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« on: March 23, 2016, 08:21:16 AM »
From the moment I saw Doomsday as a villain, I was expecting this. It looks like they're pulling a Halo 5 with it, by making the fight between Bats and Superman a small part of the film before an even bigger bad comes and they have to team up and be best buds to take him town.
Still gonna see it though. I'm not the one who's paying. I can safely say I'm looking forward to CA3 more though.
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« on: March 23, 2016, 07:59:24 AM »
If we do find life on that moon how are religious people going to handle that? I know the people would get rewritten to have a passage about god creating life in places outside the Earth.
I think that ever sinve knowledge that Earth isn't the only planet in the universe (And of course science fiction) became more accepted, most religious folks have been pretty okay with the idea. Not including the batshit insane ones who would scream demons or devilspawn or something if they did turn up.
3363
« on: March 23, 2016, 07:57:01 AM »
Why not Enceladus tho
Europa is a moon of jupiter. Enceladus is a moon of saturn.
Europa is closer and more people know about it.
Yea I know, but it's basically confirmed that Enceladus has a liquid water ocean beneath the surface and there are multiple geysers/ crevases that could be utilized for easier study.
I always assumed we had more data to support going there rather than europa
The original mission was simply a couple flybys to map the surface of europa. The $43 million is essentially the government asking them to attach a probe to the mission that was already being planned - original intention was never to actually land. I'm interested to see how they will tackle this as they need to mount the drone on the original probe design, and find a way to land it o the surface when we don't have much info on viable landing sites. The guys at NASA are fucking wizards, though, so there's no doubt they can do it.
3364
« on: March 23, 2016, 06:49:26 AM »
Why not Enceladus tho
Europa is a moon of jupiter. Enceladus is a moon of saturn. Europa is closer and more people know about it.
3365
« on: March 23, 2016, 06:13:16 AM »
Pro tip: My name might be active on here but I fall asleep in places constantly and leave my computer on.
I'm pretty sure you don't class as being on if you're registered as AFK for more than 15 minutes. Like, 15 without any input from you.
3366
« on: March 23, 2016, 06:11:33 AM »
Death sticks.
you should go home and rethink your life
3367
« on: March 23, 2016, 06:08:32 AM »
I purchased something from LIVE one time. It took my money and then nothing happened.
So I was sitting there asking why my download hadn't even started and checking my account to see if maybe the money transaction hadn't processed, and was about to just put another 20 down for the content and try again but my spider senses tingled and I said fuck it.
Came back later and everything started up fine. Turns out the power of next gen's servers had a hiccup and were fine with taking my money once and potentially twice but not registering the download at the time.
Well, I bought the content at 5pm yesterday (about 19 hours ago). I deleted automatron after 5 hours of downloading and trying to get it to work, and then went to bed after realising this, then checked again this morning (About 4 hours ago). Still no dice.
3368
« on: March 23, 2016, 04:02:23 AM »
Scott Gimple is a bit of a hack tbh.
Isn't he the current showrunner? It was after he took over that shit got really good.
Still makes dumb decisions and is basically a yes man for AMC.
His seasons are good, but they still have a lot of problems. Especially with pacing and the hesitance to kill off any major characters.
The pacing isn't as bad as S2, at least.
3369
« on: March 23, 2016, 03:55:46 AM »
>buying a season pass
I wanted to play the DLC for FO4, without having to wait until the GOTY (Or whatever) edition releases. Plus, it's cheaper than buying it all separately.
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« on: March 23, 2016, 03:54:49 AM »
Scott Gimple is a bit of a hack tbh.
Isn't he the current showrunner? It was after he took over that shit got really good.
3371
« on: March 23, 2016, 03:53:17 AM »
It's old, but it's an interesting article. Basically, the US government gave NASA a couple million extra to upgrade their Europa flyby mission (The ice-moon of Jupiter) to one which will land a rover to search for alien life, despite NASA never even asking for money in the first place for the mission. Article for lazy people In a rather intriguing twist, it appears that NASA is now mandated by law to fly a robotic mission to Jupiter’s watery moon Europa. Europa is an incredibly exciting science target, as it’s believed to have a 100-kilometer-thick (62 miles) outer layer of water, with water ice on top (it’s very cold out there) and a liquid water ocean beneath that. It’s believed that there’s more water on Europa than the entirety of Earth, despite being just a quarter the width of Earth. As we continue to learn more about the tenacious lifeforms found in deep, cold waters here on Earth, excitement grows over the possibility of Europa’s oceans harboring extraterrestrial life.
