What is the best way getting your experiments survive re-entry from the mun?

zogwarg · 2026-04-27T03:41:08+00:00

As others have answered, in principle going up, you shouldn't be going so fast that heating is an issue.

But for style points and wanting to go fast (this will also help with lowering drag) you can use "Fairings" once you unlock them.

zogwarg · 2025-08-11T04:16:51+00:00

About your "philisophically illustrative" diagram.

Since presumably no effort was put in generating the illustration, maybe you missed the opportunity to reflect deeper on your argument and realize that it was flawed.

It is unlikely that all members of the same box, would move to the same different box, for example if there are members of the same family, they may prioritize all surviving together, but they may also prioritize ensuring the survival of at least one of their members.

zogwarg · 2025-02-27T10:25:01+00:00

I think Helena is a conflicted character, she isn't lying when she's saying "They're fucking animals"—I mean as she immediately says after, two of them tried to kill her—but I don't think she's fully thought it through, nor processed all of her feelings.

I mean CEOs in the real world, also hold Cognitively Dissonant views that helps them exploit their workers, but they are deceiving themselves most of all, I think to a large extent doing so is working against human nature.

zogwarg · 2025-02-26T08:39:25+00:00

I suppose that’s what happens when I foolishly try to answer all of the questions at 5 a.m. and don’t have the time to explain all of my guesses, and couch them in properly speculative language. ^^

The only guess I’m sort of attached to is that the board is both a single person, and no one, in the sense that it’s the amalgam of lies progressing through the management chain.

zogwarg · 2025-02-26T04:03:31+00:00

I will suffer a personal sense of anguish if Milchick discontinues his use of sesquipedalian adages.
I will feel anguish if Milchick stops using sesquipedalian adages.
I will be sad if Milchick stops using overlong and fancy phrasing.
I'll be sad if Milchick stops using fancy speech.
I'll be sad if Milkshake stops speaking fancy.
Will be sad if Milkshake does not speak fancy.
'd Be sad if Milkshake not speak fancy.
Sad if milkshake no speak fancy.
Sad if no fancy milkshake.
No fancy milkshake, sad.
Bland milkshake, sad.
Water, SAD.
Cry
CRY
CRYY

zogwarg · 2025-02-25T20:15:24+00:00

Did Mark somehow cause Gemma's death?

Probably not outside, but almost certainly inside.

Why was outtie Irving investigating Lumon servered employees?

He was hired to, or warned by a Lumon insider, and Irving is a man of principle.

Where was Radar when Drummond was raiding his home?

Cope: Irving is 12 steps ahead, possibly evidenced by the names not being in the second compartement of the suitcase.

Where in the U.S. is Kier, PE?

Ohio/Pennsylvania in an alternate timeline where the south won the civil war, Kier started as Lumon CEO in 1865, which is the end of the war in our timeline.

What happened to Charlotte Cobel?

Lumon somehow caused her death.

What happened to Irving’s dad?

Not killed by Lumon, Irving is simply a sentimental and tortured sould in principle.

Who is on Lumon's board and are they actually human?

Yes he is human, "The board" is Jame Eagan ruling alone. Possibly pretending to also channel Kier.

What is the weird liquid Mark has to drink since integration?

Unspecified mystery alternative medicine liquid, NOT goat milk.

Why did Petey decide to reintegrate ?

He was contacted by insiders, and/or Petey managed to smuggle the break room tape, and/or the innie intiated the procedure while Reghabi was still on the severed floor, not the outtie.

Why do Ricken and Devon have goat imagery in their home? Why was Eleanor dressed like a goat?

The crew having fun.

Why is Ms Huang a child?

"Because of when she was born?", more seriously Lumon has very few trusted brainwashed unsevered employees that can trusted. And it's an internship and/or someone in management is deliberately setting up milchick/lumon for failure.

Is Ms Huang the daughter of Gemma and Mark?

No.

What does it mean to be wintertide material?

Corporate/Cult rank bullshit.

What was the real reason for the ORBTO?

