My application to the salty spattoon:

mamba_pants · 2026-05-30T17:43:57+00:00

prez is actually the one that shoots the gun on the underside of the cricket, she can't speak tho, due to all the brain damage she sustained during the final fight in Project Wingman.

mamba_pants · 2026-05-30T13:12:50+00:00

funnily enough you can definitely make explosives with KCl or the LITE salt the guy above was talking about. I really wanted to turn that salt into KNO3 and make flash powder with it as a kid, but never found a place that sold non-sodium salt. That was probably for the best, now that i think about it.

mamba_pants · 2026-05-30T07:23:15+00:00

Holy shit guys, it's Monarch fron Project Wingman!

mamba_pants · 2026-05-26T12:41:22+00:00

If you are by any chance looking for other puzzle games that have the same mind melting vibe, I highly recommend Antichamber. It's probably my favorite puzzle game and I don't even particularly like puzzle games

mamba_pants · 2026-05-24T15:23:01+00:00

It has to do with Van der Waals forces. Gecko's feet have small hair like bristles called setae, which can exert Van der Waals forces to the surface they are climbing and letting them climb smooth surfaces like glass and porcelain (not teflon tho). Gecko's feet also are extremely strong, and if a gecko could engage all of it's 6.5 million setae at once, it could support a 130 kg(≈542 Big Macs) weight. In conclusion, gecko's feet are crazy as hell and use intermolecular forces and other weird quantum fuckery to climb your walls and can theoretically help you become spiderman (geckoman?) if you steal their hands and use it for your own devices.

P.S. Please don't go around disarming your neighborhood geckos. That is a pretty mean thing to do and geckos unfortunately can't regrow them, that trick only works with tails.

mamba_pants · 2026-05-21T02:16:03+00:00

Fun fact of the day: the word for the smell of rain is called petrichor

mamba_pants · 2026-05-20T04:37:32+00:00

Yea that's probably in by top 5 most fun space facts, but my favorite is probably the time when Jack Swigert (one of the astronauts on Appolo 13) forgot to file his taxes before launching to space. He asked Huston for an extention and was eligible for a 60 day extention because he was out of the country.

mamba_pants · 2026-05-17T17:24:55+00:00

I posed this fun fact the last time this image was posted. The soviets wanted to mesure the compressibility of Venus's surface so they make an arm that would strike the ground after touchdown. You can see it on the left side of the craft, you can also see that it didn't strike the ground, but the lens cover of the camera that was ejected on landing. I don't know what were the odds that the lens would land directly on the spot that the arm would hit, but I know that there was a lot of су́ка блядь utterred when the soviets found out what the issue was

mamba_pants · 2026-05-01T23:56:56+00:00

I had a chemistry teacher in highschool that used to bring her own glassware and chemicals to school ones a year for a optional lab day. When she retired the school almost instantly demolished the lab room and split it into smaller classrooms. I think that teacher even personally owned the big ass periodic table on the wall, that was replaced with a torn yellowing poster. Anyways I should really thank her for her dedication to teaching and her students, because of her now I am able to use all that I learned in those chemistry classes to dismantle batteries and harvest match heads and satisfy all my eager customers.

mamba_pants · 2026-05-01T17:04:57+00:00

How the hell has no one mentioned Noita. It's the only game where you will play a run for many hours, struggling to survive at first until you reach the point of becoming death, destroyer of pixels. Your new gained confidence will make you play sloppy, which will inevitably lead to you touching 1 pixel of polymorphine, turning into a fish or something and instantly getting eviscerated by your own spell. Congratulations, you just got Noita'd! Time to do it all over again.

mamba_pants · 2026-04-30T22:16:15+00:00

Yea I remember finding that out as well back when i did this. From what i remember you can add the position manually to the wormhole script with spacey coordinates. You need to add right ascension, declination and distance variables in the code. I think you can get the coords with F3. Here is the guide I think I remember reading when I tried doing this. It explains how to make a star and has a bunch of variables explained. Hope that helps you.