Up until the ’70s, the prevailing theory was that all life on Earth was dependent on energy from the Sun (i.e. everything ultimately revolves around photosynthesizing plants). Then, in 1977, an exploratory dive in the Galapagos Rift discovered giant tube worms, clams, and other crustaceans that survived without any access to the Sun. As it turned out, they were feeding on bacteria that got their energy from hydrogen and hydrogen sulfide emanating from underwater volcanic vents. There was a whole food chain down there that didn’t rely on the Sun at all. Cue much excited theorizing about the possibility of finding life in Europa’s massive oceans.
Europa (bottom left), Moon (top left), Earth (right) - size comparison
Europa (bottom left), Moon (top left), Earth (right) – size comparison
By the time the Voyager probes had flown through the Jovian system in 1979, scientists were fairly sure that Europa had an icy crust, and possibly a liquid ocean beneath. Further investigation by Galileo and New Horizons have provided yet more data (and some lovely images, such as the one at the top of the story, captured by Galileo). Now, we’re almost certain that there’s liquid water on Europa — and so the next stage is sending some kind of robotic probe or rover out there, to do some real, up-close-and-personal science.
And this is the weird bit: It seems, thanks to Houston Congressman John Culberson, who appears to be a bit of a science nerd, that NASA is now mandated by law to develop a mission to Europa. Culberson is basically forcing this mission upon NASA: In 2013 and 2014, despite NASA not requesting any money for a Europa mission, Culberson gave it $43 million and $80 million respectively. In the 2014 budget bill, finalized in December, there’s not a single mention of Mars or the Moon, but Europa’s right there on page 159. Culberson is expected to become the next chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee, too — and if that happens, NASA may find itself very flush indeed. This is rather refreshing, after years of budget cuts/stagnation!
Europa poster diagram, showing its (theorized) structure
Europa poster diagram, showing its (theorized) structure
In an interview with the Houston Chronicle, Culberson had these rather uplifting words to say about Europa in specific and space exploration in general:
If I’m successful in becoming chairman of the subcommittee that’s going to be right when the Europa mission will need its maximum funding. It needs to be a flagship mission. The biggest and best we’ve ever flown … I got on this incredible committee where I will be in exactly the right place at the right time to be able to help turn NASA around, to not only preserve America’s leadership role in space, but I also hope to be a key part in discovering life on another world for the first time. We’re only going to have one chance at this in our lifetimes. We’ve got one shot. I want to make sure you and I are here to see those first tube worms and lobsters on Europa.
As for an actual timeline for those first tube worms, if they exist, it’s still very, very early days. It seems, after two years of having money forced upon it, NASA finally caved and actually asked for $15 million in 2015 to help plan the Europa mission. All we really have to go on right now are the words of NASA’s CFO, Elizabeth Robinson, who said the launch could come as soon as the mid-2020s — probably after we launch the next Mars rover in 2020.
We are living in interesting times! Who knows, maybe it won’t be the next generation of space telescopes that discovers the first instance of extraterrestrial life — maybe it’ll be a NASA rover, right here in our own Solar System. I thought I'd bring it up as over the past few months, we've had a lot of pretty cool stuff happening with space exploration; landing a probe on a comet, discovering the presence of liquid water on mars, gravitational waves being confirmed and the recent launch of a new probe to land on mars, and I'm interested in what people think of space travel and research in general - does the possibility of being able to import water from the outer solar system and mine practically infinite materials from the asteroid belt make investing in space infrastructure worth it in the long run or do you think that NASA/ ESA and other space agencies are a waste of time and money that could be spent somewhere else? I'm interested to see what people like Meta think about this, as there's a couple of people who post on serious who I've never really seen post their opinions on this kind of thing.
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« on: March 23, 2016, 03:28:45 AM »
reported
3373
« on: March 23, 2016, 03:25:23 AM »
I bought the FO4 season pass yesterday to download the first DLC only to find the content wasn't loading in-game. Deleted Automatron so I could reinstall it, only to find the season pass and DLC weren't in my ready to install box. So I went on the store only to find it was saying I have to pay for the season pass and apparently I didn't have it, despite it being on my MS account transaction history and having a billing confirmation email, so I'm about to ring xbox support - wish me luck ;-;
So there you go kids; never buy anything from XBL because it eats your money. Fuck digital.