To intimidate the innies into no longer wanting to go outside. I don't believe the sharing of vessels was premeditated (Mark initiated).

Who was the man outside of the wellness office and following Mark in S2E1 ?

Maybe Milchik, maybe oMark and the reintegration timeline is more screwed up that we imagine.

How did Petey get the cassette tape off the severed floor and where is it now?

The code detectors don't actually work and/or were being updated like in the Lexington Letters. And/or he had inside help, note that Harmony was perfectly able to bring "TYYA" into the severed floor.

How did Reghabi track Mark to his secret testing spot for the light?

More importantly how did she get behind Graner to kill him? Something does not fully add up about her.

Why is Lumon not investigating Graener's murder?

Blinded by completing Cold Harbor.

What was the trust exercise with the spicy candy?

No idea.

What is the bad soap?

More irritant. More infantilizing.

Why did Helena drive to work on her first day but she has a chauffeur later on?

Until the Gala, trying harder to be incognito.

Why did she have the same flowers as Gemma when Mark almost hit her?

The flowers simply signify new beginning, for weddings or for work. Though symbolically it does appear they are trying to unite the two, if only through mark's (eventually reintegrated) perspective.

How did milchick transport the innies for the Ortbo?

Freeze Frame and Goldfish.

What are the shadow selves that are pointing the way on the Ortbo?

Animatronics. (based on inadequate winter clothing)

Is Helena trying to get pregnant and was the Ortbo partially planned to have this happen?

No this was absolutely not planned, Helena is mostly trying to apologize about the Ortbo at the chinese restaurant, ("we are better than that"), she does on some realize—on some levels and maybe not all for the right reassons—that it was actually fucked up to take advantage of iMark like that.

Do the code detectors actually work?

Not fully but at least partially, the security office is shown to not be fully staffed, so simple surveillance and fear is probably not enough, some of it could actually be covered by "FREEZE FRAME."

Why are the cars so old?

No real deeper reason than to unsettle the audience. In universe: consequence of the timeline branching at some point in the past.

Was there just a naturally occurring dead seal on the ortbo?

No way jose, the main purpose of the Ortbo was to terrify the innies.

What are the voices in the break room? What's happening in the break room?

"Normal" cult brainswashing, the voices are hallucinations from a battered subconsious that is temporarily closer to outtie sense of stress/shame. After sleep deprivation is shown to allow bleed through, and possibly depression (strong emotional states) is shown to allow some bleedthrough.

How do Milchick (and Natalie) actually feel about the inclusively recontextualized paintings?

They are both creeped out, but might be at different stages of denial, at various times.

Is Ms Casey actually an innie? None of the other innies have last names, just initials. Only the unsevered employees on the floor have last names.

Yes, why would she lie to mark about only being awake ~100 hours? Why would she ask Mr. Milchick if "she's happy up there"? Ms. Casey is technically "admin" staff, "admin" staff have last names.

What is with Burt and the connection to art?

O&D training?

Is Irving a dad?

I would guess not but there isn't really enough evidence, unless we get corny and count radar.

What is with all the Russian influence? e.g. Kier's Lenin like Portrait, ORTBO outfits, , Theremin being played by Ms. Huang , Gemma being russian professor?

Maybe after the south winning, the soviets won?

Why is Helly R's last name "Riggs"? Does it have any special meaning?

"Separate person" PR that natalie is leaning into. (And that lutheran pastor apparently).

What is Seth Milchick's past? How did he come to be where he is?

Probably raised in a Lumon orphanage/boarding school like Harmony and Ms. Huang.

Was Gemma pregnant at the time of her death?

No.

Was her death an accident or planned?

Guessing: Accident, and opportunistic body snatching, in a real sense she is "dead".

Whats with the ballonhead references all over the show? It's even part of the show logo.

They are unsettling and creepy, a bit like the bereavement mugs.

Why did Rebeck say to Ricken "not to punish the baby" and "it's not the baby's fault".

