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7801
« on: February 23, 2015, 04:30:33 PM »
 The Carina Nebula is infact several light-years from top to bottom. That's like, the distnce between two stars right there. That's scary when you think about it.
7802
« on: February 23, 2015, 04:28:23 PM »
PSR J1748-2446 is the fastest spinning object known. It's a neutron star that's literally harder than diamonds. Its matter is packed so tightly into a sphere ~30km wide, that it can withstand its fucking ridiculous rotation speed of 716 rotations per second. Proportionately that's like our Earth spinning around over twice per second instead of once per 24 hours. It spins faster than any powertool in existence.
Neutron stars are amazing.
Yeah, they really baffle me at times.
They're like, the little brothers of black holes, or the tagalong kid that is desperately truing to copy the cool crowd but ends up sticking out even more. It's weird, I think, that the densest object in the universe emits no light at all yet the second densest is the brightest object in the universe.
7803
« on: February 23, 2015, 04:26:39 PM »
There's no gravity in space
This is incorrect.
If there's gravity in space then why do astronauts float
#checkmateatheists
The OCD in me forces me to do this, regardless if this is a troll or not. Space has gravity; if left in space long enough, astronauts would eventually fly into the nearest planet, or the sun, depending on which was nearest. Astronauts float because there is a lack of a strong force pulling them- Earth's gravity in atmosphere is -9.81ms^-2 which means that something must be accelerating at least 9.81ms^-2 in the opposite direction to fly; in space, this force is considerably weaker, to the point where a simple action has a faster acceleration and thus gravity of Earth is overcome easier. If two people were left in space for long enough, they would slowly drift closer together. I mean, we say that Luna orbits Earth, but in reality, they both orbit each other. Luna actually drags on Earth and slows our rotation down, otherwie our day would be about 8 hours long.
7804
« on: February 23, 2015, 04:22:26 PM »
PSR J1748-2446 is the fastest spinning object known. It's a neutron star that's literally harder than diamonds. Its matter is packed so tightly into a sphere ~30km wide, that it can withstand its fucking ridiculous rotation speed of 716 rotations per second. Proportionately that's like our Earth spinning around over twice per second instead of once per 24 hours. It spins faster than any powertool in existence.
Neutron stars are amazing.
7805
« on: February 23, 2015, 04:21:40 PM »
When it regularly stops them doing what they re doing (IE somone missing because of health reasons a few times a year= fine, someone doing it every few days=bad)
7806
« on: February 23, 2015, 04:17:47 PM »
HD189733b is a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting so close to its host star that it's tidally locked, meaning the same side is always facing the star. This makes the near side scorching hot and the far side freezing cold. It also causes huge convectional winds to blow from the hot side to the cold side.
Spectroscopy of the planet has shown a lot of silicates and nitrites in the atmosphere of the planet, which has led scientists to believe that the ~20km/s winds blowing on the planet carry 1300ºK rains of molten glass with them. Metal as fuck.
That sounds awesome, I didn't know if such a thing was physically possible. On a similar note, I love the sound of this planet from Halo: Broken Circle. Spoiler The Planet of Blue and Red is a planet tidally locked between two close stars in a binary system, one a red giant, the other a blue star. The planet doesn't have a day/night cycle and doesn't rotate, but the light shined on it by both stars makes one side of the planet blue and one side red, with the middle a deep purple where the light mixes.
That would be amazing to see.
7807
« on: February 23, 2015, 04:13:33 PM »
There's no gravity in space
No.
7808
« on: February 23, 2015, 04:11:21 PM »
That if the universe were 10^100 ly across, it is likely we would eventually find an exact atom-for-atom replica of Earth and the entire universe would eventually begin to repeat itself over and over again.
Or that final heat death of the universe is a depressing topic.
7809
« on: February 23, 2015, 04:07:38 PM »
Titanfall has had a resurgence in popularity recently and it's pretty cheap right now, I got mine for £13. Battlefield 4 is still going strong, too.
For singleplayer, I'd recommend Far Cry 4 and GTA.
7810
« on: February 23, 2015, 01:43:04 PM »
Because corruption and censorship still persists in games media.....
defo no on the tublr crowd....
and "bigger problems" please elaborate....
So? Just stop using it. The best games media is that on youtube, like lets-plays. I wouldn't ever use anything like ign and such for anything when it comes to buying games.
Oh, and some free entertainment in the form of totalbiscuit's rants.
Thats not really the point... the fact its their in the first place is unethical...
There*
Regardless, in a world where you can type in the name of a game on google and quite literally get thousands of reviews and videos from many sources, relying yourself on one source for information is just stupid.
sorry was typing fast and not thinking...
And as true as that may be, we are also trying to stop games being male-orientated, sexist and non-inclusive towards women and minorities.
Oh. So you're one of the tumblr crowd, then?
No.
