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The real question isn't whether it's more valuable in orbit than on earth, it's that whether it's cheaper from orbit than on earth. It's a classic import question: if producing at point A and shipping it here is cheaper than producing at point B and shipping it there, then you produce at A...

I'd rather have the Epstein fusion drive from The Expanse, but I'll settle for a low impulse, zero-mass one.

Also, if you have the rep with the Klaxxi, you can purchase an item that makes every dig site in Pandaria spawn as Klaxxi for 24h (which includes a reroll all sites once), which means they'll all be popping over two zones close to each other. If you really want to grind crates, that's the way to...

They purchased a company that had lame horses (EQN/EQL) attached, cleaned it so it should be more profitable now, and it will be priced higher. Usual maneuver from investment funds. Those companies make the real bucks by reselling at profit (or sometimes splitting up the company and selling the...

Nope. You'll get a different ring next time, but any mission that has spawned remains as it is. It only checks what rings you have when it spawns. (saw this with the Black Market contract; I got a second contract to pop on one of my chars before I could complete the quest, and the mission...

All that xxxxverse stuff made me realize I need to recommend a series called The Emberverse, by S.M.Stirling. It started as a pair of trilogies, and, well, the guys at Roc started to throw lots of zeroes on large checks in front of him, so he kept writing more. Started writing that series in...

So basically: - The Old Gods are trying to corrupt and destroy Azeroth to make an incarnate Void Lord - Sargeras wants to destroy Azeroth to avoid the above - And if we defeat both of the above and let the Last Titan be born, well, Azeroth dies. Good set of choices here

Just saw that. I finally pre-ordered the fall Safehold book and amazon added the new Honorverse book immediately to the suggestions. And I was pretty excited because it had no co-author, meaning main story line, not the Eric Flint collaboration (the Crown of Slaves spin-off). Yay!

It's probably cheaper to mine the asteroid in place and ship the refined products to earth. Less mass to move around = cheaper rocketry, and you get less risk of splashing your target by error as a bonus.

Mass proportional and inverse square. ( Force = G . m . M / d^2 ) An average human would weight 80kg, Earth is 5.972 ? 10^24 kg, so the gravitational pull of a human on another human - if they were standing apart as much as center of earth to surface - would be around 1.3 x 10^-23 that of...

I guess we have a different definition of debunking. When I said debunked, I'm not talking about "skeptics say it's impossible". I'm talking about multiple scientists pointing out methodology flaws, alternate and more plausible explanations for minuscule effects, the lack of demonstration that...

Well, you've got claims, it fails the "common science test", it fails to pass peer review after more than 12 years of experiments, and most scientists that read the papers all pointed the same errors and probable cause. I guess that counts as a thorough debunking of said claims. Looks like...

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...