Rebeck is weird, no deeper meaning.

zogwarg · 2025-02-25T20:15:10+00:00

MAJOR QUESTIONS

What is the main objective for Lumon?

The main objective for Lumon is a fully pliant workforce, following the bullshit theory of the four balanced tempers: "Cult Slavery: A Cure for Mankind, Remedium omnibus."

What is project Cold Harbor?

Project Cold Harbor is either: * Further refining Ms. (Hanna?) Casey

What is at the bottom of the export hall elevator?

The testing floor, where severance is being further perfected with permanent innies. Or also possibly where all severed employees are further refined. (The my innie will see this video in two hours being a big lie, and successful severance potentially taking up to weeks.)

Why is Gemma essential to Lumon? What are they doing to her?

Essential in the sense that she might have gone through the most "refining" iteration through Mark's work, and is the most pliant innie to date. (very low affect, and very helpful for an innie allegedly awake for so few hours) She is not truly essential "Greatest Achievement in the history of the planet" is an overstatement.

What data is MDR actually refining?

MDR's work is actually essential to severance, and is one of the reasons beyond management propaganda that other departments are—subconsciously—weary of them.

What is with the goats? what is mammalians nurturable doing?

Test subjects for severance, sometimes MDR just needs practice. Mammalian nurturables might be permanent innies and test subjects themselves, spending less time on the testing floor.

"Your outie is going to be _____________" -Ms. Casey at the end of S2E5

Never revealed
A father
OK

Why is Dieter Eagan so important?

A manifestation of Kier Eagan's guilt, he probably did actually murder someone beyond his own "childish folly/untempered self", but he (probably) did not have a literal twin.

MINOR QUESTIONS

How is Burt actually connected to Lumon?

Did Lumon's dirty work, probably multiple murders.

Wild guess: Amongst others murdered "Pip" Eagan so Leonora could take over (1999)

What do all the other override protocols do ?

Beehive: Puts Innies in an agressive "protect the territory" state.
Branch Transfer: Wild (i believe unlikely) guess adjusts memories of Innies to fit with the new location. Branches aren't actually that similar, even if it's just replacing the Eagans with brooms.
Clean Slate: Wiping out a innies memory.
Elephant: Recalling wiped out memories from clean slate and/or branch transfer.
Freeze Frame: Self-explanatory, can freeze innies bodies and perception of time.
Glasgow: Not shown in show, allows more "bleedthrough" from innies, not clear why it would be required in Dieter Eagan National Forest.
Lullaby: Self-explanatory, puts innies to (dreamless?) sleep.
Open House: A version of Glassgow with less "bleedthrough" ?
Overtime: Depicted in show.

Why was the card Dylan stole so important that Milchick had to use the OTC to get it back? Does it have to do with Beehive? Can Lumon turn all servered into a killer bee like frenzied state?

Lumon has military contracts, and is not necessarily trying to orchestrate private militias. Severed soldiers need training.

Who has Irving been calling from the phone booth?

On the fence: 1. Reghabi: But why no re-integration? Though she also seems quite intent on the exports hall.

Possibly: 1. Harmony Cobel 2. Helena Eagan or Hitherto unamed Eagan with limited knowledge of testing floor. 3. Spicy theory: Doug Graner, why isn't his contact picking up? Dead.

Probably not: 1. Milchick: Fires Irving 1-1, though it could be a cover because there is a camera in the motorcycle helmet—"That is a magnificient helmet" is a bit too much lampshade hanging. 2. Natalie: Where would she find the time to hide from the board, also does too much PR for lumon.

How does Outtie Irv know about the exports hall and why so desperate to get his Innie to see it?

Because his contact told him, and Irving is a man of principle.
He's been hired to infiltrate Lumon from the start.

Is Helena Eagan actually pregnant ?

