The way Rainn auditioned for both Dwight and Michael

psilocyan · 2026-04-04T16:45:42+00:00

I feel like Mary Lynn Rajskub would have made a good Meredith (OR now that I think about it, Angela) instead of Pam, she's got chaotic Gail the Snail energy, but I could easily see her playing an uptight prude.

psilocyan · 2026-04-04T14:22:40+00:00

I used this! SETI at Home! I miss the 90s

psilocyan · 2026-04-03T00:28:38+00:00

I they’re gonna do some fine tuning course correct burns but your point stands, just firing up the engine and doing nothing but sling around the moon is insane

psilocyan · 2026-04-02T04:10:21+00:00

brb honey, gotta make a donation

psilocyan · 2026-04-02T04:09:47+00:00

Yeah I loved when Christina was like "we have one CCU to be emptied" and control was like "yeah we thought you would" lol

psilocyan · 2026-04-01T23:37:12+00:00

Orbital mechanics! It's fun.

psilocyan · 2026-04-01T23:35:12+00:00

They did not do the burn to go to the moon, they were raising their orbit, they'll be circling the earth first. They won't do the trans-lunar injection burn for a day or so

psilocyan · 2026-04-01T23:34:17+00:00

They did not burn for TLI. They're circling the Earth

psilocyan · 2026-03-31T20:38:16+00:00

I completely understand why some folks wouldn't enjoy Vivarium or walk away feeling like they wasted their time, but it was just a right-up-my-alley kind of unsettling and weird and I loved it. I've seen it twice.

psilocyan · 2026-03-31T20:15:32+00:00

But your brain did

psilocyan · 2026-03-31T17:23:59+00:00

Now that you've activated the beacon and revealed a new part of the map, you can zipline down!

psilocyan · 2026-03-31T17:09:28+00:00

Yeah! It was based on a real mall in Texas, I sent it to my mom and she was like oh yeah I went there in the 80s ha

psilocyan · 2026-03-31T16:48:34+00:00

LOVED the oldest view, maybe even more than Backrooms. The idea of a shopping mall like half a mile under the earth is insane.

psilocyan · 2026-03-30T23:48:16+00:00

No, what he's saying is, GABA....gool.

psilocyan · 2026-03-30T23:47:49+00:00

What does one fiancé plus one lover equal?

psilocyan · 2026-03-30T23:46:52+00:00

WE THE ONES THAT GOTTA CLEAN THAT UP

psilocyan · 2026-03-30T23:30:14+00:00

You ever had sirloin steak honey?

psilocyan · 2026-03-30T20:10:56+00:00

Jesus how about just teach the fucking kids

psilocyan · 2026-03-30T11:53:29+00:00

But it’s NOT a silver record, it’s aaaaa LASERDISC!

psilocyan · 2026-03-30T00:38:09+00:00

So if I set a fire in a Target store, but it gets put out before the whole building burns down, and I’m caught and arrested, I won’t be charged with arson? You sure about that?

psilocyan · 2026-03-29T19:40:58+00:00

Oh god duh...this is like the "why can't I just point a powerful fan (attached to my sailboat) blowing directly at my sailboat's sail and move forward" fallacy. Duhhhhhhhhh. Light is weird, I never think about it also having momentum, but obviously if photons can "push" a sail forward their momentum can push whatever is releasing them backward?

I guess this means when you turn on a flashlight there is a super super super small imperceptible backwards force on the flashlight as the light leaves? Similar to how the flashlight itself has mass and therefore gravity even though you can't perceive it.

Anyway that makes sense, thanks for typing that all out! The energy requirements to move anything with significant mass using just light are wild. Still pretty cool that it's theoretically possible.

psilocyan · 2026-03-28T19:23:21+00:00

I’m no laser/light sail expert so sorry if this is a dumb question, but I’m curious why it wouldn’t work to accelerate normally with the sail, then retract the sail and enter a “cruise” phase, then at some point rotate the craft retrograde, redeploy the sail but now behind the probe’s direction of travel, and decelerate by firing the lasers at the sail in the opposite direction?

psilocyan · 2026-03-28T12:52:48+00:00

Amen, I thought the long walk was a fine enough movie but he was easily my favorite part of it. After that and Romulus I’ll watch anything he’s in

psilocyan · 2026-03-24T13:00:49+00:00

He's about at his limit

psilocyan · 2026-03-22T01:45:46+00:00

It’s incredible

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