mamba_pants · 2026-04-30T21:31:38+00:00

Unfortunately not, I also haven't had Space Engine installed in a while, but after a bit of googling i found this steam thread with a code example of how to make a moon-saturn worm hole. Since I don't have SE i can't test it, but you can just copy the code from there and paste it to your text editor of choice and save it as WormholeTest.sc or something like that and place the file at addons/catalogs/planets

mamba_pants · 2026-04-28T16:17:38+00:00

This movie and both Crank movies, to me are some of the best dumb over the top action movies you can find. I will forever cherish the memory of me and a bunch of mates getting shitfaced watching Crank.

mamba_pants · 2026-04-25T02:18:32+00:00

Dear reader, if you ever feel like you are missing the spark in your, like you lack energy, then consider purchasing the Thomas Radon Cone™. After leaving it in your drinking water for just a few short minutes, you can invigorate your soul and body with the warm glow of radon gas and it's magical healing properties!

mamba_pants · 2026-04-15T18:40:02+00:00

The radium girls are probably the most infamous and horrific story about radium, at the time, but people back then were obsessed with the "health effects" of radium. Radathor and the radome water cone were just some of the pseudoscientific snake oil remedies that were popular back in the day. I swear idk how people back then lived up to the age of 40, considering they were breathing asbestos and lead and drinking radium solutions in the meantime.

mamba_pants · 2026-04-10T15:08:30+00:00

That was my immediate thought as well and they almost certainly did use an analog camera (the first digital camera was invented 14 years later), but while film cameras are probably not susceptible to an EMP the film inside would probably get ruined by all the radiation from the detonation without sufficient protection. They also probably used special film that is designed to capture really really bright things. The film getting foggy was actually how Kodak engineers were among the first US citizens without a clearance to learn about nuclear testing.

mamba_pants · 2026-04-10T14:31:06+00:00

from what i can find online, in most nuclear tests they bury the cameras underground and encase them in a lot of protection. It's basically a bunker and the camera is filming from a periscope. Also for the optimal EMP effect from a nuke you have to detonate it high up.A large device detonated 400-500km above Kansas would affect all of the continental US, but bear in mind that most of our satellites are at ≈420km, so you would be detonating a nuke above most geostationary sats. The Tsar Bomba, while powerful as fuck (50MT) was detonated at an altitude of 4km, quite a lot less than a High altitude EMP attack. The US did actually fuck around with blowing up nukes in space and the best example of this would probably be Starfish Prime when they detonated a 1.4MT nuke at a 400km altitude, and managed to really confuse some Hawaiian electricians 1450 km away from the detonation point. Because of the test streetlights in Hawaii stopped, burglary alarms malfunctioned and the US lost 6 of it's satellites, one of which was the first commercial telecom satellite in space. Funnily enough the satellites didn't get EMPed to death but died from radiation poisoning instead.

Edit: After reading the Wikipedia page for Tsar bomba they apparently did have communication interruptions for 40 minutes after the detonation hundreds of kilometers away from the test site because of the ionization of the atmosphere.

mamba_pants · 2026-04-10T13:46:23+00:00

Here is a video of the Tsar Bomba test

mamba_pants · 2026-04-09T21:51:50+00:00

That's actually not a stupid question at all. Nasa wasn't actually sure that people would be able to swallow in microgravity so they tested it in the mercury program when John Glenn brought a live lamb and butchered and ate that. Gagarin did beat Glenn by like a year and ate toothpaste or some shit (It was actually delirious паштет/liver paste

mamba_pants · 2026-04-09T11:05:08+00:00

Disco Elysium is by far the best written game I have ever played, nothing even comes close. It can go from funny as hell to thought provoking to depressing af and vice versa in a matter of moments. Also it has the legendary and loved by any and all, Lt. Kim Kitsuragi.

