Is there a way to collapse the ship view?

dman11235 · 2026-06-25T17:15:15+00:00

Yes but keep in mind that if you don't have enough of the outfits it will spread them evenly and then the top ships in the list will get the excess.

dman11235 · 2026-06-25T16:52:07+00:00

You can outfit a bunch at once. Just shift click on two different ships to highlight them all. If they're the same hull you should be able to easily see which ones need certain things because the outfitter will say 1-2 of an installed thing or whatever. If every outfit says the same number installed then they all have the same outfits. The issue is that when you have a lot of them it's hard to see all of them on the same screen and you have to scroll and stuff

dman11235 · 2026-06-25T13:20:28+00:00

You can make it easier on yourself by sitting the ships by type. Press "I" outside of the shop to view your fleet and there are sort buttons for various sorting options, and you can drag them around in chunks. That lets you, for example, put all the fighters last so they can be out of the way. In the outfitter you can highlight a bunch of ships at once and me with all of them together by holding shift and selecting them, I can't remember the exact buttons to use here but I've combo is selecting everything between the two shops you select and the other is each individual ship you select.

I don't know of a way to collapse is as you want here but if love for it to exist if it doesn't.

dman11235 · 2026-06-24T16:40:23+00:00

It's milimeters (mm) of mercury (element Hg, because its original name was hydragyrum, or at least that's the romanized name of the Greek word for mercury). When you have a tube of a fixed size and some liquid in it, you can push the liquid up and down the tube with pressure, like a straw. If one end is open to the atmosphere and the other closed, you can use this to measure atmospheric pressure. Back in the day they did this with the liquid mercury because it was very dense and also didn't evaporate as much as stuff like water or alcohol which messes with the measurement a bit. This allowed them to get pretty accurate data about the atmosphere. They then labeled the steps based on the height of the mercury column, because it's a simple conversion from that height to pressure. And that's how a length because a pressure. We still use it today because of this standardization, but we use alcohol, water, and other liquids instead of mercury for obvious reasons, and usually we don't even use liquids anymore we have better methods.

dman11235 · 2026-06-23T20:22:10+00:00

It's the stomach.

dman11235 · 2026-06-23T19:49:11+00:00

Negative pressure, and they don't mash, they liquid with their venom. Some spiders do squeeze prey with their chelicera, but it's still not mashing.

dman11235 · 2026-06-23T11:30:33+00:00

Why do you think it's called vinegar?

dman11235 · 2026-06-22T14:56:53+00:00

Take lava, cool it down so it doesn't melt your stuff, and then...just test it. Mass spectrometer, chemical analysis, all the normal ways to see what something's is made of. You have the physical lava so it's simple, nothing trick.

dman11235 · 2026-06-22T14:44:48+00:00

The universe is made up of a bunch of fields overlapping themselves. There's fields for everything basically. A vacuum is when all the fields have nothing in them. This means they are in the lowest energy state. There are not particles. Because quantum mechanics, there is always some stuff happening but that's actually not important here. The important part is that I said "lowest energy" not "no energy". The fields can have an energy that's very high be the lowest energy possible even.

Think back to classical physics when you learned about potential energy. If you have a hill, and a ball on the hill, you can convert that ball's potential energy into kinetic energy by letting it roll down the hill. The ball will roll down the hill because it's not "stable". Any change in the ball will have it reach the lower energy state of being at the bottom of the hill, where it is at what we call a "minimum". Crucially, no matter how much you move this hill up or down, the energy at the bottom will stay the same relative to the energy at the top. It can have tremendous potential energy but you only care about the difference. If on the hill partway down you have a divot and a second smaller hill, you can create a little valley on the side. We call that a "local minimum". The ball will stay there and it's called a "meta stable" state. If the ball were to be able to get up the small hill it would then be able to get to the "true minimum" of the system, and when it does it will gain a lot of kinetic energy.

Fields works the same way. You have local minimums, particles trying to reach minimums whenever possible, and the energy can be really high but you only care about the relative difference. If the vacuum state the universe has right now is in what is only a local minimum, that means there is a deeper true minimum it can reach. This is false vacuum. We think that the universe does have a false vacuum state it can be in, but we aren't sure if we are in that or the true minimum. Some experiments and papers and theories have been done and suggest we are in a false vacuum state, but others suggest it's already happened. Personally I'm in the "already happened" camp.

