@nitsua60 nice ad ideas! I like the transition thing you have going in the art. On slogans, "Done building? Now game in it." and "Set your world in motion" are both catchy and convey the right ideas about your site (or at least seem to from here). I liked "if you build it, we will play it" but after seeing the comments it got I understand why that's not the best fit.
Oh, maybe you meant drop some feedback there. I don't want your community give a WB mod undue weight, though -- you guys know better what represents your community well than we do. So feel free to relay whatever you like from what I said.
Plausibility of warp field based super-speed power
While something like a alcubierre drive is a staple of ftl technology in sci-fi, I wonder how it would operate on a smaller scale on earth.
The idea has occurred to to have a superhero with gravity and antigravity powers try to create somethin...
@HDE226868, and @James: you know it's time to stop arguing when someone thinks that the Bible is a factual evidence of anything. (Regardless people beliefs, it remains a story that was written a posteriori.) You'll never get anywhere in such discussion.
Recently I got into multi generational ships topic and I feel that I am not only interested in ideas how we could travel to another solar system at speeds slower than lightspeed
Purpose of this meta post is to gather all multi generational ship posts on one place. I will start with my additions ...
Suggestion: add a planetary ring to the logo
I like the logo but feel like it doesn't have much of a silhouette, which makes it seem very generic at smaller sizes. The fact that the colours start to blend together at small sizes doesn't help either.
I'd suggest you add a planetary ring to it, t...
I've added a mock-up of the proposed logo with a planetary ring around it to my answer for those who want to see what it could look like.
My religion question seems to have somehow accumulated 3 close votes, but no comments from the would-be closers... I guess that's just the fate of religious-themed questions
yep it appeared in the queue for IG. I guess that if you had asked about "how can I stop that religion", it would be too broad, and IG, but you asked is it possible (which lead me to vote against the VTC). But some might not have seen it the same way
My question is simple: How many nested moons are physically possible?
If our moon had a moon, that would be a nesting of 1.
I'm assuming it's easily possible for a really big moon to be orbiting a gas giant and have its own moon. If the dimensions were right, that moon could also have a moon?
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maybe that's what the lady and the robot are doing, they've just found out about what happens during The Alignment, and they're travelling to warn the city about it
It would be interesting if we could have some sort of contest to figure out what's happening in the site design. I think someone mentioned a few days ago that we'd be the ones making up the lore
@overactor I can whip those up this afternoon probably. I am just planning to copy the images that the designer provided into single threads so we can discuss each individually.
I am creating this thread to centralize a review of the different components that were provided in our draft site design.
A follow on thread will be created, and linked below, for each component (Banner, Logo, etc).
Component Reviews:
Community Promotion Ads (Figured we may as well includ...
I am creating this thread to centralize a review of the different components that were provided in our draft site design.
A follow on thread will be created, and linked below, for each component (Banner, Logo, etc).
Component Reviews:
Community Promotion Ads (Figured we may as well includ...
@DaaaahWhoosh I spend too much time here. Way too much time.
And I'm having trouble consentrating on my current contract. I as asked to make a change on my first day to a report, but not really given any information and 3 days later a document that kind of helps identify what rows in some columns mean. Out of hundreds of tables some with a hundred columns...
It's like throwing a 4 year old into a shark tank that can't swim... Nothing good can come of it.
Wow that was also the fastest 4 upvotes I've ever gotten too.
@bowlturner I can relate... we're supposed to be copying over and using someone else's database schema, and all we have on the main table are about 200 column names, in alphabetical order
no explanation, no datatypes, just 200 columns. And there's spaces in the names, so they're not even the real column names
I'm hoping it will only take me a week to make this change. If I had the domain knowledge of the guy I'm replacing, I suspect it would be about 5-6 hours, not 40+
One thing I've learned here at WB. If someone asks 'if all the "blank" changed/disappeared/stopped... what would happen?' Means we will all die. Always.
@DaaaahWhoosh: The cocoa bean industry would collapse. Grocery stores would scramble to find products to fill valuable shelf space. Milk prices would bottom out.
divine providence to enforce Passover rules would work... alternately, and more appealingly, a nanobot scourge released by strict-interpretationist religious zealots
although I suspect that we'd have big problems like damage to our gut biota maybe? that might be mostly bacteria though
writing an answer to your own question? IIRC it's acceptable, but I didn't think it was actively encouraged
a fundamental part of asking is being interested in what other people come up with.. this isn't scifi SE or stackoverflow where there can be a "right answer" for some questions
My society question just keeps plugging away. And a lot of people like to question my premise I guess. (the highest voted starts off that way)
I was also taught in High School that when one class of job is outdated, something replaces it. But as outdating speeds up will replacement speed up? Not at the same rate is my bet.
@bowlturner I haven't gotten around to spending much time over there...I did get that faux metallic thing to work, I need to go self answer that question.
@bilbo_pingouin Back then, men were real men. Women were real women. And small furry worldbuilders from Alpha Centauri were real small furry worldbuilders from Alpha Centauri.
Ah, so I'm planning on doing the tag writeup for astronomy for the blog, possibly including questions with related tags (stars, planets, etc.). Does anyone have any particular posts they think I should include? cc @MonicaCellio
A highly advanced civilization has developed and is about to ascend to become beings of pure energy in a hyper-dimensional universe. Before leaving they restore our universe to a reasonably pristine state so that new life can evolve and explore it. For the most part they remove all trace of their...
@bilbo_pingouin So the whole blade looks like the handle of the smaller one I made, then you start grinding and that starts the shine, you start with 36 grit and move to 220, 400, 600, 1200...the higher the number the finer the grit, the shinier the blade
Thanks. I was told it was a lost cause. Though I have though of asking my step-dad to weld it back and then I'd try to hide the welds by grinding a little.
Granted it was mild steel but I broke a leaf off of a hangar I was making and just did a little welding then ground the weld down, reheated it and you couldn't even tell
I would give it a shot, if we were talking about a sword then yeah, you'd have to start from scratch but I think you could get away with a weld so long as you completely restart the heat treating process afterwards
@HDE226868 no specific nominations at the moment. I seem to recall that we've had some interesting moons questions, and I have a soft spot for binary stars myself. :-)
@bowlturner I went in last night, I am working on making a set of six table knives from railroad spikes...it takes a lot of beating to get the shape...
@MonicaCellio I was wondering - and this is related to my latest blog post - what an operating room would have looked like, or if there even was anything like one.
@bowlturner I actually have my characters entering an abandoned designated "hospital" building in a town that was sort of built around the "hospital".
Anyone who walks in now has a 21-year old who has limited medical abilities, but in the past, I've stated that there was a decent amount of people working in the building.
The part about "got nursed to health at home or died" matches my impression. Most medicine is not surgery -- it's bloodletting (leaches), herbs, salves, stuff like that. The subset that is surgery is the part I'm not clear on.