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  1. khorum

    The Astronomy Thread

    Perchlorates on Mars also makes cultivation of the soil near impossible in the near term and prohitively expensive on the long term. In fact, the perchlorate saturation in Martian soil (1,400 times higher than the maximum concentration survivable by all terrestrial agriculture) is more...
  2. khorum

    Breaking Bad

    Then you read into that incompletely. As far as his defining failures went, Walt was a frustrated genius entrepreneur FIRST, loong before he was a failed husband, or a failed father and ultimately a failed teacher. By the time we meet Walt he was already on the downward trajectory of a life...
  3. khorum

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

  4. khorum

    Rambo V

    Are they brown tho?
  5. khorum

    The Astronomy Thread

    That super-sharp penumbra is eerie.
  6. khorum

    Interesting, Non Political News

    "Not Everywhere"----IE: don't let Ethiopians pilot ANYTHING.
  7. khorum

    What did you just read?

    Yeah. It's definitely YA---you won't get Bremer barebacking camp whores while fantasizing about courtier's wives, but I wouldn't hesitate saying it's his best-constructed trilogy yet. You'll forget it's YA after a couple dozen pages.
  8. khorum

    What did you just read?

    Heroes and The First Law Trilogy (Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, Last Argument of Kings) are great but his most fully realized series is his YA series, The Shattered Sea (Half A King, etc). It's not as overtly gritty as the first law trilogy, and it's set in a different universe...
  9. khorum

    The Astronomy Thread

    You only need all the extra delta v for a rendezvous if you wanted to COME BACK. Lithobraking works fine if not.
  10. khorum

    Autonomous Systems

    Fuck it, just go for full autonomy. Google puts together a video for why they're leapfrogging driver assist altogether: people suck and can't be trusted: Those were all google employees too. The guy who fell alseep was an engieer.
  11. khorum

    The Astronomy Thread

    It's peacetime, so safety-engineering is why we can't have nice things. It's why new technology take decades to enter service. Once we're in another global war that'll speed up real fast. If our adversary can project power in space, you bet your ass we'll be up there in a couple days' notice.
  12. khorum

    Remnant: From the Ashes

    GENERAL Added Adventure Mode! DEVELOPER COMMENT: Introducing Adventure Mode - A new game mode that allows players to re-roll individual worlds. You and your party can embark on an adventure through dynamically generated Earth, Rhom, and Yaesha, beginning at a single World Stone and ending once...
  13. khorum

    Remnant: From the Ashes

    Adventure mode patched in today... LOTS of changes and buffs to pretty much every armor set.
  14. khorum

    Retard Dumping Ground

    I hope she picked the blonde.
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    Retard Dumping Ground

  16. khorum

    I am currently living in my parents basement. AMA

    That's the door to a storage shed isnt' it?
  17. khorum

    The Astronomy Thread

    Japan. Which makes me wonder what would qualify a country as the fourth nation to put a probe on the moon. Japan's JAXA "landed" SELENE-1 on the moon after its 2-year orbit. That should technically count. They just recently cancelled SELENE-2, which was supposed to put an exploratory lander...
  18. khorum

    World of Warcraft: Classic

    warden doesn't catch ahk?
  19. khorum

    The Astronomy Thread

    Congress has to guarantee a purpose for the SLS since they worked so hard to take chunks of its production home to their districts as pure bacon.
  20. khorum

    Interesting, Non Political News

    They were way less murdery in the second movie.
  21. khorum

    Control

    Sweet. I get to pirate it.
  22. khorum

    Interesting, Non Political News

    ^ see this Wakandan is deploying the Vulnerable World Hypothesis to refute the irrefutable.
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    Starsector (formerly Starfarer)

    Did you suggest suicide there too?
  24. khorum

    Interesting, Non Political News

    LOL sure OK, I'll do that. You keep on panicking then.
  25. khorum

    Interesting, Non Political News

    That's silly. If we can train AI to generate deepfakes from a given dataset we can also train AI to spot the fakes. And training any AI to look for spoofs will always be easier than training one to produce the deepfakes.
  26. khorum

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Steam version has some bizarre shit going on. A few folks ran into similar issues a couple months ago.
  27. khorum

    Interesting, Non Political News

    Wood brim would need to be pretty much bespoke though right? Not like you can make it one size fit all. Sounds like an excuse to break out the calipers and indulge in some old-timey phrenology exams.
  28. khorum

    Kerbal Space Program 2

    Interview sounds like the original devs will KEEP working on KSP1 while this new team releases KSP2---which is lol. I'm hoping it's because this new game has a ton more scope with asteroid mining and colonization and even interstellar travel and NOT because KSP2 is dumbed down to be more...
  29. khorum

    I am currently living in my parents basement. AMA

    That incentive channel is way too narrow. Some women hate strawberries or prefer the flavor of cherry. Redesigning women with their clitoris at the back of their mouth is the surest path towards Homo Fellatrix.
  30. khorum

    I am currently living in my parents basement. AMA

    In our glorious CRISPR future men can have babies and women have their clitorises genetically moved to the back of their mouths.
  31. khorum

    I am currently living in my parents basement. AMA

    @a_skeleton_02 won't mind if you vomit.
  32. khorum

    I am currently living in my parents basement. AMA

    ^ needs dick
  33. khorum

    I am currently living in my parents basement. AMA

    How did I know this thread was gonna turn out to be more about @Mist than @a_skeleton_02?
  34. khorum

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    So do they verify that those 1,743 accounts that were used to advertise RMT activities were actually bought and paid for that reason or if they were hacked accounts from otherwise legitimate accounts. I had my wow account hacked years ago and aside from sharding and selling all my shit, they...
  35. khorum

    Kerbal Space Program 2

    Oh fuck yes. I have an ungodly number of hours on KSP. Lithobraking lol.
  36. khorum

    Starsector (formerly Starfarer)

    Prolly shouldn't have gone with a carrier build on my first playthrough. I have 6 colonies, a 1.6+ million/month income, my carrier fleet melts everything that floats into range and I STILL have only the vaguest idea about shooting shit and how shield flux management actually works.
  37. khorum

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    She'd be a great highschool teacher.
  38. khorum

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Yeah GC seals. You can turn in greens for GC seals so ventures are pretty much free.
  39. khorum

    Starsector (formerly Starfarer)

    That is super weird. Do you have a Java SDK installed for whatever reason? Might be conflicting with the JRE they ship with.
  40. khorum

    Starsector (formerly Starfarer)

    When you get those datapad things that buff stuff like increased shield arcs and whatnot, do they apply to your flagship when you right-click it or what?