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There was a very good PBS video in which they explain that we shouldn't talk about the speed of light, but the speed of causality. That is, the speed at which a cause somewhere can have an effect elsewhere. Most of physics is impossible is there is no maximum speed of causality. Most of the...

But... wait... where's the car???

Is there a fight that is melee friendly in a raid? (the asymmetry between range that can go melee and keep casting and melee that can't go at range means it will never happen)

I was talking in the Politics thread about being doubtful on Making Space Great Again noises from the White House. Great idea, and then the Congress never funds it... Turns out that the aerospace industry is pessimistic as well: Ominous signs for defense, aerospace industries as Congress...

I was going to say "can't be that if it's around 20 years old"... except that fuck, Reynolds has been putting books for that long!

Well, the series is 3 trilogies, but the line between first and second trilogy were blurred. This one has potential, but the difference between the 1st (were each book was mostly self-contained in terms of plot events), the 2nd (only 5th and 6th were technically the same plot) and the last...

At the time, I did enjoy those books. But I wouldn't recommend them today, except for the fact that cyberpunk seems to be a dead genre in SF...

Quoted for truth.

Shadowrun was cheesy; the series were ordered as a pump for the game. The original trilogy, then more and more moderately formulaic stuff. (I'm ashamed that I've got pretty much the entire run still at home)

Ah, wasn't aware it was two different games. They should make the difference clearer, I think.

Sometimes, xkcd has the right tone:

Space X still remembers its beginnings...

I have absolutely no idea why this very video popped up in my youtube suggestions. I think google has very, very wrong ideas about me... (or maybe they have the right ones, and I'm unaware of who I really am?)

I hesitated a bit before giving this only 3 stars. But it's mainly because I've been there with book 5 & 6 already. The following review doesn't spoil the actual content, but it spoils a bit how the book ends

Got slightly tempted; apparently my Mac client no longer works. Time to uninstall for ever...

Getting closer to abiogenesis (hi @Lumi): Metals promote sequences of the reverse Krebs cycle Background info: The Reverse Krebs Cycle is a biochemical cycle that generates 5 precusors for sugars, aminoacids and other essential components of biological activity. It was considered core for all...

The series started as a contract dodge. Basically, Stross had an option (I think from Orbit) about his next SF books, and TOR wanted books from him. So his agent suggested making a fantasy book, and he replied "can't do fantasy, what about modern urban fantasy?". So the first 3 or 4 books were...

Eh. It's already out in Europe. (and thanks. Apparently, I had it purchased on both amazon.com and .co.uk, so I was going to get an extra. Cancelled just in time)

The title (vs the content of the article) is very facepalm-worthy

Hey, they're going Brexit. Of course they need their empire back!

Never too early to corner a new market...

Every time I see "loophole" and "limitless", my bullshit detector starts ringing loudly.

If you want a (theoretical, but perfectly consistent with physics) flat earth, look no further than an Alderson disk.

Don't even know if it shows on normal, but with mission addon, it shows for how long the mission is going to be available.

If you have competition for content, then you won't have (often) spoilers. Because if you can make the others fail, you can get the boss...

Lots of recent major astronomical discoveries get Hawaiian names. You find it, you name it. It could be worse; they could get Chilean names :)

Nibiru is on a close orbit to earth, since it passes us extremely often...

People tend to forget that 3D was rising already everywhere. Asheron's Call (released later that same year) was always going to be 3D; they just retooled their engine when EQ showed that you could sell with hardware accel rather than going software like they originally planned.

What??? How did I miss that! ** EDIT: I more than missed that; got it back in Feb... and promptly forgot about it ***

Collect and raise to rare lvl25 1000 different pets. Of course. What else is there? After all, you're capped at 1000. :)

It's the artifact xmog quest. Required to unlock the 4 appearances line, even if you have the others. I'm EU :)

Same problem here. I did not start the quest soon enough, and we stopped going to Nightmare basically as soon as the highborne raid was up. I'm missing about 2 runs, and by now, it's desert town trying to find a pickup going.

I don't. For one second, I was slightly enamored with heirloom armor, except the Dark Iron one is exclusive to Dark Irons, so fuck.

Got lucky then. There shouldn't be any non-player slots left at this time.

Don't give them ideas like that...

Apparently, Nov 28: Antorus the Burning Throne Raid Release Date - November 28th

It was all "those numbers are placeholder" this and "we're doing 6 races now, and we'll do the rest later" that, so they're far from having it done. Which is why we get some features in 7.3.5, not 8.0...

And Furor's there!

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