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What? Get out. Get the hell out. I retract everything I could ever find good about you.

And it would be very, very obvious. (which means no one's doing it. Yet)

Which is why I said "you're always born at the wrong time". Except probably in the prehistoric times, where cultural and technological changes required dozens/hundreds of generations to occur. Then, you would be born at the wrong time, but never realize it.

You're always born at the wrong time. The Age of exploration would have been wonderful to live in (assuming you weren't a peasant because farming efficiency was sucking donkey dicks at the time and too many people had to be), but it's passed. And the Age of space is coming, but it will really...

I'm still salty that no less than two distilleries (Ardbeg and Nikka) sent whiskey to the ISS to see how it affected maturation, and none of them tried to send a full barrel for the mandatory 3 years and get it back to sell Space Whiskey. That would make me drink again. At least once.

To be accurate, the building blocks of life appear about everywhere in the universe, since relatively simple chemical processes generate them. (the one I was most interested at one time was the interstellar cloud that had about a Jupiter's mass worth of... alcohol).

And that's why you won't see this. Or anything else. First, no one at Blizzard is going to try anything with Classic. They're going to release TBC as it was and LK as it was, and that's it. Second, this is Activision "Where are my recurring microtransactions" Blizzard we're talking about. If...

That sounds familiar, but I also can't place it. Sounds right. But apparently, it's not on my read list on goodreads, so I do think I might have skipped it. Weird. Because it did feel familiar, but I definitively should have it somewhere if I did read (the wonders of your ebook library is that...

FTFY.

Yea, that's about the gist of it. You set up a kickass background, then... you end up doing pretty much nothing with it.

And between 8 and 13 days (from memory) to reach Mars depending on respective positions. Which is another of my peeves regarding that shit of movie (Ad Astra), where you can see the script writers made a serious effort of making the trip easy to film by having the Moon-Mars ship obviously go...

It was called War of the Spark Mythic edition.

That's an interesting choice of packaging. Let's see how many combos we have: standard borders/no borders alternate art/fancy border alternate art times foil/non-foil. 6 different cards to collect. For every rare/mythic. He's right in those opening videos "it feels like sports cards".

And that's why the "future filter" is still popular. We already have chinese doing embryo editing. Designing the Human Species is probably a matter of a couple centuries. Remember: "It only takes one". These species that don't kill their drive? They get the universe. And colonize us. (and...

The definition of life these days is any self-sustaining structure/ensemble that can repair itself using energy from its environment or produce a reasonable duplicate of itself. (the or is because you have organisms that are entirely sterile - like bee workers - that would not be classified as...

And then you have Negative Energy and the "Big Rip" (google that and despair).

Well, before Lucifer (whose name litterally means "bringer of light", in case you didn't notice... he's the christian equivalent of Prometheus), God was keeping them as domesticated pets. Then the pets dissented, and God had to expel them fast, or he'd get overwhelmed (the other apple... you...

Life seems to be a not-so-low probability event. Commonplace chemistry generates very fast all the necessary basic of our life chemistry. Then you have clay and the like that are extremely good candidates for creating self-enclosed biochemistry factories - protolife, in other terms. Plus, it...

Sometimes, it's time to promote my favorite artist:

One of the things you get when you contemplate the time involved and our existence within is the infinitesimal chance that we're left undisturbed. Earth is prime estate. Biomass and everything. You want to colonize anywhere, it's the solar system. Even if the biosphere is bad from your...

ROFL. Once someone figured out how to spell for "correct" translation, this had to spread quick.

Yes, but in the context of the Drake Equation, the accepted meaning of the term Great Filter is "all the things that drastically cut down on potential galaxy-visible civilizations". If you want to refer specifically to "the last Great Filter we are potentially facing", then you probably need a...

Solar Neutrinos are nice. Anytime you hear about astronomers being bothered by models of solar neutrinos it's because of this. If your model says that you should get This amount of solar neutrinos, but you get That, then either your model is wrong... or the rates of nuclear reaction at the core...

He's also getting punched in the nuts by the Senate Committee which is cutting his funding for the Moon 2024 because he doesn't want to spend it on the doomed and wasted SLS, and the senators want to teach him who really orders NASA around. AKA "I give you money to spend on my state, don't you...

Totally forgot about this. But at least, I could slip in the Terminator Species in.

That's because you tend to think of the filter as something ahead. Each filter ends more stuff than a civilization; the first ends entire worlds. It's just hard to think about it because we obviously have passed it. My personal two "old" filter candidates: - Complex life. Life arose fast...

It's more like reproduction than exodus. Unless there's scientific/technological advances far beyond what we expect, you will never emigrate any meaningful % of a civilization to another planet, in this system or another. The only thing you can do is create a daughter civilization somewhere...

No, but you can put a reasonable cap. A mathematical paper came out a couple years (a decade?) ago. They ran monte-carlo models, and put a cap on the numbers of technological civilizations expected on our Galaxy. 8. If there were more than 8 active civilizations in our light cone across the...

That's a matter of semantics. When we talk about civilizations in this galaxy, every factor counts. Every factor that is near-zero is equally useful to explain why there's no civilization around. Just because we've crossed it does not mean it's not a filter - it's merely a filter that we...

In Drake equation scholar circles, you usually call them Berserkers (thanks Fred Saberhagen).

Remember: "it only takes one".

Not entirely, because we appear to be latecomers. The Universe is nearly 14 billion years old, our sun and Earth appear to be 5. So, if you want us to be the first but without a great filter, you have to figure out a mechanism by which absolutely no life could develop for the first 9 billion...

"All it takes is one" is the most powerful force in the Fermi paradox.

Even with sublight travel at 1% light speed, a single technological species with about a hundred years more than us can colonize the entire galaxy by hopping around, filling a new planet in 5000 year, and then going again, in about a dozen million years. That's the essence of Fermi's "paradox"...

If you remember high school physics, they probably told you about refractive indices. Water is 1.3333, which means that light travels 1/1.33333 as fast as vacuum while in water. That's how light is distorted when it changes medium, and sticks appear bent when they plunge into water. Light...

Probably not a true game, but you can sell your soul again to Facebook https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/25/facebook-horizon/

No verified mark, fake!

"Because we thought it was an awesome idea. I mean before trying to figure out what she'd do as a Warchief."

It's an industry report from a specialist firm that has usually good data. And the data is 223% growth in western subs between july and august. Not "about 200%", 223%. (with the interesting tidbit that even with 223%, it's still below launch numbers for BFA)

They should. Classic Triples WoW Subscription Revenue in August