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  1. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's Facebook, and they could just well do it.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    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...
  3. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    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...
  4. Ukerric

    The Flash

    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.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    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.
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    The Expanse

    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.
  7. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    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...
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    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    The waves this makes are waaaay bigger than gravity waves.
  9. Ukerric

    The Economics Thread, Bootstrappin' Since 1776.

    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...
  10. Ukerric

    Deadpool (2016)

    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.
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    The Expanse

    Yea. 10 episodes only, dammit.
  12. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    They do believe in SLS, though. So much it's nicknamed Senate Launch System, because even NASA doesn't believe in it (but they have to make it because they get told to).
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    The Expanse

    He's also speaking as a former military (his background came up during the interrogation in ep3, got dishonorably discharged for assaulting a superior officer who ordered him to fire on belters) to another military.
  14. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yesterday, I thought I had a bug. Opened mailbox, ran postal, nothing. Click on mail from AH, money doesn't get out. 2nd mail, no problem. Ok, log/relog, nope. No addons? Nope. Ok, I'll see later. I get to the table, click finish... all missions finish except that 400gold one who shows...
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    The Expanse

    I did notice the switching of the priest in the Ceres-Eros shuttle for a mormon emigration candidate. Indirect spoilage for later on season 2.
  16. Ukerric

    MacGyver: The Movie

    The best way would be a son/daughter/niece/whatever family, keeping up with the traditions. Which allows you to slip a cameo, if you really, really want (given his looks, make him on his death's bed).
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    DC's Legends of Tomorrow

    You could assemble a floppy drive from parts for the model I as well, which is what I did. Radio Shack added a "real one" in its catalog, but it was buggy as hell. Apple II had a floppy drive as well in late 70s. In 1975, you didn't had recognizable office computers. You only had terminals...
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    DC's Legends of Tomorrow

    Better, drop the bits in random locations AND eras.
  19. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    Well, he's slightly different in the show. (finale spoilage)So, yea, Holden is a more nuanced good guy.
  20. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    Book 6, not 7. Nemesis Games was book 5 only, and Babylon's Ashes (the one this year) is only book 6. Unless you count The Vital Abysss novella as book 6, maybe? They have a contract for 3 trilogies, 9 books total (not 10, but I guess if you count 6 already, that makes 10). They're getting one...
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    The Expanse

    Disappointed since, basically, they put in half of the first books, and they're incorporating book 2 along so that season 2 will probably collapse the Leviathan Wakes and Caliban's War together. The ending of S01 is basically a mid-season cliffhanger, not a proper season end. Spoilage on the...
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    EQ Never

    Well, actually, on original EQ, it did. Every entity update in the zone was broadcast to everyone in the zone. Which is why you had utilities that snooped on the protocol stream and would display the zone along with the list and loc of all mobs in it when you entered. Rare not spawned? No...
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    The Expanse

    It wasn't? I was sure I had put spoilers. I'm apologize for my mistake. ** EDIT ** Oops, just checked my post, and yea, I agree, I didn't put enough on spoilers.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Note that
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    The Division

    My bad, I was still thinking of this as some kind of MMO, which isn't entirely correct. I dimly remember the discussion about the status of the game, but, well, I'm getting old, brain is seizing, and all that stuff. Mostly. I think.
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    The Division

    Apparently, it's in beta now and plays like shit:The Division?'s underwhelming beta dampens our expectations | Ars Technica
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    The Astronomy Thread

    It's from 5 years ago, so it shouldn't be too out of touch with current physics. Carroll has a new book coming out this spring which is going to be slightly more general about the Universe, not just the entropy/big bang/time directionality stuff; don't know how much we're getting new information...
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    The Expanse

    Now that they've shown the protomolecule,
  29. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Well, he's dead. Until the first episode in which he isn't anymore, that is.
  30. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Actually, the Steady State theory explicitly prevent the existence cosmic background radiation, which can only be produced by a massively dense phase of the universe, something that can't happen in a static and steady-state universe. Hoyle and his pals tried desperately to add more epicycles...
  31. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time: Sean Carroll: 9789351116943: Amazon.com: Bookshas almost no math formula. Very understandable if you like physics without being a physicist.
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    The Expanse

    Spoilage from books
  33. Ukerric

    Weather

    Nothing like that here in France so far, but I remember the 2010 snow storm. Ex-colleague and friend of mine left work at 7pm, as usual for him. By 1 am, he was back AT work, never having managed to get more than a mile from there. I also saw on the Mediterranean a whole town shut down...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    About every physicist agrees that "before" is a meaningless concept when applied to the big bang. It didn't just create matter, it created space AND time. I'm partial to Sean Carroll's books. Makes those weird concept easier to understand. (side note: Carroll is an Everettian. Which makes the...
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    The Expanse

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    Lucifer

    Same. The idea and trailers came out as cheesy, but the pilot was actually good. Kinda over the top, but good. Looking forward for some good heart eating.
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    The Expanse

    On the Ceres-Eros shuttle, he was next to a priest going to an episcopal conference on Eros, and they talked and that made him internalize that he wasn't coming back to Ceres. But that probably wouldn't work well in the show, so they went with the "let's leave the hat" symbol instead, to mark...
  38. Ukerric

    Second Chance

    That's basically why they dropped the original title (which was "The Frankenstein Code"). The link was far too tenuous.
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    Marvel's Agent Carter

    That was the Gravitonium. Different black goop here, apparently.