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  1. ShakyJake

    The Astronomy Thread

    My God, it's full of stars?
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    The Fermi Paradox -- Where is everybody?

    The reverse is also true. For however many civilizations that have the above limitations there would be an equal probability of the opposite. Same applies to the thought that some civilizations wouldn't bother to expand out from their home star. There would still be those who do. The...
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    Smartphones

    My mother has an iPad. Every time I use it and open up Safari there are a trillion tabs open. Is there any way to have it automatically close opened tabs when Safari is closed?
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    The Orville

    Maybe it's because I'm a huge Star Trek nerd but I actually quite enjoyed this. I suppose the early negative reviews kind of tempered my expectations of it not being completely a comedy but, honestly, I'm not sure how a pure comedy would work with this setting before getting old. If The...
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    Weather

    Haha. "Surprise, motherfucker!"
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    Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

    So where are these custom pawns coming from? Is it a player's main pawn? Because I can't create any pawn other than that.
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    Blood Drive

    Sadly, this is canceled. Really enjoyed this series and felt it was one of the best things to come out of Syfy in a long while. Even still, the season felt complete and I'm okay with it ending the way it did.
  8. ShakyJake

    The Benefits of Socialism

    How about a thread that discusses all economic systems? I would be curious of the pros/cons of a pure capitalistic system.
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    The Magicians

    THEY EXIST!?
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    The Orville

    God damn it.
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    Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

    Yeah, so I was bored and decided to mess with this freebie that I downloaded on the PS3 years ago. Wow, really impressed with this game. Sure, I see that there is a PS4 version due out soon but I'm not too demanding in my old age, so the PS3 version still looks pretty good to me. Anyway, what...
  12. ShakyJake

    Twin Peaks

    Theory from Reddit: last scene was a dream Laura in 1989 is the dreamer Cooper asks what year is it Laura's mother calls out to her from the waking world Laura recognizes her mother's voice and realize she's dreaming she screams and wakes up back in 1989 the morning they would have found her...
  13. ShakyJake

    Twin Peaks

    Yeah, anyone make any sense of this? My understanding is that this was a one-and-done season in order to 'wrap things up'.
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    What happened to BigFlex?

    Or, maybe he had to go back...
  15. ShakyJake

    The Fermi Paradox -- Where is everybody?

    Interdasting. Distant galaxy sends out 15 high-energy radio bursts
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    Preacher

    What's with the sudden proliferation of F-bombs on broadcast television?
  17. ShakyJake

    The Fermi Paradox -- Where is everybody?

    I think the general thought is that if a civilization achieves interstellar travel then it's game on. They would be able to colonize the entire galaxy within a couple million years traveling at sub-light speeds. And there has been ample enough time for this to have occurred.
  18. ShakyJake

    The Fermi Paradox -- Where is everybody?

    That's what I personally believe. Life is everywhere, we just don't have advanced enough tech to detect them yet. Alternatively, if we are alone then we're living in a simulation and reality isn't what we observe.
  19. ShakyJake

    The Fermi Paradox -- Where is everybody?

    That's the point - we, as humans, would never seen this happen. Not saying trees specifically, of course, but any low energy species would be moving on time scales far longer than we would have the perception to observe.
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    The Fermi Paradox -- Where is everybody?

    Not sure what you mean by 'outperform'. They would be on their own evolutionary path. Trees aren't trying to outperform us, for example.
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    The Fermi Paradox -- Where is everybody?

    I don't know, what if you have a very low-energy species? Their perception of time could be sufficiently slow that traversing the stars would seem, perhaps, like hours or days whereas for us it's millennia. Obviously this form of life would be impossible for us to communicate with. But I...
  22. ShakyJake

    The Astronomy Thread

    Any good videos out there that show this effect?
  23. ShakyJake

    The Astronomy Thread

    What's interesting is that even the outer most planets must still get plenty of sunlight. I think I read somewhere that even on Pluto one could still easily read a book.
  24. ShakyJake

    The Astronomy Thread

    86% here and clouds rolled in. So it just looked like it was going to storm. Fucking thing sucks.
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    Rick and Morty

    Exactly. The cold open made me think, "this might be a stinker episode". NOPE. Brilliant.
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    Stranger Things

    I really enjoyed season 1, but I kind of feel the show would've worked best as an anthology series.
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    The Expanse

    What game is that from?
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    Blood Drive

    Yeah, fucking amazing fun. If you like Ash vs Evil Dead then you'll love love this. What is going on with Syfy and all these great shows? Strange things are afoot at the CircleK.
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    Twin Peaks

    Man, what in the fuck did I just watch?
  30. ShakyJake

    The Astronomy Thread

    So possibly massive rotating disc objects?
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    The Mist

    Haven't watched it, but absolutely loved the movie.
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    GLOW

    I sure do! I honestly don't remember any specific wrestlers out of the bunch, but I do remember it.
  33. ShakyJake

    The Astronomy Thread

    Right, even like nebulae for instance. You watch Star Trek and they depict them like these opaque clouds. If you were actually inside a nebula it would still appear like empty space. They are very diffuse.