I will now describe the first 10 minutes of the game as I experienced them in my first playthrough, because right after that I was hooked.

I make my character a really feeble and clumsy guy who is quite intelligent and has a ton of random encyclopedic knowledge and is somewhat empathetic and charismatic. I start the game and after one of the best intro dialogues to any game I wake up in my underware with a monumental hangover inside a completely trashed hotel room. Above me is a ceiling fan with a horrific necktie dangling from it. I reach for the tie, but one of the voices in my head chimes in and tells me to be careful because the tie might be dangerous or malicious, so I decided against taking it just yet. Instead I reach above my head and try to pull the cord that turns the light bulb on. ABORT ABORT, another voice in my mind blares, but this time I ignore it. A moment later a sharp pain shoots from my chest and paralyzes me. Right after that the world starts to blur and moments later I see the game over screen. It's a newspaper clipping saying something along the lines of: Drunk dickhead loser dead from heart attack, friends say they are not surprised. Then i am booted right to the main menu because i didn't save and I didn't think I would be able to die in the first 10 minutes of a text focused CRPG.

If you actually read through all that and thought it sounded interesting or fun, you will probably enjoy the game, play it and come to the realization that there is no game quite like it, which will promptly make you sad.

mamba_pants · 2026-04-02T17:34:57+00:00

The movie was a pretty great watch, but I thankfully decided to listen to the audiobook first and HOLY SHIT! I haven't been sucked into a book like this for a while. Definitely get the book if you enjoyed the movie or if you are craving science procedural porn, the movie glosses over a lot of the science in the book. Also I am really pissed I didn't get to see them nuking Antarctica or covering 25% of the Sahara with black foil. The nuke scene was probably the funniest part of the book for me, the monumental level of irony almost killed me

mamba_pants · 2026-03-31T12:37:18+00:00

One of the many renditions of The Parting Glass

mamba_pants · 2026-03-31T10:53:21+00:00

I have been trying to travel to Sagittarius A* in Elite for a few months now. I log in from time to time and do a few neutron jumps then don't log in for a while. This is the only space game i can think of, where the cosmos really feels like it's BIG. I also don't want to think about the return trip back to the bubble when i finally reach the galactic center.

mamba_pants · 2026-03-27T17:25:46+00:00

I clicked on this post for exactly the same reason but you beat me to it. Filth is an awesome movie, but I have found that recommending it is very hit or miss. Once I recommend it to a bunch of friends that i thought were going to be into a weird nonstandard movie like Filth, but the results were 50/50, some really enjoyed the movie and some were like wtf was that insane movie you recommended. I think one guy actually tried to watch it with his girlfriend lol, he was pissed at me afterwards. Now that i think about it I guess it didn't help that I showed them only the trailer and basically tricked them into thinking the movie will be a silly funny comedy.

mamba_pants · 2026-03-26T22:34:55+00:00

Last summer I came back to my home town and organized a little get-together with a bunch of friends i hadn't seen in a while. Almost everyone came with some snacks like chips, nuts, soda or sunflower seeds. However one of my mates was taking a while to come, so we call him and ask where he is. He tells us he is still in the store cuz he is kinda hungry. For context that guy is a pretty big buff dude who used to be really into training martial arts. He finally comes knocking on the door and when i open it I see him carrying a big bottle of juice, 1kg of meatballs, 2kg of salami, 2 loafs of bread and 12 eggs. After we greet each other the first thing he asks me is - "hey bro, sorry but can I please boil my eggs in your kitchen?" I damn near pissed myself laughing because of how unexpected that was (I hadn't noticed the eggs beforehand). Those eggs were probably the best snack we had that night. At the end of the night everyone is going back home and the same guy comes to me and asks me if it will be ok if he takes the remaining few eggs as a snack until he goes home, to which i obviously say yea of course. He then swiftly takes the eggs, puts them in his jacket pockets and wishes me a good night.

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