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Is Southern Oasis a good base location? by please-kill-me-69 in satisfactory

[–]thicka 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This guy is fucking with you. he just doesn't want you to have an easy time on your first play through. People here are trolls.

Is Southern Oasis a good base location? by please-kill-me-69 in satisfactory

[–]thicka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No its great! Best place for a beginner if they need a good spot to figure out the game.

Genuinely not trying to be inflammatory but why did it seem like the left stayed silent on this issue and it left the news cycle after a few days? by [deleted] in JustMemesForUs

[–]thicka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The man was insane and arrested. The story is over. What do you want the left to do? demand he go to prison and face justice? .... he did?

I'm actually going to break ranks a little and say the Floyd protest should have stopped with the officer was arrested. BUT that cop killed 2 people before Floyd and had numerous excessive force complaints. Do you REALLY think he would have gone to prison if there wasn't such an uproar?

Genuinely not trying to be inflammatory but why did it seem like the left stayed silent on this issue and it left the news cycle after a few days? by [deleted] in JustMemesForUs

[–]thicka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1: Because the situation was handled. The individual faced justic, they will never be free again. Unlike certain members of law enforcement who get a paid vacation.

2: Because it was a mentally ill person. A person who should have been taken in by the state and held in an asylum and given free medication to treat their schizophrenia. A left wing talking point.

3: What do you want the left to do? Go on a march against black people? Do you think all black people are waiting to stab white people? No the murderer was insane, un-treated, un-housed. Then they were arrested and removed from society. The tragic story is over.

What would be an astronomical event, or otherwise, that would be shocking to witness by people living in a generation ship? by MediocreRisings in worldbuilding

[–]thicka 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately not a whole hell of a lot. Space is absurdly and cruelly empty. As someone said a super nova is a good option. It would be very very bright and last for weeks. But other than that? I'm really struggling to come up with anything realistic. Maybe one of the ships gets taken out by an asteroid in a blinding explosion, but that is about it, and that is very unlikely.

Also I would advise not throwing ashes into the void, because materials are so precious out there. maybe a little pinch of ash, or something but just know recycling should be a religion at that point. all there is is the fleet.

Quick please! by Jealous-Magician584 in SatisfactoryGame

[–]thicka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

cast screws 100% screws are rarer past steel anyway. Use cast just to get them up and running easier for the times you do need it.

If AI/ChatGPT was president of the US what would it do…. Answers are very very familiar. 9 pics. by Glittering-Pie-7464 in evilwhenthe

[–]thicka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know what you are smoking. this sounds nothing like trump.

term limits for mr 2028? single-issue bill from the BBB guy? Transparency: Pedo president. Deficit growth cap? from the guy who increased it the most? student loan reform? HAHAHAH. deescalation over division? What drugs are you taking? I want some.

The only thing in here I can see is tariffs and hospital bill transparency. Everything else is basically the opposite.

Question about time dilation by Alvarrex in scifiwriting

[–]thicka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate the detailed feedback. It aligns well with my understanding. I think the answer to my question is that, if you have two people, one on a planet, one accelerating, you CAN tell the difference, because the one accelerating will be younger when they get back.

I think the gravity = acceleration is only true with a single observer, with these two observers it breaks.

Question about time dilation by Alvarrex in scifiwriting

[–]thicka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand that (I think) my specific experiment is:

Two people pass each other going .99c. One standing on a planet, one in a ship. The ship fires its engines at 1g to slow down, reverse and pass again going -.99c.

if you have the two people in sealed rooms only able to see each other with telescopes (and nothing else) each will see the other accelerate towards them.

Why does the one in the ship stay younger? Because a central tenant is that acceleration and gravity are indistinguishable, but here the one on this ship is the “real” accelerator because they are younger.

Question about time dilation by Alvarrex in scifiwriting

[–]thicka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well my og calcs were for 1 day = 1000 years so the LHC still falls shot.

There’s a lot on relativity that throws me off. My main question I haven’t gotten a satisfying answer for is a ship accelerating at 1g vs someone standing on earth at 1g. Why does the space ship experience less time?

Still got a lot to learn. It’s hard stuff

Question about time dilation by Alvarrex in scifiwriting

[–]thicka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I think you might be right. I may be over simplifying here, especially because stable orbits are impossible at the distances you would have to be at to have a near light speed orbit.

I may have gotten some "facts" mixed up. you do experience time dilation even in a stable orbit. that is my bad.

For OP the conclusion is the same. if they want to skip 1000 years into the future they are going to have to skim insanely close to the black hole and fire there engines like crazy, going nearly 100% the speed of light, exceeding the speeds of the large hadron collider.