Maybe?
defo no on the tumblr crowd....
and "bigger problems" please elaborate....
The problems with companies trying to squeeze every penny they can with microtransctions every-fucking-where, the former condition with ESO that required a expensive buy+subscritpion, the frankly overpriced Evolve season pass that doesn't even give all the content and so forth. I would say that stuff like this objectively hurts the industry more than 'muh representation'.
And why do people buy these sort of games? Are they advertised as microtransction games? Are they advertised as season passes that don't give all the content? No. this is media censorship.....
The practice should be stopped at the source, not at the messenger.
7811
« on: February 23, 2015, 01:14:17 PM »
Because corruption and censorship still persists in games media.....
defo no on the tublr crowd....
and "bigger problems" please elaborate....
So? Just stop using it. The best games media is that on youtube, like lets-plays. I wouldn't ever use anything like ign and such for anything when it comes to buying games.
Oh, and some free entertainment in the form of totalbiscuit's rants.
Thats not really the point... the fact its their in the first place is unethical...
There*
Regardless, in a world where you can type in the name of a game on google and quite literally get thousands of reviews and videos from many sources, relying yourself on one source for information is just stupid.
sorry was typing fast and not thinking...
And as true as that may be, we are also trying to stop games being male-orientated, sexist and non-inclusive towards women and minorities.
Oh. So you're one of the tumblr crowd, then?
No.
Maybe?
defo no on the tumblr crowd....
and "bigger problems" please elaborate....
The problems with companies trying to squeeze every penny they can with microtransctions every-fucking-where, the former condition with ESO that required a expensive buy+subscritpion, the frankly overpriced Evolve season pass that doesn't even give all the content and so forth. I would say that stuff like this objectively hurts the industry more than 'muh representation'.
7812
« on: February 23, 2015, 12:56:33 PM »
You're welcome to disagree with the practice of tipping -- I agree that servers should be paid a fair and competitive wage -- but to ignore the fact that it's social convention and you're literally hurting peoples' livelihood with some asinine excuse about slavery is just selfish. Just admit you're too cheap to tip and move on with your life.
The problem is, is that it shouldn't be a mandatory thing. In Britian, at least, tips are only really given if the servie is exemplary, not average or below average.
You're right, it shouldn't be mandatory. Servers should be paid a fair wage and the prices of the food should be increased to reflect that. I don't really consider tipping voluntary, here. It should be proportional to the quality of service received. It's not the same here as it is in Britain.
Which is the problem. It should be. But until it's decided that people are supposed to earn a living wage by working before profit (fat chance), then unfortunately, I guess tht's how it is.
7813
« on: February 23, 2015, 12:53:04 PM »
Burn it.
With napalm.
7814
« on: February 23, 2015, 12:48:56 PM »
You're welcome to disagree with the practice of tipping -- I agree that servers should be paid a fair and competitive wage -- but to ignore the fact that it's social convention and you're literally hurting peoples' livelihood with some asinine excuse about slavery is just selfish. Just admit you're too cheap to tip and move on with your life.
The problem is, is that it shouldn't be a mandatory thing. In Britian, at least, tips are only really given if the servie is exemplary, not average or below average.
7815
« on: February 23, 2015, 12:46:37 PM »
Yeah. I'd like to think that paying for my meal is paying for the service as well, with a tip being something nice if the service was really good, like, above avergae good.
7816
« on: February 23, 2015, 12:42:46 PM »
I wouldn't be opposed to it, but I'm unsure if I'd buy it. I mean, more content is more content, and more content isn't bad. Especially for people who like ME1-3. I see no harm in it being done.
7817
« on: February 23, 2015, 12:40:51 PM »
Because corruption and censorship still persists in games media.....
So? Just stop using it. The best games media is that on youtube, like lets-plays. I wouldn't ever use anything like ign and such for anything when it comes to buying games.
Oh, and some free entertainment in the form of totalbiscuit's rants.
Thats not really the point... the fact its their in the first place is unethical...
There*
Regardless, in a world where you can type in the name of a game on google and quite literally get thousands of reviews and videos from many sources, relying yourself on one source for information is just stupid.
sorry was typing fast and not thinking...
And as true as that may be, we are also trying to stop games being male-orientated, sexist and non-inclusive towards women and minorities.
Oh. So you're one of the tumblr crowd, then?
No.
Maybe?
7818
« on: February 23, 2015, 12:40:29 PM »
Because corruption and censorship still persists in games media.....
So? Just stop using it. The best games media is that on youtube, like lets-plays. I wouldn't ever use anything like ign and such for anything when it comes to buying games.
Oh, and some free entertainment in the form of totalbiscuit's rants.
Thats not really the point... the fact its their in the first place is unethical...
There*
Regardless, in a world where you can type in the name of a game on google and quite literally get thousands of reviews and videos from many sources, relying yourself on one source for information is just stupid.