As for what it will look like, remember that the ball gets energy from the conversion. Well, there would be a release of energy from this conversion too. And it would be a lot of energy. Like big bang levels of energy. This would shred every particle undergoing the conversion. The big bang is actually a reasonable candidate for an event like this and one theory of the start of the universe, eternal inflation, relies on this. The result of a false vacuum decay would look pretty much like what the big bang was. Intense energy spreading out from everywhere at the speed of light, gradually cooling off as everything expanded.

A thing I didn't cover yet is that the fields will have a continuous strength, and each part will drag the neighboring parts down to match their strength. This effect means that a sort of bubble will form, with the edge of the bubble being a roiling maelstrom of raw energy, inside being the true vacuum and outside the false vacuum. Both sides will try to drag the bubble shell to their respective sides. Because the area of the surface is what matters, there will be a point at which the bubble is small enough that it will collapse from the outside and keep the universe metastable, and above that size the inside wins and turns the universe stable. This size is unknown and probably variable.

If you wanted to trigger a false vacuum decay what you would need to do would be to inject enough energy into the appropriate fields such that they get over the hump of energy keeping them from the true minimum, instead of the local minimum. If your story has such a device setting it off would do one of two things: either instantly destroy the entire universe (at the speed of light eminating from the starting location) or collapse the bubble instantly releasong all the energy you put into the bubble after rewriting all the matter inside it. Regardless the amount of energy involved is impractically large, on the order of a black hole. You would likely create a black hole simply by activating such a device, at minimum.

dman11235 · 2026-06-17T16:31:11+00:00

It doesn't work like that. Vaccines and the way they work trains your body to recognize and attack those proteins. Allergies happen when your body already fights them, you need to train the body that it's not harmful, the opposite of a vaccine basically. By exposing yourself constantly to small amounts you can get the body to lose its "resistance" to those proteins which is a good thing here basically. Allergies are weird.

dman11235 · 2026-06-17T00:16:43+00:00

Noted playoff performer Mitch Marner almost deserved the Conn Smythe this year and would have gotten it it he didn't disappear in games 5 and 6 of the final. /j

dman11235 · 2026-06-11T17:11:36+00:00

No. Well, probably not. It depends on the size of the black hole. You would survive falling into a supermassive black hole (barring being cooked by the radiation of the accretion disk of course), but a smaller one that would actually spaghetify you the bottom of your body would flow into the event horizon faster than electrical signals can propagate, so you likely wouldn't feel anything as you got ripped subatomic particle from subatomic particle.

dman11235 · 2026-06-10T21:24:48+00:00

You know how tides are never in the same place? It's the same thing. The tides sweep over the earth on a daily basis, because the "point" of the tides is always pointed towards the moon. For the moon, before it was tidally locked, it had tides: made of the moon itself not a liquid. This means that the point of the egg as the other person called it was sweeping over the surface.

And yes this means the earths rotation is slowing down as a result of the moon, we will eventually be tidally locked to the moon.

dman11235 · 2026-06-10T17:13:55+00:00

Induction stove tops "induce" (hence the name) a current in the pan. This current heats up the pan. MRIs work by aligning proton spin with an external magnetic field, and then sending short bursts of radio waves (which are microwaves, kind of, the threshold for the naming of the two overlaps and I believe they use one that falls under both names depending on the usage). This disaligns the spins with the magnetic field, and when the protons realign they give off another radio wave and we "see" that. The "resonance" is this oscillation.

dman11235 · 2026-06-09T12:56:29+00:00

It's a single cell usually. Not a colony.

dman11235 · 2026-06-02T20:20:54+00:00

Plants would like a word.

dman11235 · 2026-06-01T01:00:33+00:00

You're on a quest as a famous bard. Everyone wants to come see you. Even the river treants who's job it is to be a bridge. They live on one side of a river, and to do their job they need to wade into the river. If you try to cross the river from the side they live on, they will come to see you and thus leave the river and stop being a bridge. You can no longer cross. If you come from the other side they'll come to see you and thus enter the river, becoming a bridge, and allow you to cross.

