SpacetimeMachine
@SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 1 week ago:
Not certain about the mars trilogy but there is a collapsing space elevator in the foundation series (at least on the show, haven’t read the books yet.)
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 1 week ago:
I think that depends on how big the tether is tbh. It has to be usable as an elevator so it can’t just be a thin cable. And your scenario is assuming that it would be cut down near the base, if it’s damaged anywhere higher up anything below the cut will fall down to earth.
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 1 week ago:
Ah thanks, I was a dingus and looked up the diameter instead of the circumference. Still doesn’t really matter where you build it. No matter what it’s fucking up a a good portion of the equator if it falls.
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 1 week ago:
By the necessities of its design a space elevator has to reach geostationary orbit, which would make it tall enough to wrap around the planet twice if it fell. Wouldn’t really matter if you built it on a west coast or not.
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 2 weeks ago:
ICE has literally started going door to door in Minnesota looking for immigrants and activists. It’s already starting, people need to be protecting their privacy now.
- Comment on Ready set go 4 weeks ago:
In the matrix humans were used as batteries, not processors. Although that was the original writing before an exec thought the average person would be “confused” by that
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 4 weeks ago:
Using a Linux terminal and coding are extremely different things.
- Comment on Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted” 1 month ago:
Because there is more that goes into telling if someone is unhealthy than just looking at their stool. And the few signs that DEFINITELY point to health issues would be assessable by the average person just looking at their poop.
- Comment on how do plants in a green house get enough co2? 1 month ago:
Yes but CO2 concentrations might grow high enough to impact you.
- Comment on Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair! 1 month ago:
It doesn’t really have anything to do with being prey. It’s all about evolution. Even apex predators would have the same issue.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 months ago:
Well thank God I don’t give a shit how my controller looks as long as it is well designed.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 2 months ago:
That’s already how they do it. They pass heat onto radiators which radiate away the excess heat in infrared. It should be noted however that this is far less efficient than it is in an atmosphere.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 2 months ago:
The frame rate really doesn’t need to be higher. I fully understand filmmakers who balk at the idea of 48 or 60 fps movies. It really does change the feel of them and imo not in a necessarily positive way.
- Comment on grocery shopping 2 months ago:
Not true, at least a couple of the but chains, e.g. target, will keep track of you even at different stores.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 4 months ago:
That’s ridiculous. It’s not allowed because it’s not a primary source of information. It’s a great jumping off point for knowledge and if you need to cite something you can just look through its sources at the bottom of each page.
- Comment on Xbox Drops Work on ‘Contraband’ Video Game After Four Years 5 months ago:
I’m still really looking forward to clockwork revolution. Hopefully that actually gets released but at this point it seems like almost everything Microsoft touches is doomed.
- Comment on California May Ban Lyft And Uber From AI Price Gouging Users With Low Phone Batteries 5 months ago:
It also seems unlikely that you’ll find any businesses who aren’t being liars and cheats here.
- Comment on Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks 5 months ago:
Maybe I just am using it wrong, but DDG consistently gives me completely irrelevant results, while Google still gives me what I’m looking for about 70% of the time. Maybe I just need to learn the proper way to search with DDG but so far it’s been next to useless in finding me relevant info.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 5 months ago:
My LG TV (not connected to the internet) lets you disable all startup icons and sounds. It goes from off to on in about 2 seconds.
- Comment on Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans 6 months ago:
Where is he saying it’s not his problem? He’s literally doing the exact opposite and making it his problem.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games! 6 months ago:
I feel like it never broke my immersion cause how often are you stopping every stranger in a real life metropolis to talk to them? Seeing all these nameless people walking by is very much what it’s like to walk around a city in real life.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games! 6 months ago:
While true you can talk to more nocs the largest city in Skyrim has like 40 people. I find cyberpunk’s world feels more realistically populated for a giant city.
- Comment on LEGO Party! Official Announcement Trailer 7 months ago:
The most recent Mario party added a mode that reduces RNG heavily to allow for more competitive matches.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 | Gameplay Tech Demo 7 months ago:
Have you gone and looked at what W3 looks like recently? It’s not a bad looking game by any stretch but this still looks significantly better imo. The vegetation density definitely looks way better, as well as the lighting.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 8 months ago:
Just for the record, the in game OST was properly done by MG and was great. It was the Official OST album that was taking bits from that OST to make full songs that were very sub-par. The music MG was making us very dynamic in game, and each level had multiple musical phrases that start and stop dynamically during gameplay (this isn’t unique to doom of course, lots of games do this.) in game the music is some of his best work imo, and really brings the gameplay to another level.
Some people have released better mixes of the songs taken and edited from those music clips in the game files to make better mixes than the Official OST album.
- Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene 8 months ago:
I live in literally one of the most blue states there is. I know of 1 person who voted for Trump. And if a cup that is only 30% full is considered “overflowing” where you live I would love to move there and open up a bar. I’m sure I’d make a killing.
- Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene 8 months ago:
Huh, I’m American and I’m surrounded by people who are incredibly kind and nurturing and will bend over backwards to help others. Sounds like you live in a shit part of the country if you only have assholes near you.
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 9 months ago:
America is so large that it’s very possible that person has no friends or family who voted for trump at all. I know I don’t.
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 9 months ago:
Serious question. Do ANY of those have track pads? Because so far those seem to be something that only the deck has and I find them to be its most important feature.
- Comment on Found money. What do? 9 months ago:
I am 99% certain the police would just say the cash was probably going to be used for drugs and then they would just take it themselves.