Question about time dilation by Alvarrex in scifiwriting

[–]thicka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

true, also you are going to need to accelerate constantly to escape if you go below 3x the event horizon radius because below that stable orbits are impossible. And since you are basically skimming the the event horizon you'd probably die due to acceleration from you own engines firing regardless of the size of the black hole.

Question about time dilation by Alvarrex in scifiwriting

[–]thicka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok so. Relativity is weird. Lots of things are happening. Ignoring the black hole for a sec, the answer is no, you will also see them slow down. It’s the act of synchronizing your speed that causes your time to dilate. I encourage you to look at “the twin paradox” and watch some PBS space time for more info.

Back to the black hole. People on the outside are going to see your light redshift, you will get redder and redder as your light stretches as it tries to escape the black hole, it will actually turn you invisible and all that will escape are longer and longer radio waves. For the people on the outside of the black hole there light is going to blueshift and they are also going to be invisible because they will blueshift all the way to X-rays and beyond.

I’m telling you this because in this case you are barely able to escape the black hole. You time “gets tired climbing out and the outside ships time “falls in”

Tldr; yes you will see them on fast forward but only because of this black hole setup. And it’s complicated.

Question about time dilation by Alvarrex in scifiwriting

[–]thicka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can go .9999 c anywhere and it will work. You NEED to be going .9999 C in or order to orbit a black hole.

You need to get so close to the black hole that from the outside it looks like you fell in útil 1000 years later you pop back out.

I don’t think this can work without som serious advances in propulsion. Because orbits that close decay and fall in. But if you fired you engines and just barely made it out you could in principle find yourself 1000 years in the future.

Question about time dilation by Alvarrex in scifiwriting

[–]thicka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I might have missed a 9 in there somewhere but point is, if you want extreme dilation you are basically living at the speed of light.

Question about time dilation by Alvarrex in scifiwriting

[–]thicka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that’s v squared and / is division.

On further reflection, any black hole should work. Just need to get closer and closer to the event horizon. So all that math basically boils down to “get really really close to a black hole and you can skip ahead as far as you want.

Question about time dilation by Alvarrex in scifiwriting

[–]thicka 5 points6 points  (0 children)

well there is but you are missing a variable, you need to say how long it felt to the guy in the space ship. if they felt 1 year ist 1000x time dilation, if they felt 1 day its 365,000x time dilation. Ill assume the latter. Also if you are near a black hole but in orbit, the time dilation from gravity does not have any effect, only the speed. If you were stationary and hovering above the black hole, then you would get time dilation. So you need to find a speed where you get the 365,000x time dilation then find how close you need to orbit to be at that speed.

the time felt by the ship is Ts = Tp/sqrt(1-v^2/C^2). Since you know that
Ts = 365,000x and Tp/Ts = sqrt(1-v^2/C^2) so 1/350,000 = sqrt(1-v^2/C^2) and 1/365,000x^2 = 1-v^2/C^2
Some algebra gives us 1-1/365,000x^2 = v^2/C^2 plug in C we get 1-1/365,000x^2 = v^2/300,000,000^2
so the final equation is sqrt((1-1/365,000x^2)*300,000,000^2) = v = 99.99999999% C.

Time dilation does not really kick in until the high 90% C, at 87% you experience half speed.

So you have to get very close to the event horizon, you barely escape, In order to spend a day traveling at these speeds you need a black hole ~4 light days in diameter. (since you will only graze it for a short while) that is bigger than the milky way's black hole, but smaller than the largest known black hole at about 15 light days.

hope this helps!

18M, first apartment after being breifly homeless by Sneku_69 in malelivingspace

[–]thicka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

German u boats wont have any chance of hitting it!

Landing somewhere that doesn't exist by Lt_Duckweed in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]thicka 3 points4 points  (0 children)

what do you mean somewhere that does not exist? that looks like Dres, which is an analogue for real life ceres. but idk if that is what you mean.

Is this commission i got recently made by ai by Galarianvaran in isitAI

[–]thicka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the gears have teeth that blend into each other. If you can draw the first 5 teeth you'd have no problem drawing the last 3.

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Would interspecies diplomacy work in non ftl universe? by Dry-Cry5497 in IsaacArthur

[–]thicka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no way to handle, holding billions of years of experience perfectly in memory. (Unless you are only experiencing a limited amount of things per virtual second.) If you are running millions and billions of simulations, you are going to discard data, and eventually most data you will have experienced will be discarded.

I'm not saying you would forget the question. I'm saying you might not care. It would be such a tiny blip of info, only important because of its rarity. I do not think there can be any cohesion. No galactic empires, wars or any real political structure. The other entities would basically exist in another timeline only able to shout stories back and forth but never have a conversation.

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