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The shiny spots are apparently salt deposits from upwellings of ice that sublimated when exposed to vacuum and solar light.

Mostly when the last round of "Space drive! Reactionless rocket!" news made the rounds of the sensationalist papers. At the time, no paper had ever survived peer review. Notably, the so-called "test with vacuum damping" didn't actually take place in a strong vacuum, and other gross...

This "EM Drive" was thoroughly debunked, and the trust obtained appear to be entirely due to thermal pressure (i.e. infrared from the EM heating). It's basically an extremely weak version of laser-heated propellers (which, themselves, are also nearly SFnal because you'd get anything to melt...

16? Try more like 25 plus short stories collections and novellas It's another series where the character ended up devouring the series. I'll try to avoid spoilage, except for the fact that she doesn't die. His model was Admiral Nelson, and he intended her to die at around fourth book or so in...

Yup. You don't need to build a single building beyond the original barracks, but you'll need to build a shipyard to unlock Tanaan and 690 Baleful gear, hence a level 3 garrison. You just have to wait until you have enough garrison resources and money. It's not entirely mandatory, you can...

That. The dungeons aren't changed from what they are (the mobs have the same level, hp, dps, etc. if you enter in timewalking or normally), but you are scaled down to the appropriate era. So, while you usually overgear the X.0 dungeons, the late X.3 ones have you "moderately geared".

Guaranteed drop, even in LFR. Unless you did it with another char on the account. (EDIT: need to loot the reaver yourself, I think you don't get it auto-delivered even with personal loot)

Truth. You don't need speedup, even if you do shipyard once a day. Also, I'm almost certain that XP and chest missions are separate; I've tried clearing XP missions to see if that forced a faster respawn, and it doesn't seem to. The only time I have more than 2-3 chests up (not including...

/ignore (raid lead has an addon; if you pop out this mount, you get insta-kicked)

The way I did it was having two different ship models levelling at the same time. It helps because you get missions that can be done by one but not the other, and you can level both in parallel. Reroll the carriers whenever you don't have a carrier leveling. Those things are a pain to level.

Side note: there's sometimes a small bug that has the plans showing up as locked (red) if you unlocked them with a different character. You can still purchase them, and if you leave and return the shipyard area, they turn back into normal.

That's how you do the aiming for the achievement (kill 12 orcs on top of the wall). Your healers are all bunched below the orcs so the Reaver shoots them.

You obviously didn't click on the link. I pretty much know most of those URL by heart now, and can recognize them from a mile. And using that one in 2016... feels fine when you deal with nostalgic fucks like us.

There was an interview where that question was asked to the movie script writers. Their answer: "Agents of Shield? What's that?"

It depends. If you refer to "monthly content changes" ala Asheron's Call, then it requires people to make, but not to run. People liked that, just having snow extending from the mountains and winter beasts coming down the plains in winter was a breath of fresh air that is still remembered 16...

You are probably over-estimating our capacity to pinpoint the impact. Quick math: an impactor at 20km/s, 1 day away is somewhat 1 million miles away, 5 times the earth-moon distance. You're probably going to determine in which country/state it's going to hit, but which city is not going to be...

I've been making full counter fleets (from the MMOchamp thread that has a fleet that can counter every single mission at 90%). It takes a few weeks to setup (due to the massive amount of rerolling you need), and leveling 3 different carriers including 2 pandaren ones is a pain in the ass. But...

That's mostly the consensus about Proyas; he does good shit, he does bad shit. You can't bet on any of his movies being one or the other.

Same for the level 100 which you get for buying Legion. If you want additional boosts, you have to buy them at the store for $$ (no AH tokens for that).

Well, considering that any time a game tagged "Early Access" pops in my Steam view, I click "not interested" and never see it again, even after it's released, their loss.

All of NYC, or just Manhattan? (people underestimate the real size of NYC) Manhattan is survivable. I mean, assuming it impacts Manhattan itself, you only have most of the east coast wiped out by Richter 9+ earthquake, a 40 mile-wide crater making sure the Atlantic level drops a feet...

Shows that we're probably not the right demographic if we're so critical of it...

Actually, it's a very sound reasoning. You are not allowed to fly over it until you've done at least once all/almost all of the outdoor content there is. That's basically the only problem with it, and I still don't understand why they used a rep grind as a metric of "having done Tanaan" instead...

It's "somewhat" RTS. Besides my general principle of never ever getting into an early access again, it's probably what cooled me a bit in my enthusiasm. I'll see what that means before tagging the game "Not interested" in steam.

You don't need one. Handynotes + Handynotes_DraenorTreasures gives you the same thing, without paying 100g. I'm jealous. Still no pet.

In honor of Umberto Eco, I just finishedMr Penumbra's 24h Bookstore, which is a novel that Eco could have written. Or maybe Neal Stephenson. Of course, they would have made it a 800+ page monster with actual historical characters, not the reasonable book there. It's basically a book about a...

Most of my alts leveled using the garrison XP missions + harvesting. They only set foot outside to unlock the 2nd level of garrison (which requires questing) and to unlock the salvage building before 100.

Which is funny, given that it has now outperformed every X-Men movies domestically, and all save one internationally...

It's Facebook, and they could just well do it.

FTFY.

That's basically the ending of the game. Tyrion on the Iron Throne, Jon (after he wargs into the dragons following Daenerys' vaguely unheroic death) King in the North and Warden of the Ice, and Tyrion's wife (Sansa) as the link between both. Well, it should be the ending. Since no one besides...

Given that neutron stars exist, and basically use immense gravitic fields to confine a bunch of neutrons together, I'm not too surprised that a tetraneutron is possible, if horribly unstable. So what is surprising is that "ordinary" reactions can form one...

The actor is quoted as saying that Ronnie-1 had been killed enough times, and bringing him back once again would be stupid. Any of his appearances on the show will be some alt-Ronnie.

So basically, it's a slightly smaller version of Uranus with the small traces of H2O that we found in Uranus boiled off by its proximity to the star.

So, you're a bit too critical, I'd say. Not that there's no stupid, there's some bad decisions made, but they're not plot-stupid, they're just bad guesses from the character.

Not exactly, but LIGO was in a regime of sensitivity where something should be detected at some point. Detecting nothing would mean technical problems OR some subtleties in the theory that might open a new avenue of inquiry (i.e. some new flavor of quantum gravity). But alas, relativity still...

The waves this makes are waaaay bigger than gravity waves.

Naive economists used to draw their diagrams without checking the numbers on the scales. These days, a fairly large number of economists have realized that different stuff occurs at a 0 border (like wages being more inelastic in downward fashion that upward, negative effective interest rates...

At this point, there are two main reasons it's not going to be a cult movie: 1) It's going to make too much money 2) It's going to have a Deadpool 2.

Yea. 10 episodes only, dammit.