Seriously. Especially since a lot of the guys hired to review games in companies like IGN are fucking casual to the extreme.
Either way as long as I enjoy the game I don't give a fuck what anybody else thinks of it.
I don't necissarily think it's bad to have casuals working on reviews, but it shouldn't be the only people working on it. I think there should be a good balance of pro and causal so that reviews aren't blinded by bias towards/ against a certain series (Ex. people praising halo because its halo or hating cod because its cod) but also giving some insight from experience how the game stands up to its predecessors and/ or inspirations.
7819
« on: February 23, 2015, 12:38:05 PM »
Because corruption and censorship still persists in games media.....
So? Just stop using it. The best games media is that on youtube, like lets-plays. I wouldn't ever use anything like ign and such for anything when it comes to buying games.
Oh, and some free entertainment in the form of totalbiscuit's rants.
Thats not really the point... the fact its their in the first place is unethical...
There*
Regardless, in a world where you can type in the name of a game on google and quite literally get thousands of reviews and videos from many sources, relying yourself on one source for information is just stupid.
sorry was typing fast and not thinking...
And as true as that may be, we are also trying to stop games being male-orientated, sexist and non-inclusive towards women and minorities.
Oh. So you're one of the tumblr crowd, then? There are bigger problems with the industry right now that actually affect people, and deserve much more attention as opposed to this.
7820
« on: February 23, 2015, 11:34:56 AM »
Because corruption and censorship still persists in games media.....
So? Just stop using it. The best games media is that on youtube, like lets-plays. I wouldn't ever use anything like ign and such for anything when it comes to buying games.
Oh, and some free entertainment in the form of totalbiscuit's rants.
Thats not really the point... the fact its their in the first place is unethical...
There* Regardless, in a world where you can type in the name of a game on google and quite literally get thousands of reviews and videos from many sources, relying yourself on one source for information is just stupid.
7821
« on: February 23, 2015, 11:28:47 AM »
Because corruption and censorship still persists in games media.....
So? Just stop using it. The best games media is that on youtube, like lets-plays. I wouldn't ever use anything like ign and such for anything when it comes to buying games. Oh, and some free entertainment in the form of totalbiscuit's rants.
7822
« on: February 23, 2015, 11:18:14 AM »
Why should I care now?
7823
« on: February 23, 2015, 11:08:30 AM »
That's it, if the story of Halo 5 is shit, then i am fucking done, D.O.N.E with 3fail3 indrushits.
What the fuck are you crying about? This book isn't canon, it's fan fiction that's being illegally sold.
Let's be honest though. It's not like Bear was much better.
Cue the shitstorm in three...two...
Why did you edit the post to say Bear? I'm confused.
7824
« on: February 23, 2015, 11:07:32 AM »
Yes Spoiler lol jk I don't have time for that
7825
« on: February 23, 2015, 10:10:50 AM »
Here's what we do. Lead them to think we mean to invade this Dabiq place, talk it up, make it look big. When they amass in order to defend we drop an ICBM on them.
Gg no re.
Spoiler k perhaps a nuke is a bit much, just drone them to kingdom come. "1v1 me, dabiq, infantry only" "5 kill streak; nuke inbound." OT- >there are people who think isis shouldn't be destroyed
7826
« on: February 23, 2015, 10:07:15 AM »
nintendo will be our lord and savior
They're the only company I know of that doesn't ever release broken games. It's a shame that people don't give them credit or a chance.
It's pretty difficult to break something when you're just making more fancy graphics every time.
7827
« on: February 23, 2015, 10:06:08 AM »
http://www.halopedia.org/
>halopedia
LC no
It's a wiki. It should tell you what you need to know right?
Just because it's a wiki doesn't make it any good.
Halopedia is known for having things on there without any sources.
I'd strongly discourage the use of both wikis to learn the lore, but if you're going to do it, go with Halo Archive. One of the members in the Halo Archive is Halopedia's admin.
fixed :^)
7828
« on: February 23, 2015, 09:57:08 AM »
nintendo will be our lord and savior
It's weird how rehashes and the like are probably going to kill the industry, yet rehashes are what saved it last time.
7829
« on: February 23, 2015, 09:55:53 AM »
>the amount of brick shitting in this thread
you guys really love to jump to conclusions don't you?
This thread actually embodies the Halo community flawlessly.
I just love the amount of people that immediately rant about 343i and H5's plot without reading any o the comments noting that its a fanfic. The tears are delicious.
7830
« on: February 23, 2015, 09:53:56 AM »
Why do people care about the rocket launcher when the sword sucks so much ass it blinds you when you hold it.
I really hope they fix that.
Yeah. One of my few complaints about H5 was how I ende up avoiding the sword as it just blocks half the screen. Personally, I like the new rockets- looks way more functional now. I really hope they do the same to the 'Hog and Scorpion, and make them actually look like feasible military vehicles.
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