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Isn't that statutory rape?

Ugh that's a dickpunch. Guess we'll have to see how Valve handles it. If Gaben says, "meh, fuck China" nothing changes.

Pretty cool concept I'm sure some folks will appreciate (even if it's just @Bandwagon)

Oh fine, here's the Expance NY ComicCon panel from over the weekend:

How much is the Nobel Prize money worth in Nazi holocaust gold?

No it's the first planet past the rings that has a large wildcat colony of belter refugees who has to deal with the arrival of a legit chartered colony and they send the Roci's crew to intermediate between their differences. I think it's the fourth book? Might be wrong, but there's a slight...

One of the emergent opportunities afforded by reusable falcons is that it reduces the costs so much that it makes REFUELLING satellites in orbit so that they can reboost to higher orbits cost-effective. NASA's Goddard has been working on this for some time and is poised to do a demonstration...

That's just the friendly neighborhood gorgon stare drone recording the last 72 hours of activity at 4k fidelity.

On adept?

"Catalyst from Strikes" Isn't really helpful though. Which strikes? Just grind them?

I think anyone on the queue could be pulled into any strike. I was backfilled into a forsaken strike and I haven't bought that. I haven't bought forsaken nor shadowkeep but I was able to go on the moon and do lost sectors/open events and stuff. Need Shadowkeep for the...

So is there a new way to get the Graviton Lance Catalyst? It used to be off the Dead Orbit rep.

No. They didn’t have any freedom back then either.

Basically as the costs to build extremely risky technology shrinks and the global population of butthurt people who would use it explodes, the necessity of an absolute totalitarian police state crosses over from a negative into a necessity. The manhattan project cost $384 billion in...

Are faction rallies still a thing or is there another way to get the Graviton Lance's catalyst?

Necessity wins again. https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf

Prolly bugged like my gambit set gear shit. On the plus side my Titan went from 167 to 878 in about 20 seconds.

LOL the only "settlers" we'll be sending anywhere in interstellar space will be digitized human uploads living in a heavily shielded computing substrate roughly the size and weight of a coke can. __MAYBE__ they'll bring a few million frozen embryos with them, if their energy budget is flush and...

Ya ppl in game said it was a bug. Well that's that.

I mean just the first level 900 stuff you get from wagering the first few weak motes in the Reckoning. All the gear i've gotten so far, regardless of Sentry/Invader/Reaper have been Titan Only. For example: I've only done the reckoning a few times to fulfill the weekly and i've only used...

So I'm doing this gambit class armor thing with the tokens wrong. I've wagered Reaper and Sentry tokens but I keep getting Titan gear only. Stuff online wasn't very helpful... just wanted to get some warlock stuff.

I haven't bought forsaken, actually. I quit a few months before it came out. I just tried it again because I was told to transfer from battle.net to steam or lose my chars. So I transferred and tried it out. Im about 880ish now and I was able to visit the shore and the dreaming city but I...

Figured as much thx. So how high in ilevel could i go without buying Shadowkeep?

Just got back into this after quitting a few months before forsaken. Is there a way to pick a specific nightfall strike other than whatevers up on the vanguard destination?

His newest book Fall, Or Dodge In Hell is the sequel to Reamde and Cryptonomicon (and The Baroque Cycle).... and it's great if you're into brain virtualization and the singularity. It's more or less a fictionalization of Max Tegmark's Life 3.0 lol.

That's just because we'll be dead in about 40 years though. Remember Hair/Hedman's figure that any species with the technology we developed in 1969 could have colonized the galaxy? We speciated from some homo erectus less than 460,000 years ago. So say it takes evolution 461,969 years to go...

That's just extra narrow anthropomorphism. It's also fun and entertaining to imagine your CURRENT circumstances extending infinitely into the future when in fact that just describes...well...your current circumstances. Just 50 years ago we achieved the means that would allow our species to...

Again it only SEEMS out of reach because our brains think in terms of our 83-year average lifespan. To a gnat travelling from New York to LA is beyond the scope of reality because they'll be dead in a couple days, but they sure as hell have the speed to do it if they didn't. We WALKED from...

Why would you send crew and supplies? That might've been a consideration but it wouldn't be the most efficient payload for a seedship. At most it would be MAYBE frozen embryos and a hold full of robots to pop them out and raise/train/educate them in orbit while robots built their habitat on...

It would only take 353 days of constant 1g acceleration to achieve 99.9999% of light speed. Hair and Hedman used the technology from 1969 for their paper because that was the most powerful extant chemical rocket known when they published. The idea being we could boost all the propellant to...

Haven't seen it but the trailers looked like shit.

You can't be sure the path is clear. You'd engineer the costs of mitigating those impacts through detection/shielding and factor that in to the vessel's mass. Then it becomes a matter of the energy to accelerate that mass at a sustained rate. At 1g constant acceleration and 1g deceleration...

No I'd categorize that as failure for sure lol. That still results in extinction. Willingly accepted or not, it would be a failure that would qualify as a Great Filter that resolves the Fermi Paradox. But once again this whole line of argument started with people objecting to the Great Filter...

No they didn't fail to account for it, don't NEED to account for it. Once again, as entertaining as it may be to anthropomorphize hypothetical alien civilization---they could find jesus and reject capitalism one generation or discover marxism and try to settle into a marxist-like Malthusian...

The thing with that theory is that "We're the First" inevitably leads to "There only needs to be ONE" which inevitably leads to "We must be the only ones". While most of the responses to the Fermi Paradox necessarily use the past to answer the question, the fact is the FIRST CIVILIZATION to...

Then by all means entertain them. If there's a way that a civilization would eventually advance to transcend thermodynamic law WITHOUT leaving behind every previous stage of their development littered across the universe then that's worth discussing. Given those things we do know---that all...

Why? We know what happens when they fail and the observed state of the universe seems to confirm that some fail state halts 100% of all civilizations from reaching the first stage on the Kardashev scale. We don't need to confirm that Tabby's star or EPIC 204376071 are orbitted by...

So you're having trouble accepting that the universal laws of thermoeconomics, empirically shown to influence everything from cellular development to stock markets to the birth and death of galaxies, would apply equally to all civilizations? Since the second law of thermodynamics is observed to...

Then you have to brake.

Lol that’s the Great Filter hypothesis, which was the start of this discussion in the Astronomy thread. No idea why it moved over here but the origin of the discussion was because some people expressed confusion or skepticism about the Great Filter. Like I said. we don't need to imagine what...