3374
« on: March 23, 2016, 03:21:12 AM »
Season 6B is easily the best half-season in the show. Scott Gimble (I think that's his name) really knows what he's doing with things. Episode 4 or 5* is probably one of the single-best episodes the show has had. *** The one where they shoot up all the saviours in that radio array, anyway.
3375
« on: March 22, 2016, 04:56:47 PM »
Firefly
3376
« on: March 22, 2016, 04:19:28 PM »
Caffeine.
This. Though I have promised my father I'll go up to the pub for my 18th birthday next week for a drink. Like, literally a single alcoholic beverage so I can say it's done and then go back to usual.
3377
« on: March 22, 2016, 06:49:30 AM »
do you still love fat girls?
Unconditionally.
When did you change your username, Roman?
3378
« on: March 22, 2016, 06:28:32 AM »
Cheat should just add a hide thread option so you don't have to see threads you never have and never will look at.
I disagree. If someone's that sensitive, I don't know what they're doing on the site.
I mean, that's kind of what separates us from Sapphire, is that we can handle seeing shit we don't like or agree with.
Oh, I more meant threads like the mythic thread where I never look at them but continuously get bumped all the time for whatever reason. If I could just hide them, it'd be great, because I get sick of seeing them.
3379
« on: March 22, 2016, 05:42:57 AM »
I always like to think the Big Bang theory is false and that the universe has always been there. Humans and life as we know is all based with time, and that's how we think. It's hard to ever think anything can be "infinite". Everything has to have a beginning and end, as the human mind can't comprehend something being there forever, always.
Of course that's most likely not true because evidence for Big Bang is quite a bit. I just like to fancy the idea.
That's invalidated by our old pal einstein figuring out that time is a functioning aspect in the universe and influenced by the universe, rather than existing outside of it as some constant.
Your idea might not be so far off though. Think of it like this. Our whole universe is based off renewal and dispersal. Cycles of creation and destruction and so on. I like to think of the big bang as the kickstarter. Renewal. Some time along the line, as our universe ages, and the bonds between matter break down until everything is too distant and everything exists in a near zero energy state, something happens to start the process again.
I know that current models predict that we'll just reach a cold death and nothing more. But the existence of the big bang invalidates this if you think about it. An infinitely dense, singular point does not come from nowhere. I think it's foolish to assume that a definite end can result to a universe when the universe itself spontaneously showed up from nothing.
Plus, we sure don't know everything about how the universe works either. The theories we have today will no doubt change in the future.
An interesting perspective, and yeah, we don't even know anything about Dark Matter, so... yeah it'll change.
What if the Big Bang was just another mass recycle in the infinite cycle of events in the universe? Like it fades away, boom. And just keeps repeating at one point or another? In that sense, it could be infinite, no?
I cant remember if the big crunch was supported by most science folk ot not, but if so, yes, it could be.
It isn't as accepted anymore as it once was. The closest to a consensus would be heat death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_an_expanding_universe
3381
« on: March 22, 2016, 05:21:25 AM »
Cheat should just add a hide thread option so you don't have to see threads you never have and never will look at.
3382
« on: March 22, 2016, 05:12:33 AM »
I'd say Uprising or Knights of Cydonia but they're by a british band so I don't know if it would be patriotic enough.
3383
« on: March 22, 2016, 04:30:58 AM »
I used to do guitar. I ended up giving up on it when people began pressuring me to do it and it turned from being a hobby to being a chore.
I still want to learn again though, mainly so i can learn to play Knights of Cydonia. I've only a got a shitty beginner's acoustic guitar and I'm tone deaf so i have no idea what to do with tuning it. Plus I don't really have the money to spend right now (Saving for a PC)
If you get Rocksmith 2014 and a Starcaster Start like mine, you can learn that song. Its in the game. Though it isn't easy. I didn't do well on my first attempt on that song.
I've heard from a friend who is pretty good at guitar that KoC is a pretty difficult song to learn, particularly if you're only starting/ inexperienced.
3384
« on: March 22, 2016, 03:52:26 AM »
As for string theory, that's a no-brainer. String theory is used mainly as a good theoretical framework to help solve problems.
As for time dilation, I can't really answer that one. Of the few things I've read involving time I wouldn't have enough to say anything.
