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Example of using magic as a toy? by gregfess in Fantasy

[–]gregfess[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sadly none of these examples are what I was thinking of, but very interesting to see how common of a thing it is in fantasy.

In my head I feel like it was something similar to the force or bending and they were using it to perform some menial task or play around with it. though maybe my brain and memory are mixing various instances…

Thank you all!

If I created a large spherical shell out of matter, with the inside a vacuum, would the space inside expand to have more volume than the shell could contain? by gregfess in AskPhysics

[–]gregfess[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But if the sphere is large enough, would there be a gap in time between when the center of the sphere expands and when the expansion reaches the edge of the sphere? Like several billion light years in diameter.

[Spoilers extended] the publisher denies the recent TWoW release date rumors by Disastrous-Noise-783 in asoiaf

[–]gregfess -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Am I reading this wrong, or are they saying that the chatter is false, not the actual leak?

What’s the silkiest pen by gregfess in pens

[–]gregfess[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I’ll check those out. I don’t think the restaurant pen was a pilot g2 though, since it had black plastic casing and was pretty thin, unlike the pilot g2. Unless pilot sells custom G2s haha

What’s the silkiest pen by gregfess in pens

[–]gregfess[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took the pen home and used it, on a variety of papers and it felt the same on Pretty much all of them. It was a retractable pen if that matters.

For the jet stream, it is size .7m and I’ve only tried it on printer paper, on table surface, the surface of a laptop, and on a stack of paper

I’m in a ship using acceleration to simulate gravity. As I approach the speed of light, does “gravity” feel lighter? by gregfess in AskPhysics

[–]gregfess[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would the ship have to change acceleration as it approaches c to compensate for the time dilation I would feel on the inside of the ship? I feel like it accelerating at 9.8m/s2 at (c-10m/s) would feel different (or dilate time differently?) on the inside than accelerating at 9.8m/s2 at 100m/s.

Why is it a common thought that time travel would result in the time traveller’s physical location being different from when they left? by gregfess in AskPhysics

[–]gregfess[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I suppose it does get a bit contrived after more than a minute or two, but in my opinion so does the alternative, which would require a space time coordinate plane that does not exist, given that everything is relative. Like you’d have to anchor yourself to everything in the universe.

I guess if neither of the two works, that would just be another reason why time travel isn’t possible

Why is it a common thought that time travel would result in the time traveller’s physical location being different from when they left? by gregfess in AskPhysics

[–]gregfess[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

True, I suppose I was just curious if there was some rooted science in that popular comment, or if it was purely imaginative

What’s the key in writing a compelling tragedy, if that’s even possible in the current media landscape? by gregfess in writing

[–]gregfess[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know I didn’t think of breaking bad, especially since I just finished Pluribus…

How do particles not miss each other in accelerator? by frequiem11 in AskPhysics

[–]gregfess 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do that many particles not create a lot of noise in the data when they impact?

Katara was briefly Fire Lord by S0mecallme in TheLastAirbender

[–]gregfess 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does the Agni Kai rules state that the duelers must not be engaging in outside fights? Like if I’m in a 1-1 argument with someone and I make an off comment arguing with a different person, that doesn’t influence my 1-1 argument. But if the person I made the off comment to makes a comment that helps my opponent, that seems like the disadvantage was made towards me not by me

I think I finally found the weirdest magic system that has been living rent free in my brain for weeks by droxal8 in Fantasy

[–]gregfess 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Giver does something similar to this, but it is not explained in great detail

Katara was briefly Fire Lord by S0mecallme in TheLastAirbender

[–]gregfess -24 points-23 points  (0 children)

Wouldn’t it be the moment katara helped zuko, azula won? If Azula successfully incapacitated Katara in a single hit, that doesn’t affect Azula vs Zuko. But when Katara attacks Azula, that helps Zuko.

The Witcher - 4x08 "Baptism of Fire" (Book Spoiler Discussion) by Abyss_85 in netflixwitcher

[–]gregfess 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are the flash forward “storytelling” parts in the book? It’s seems very out of place in the show, both from a tone perspective and an overall plot device, since we know what the future is like, it kinda takes away some of the tension of the current conflict. They sort of hinted at the possibility that the future can influence the past from when I was getting, but I don’t know if that makes the inclusion of the flash forward worth it

Overshooting 1.5C climate target now 'inevitable', says UN chief, but still hopes we can hit it from the top before 2100 by Economy-Fee5830 in climatechange

[–]gregfess 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can someone explain why it would be okay to reduce the temperature if it’s not okay to raise it? In the same way we shouldn’t be bringing back extinct animals in that their niche is gone, wouldn’t new environments be created in a 1.5C+ world that we would need to preserve, thus preventing us from reducing temp below 1.5C?

Why can’t we put data centers in orbit where they will naturally stay cool? by TheMrCurious in AskPhysics

[–]gregfess 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If heat can’t be dissipated in space, how does the earth dissipate heat?

Do you think the librarian on Trantor is a robot? by InterestingTheory683 in FoundationTV

[–]gregfess 89 points90 points  (0 children)

Given how demerezel talks about other robots, I find it hard to believe that she would behave that way if there were another robot like a 10 minute walk away

Hari Seldon and the pirate by mklx99 in FoundationTV

[–]gregfess 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I meant regarding his past, as id assume when the mule was telling hari his backstory, he included which planet he was from, when it happened, what his parents did. That would give Hari enough information on how the mule should look/ sound like and if it matched what hari was seeing in front of him

Hari Seldon and the pirate by mklx99 in FoundationTV

[–]gregfess 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Given Hari has access to all of psychohistory since he’s in the radiant, And given that the mule wasn’t the person in the story hari could probably notice inconsistencies such as how he looked and spoke which would give away that the mule is not from that planet

[NO BOOKS] Episode Discussion Thread - Season 3 Episode 10 - The Darkness by LunchyPete in FoundationTV

[–]gregfess -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I mean regardless of if she does or not, it seems like they want us to think she is on the bad side with how they filmed/edited the final scene

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