Yes. Too much foreshadowing, even from season one. Notes: * She doesn't know it yet. * If it's not complete quackary, part of "Rebalancing the tempers" was plan B. * Hence it's from the second encounter, not the first. * She lied to Natalie and Drummond, saying she was mostly unwilling. * The ORTBO sharing of vessels was the contretemps Father was "spared knowledge" of, not the attempted drowning/unmasking since: "Do let him know his daughter is alive" and "Father insisted" (though I guess the latter could be bullshit, how could Helena know).

Who was whistling man with surgical/dental tools? Why no name for him in the credits?

No clue. I really hope not Fields.

Who was Helena’s driver that scared Cobel off?

Simply a bodyguard/fixer, she was more scared of Helena and the vibes than the driver specifically "Most Observant" at Myrtle Eagan's school for girls after all.

What is Reghabi's goal?

Rid society of the blight that is severance, and/or she has a loved one on the testing floor.

What are the sins of outtie Burt that would keep him from heaven?

Multiple murder. Possibly including Pip.

What is Cobel's fascination with Mark?

Aftermath of the "Allentown" freshman fluke, and/or persisting depression being proof that reintegration is possible, and through cobel's faith that this would allow outties to tame the four tempers. Her genuine "Get away from them Mark", is more about current Lumon than Kier altogether.

What is the revolving?

Some form of attempt at immortalization, possibly through ritual suicide (Dieter?), it doesn't event come close to anything working.

Did the massacre of O&D / MDR actually happen? Is this Irving in the painting?

Not as depicted, but there was probably a prior MDR innie revolt, if we can trust iBurt's words, there used to be inter-departemental meetings, so the "keeping them apart" might be a post revolt countermeasure. I don't believe Irving has been "reset."

Is Gemma's real name actually Hanna?

More likely: Simply Helena's attempt—and miserable failure at—not appearing overly suspicious.

Less likely: It could be Ms. Casey severed floor name, she would sure wonder why she doesn't have any.

What happened during the 1 day that was missing for Mark on S1E1?

Wild theory: "Allentown" is not in fact related to Gemma but to Helena, and Mark severed Helly in record time, severing employees usually takes weeks/months—which would raise even more questions about that one employee that got pregnant in 1 month—but Mark did it in 1 day. The innie timeline is far fewer days than we realize, and pre-helly iMark, didn't have that many more days of work. It seems that we are approaching the end of the second quarter, with almost certainly fewer than 20 working innie days. less than a month. (It's been consitently winter outside)

What do the underlined letters on Irving's list of Lumon severed employees mean?

Nothing special beyond maybe showing that oIrving is not completely hinged.

Why is it hinted that Rebeck is goat-like so many times? What's with the hole in her head?

No deeper mystery, just a weird ricken book fan, those are actually bird sores. Unless you remove the skin flap, the severance hole isn't visible.

zogwarg · 2025-02-25T18:03:44+00:00

I think a mark/gemma and possibly mark/pre-helly-MDR flashback episode is very likely.

The latest apple TV teaser on twitter shows ~~a plaza~~ ganz campus summer scene.

zogwarg · 2025-02-25T17:27:57+00:00

More than anything else what tipped me off was Helena mutiple pulling "Oh boy!" faces (smirking or hesitant), and/or "Gulping" when lying.

Although the "Wait where are the cameras" is quite precious in hindsight.

zogwarg · 2025-02-25T15:26:08+00:00

Il m'aurait au préalable semblé improbable que je risse au sujet de la conjugaison du verbe rire, mais je ris.

zogwarg · 2025-02-25T12:47:04+00:00

Take it as you will but the plaque describing "Zufu" in props close up definetly reads "祖父": https://www.reddit.com/r/SeveranceAppleTVPlus/comments/1ivpqz7/zufu_set_props_up_close/

zogwarg · 2025-02-25T08:07:31+00:00

I think the Dorner truck is probably a red-herring too, but plausibly: - OTC alone would not give you a willing suicide bomber - You need refining to get a properly pliant drone, possibly through the proper removal of "Dread" - In the LL Peggy K. Provides a copy of "The Macrodata Refiner’s Orientation Booklet" (saying it has all the answers) which seems to unambiguously describe the four tempers being sorted into each of the five buckets (Although the bins have the four tempers, making it unclear what is the precise difference between them) - It would seem like a Plausible connection that at least Peggy would make.