We can directly observe and measure time dilation now with modern technology. Satellites in orbit travel pretty fucking fast, and the atomic clocks have to be retuned all the time because they get out of sync with the ones on the ground. Time dilation is fact because we can directly observe and measure it. IT's just that it doesn't become noticeable to a human until your talking about relativistic velocities (Velocities that can be talked about in percentages of the speed of light). But considering that mass increases with velocity increases, it means that the current high-end estimates for the maximum velocity attainable with realistic technology remains about 300km/s, even then, we're looking at doing gravity assists to accelerate. Any more and you simply won't be able to carry enough fuel to accelerate any more (At least, not feasibly.) On KSP (A game which doesn't model relativity/ mass increases), you need about the same mass of the moon in fuel to even gt near the speed of light. That's before considering your mass increasing and needing more fuel. So yeah, we probably won't even need to worry about relativity.
3385
« on: March 22, 2016, 03:46:00 AM »
We very well could be alone, and it's not controversial to say that.
Yeah but there are so many galaxies and everything that I think it's just probably there is life someplace. If we truly are alone, that is both scary, and miraculous.
It's not even controversial to say. Probability dictates that life should be a reoccurring thing within a single galaxy like our, let alone the billions of galaxies out there. But that's just probability. Until we get hard-evidence (or at least a large enough sample size of stars), it's just as idiotic to say life does exist as to say it doesn't.
So I guess until we get something, it's a half glass empty/full thing.
Pretty much. I'm of the belief that, if you take the Heat Death scenario as fact, then we're still in the opening seconds of life of the universe and that life is incredibly rare but over the years it will become more common and eons from now, if we become spacefaring, we'll be the forerunners/ protheans or whatever. It sounds kind of stupid but it makes more sense the more yu think about it.
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« on: March 22, 2016, 03:32:33 AM »
We very well could be alone, and it's not controversial to say that.
Yeah but there are so many galaxies and everything that I think it's just probably there is life someplace. If we truly are alone, that is both scary, and miraculous.
It's not even controversial to say. Probability dictates that life should be a reoccurring thing within a single galaxy like our, let alone the billions of galaxies out there. But that's just probability. Until we get hard-evidence (or at least a large enough sample size of stars), it's just as idiotic to say life does exist as to say it doesn't.
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« on: March 22, 2016, 03:29:23 AM »
psa: if you modify codsworth you can't put a bowler hat on him anymore
FIX YOUR FUCKING SHIT BETHESDA -0/10 WORST GAME EVER
3388
« on: March 22, 2016, 03:28:20 AM »
I used to do guitar. I ended up giving up on it when people began pressuring me to do it and it turned from being a hobby to being a chore.
I still want to learn again though, mainly so i can learn to play Knights of Cydonia. I've only a got a shitty beginner's acoustic guitar and I'm tone deaf so i have no idea what to do with tuning it. Plus I don't really have the money to spend right now (Saving for a PC)
3389
« on: March 22, 2016, 02:41:31 AM »
We've been to the dark side of the moon but there was a transformers ship there so we covered it up.
In seriousness, not really. I tend to agree with consensus in science, even when it sucks and half the exoplanets you were using for a project were disproved and you have to go and rewrite a fuck ton of stuff.
3390
« on: March 21, 2016, 11:32:03 AM »
plasma rifle confirmed
=O
Sweet!
I'd also like to point out that the Plasma Rifle pictured is the Blood-Hand, which was used exclusively by the Brutes. I doubt that means they're adding Brutes to Firefight. More likely, the Blood-Hand is a an upgraded variant of the Plasma Rifle available as a REQ.
Moa speculated that with the announcement with a req pack with the new Chopper MB set (You only get RPs with vehicles appearing in the game apparently), we also might be getting a chopper. I'm dubious.
However, it does explain the presence of a brute category in forge. I mean, why put an entire faction category if all you're gonna have in it is the hammer? May as well just file it under covenant.
Regardless, I hope this means we'll be getting a mauler and a spiker to go with, and possibly a regular plasma rifle. I'm also hoping for a Fist of Rukt hammer that gives the user an overshield but I doubt it'll happen.
I'm still waiting for req weapons and vehicles in forge. Tom French (Forge lead) said he wants to do it, so I'm hoping it happens. I want to be able to use arctic vehicles on glacier.
Wait, you only get RP by killing enemies with vehicles in WZFF?
you get req packs for buying mega bloks vehicles that appear in the game
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