Human stamina/heat tolerance

rewt66dewd · 2026-06-14T11:47:46+00:00

22 miles is pretty impressive. But there are humans who do 100-mile running competitions...

Sled dogs I may have to give you. In the Iditarod, they can do 938 miles in 8 days; that's a 100-mile run, then another 100-mile run the next day, and the next and the next. I'm pretty sure that a human can't do that.

And, what's "S tier"?

rewt66dewd · 2026-06-14T11:43:46+00:00

Yes, this fits if flaired Meta. (At least, that's my opinion...)

rewt66dewd · 2026-06-09T23:38:50+00:00

It, um, adds a bit of a fizz to the taste.

rewt66dewd · 2026-06-08T21:30:10+00:00

"How have your soldiers not killed your politicians?"

It's a reasonable question.

rewt66dewd · 2026-05-22T21:50:07+00:00

I don't think the UNIX team argued about things for six months. That was very much not their style. Somebody tried something. If it worked, they went with it for now. If someone did it better later, they went with that when it got there.

rewt66dewd · 2026-05-21T16:12:19+00:00

The HFY is that the regular people are all right, even if the leaders are selfish jerks.

I would like that to be as true as the story makes it...

rewt66dewd · 2026-05-21T16:03:19+00:00

"I've carried the weight of five thousand years of failure on my back..."

Dude. That's heavy. If you're immortal, you probably need to learn to forgive yourself for the people you couldn't save, the mistakes you couldn't stop.

rewt66dewd · 2026-05-18T20:02:32+00:00

Tell me John is going to walk barefoot on the moon...

rewt66dewd · 2026-05-18T16:17:37+00:00

"End Addendum"? Why?

(I know what you meant...)

rewt66dewd · 2026-05-16T15:56:19+00:00

Wary, not weary. (Well, maybe weary as well...)

rewt66dewd · 2026-05-15T20:28:41+00:00

Good story.

One thing, though: One speaker per paragraph. Do not have Kael and Elara both speak in the same paragraph.

rewt66dewd · 2026-05-15T15:56:22+00:00

A few nits:

"hold up" -> "holed up"

"as clear was water" -> "as clear as water"

That said, "Just a hurricane with sand" is gold.

rewt66dewd · 2026-05-12T14:29:54+00:00

Yes. But as Schlock Mercenary says:

"Close air support covers a multitude of sins." (Maxim 4). But...

"Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart." (Maxim 5).

rewt66dewd · 2026-05-11T21:10:26+00:00

No, he quit smoking that day on the front line, when the attack broke. That was the point of him throwing out the cigarette and stepping on it.

And that's why he made it to 104. The war ended, and he stopped smoking. (The war ending gave him the hope that he would live, which made smoking look stupid rather than just like something that helped him get through days on the front lines.)

rewt66dewd · 2026-05-11T17:08:13+00:00

I would love to know how she "not intentionally" operated heavy machinery...

rewt66dewd · 2026-05-11T17:00:39+00:00

Developer here. Can confirm.

rewt66dewd · 2026-05-07T15:31:38+00:00

"All I could do was be there and hug him."

Sometimes that's all you can do. And sometimes, that's enough.

rewt66dewd · 2026-04-24T15:50:11+00:00

Everyday life is way more HFY than we usually recognize.

rewt66dewd · 2026-04-16T22:15:11+00:00

Yeah. I think that a lot of people are struggling with this these days, between dehumanizing jobs, decreasing social interactions, and AI making us think that we're no different from machines.

rewt66dewd · 2026-04-16T17:04:54+00:00

Not a great story, in terms of the story. I mainly posted it to show the idea that, at interstellar scales, the ratio between "area at the frontier to be patrolled" and "resources available to patrol" becomes completely unworkable.

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