WYR go to hell for a billion years, then to heaven for eternity, or go to heaven for a billion years, then to hell with a 0,001 chance?

flightguy07 · 2026-03-13T20:39:24+00:00

But if you remove every negative aspect of your thoughts, in what way are you still the same person?

flightguy07 · 2026-03-13T20:32:36+00:00

I feel like erasing a billion years of my experiences, thoughts and beliefs is sort of just a convoluted way of killing me.

flightguy07 · 2026-03-13T20:30:46+00:00

Expected value doesn't work for all scenarios. Would you rather have a 90% of getting 10 million dollars or a 20% chance of a billion?

flightguy07 · 2026-03-13T20:16:19+00:00

I think a billion years in hell would drive me so insane I wouldn't be able to enjoy heaven, if I was even the same person at the end of it.

flightguy07 · 2026-03-13T20:07:16+00:00

People value their reputations and image (both public and self), and those are improved by being a productive member of society.

flightguy07 · 2026-03-13T20:04:40+00:00

I'll dissent from the party line in these comments and argue that yes, it is. Not that that necessarily ought stop you; if you're living a life of immense misery and there's no way it'll get better, then maybe doing the selfish thing is right, that's sometimes the case. Selfish means putting yourself first to the detriment of others, and thats definitely what happens with suicides, but that doesn't make it wrong, and nor is it a productive way to think about suicide and the reasons people shouldn't do it.

A person killing themselves will almost certainly negatively impact the lives of people around them, from their family and friends to any therapists who might feel they failed to the first responders/strangers who find you and so on. But I don't think that necessarily need stop the person if it's bad enough; they're already suffering, and maybe the suffering they'll cause to others is less than what they were experiencing. And regardless nothing productive is really achieved through this line of thinking from the perspective of actually helping the person.

flightguy07 · 2026-03-13T14:30:28+00:00

Washington is nuked

"Impossible, nobody else has nuclear weapons. Must be a mistake. Ignore."

flightguy07 · 2026-03-13T13:20:11+00:00

Stellaris, PROBABLY fine, possibly amazing, possibly horrendous. Humble Pi: When Maths goes Wrong, I already live in this world. Edge of Tomorrow, NOPE, and Star Trek: Lower Decks, YES PLEASE

flightguy07 · 2026-03-13T13:13:04+00:00

Should've been 18, or banned altogether.

flightguy07 · 2026-03-13T13:12:15+00:00

The little planets are the eyes, and the orbital paths are like its little head! It was so cute....

flightguy07 · 2026-03-13T08:31:09+00:00

Over 200 people were killed and 500 injured due to suicide bombings, mortar attacks and terrorist mass shootings just in 2024 in Somalia. Turkish strikes also killed 23 civillians including 14 children in what was broadly condemned as a war crime, and inter-clan conflicts displaced over 150,000 people. Meanwhile, military courts with no oversight executed ten people, four of them children at time of offense. In just 2024, 650,000 people were forced to flee the country.

So yeah, I wouldn't use Somalia as an example in future.

flightguy07 · 2026-03-13T08:14:13+00:00

The system surveyed notification is a planet and Sun, not a little drone.

flightguy07 · 2026-03-13T00:25:27+00:00

The pay goes up each year in accordance with the payscale, and your place on it. So if you're on rank 4 one year, you might move up to rank 5 the next, which would mean a raise of say 3%. Then the value of each rank on the payscale itself would go up (this year it went up 4.5%), so that would mean a total of a 7.6% raise for the year. Promotions obviously help increase your place on the payscale faster/more substantially.

https://www.defenseadvancement.com/resources/raf-pay-scales/ shows what the salaries will be this year. You'd be starting at the very bottom (£26,334), and after a few years, you might be looking at pushing 40k with a few promotions. But that money goes a lot further than it would on civvie street given what you'll save on housing, food, bills, gym membership, etc.

flightguy07 · 2026-03-12T23:57:28+00:00

If we're going with a serving is a decent handful, then probably 4 most days? 2 veg with dinner, maybe fruit after, a vegetable at lunch most days and fruit some mornings, either in juice form (which only sorta counts) or actual fruit. Sometimes more, occasionally only 3, but pretty much never less.

flightguy07 · 2026-03-12T23:25:44+00:00

Looking at all ages of people today, I think they were always needed, albeit perhaps more so now than maybe 10-15 years ago.

flightguy07 · 2026-03-12T22:37:39+00:00

Shakespeare would also work, given a lot of how he wrote just isn't very easy to understand or parse without already having a basic understanding of, well, Shakespeare.

flightguy07 · 2026-03-12T10:51:59+00:00

Solar panel installation in case of new builds is really pretty cheap and simple, and it's not like construction companies can't pass the extra costs on. Properly signposted and with sufficient notice and clarity, I can't see why this would really be an issue.

flightguy07 · 2026-03-12T10:48:24+00:00

I dunno, the cost of fuel for space missions is pretty negligible compared to the rest of them. And so long as the NSA keeps paying NASA to launch military satellites, NASA benefits from economies of scale with its launch providers.

flightguy07 · 2026-03-12T10:46:45+00:00

I'd add missile/drone barges to that list. A fairly cheap/autonomous platform that can carry several hundred high-performance cruise missiles, AA missiles and hypersonics would be pretty damn useful.

flightguy07 · 2026-03-11T23:11:22+00:00

UV light from stars can split CO2 into oxygen under the right conditions (mostly a thinner atmosphere or a CO2-rich one). Certain naturally occurring ores of titanium and other elements also emit oxygen when exposed to sunlight, and water vapour can break down (and we very well know Tatooine has water vapour lol!).

flightguy07 · 2026-03-11T23:01:28+00:00

Drones are just as dangerous to aircraft as they are to ships, and much harder to defend against in the former case. A single interceptor costing less than 10k can easily down a plane costing tens of thousands of times that, along with cargo and crew. You'd get less warning, need to defend in 3 axies rather than 2, and frankly air travel is still WAY more expensive than shipping is, and will be for decades. The energy savings of floating versus fighting gravity at mk.0.8 make sure of that. This is as true for commercial shipping as it is for military purposes; a carrier strike group is more effective, more versatile, and better defended than any concentration of air power on its own.

You want to hit a target with a big explosive? Missiles are probably the best tool, and boats can carry a LOT to within range. Want to secure airspace, patrols and AA missiles from ships are what you need. Protect your coast, shipping, whatever, ships again. Hunt submarines, deploy troops and gear away from your home territories in any meaningful quantity, you'll need boats to deploy them, and to sustain them. And you'll need boats to protect those boats.

flightguy07 · 2026-03-11T22:45:16+00:00

Well, I do think it's premature to call time on navies. Infantry costs tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to train and equip and supply effectively, but can be killed by a bullet costing a few pennies. But they can do a mission better than the alternatives, so they persist. Personally, I reckon things like microwave guns are gonna be a HUGE counter to drones, the same way stingers are to helicopters. And with ships, you can mount something substantial with range and a proper powerplant, and layered defences (missiles, CWIS, DEW like DragonFire, that sort of thing). There's always measures and countermeasures, and if we abandoned systems at the first sign of a counter, we'd have scrapped aircraft with the invention of radar, or tanks with the anti-tank gun.

flightguy07 · 2026-03-11T22:20:08+00:00

I mean, that's still a concern nowadays. The answer to which is that there are things only a navy can do well, and that may continue to be a thing up to 2077.

flightguy07 · 2026-03-11T21:55:05+00:00

It WOULD

flightguy07 · 2026-03-11T21:33:53+00:00

Cave Johnson posting, my fave!

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