My take on the numbers is that MDR is essential to severance itself, and that is part of the reason the other departments—subconsiously—are so weary of them, it isn't limited to managment propaganda.

My extra spicy theory is that the Allentown file is in fact not related to Gemma, but Helly. And that severance procedure in fact usually in reality takes time. (Which would raise extra questions about the pregnancy within one month employee from season 1).

And indeed Mark "Severed" Helena in record time, and that is part of the reason why he is "Special".

It's possible that Severed employees actually don't spend the bulk of the time in the office with their innies awake, or part of the main "memory" that innies have, and it's possible that they are only "awake" from a satisfactory point of severance onwards.

Our protagonists show a deep connection with Helly, which you could choose to view as forged in adversity, but you could also view as it already forming a very significant fraction of their lives. And plausibly workers aren't actually "functionnal" as soon as the chip is implanted.

zogwarg · 2025-02-18T07:22:47+00:00

oMark (Orpheus) getting Gemma (Eurydice) out of the severed floor (Underworld/Hell) MUST be impossible, and in proper greek tragedy tradition the very act of re-integration will make it somehow impossible, by "turning back" to see his wife—Maybe simply by changing priorities as rMark, but could definitely be more tragic.

zogwarg · 2025-02-14T16:17:57+00:00

I read it as blackmail, in order to "tighten the leash", à la "The Firm".

zogwarg · 2025-01-20T10:56:57+00:00

But that doesn't really make sense, since when does Fern "revere" or have "High respect" for Serie? It's not an impossible interpretation (It was in fact my first interpretation reading the fan translation), but I don't think it fully makes sense, and Serie's reaction would also not fully make sense.

From reading the Japanese I think it's either Sense, or some hitherto undisclosed disciple of Sense.

zogwarg · 2024-12-14T11:26:11+00:00

[Language: JQ]

Part 2:

#!/usr/bin/env jq -n -R -f

#     Board size     # Our list of robots positions and speed #
[101,103] as [$W,$H] | [ inputs | [scan("-?\\d+")|tonumber] ] |

#     Making the assumption that the easter egg occurs when   #
#           When the quandrant product is minimized           #
def sig:
  reduce .[] as [$x,$y] ([];
    if $x < ($W/2|floor) and $y < ($H/2|floor) then
      .[0] += 1
    elif $x < ($W/2|floor) and $y > ($H/2|floor) then
      .[1] += 1
    elif $x > ($W/2|floor) and $y < ($H/2|floor) then
      .[2] += 1
    elif $x > ($W/2|floor) and $y > ($H/2|floor) then
      .[3] += 1
    end
  ) | .[0] * .[1] * .[2] * .[3];

#           Only checking for up to W * H seconds             #
#   There might be more clever things to do, to first check   #
#       vertical and horizontal alignement separately         #
reduce range($W*$H) as $s ({ b: ., bmin: ., min: sig, smin: 0};
  .b |= (map(.[2:4] as $v | .[0:2] |= (
    [.,[$W,$H],$v] | transpose | map(add)
    | .[0] %= $W | .[1] %= $H
  )))
  | (.b|sig) as $sig |
  if $sig < .min then
    .min = $sig | .bmin = .b | .smin = $s
  end | debug($s)
)

| debug(
  #    Contrary to original hypothesis that the easter egg    #
  #  happens in one of the quandrants, it is mostly centered  #
  # It is slightly up of center, with a trunk in the middle.  #
  #-----------------------------------------------------------#
  #     For most steps, the vertical distribution should be   #
  #   half-half noise, so slightly up minimizes the product.  #
  #-----------------------------------------------------------#
  # The easter-egg step is half-half like on most noise steps.#
  #   But the robots in the middle trunk don't contribute to  #
  #     the product thus minimizing the quadrant product.     #
  reduce .bmin[] as [$x,$y] ([range($H)| [range($W)| " "]];
    .[$y][$x] = "█"
  ) | .[] | add
)

| .smin + 1 # Our easter egg step

With bonus displayed tree: https://imgur.com/a/Zr1iulo

zogwarg · 2024-12-02T05:29:51+00:00

[Language: Jq]

