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That's also the first time they call the Epstein Drive "Epstein" in the show, I think. It's straight out of first chapters of book, but there was really no reason to provide the name. Haven't read the short story yet, because I was waiting for it to show on amazon, but apparently, you can only...

A LEO platform still makes sense. In addition to the basic research objectives, it has the advantages of providing a technical base for maintenance and space assembly. Basically, a developping space infrastructure would follow the original Von Braun model. You have one (or more later) base in...

However, if you're really interested in the alien stuff and turned off by human politics then it wouldn't be too odd to wait until book 7 arrives later this year to resume the series.

On the other hand, it's an incentive to spend - serious - time playing alts.

The core and focus of the books is humans and mankind's adaptation to changing things. The alien stuff is mostly a large McGuffin at that point. You get some serious peek at the alien stuff in book 4 because it's on the first real alien colony world (where Holden is sent to negociate peace...

That's Buroker's series, right? It's been sitting in my recommended section on Amazon for some time, but I haven't gotten around to get it. I'm still ahead on my goodreads challenge for 2017 (80 books for the year, 17 done already) and have like 20 unread ones on my ereader, plus a dozen on...

Not that, but what EverQuest got right is that it let things go pearshaped at any time. Forgot a runner in a dungeon? You could expect anything from 2 to 20 mobs to drop unannounced. Forgot a runner outdoor? Nothing happens for 30mn, and then, suddenly, out of the blue here he comes back. As I...

Rough guestimates flying in KSP's IRC yesterday was that it will probably be below 150M $ per seat. Considering that the ISS/Mir holiday was around 80M$, it'll be a bargain. (the two tourists will have more room than the old Apollo, since Dragon 2 is for 7 crew members, and they'll be only 2 of...

People have tried to change that sacred name since 2004... and failed.

Which is why you had the concept of self-healing blocs (in Landmark, and scheduled for Next as well). The world was destructible, but permanent. Blow the wall to get in, but when the next group comes around next hour, it's gone.

Bonus points for a french-sounding first name.

which is why it's about "launching new shards", not "instancing" or "spawning". And of course, it does not address the inevitable problem: what do you do when your shard population goes down...

The "in our world" is very important. I mean, if you think about it, that's what you tell people. No one recounts his great moment of the quest line for the staff of whatever (that you replaced 3h later). Or even the awesome cutscene of the the Gates of Icecrown. I mean, you mention "that's...

Not very much in visible light. Because they're cool (no H2 fusion), they're mostly bright in infrared. (which is why all those artist concepts of TRAPPIST-1 are absolutely junk)

It's quite possible that the causation is reverse; he was gigantic because he had underlying development problems.

Your thoughts? Reuse launch, Falcon Heavy launch reschedule, crewed launch this autumn, or they are building an antigravity Dragon 3 spaceship?

It would be an enormous shame if it got canceled before at least season 4. There's going to be 9 books in the series, and I would hope we'd get S09 someday, but given the fickleness of viewership and network execs, that's not guaranteed...

Time to repost this awesome video: [ note: when it shows 1 light day... the 2 voyagers aren't there yet, as they remind us

I think that it's absolutely horrifying when you stumble upon these kind of video ... and you realize the only 3 MMO on these lists that are not asian combat grinders are... Pantheon, Crowfall and Elyria (all crowdfunded). (and also, wtf is that with all these MMO that look exactly the...

That's because it is the book ender rather than the season ender. Now we move into book 2 territory (minus the bits already injected in S1). There's an interview somewhere where the showrunners said that, if they had a 13-episode run for season 1, they would have tried to fit the full book 1 in...

One of the thing you see clearly on this are the two Lagrange clusters of Jupiter, where gravitational interaction creates "fake planets" that asteroids orbit. Called the Trojans and the Greeks clusters respectively, of course.

On the subject of infrastructure hacks... While most of you would have been unaffected because 2 years ago, OVH was only starting to get the NA market, OVH's old support forums were hacked. Apparently, they simply forgot to turn off the forum when they migrated their old vBulletin stuff to new...

Might be related to the SHA1 collision proof that google did this week?

Her world-view will be very much altered by protomolestuff, but her character is undergoing quite a few changes compared to the books. For instance, since all the UN characters are from book 2, but were injected in book 1's story, she's in a very different position. If you take Avarasala's...

VASIMR is supposed to undergo real tests real soon™. And it's not the surnatural EMDrive.

The biggest problem for those is that such a star is probably flaring a bit, and will strip the atmosphere of any close planet in a short order. And the system is tiny and probably without much in terms of cometary halo, so no source to replenish that except internal vulcanism. So, while it's...

There's a couple bits of book 2 pulled in Season 1; the earth-based characters are all from book 2. There's relatively little in terms of plot from book 2; but there's a few bits toward the end that give away the big bad from book 2 (they simplified the story a bit in terms of evil corps. Too...

Haven't seen the ep yet, but there's an article on io9 and they mention: So, Prax's daughter is in, which means he is, although I didn't see them on imdb's list of characters.

So, with those new pokemon, what are the ones worth boosting for attack or defense if you have a 95%+ IV one?

The balance between book 1 & 2 is odd. There's a lot of the same general storyline, with different corps and different mad scientists. This is why they added Mao and most of the additional characters from book 2 (save Bobbie which came on S2 and Prax, which doesn't seem to be there) appear in...

I cheated, I looked him on IMDB and he's still there for a few episodes. I do expect him to be a replacement character for Manéo Jung-Espinoza

Blues also said that the math was temporary, and the numbers, both for AK and AP, were going to wiggle a lot for the next builds.

I even built a mage tower just to get shortcuts to raid entrances :)

They've already said that the Tomb will not unlock along with 7.2. They're including it and doing basic testing because it's probably before 7.2.5, but they're going to tweak the numbers on PTR during early 7.2...

Side note for those who follow it casually: new Season 3 chapter is now unlocked; log-in to make sure you get it enabled for your account.

Since 7.1.5, yea. Takes forever, addons or no.

She appears originally in book #2. The season 1 is 3/5th of book 1, plus a couple of additions from book 2 they felt were necessary. Because otherwise, there would be nothing about earth or mars at all, it would be all belt, and earth "too much in the background". So they pulled Avasarala early...

It's dead. I keep them "mostly" running because, believe it or not, there's a couple of missing xmog items, so every 2 or 3 weeks, I have an expedition to catch a loot chest and roll for xmog. That and the archeology every 2 weeks. Otherwise, if I check the garrison, I send ships and followers...

This is probably why S1 & S2 are a mashup of book 1 & book 2, with bits of book 2 ending up in season 1 (Jules Mao, the UN bits) and the resolution of book 1 being the first 5-6 episodes of S2. Which is also a problem, because they introduce Bobbie Draper as the very first scene of S2, but her...

That way, you make sure you don't let vampires sneak in.