Posts by 60sRefugee@spacey.space
 (DIR) Post #AajqiRvClE5ekRYmzQ by 60sRefugee@spacey.space
       2023-10-13T20:30:32Z
       
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       @hn50 Possibly related to the master cotter pin? (courtesy of Rip Off Press)
       
 (DIR) Post #AcXPcg6ds2xFxe72v2 by 60sRefugee@spacey.space
       2023-12-06T16:14:41Z
       
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       @hn50 "Greed Bastards" is my generic term for entities that follow the principle of "you owe us money, we owe you nothing".
       
 (DIR) Post #AdbfQGtqnSTOPYxmEq by 60sRefugee@spacey.space
       2024-01-07T15:22:39Z
       
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       @hn50 The "window" was an entire emergency door frame.
       
 (DIR) Post #AhuyUS3CrF0XvPr4j2 by 60sRefugee@spacey.space
       2024-05-15T14:23:23Z
       
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       @foone Courtesy of "MAD Magazine":
       
 (DIR) Post #AjFuC5aklMkpTig89Y by 60sRefugee@spacey.space
       2024-06-24T14:37:05Z
       
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       @APoD And just a reminder everyone: z=14 means that we're looking at originally ultraviolet light redshifted down to infrared!
       
 (DIR) Post #Al4MpBIBniCbxyZKfw by 60sRefugee@spacey.space
       2024-08-17T20:45:14Z
       
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       @hn50 From Mad Magazine's "Mission: Ridiculous"—"Okay, I'm finished splicing the tape! Listen...""Goot evening girls! It is a brand Nu– clear day... perfect for goink– fission!"
       
 (DIR) Post #Alb9f9irtYGZ0xcAIy by 60sRefugee@spacey.space
       2024-09-02T16:02:17Z
       
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       @isaackuo @cinebox @cstross @Hcobb @nyrath I fear that an expanding colonial Kardashev-3 civilization would regard existing in an actual physical body in an actual physical environment as a tremendous waste of resources, and forcibly download all of us into virtual reservations.
       
 (DIR) Post #Alo6kWYeeD68TeBUvo by 60sRefugee@spacey.space
       2024-09-08T20:39:44Z
       
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       @Hcobb @nyrath The ideal englobement would be four ships surrounding their target in a tetrahedral formation: each ship can fire at the target while staying clear of the rest of the flotilla.
       
 (DIR) Post #Am6KxNIZHVCpjAxcUy by 60sRefugee@spacey.space
       2024-09-17T17:26:16Z
       
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       @hn50 Da fuq??? Was a line of pagers secretly manufactured with explosives embedded, or has a software hack been devised to cause the batteries to overload and explode? Either way sounds like something out of science fiction.
       
 (DIR) Post #AnXDIK5PYCkZc5beXw by 60sRefugee@spacey.space
       2024-10-30T14:29:42Z
       
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       @hn50 Fast cheap iteration of test designs vs. massive multibillion dollar government programs? Sounds like rocketry.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArHfndxuDDC0BTDTpg by 60sRefugee@spacey.space
       2025-02-19T18:02:29Z
       
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       @feliks Meh, the vast majority of people in the past lived lives of dull grueling drudgery (and most of the rest was episodes of danger, suffering and terror). I presume the future will be likewise; and people then will tell stories set in the turn of the 21st century about tech billionaires, SOCOM warriors and fashionable celebrities.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsBJ6h0LAHd8VooDuC by 60sRefugee@spacey.space
       2025-03-18T14:11:36Z
       
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       @hn50 I haven't watched it but I understand it's a prequel to the Dark Crystal movie. Which begs the question, how does getting genocided in the end constitute "resistance"? I mean, there are no words for how ignominious their defeat was.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsU3cOL5i652qW4H5c by 60sRefugee@spacey.space
       2025-03-27T15:17:59Z
       
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       @futurebird @golgaloth Do keep in mind of course that ants aren't capable of "wanting" anything or reflecting on what they're doing. They're robots blindly carrying out a program created by a million iterations of selection. The question is whether an ant colony as a whole can have a distributed meta-consciousness. Now for organisms where individuals have larger brains (naked mole rats?) then you start blurring the lines between a hive and a society.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzEiTF8jsyazM15LU0 by 60sRefugee@spacey.space
       2025-10-15T14:45:00Z
       
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       @stux Voyagers 1 & 2 weren't optimized for maximum velocity, they followed the trajectories needed for their flybys. And that's not even considering what we could in principle build today (nuclear-electric). So I don't think "At Voyager's speed it would take xxx..." is really the best yardstick.