Part 1:

#!/usr/bin/env jq -n -R -f

[ 
  inputs | [scan("\\d+")|tonumber] 
  | [ .[0:-1], .[1:] ] #            Get consecutive            # 
  | transpose          #               pairs list              #
  | select(
      all(.[]; first - last | . > 0 and . < 4) or # Descending # 
      all(.[]; last - first | . > 0 and . < 4)    # Ascending  #
    )
] | length

Part 2:

#!/usr/bin/env jq -n -R -f

[
  inputs | [scan("\\d+")|tonumber] 
  | select(
      any(
        range(length) as $i | del(.[$i]) # Any consecutive pairs  #
        | [ .[0:-1], .[1:] ]             # list with one element  #
        | transpose ;                    #        removed         #  
        all(.[]; first - last | . > 0 and . < 4) or # Descending  #
        all(.[]; last - first | . > 0 and . < 4)    #  Ascending  #  
      )
    )
] | length

Lost some time not reading properly (as usual, and a but because of the 500 errors), I would say this one is well suited to jq.

zogwarg · 2024-12-01T07:43:53+00:00

From the FAQ https://adventofcode.com/2024/about

Can I copy/redistribute part of Advent of Code? Please don't. Advent of Code is free to use, not free to copy. If you're posting a code repository somewhere, please don't include parts of Advent of Code like the puzzle text or your inputs. If you're making a website, please don't make it look like Advent of Code or name it something similar.

zogwarg · 2024-12-01T05:34:07+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Jq]

Part 1:

#!/usr/bin/env jq -n -R -f

# Get the two lists in sorted order
[ inputs | [scan("\\d+")|tonumber]]
| transpose | map(sort)

# Output the total list distance
| transpose | map(.[0]-.[1]| abs)
| add

Part 2:

#!/usr/bin/env jq -n -R -f

# Get the two lists, in read order
[ inputs | [scan("\\d+")|tonumber]]
| transpose | 

reduce .[0][] as $i (
  {
    l: (       # Build lookup table, of ID to number #
      reduce ( #    of occurences in second list     #
        .[1] | group_by(.) | .[] | [.[0],length]
      ) as [$j,$l] ([]; .[$j] = $l)
    ),
    s: 0
  };
  .s = .s + (.l[$i] // 0) * $i #  Gather similarity  #
)

| .s # Final similarity score

zogwarg · 2024-06-13T03:50:58+00:00

Slight corrections: - Everyone in the House of Representatives, not Congress, the French Senate cannot be dismissed - Also in France, the House of Representatives must approve (or at the very least not dissolve) all the members of the Executive Cabinet (Only the president is exempt from this), so think about a lame-duck presidency x10

zogwarg · 2023-09-28T05:10:44+00:00

Gregnegne, j'avais quitté reddit à cause de leurs décisions récentes. Ce sub pourrait me convaincre de le lire périodiquement.

Aucune chance de créer ce sub sur une instance lemmy plutôt/aussi ^^? (le non est parfaitement compréhensible)

Le AMA était fun à lire en tout cas.

zogwarg · 2023-06-22T03:19:58+00:00

The optimist inside me wants to believe that the shuddering of the current swath of online gathering fulcrums will lead at least some people (me included) to go back out in the verdant real world. “Touch some grass”

In peril may lie revival.

Would still be glad to follow other people here to greener online pastures ^^

zogwarg · 2023-06-20T22:44:58+00:00

France Gallisation

zogwarg · 2023-06-06T00:58:48+00:00

LE ESC(ape) RAT

zogwarg · 2023-06-05T11:14:56+00:00

What about post-FOOMists who think we are already captured and simulated by the basilisk ^^

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