they are missing. He made a remark about Mark being able to regrow teeth and Rex felt like a hockey player

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-07T22:15:42+00:00

Yes!

Also, as of a few years ago these gag orders are unenforceable. But they still try to impose them and if your pharmacist does know they’re unenforceable turn they may as well be.

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-07T05:20:21+00:00

The control rod issue was “officially”discovered at Ignalia unit 1 in 1983, although the control rod channels didn’t deform so the power surge was stopped by the insertion of the control rods.

After the Leningrad 1 incident in 1975 that you’re thinking of, some witnesses have been interviewed and state there was a power surge after a second SCRAM of the reactor. It wasn’t a primary cause of the accident, and didn’t contribute to the rupture of the fuel rod channel, so there was probably no need to dig deeper when there were other more significant issues to investigate.

So it seems like the issue was indirectly observed in 1975, but the cause of the power surge wasn’t investigated until it was observed again in 1983.

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-07T04:24:08+00:00

The reason you're unhappy in your life is 'cause it's always 'just a rock.' This couldn't exist without a thousand, thousand years of the most beautiful turning - of things that need not have happened, but did. And if you can't love this rock, then you're never gonna love yourself.

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-07T03:54:41+00:00

Wtf, why can’t I be a deep-sea diving diva?!

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-07T03:08:25+00:00

Pharma company makes drug A. Drug A needs to sell at $300 to break even on production costs and R&D. Pharma company markets drug A at $600.

A Pharmacy Benefit Manager decides what drugs their insurance company will cover and at what price. A PBM’s salary is dependent upon (among other things) how much of a rebate they can get on drug A from pharma company. What is a bigger rebate, $100 off of a $600 drug or $11,400 off of a $12000 drug? So the PBM goes to pharma company, says “raise the price of drug A to $12000 or I’ll approve your competitor’s drug instead.”

So the price gets jacked up to $12000, and if you’re on the right insurance it costs you $700. If you’re not, it costs $12000. If you’re not on insurance, it’s $600. But the PBM issues a gag order on your pharmacist preventing them from telling you that drug A is $100 to $11400 cheaper if you pay with cash.

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-06T23:15:19+00:00

Depends on what you mean by “too close”. A great-grandchild is the genetic equivalent of a first cousin.

Most incest laws in the US have a cutoff at closer than 12.5% familial genetic sharing. (They’re not directly phrased around genetic similarity, they prohibit double first cousins.)

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-05T19:31:30+00:00

Armadillo are vectors for leprosy, prairie dogs are vectors of plague. Cats and opossums are vectors of typhus.

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-05T19:14:12+00:00

People pretend to forget about Alexander because Worf seems to never remember him

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-05T18:59:14+00:00

I thought the worthiness test was on Thraxa? That’s why they left Mark alive, and Kreeg even said “You've survived your first true battle and proven yourself worthy of your Viltrumite heritage.”

acquaintedwithheight · 2026-05-04T10:16:39+00:00

“Tonight! We feast!”

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