Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!

[awaken_D_M_golem]

Huh that's really interesting.

Call it a Balloon with a Tether, and
then the pneumatic part is where
the fancy/shmancy science happens.

12.5 miles = 66 000 ft = ~20 km = half the height of the record balloon skydive jump dude last year.

Cheaper than a Lifter Plane flight ?

[Kuroimaken]

Only technically yes.  See, with the elevator, it doesn't matter how fast you go or how much you bring, because you're anchored to the Earth still.  So you can get power from any source possible, not just rocket fuel which is the only thing we have now that both powerful enough and gentle enough to lift a ship to this height and still keep it and the Earth intact.  Planes aren't powerful enough for cargo ships (although we can send some craft via plane, see SpaceX for this method), it's still not as efficient as an elevator.  This can use solar, nuclear, fossil, tidal, anything.  It just needs electricity.  And not only that, it cuts down on staging, meaning less waste in terms of stages getting destroyed/damaged/used up.  And finally, the biggest savings is the fact that you don't need the fuel to get the fuel to the place where you use the fuel with an elevator.  Meaning you don't need a rocket capable of lifting 1.3 times as much fuel as is needed anymore (see: rocket equation).

Cool stuff, I hadn't considered the factors you pointed out. 

[Amechra]

On that subject:

This is an excellent resource for anyone who is thinking about rockets.

[brujon]

REAL LIFE FPS

nuff said

[Kethrian]

Except that it was done 4 and a half years earlier ...

Albeit without the interaction.

[brujon]

The fact that it's done in real time is what makes it so awesome. Everything had to be perfectly coordinated between all the extras, the actor, the voice actor, the sound guy, everything. And everything had to be reset between EVERY person that connected.

It's much, much more complicated. The video you've linked is pretty cool, and took a lot of effort. But there's a ton of videos like that. You can rehearse it for months, practice and practice until you get it perfect, take multiple shoots, then edit it to perfection.

These guys didn't have that luxury. Every time, it was different. Because of the interaction, there needed to be a lot of improv.

That makes it THAT much more awesome. And it's something to think about:

You're playing a videogame with real, living people. The guys on the other side, they're players, they're not just viewers. They're controlling the character's action.

I'd pay for something like this, and i bet a lot of other people would, too!

[brujon]

I HAVE A FUCKING JOB INTERVIEW THURSDAY FUCK YEAH LUCK HAS CHANGED

[Amechra]

Excellent.

Go break a leg.

[Kuroimaken]

So I was at the uni the other day. Classmate sat right beside me. He coughed a bit, I asked if he was okay. He said he used to have asthma and something he did brought it back up.

"Sounds bad. What are you doing to fight it off?"

"Well, there's my inhaler, plus some other medicine my doctor gave me I can't remember now, and I sucked on a fuckton of drops lately."

He coughed again, and I sniffed the air.

"...It's not your asthma."

"What?"

"You've got some kind of infection, either in your throat or lungs - but I'd bet the latter. I can smell it. Go see a doctor."

He just texted me asking me if I didn't work at the airport sniffing out drugs. Sure enough, he had a bad fit, went to the hospital and they confirmed it... But it was caught early so it shouldn't be a problem.

Glad to know he's okay. 

[Amechra]

I got an expensive suit for ten bucks the other day.

It needs some tailoring to be a true fit, but still, a good deal.

[awaken_D_M_golem]

sci-fi warning ...

So I just found out that later off in the Stelliferous Era
the Universe will have expanded to the point where
all remaining light produced by the Universe will be
as far away as light can be produced and still seen.

That horizon is estimated as being 150 Billion light years.
And weirdly, it'll look like everything has frozen in time.

For some reason I found this to be disappointing.  As in: 
my future robot self might actually get bored some cosmic decade.

[PlzBreakMyCampaign]

aDMg that's only for the local group. It won't be too bad. Since even your robot won't be able to have timely or accurate intersteller travel, it won't change much on its time scale. It will fall apart well before its space-time expands to destroy any sense of causality.

[Gazzien]

Magic the Gathing stuff:

Battle For Zendikar has full-art shock and fetch lands (two of the more powerful dual-lands)... at foil-Mythic-rare rarity. So...
Well, I'm never going to see one! But it's cool!

[brujon]

Currently running a script called Facebook Timeline Removal with Greasemonkey for Firefox that will, hopefully, completely scrub any and all activity from the very first day i started using the app. From there, manually deleting photos is going to be a cakewalk, and i plan on using another script to automatically delete all messages ever sent & received through there. Then, it's a matter of manually scrubbing my friends list off of all the people i have no interest in maintaining contact with, creating a more thorough friend-list restriction on who exactly can and can't see certain kinds of posts, as well as restricting severely my online activity on that site.

It can't get much more awesome than that. Next up is trawling the internet for everything i can find that uses my online handle and removing all my personal information  tying me to those handles, removing the unnecessary.

Internet seppuku, here i go!

This community, of course, is sacred grounds.

[Necrosnoop110]

Internet seppuku, here i go!

This community, of course, is sacred grounds.

The height of cultivation always run to simplicity. ~ Bruce Lee

Happy trails brother!

[brujon]

So, i ran the script a few times, and it DID manage to hide everything from my timeline, but it DIDN'T delete everything it could've deleted. From what i've been reading on the comment section of the script's fork, it seems that i'm not the only one having this issue, and it's probably due to the code not being up-to-date with the latest changes Facebook has implemented.

I learned that it's actually against the Facebook ToS to execute scripts on Facebook, and they've even sent a C&D letter to the suicidemachine website, which previously offered a way of committing Facebook seppuku. The Internet always finds a way, of course, and the fork was being consistently updated - the last update was only 3 months ago.

I guess i should be happy that the script managed to do as much as it did, but i'm still unhappy that it didn't delete my commenting history & my likes, which is something i'll have to do manually for now.

Still, i'm going to have MUCH less work doing it, and i can take my time doing it as well, because everything is now at least hidden from my Timeline. So now all i gotta do is clean up my photos, untag me from any photos i deem necessary, unlike any pages i don't want anyone to see i've liked, and leave my Facebook squeaky clean, not really posting anything on that PoS website that can compromise me in any way.

Facebook will stay simply as a way to keep in touch with people i otherwise don't have a lot of contact with, and that's that.

[bhu]

I has Exploding Kittens.  I am now greater than Batman.   

[Kethrian]

I has Exploding Kittens.  I am now greater than Batman.   

Congratulations, and welcome to the club!   

[Gazzien]

I has Exploding Kittens.  I am now greater than Batman.   

Congratulations, and welcome to the club!   

Are you guys enjoying it? I was seriously underwhelmed - it seemed to take forever to find a kitten, and everyone always had the negation cards. Didn't live up to my expectations, I suppose.

[Kethrian]

Use the advanced rules, you have greater odds of stealing someone's disarm card with those.  And you know you don't reshuffle the kitten card back in, but rather place it back in wherever you like, right?  That makes for the most fun, as you may have used your disarm card, but you can then count the cards to place it right where someone you want to get will draw it.  And then they (hopefully) have a skip or attack card, and you have a nope waiting ...