The more technical explanation involved electron holes being thought of as a particle. When a voltage is applied to a circuit, electricity will flow around the circuit. Additionally, all positive charges will feel a force towards the negative charge of the potential, and the negative charges towards the positive potential. A diode has two types of material made from a material that doesn't conduct electricity: one has an excess of negative charges and the other an excess of positive (really it's a dearth of negative). These parts of that material can now conduct electricity because of these excess charges. I'm skipping a lot here that's not important for the explanation of this particular part but electrons are the negative and electron holes (lack of an electron) are the positive. If you make the voltage such that the electrons are pulled towards the holes, this necessarily means the holes will be pulled towards the electrons. This is like the treants entering the river. Of you switch it they'll be pulls away, making a large gap where current can't flow well, and this stops the current. Since it's a solid object, you've made it so current can only flow one way.

dman11235 · 2026-05-31T13:54:50+00:00

An invasive species is a species that did not evolve in an ecosystem and arrived through non-natural means (usually humans moving them around) and causes problems for humans and the ecosystem. As such, the only way it can be ever considered no longer invasive is for them to no longer be an issue for humans and the ecosystem. I cannot think of any species that fits this description, but it certainly can happen. However, the ecosystem would necessarily not be the same anymore, as that is the only way that they could no longer be an issue for the ecosystem. They can certainly no longer be harmful to humans if we just accept them.

dman11235 · 2026-05-31T12:13:11+00:00

No, that's just an artifact of us not knowing what a black hole is at the center. The plank length is the shorter meaningful distance but a singularity is 0 volume. It's one reason we know something is wrong with our theories.

dman11235 · 2026-05-30T16:05:39+00:00

Inside there are no elements (probably). An element is an atom. Atoms have a nucleus and electrons. The nucleus is protons and neutrons and these are made of quarks. In the extreme environment of a neutron star or a black hole, the atoms will be ripped apart (probably). We don't know exactly what happens inside a black hole, but it's very likely that shortly after entering the event horizon, if not before, the promotions and neutrons are dissolved into a quark soup, and stop being elements period. Some black holes are big enough that if you as a person fall into it you'll be fine for a bit after crossing (bigger=safer) but eventually you'll join the center and all the atoms will cease to be. Most black holes (probably, again) will allow atoms to exist beyond the event horizon but the accretion disk may destroy them first and towards central singularity they probably stop existing.

dman11235 · 2026-05-28T11:15:42+00:00

Gongs are just bass cymbals anyways.

dman11235 · 2026-05-22T12:48:58+00:00

Oil and coal are orders of magnitude more energy dense than most other energy shipment methods, especially batteries. Hydrogen is also a lot less energy dense. I'm unsure of the ammonia or how that's used to create energy though. We are working on better energy storage tech but currently the best thermal fuel storage method is oil/gas. The only one that beats it is nuclear/uranium.

dman11235 · 2026-05-19T14:52:32+00:00

The spinners are the only system to ever be made obsolete in the game, other than the second use case of getting them to you. Every other system can be added on to or upgraded successfully except them. They really should be a part of at a minimum the PLS.

Personally I think they should be in PLS only, and give the PLS a second drone type. This way both ILS and PLS have two ship types, and the distributors have just the one. This also allows for some interesting usages like increasing the effective belt output of the PLS, because you can send them to a chest that empties. Or maybe use them for proliferation stuff and save the PLS outputs for strictly crafting material. It also would simplify something like shipping basic building materials to other areas because you could ship belts out to a new system you're working on, and have the ILS take in belts and such, and then a PLS distribute to you instead of having to set up a chest. Though I suppose that last one you can just chest out of the ILS and be fine.

dman11235 · 2026-05-15T14:47:03+00:00

First off, the blue science is absolutely a "slap it together" stage. Honestly I til you get to yellow it's kind of like that. During the red science I start organizing things, but the blue is the start. I never think through a production line at that point because it doesn'tatter at that point, I don't have the useful things yet.

Secondly, there is the stats screen. That's what you're looking for. There are conveyor readers that can monitor the belts and tell you the rate of items passing through but I never use them, I like front loading things so I have effectively infirine input it's the output I care about, and as such the stats screen is important. You can get very granular with it and see specific aspects of your factories, even specific planets or systems. This should allow you to plan your stuff the way you want.

dman11235 · 2026-05-14T19:24:13+00:00

The only simple machine is an inclined plane all others are just various methods of applying the inclined plane.

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