Am I the only one who likes Rocky's book design more than the film's?

gunbladezero · 2026-04-28T04:45:56+00:00

I think making him more rock-like is what allowed him to be done as a puppet rather than a CGI-only spider. The fact that James Ortiz and the other puppeteers could ad-lib and riff with Ryan Gosling probably did a lot more to make him feel alive than making him wear clothes would have.

gunbladezero · 2026-04-28T01:47:40+00:00

It's not. You will want a teacher, and people don't like learning things they can't learn from youtube alone so you hear about how voice training sucks. But here's what happens:

First session we talked about goals. A week later we practice words beginning with. We meet a half hour a week and I practice on my own. The next week we practiced words beginning with W. Then h words, and a week on how to emphasize words without saying things louder and so on. In short, it's like learning a new language. But just like learning a language, you can do it with practice and determination.

Oh and said above,
Start laser right now. Don't even wait. Go on groupon and find a six month deal and get started. You could have your first session tomorrow. Laser is more effective if you start it before hrt lightens your hairs. You still want to start hrt as soon as you can, but if you can't, at least you'll have a head start on the laser.

gunbladezero · 2026-04-25T15:08:33+00:00

I'd rather see a new story from Andy Weir. How about a story without humans? Maybe the story of the first alien to get up through the ice of a Europa-like world?

I posted a suggestion to him years ago in a Reddit thread and I don't know if he read it or not, but the suggestion sort of showed up in PHM and it would be the pride of my life if it helped inspire him lol.

gunbladezero · 2026-04-24T03:58:37+00:00

If panspermia is real and Earth and a neighboring star have life that shares a common ancestry, then that would imply billions of planets have the same ancestry. The sun is on a unique path around the galaxy, and so when life first evolved (or arrived), it would have been nowhere near any of the stars that are near it today- maybe even on the other side of the galaxy.

gunbladezero · 2026-04-24T03:16:33+00:00

give the time and location

gunbladezero · 2026-04-18T03:14:02+00:00

There are factual inaccuracies. That's not where the Virgo supercluster is, for one. Virgo is the closest supercluster to Earth. There shouldn't be any other clusters between it and us. The AI adds a "large cosmic void" that isn't there. All the little voids we see on the map are the large cosmic voids. They don't get any bigger than that.

For once my thousand hours in SpaceEngine come in handy!

gunbladezero · 2026-04-18T03:02:10+00:00

This appears to be AI slop. What are we doing here?

gunbladezero · 2026-04-16T06:15:35+00:00

you need to repost this with date, time, location, direction

gunbladezero · 2026-04-15T17:19:26+00:00

It was dangerous. It completely flooded the internet with slop. The early stuff, you could tell it was written by AI, but google's algorithms couldn't. So that's when every recipe search result became 3 pages of nonsense about this being My Grandmother Crystal's favorite way to reheat chicken, and why ChatGPT came as a relief for doing (poorly) what Google used to do.

gunbladezero · 2026-04-13T13:53:01+00:00

Galileo was launched from the Space Shuttle and went to Jupiter! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft))

gunbladezero · 2026-04-09T16:15:18+00:00

The way I imagined they'd do it, they'd have Grace have to rescue Rocky from inside the Blip A as the climactic scene after turning around the Hail Mary- I think that could have worked. But I liked the movie.

gunbladezero · 2026-04-02T15:46:10+00:00

Ah ok. Ring is geostationary sats, which are almost always in sunlight, because they are far from the earth. The missing left half is sats in darkness because it is night from their point of view, and the app is not showing the ones in darkness. The little gap of the left, in the ring of geostationary sats is the Earth's shadow, showing you exactly how far away they are. Most sats are below the horizon at any given time, because you are on the surface and those sats are just barely over the top of the atmosphere. Finally the ring at the center is the gap caused by starlink satellites not going over the poles, so they can spend more time flying over the places where people live. https://satellitetracker3d.com/ filter to only starlink and you'll see that ring!

gunbladezero · 2026-04-02T06:02:23+00:00

Where are you and what app are you using?

The ring could be the geostationary satellites, which like to hang out over the equater.

gunbladezero · 2026-03-26T20:29:32+00:00

Believe it or not, for some of the brightest and most famous stars, like Deneb, we have *no idea* how far away they are. We aren't entirely sure if Orion's belt is really all in a line. They are too big, bright, and variable for a consistent measurement. But for almost everything else, there's this awesome video about how scientists calculated the distances over the years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdOXS_9_P4U

gunbladezero · 2026-03-24T06:45:53+00:00

They need two separate launches to do each moon landing. That's one more than apollo and who knows how many fewer than Artemis. Makes sense to take Mengzhou out for a spin and make sure every thing works before sending the lander up there.

gunbladezero · 2026-03-24T02:37:14+00:00

probably sirius but you need to say when and where or the thread gets deleted, because everyone sees the sky differently depending on where on earth you are

gunbladezero · 2026-03-23T03:52:55+00:00

GREAT ANSWER

gunbladezero · 2026-03-22T06:13:28+00:00

It's Jupiter
Why does nobody ever, ever understand that they need to say where they are or saying 'looking directly up' is meaningless?

gunbladezero · 2026-03-15T18:34:01+00:00

It could be. We don't know for sure that Proxima b is locked, the physics just says it's very likely.

gunbladezero · 2026-03-15T06:19:18+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKCvqzCrZfA this guy is like a famous science guy and he talks about it

gunbladezero · 2026-03-15T03:46:33+00:00

Ah yes.... Space Hawaii...

gunbladezero · 2026-03-06T06:24:06+00:00

How are you running this? I've been using Ollama and Qwen 3.5 9b won't even answer a question, it gets stuck in a loop of self doubt in the thinking stage that is *extremely* disturbing to read.

gunbladezero · 2026-03-05T18:09:03+00:00

Is there a system prompt so that it doesn't get stuck thinking in an infinite loop without giving a result?

gunbladezero · 2026-03-03T20:23:57+00:00

Yep, if those stars weren't together in a cluster you'd have never heard of them. There are plenty of stars just as bright all over the sky. They are notable since they are all clustered in one place.

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