@HDE226868 My reply related to JoeBloggs' idea about stars being ripped apart tidally. My first suggestion was black holes. I also suggested cosmic strings and neutron stars (possibly). No need to apologize about not remembering the connection. It can't be easy to keep track of everything.. Have fun!
@James 33 bucks sounds like a pretty good deal for a new RPR Maker tool. I think I paid something like 60 bucks for VX (VX Ace to be precise) when it came out... Damn, now I am starting to think about buying it myself...
Haha. Yeah, the answers got up-votes, but the question didn't. I guess people weren't in the mood for humour.
I think that's one of the problems, questions need up-votes to gain attention. If people see a relatively old question with no votes, they assume it's low quality (probably right in this case).
@Pete Also a TV series, in fact, there might be two TV series. People just don't know the Classics these days. Fancy not knowing about Teen Wolf. Sigh!
@TimB Hi! What's going on? Usually everyone's done when I drop by. Not that I've got much time myself.
@a4android - Yeah, there's so many TV series going on these days. Unfortunately, living with a girlfriend who doesn't like Sci-Fi makes watching them difficult.
@Pete I understand the problem all too well. My wife is positively allergic to SF, so keeping up with the small screen fantastic is difficult. I am allowed to watch crime dramas, British for preference.
Got you there. I'm allowed historical documentaries, Top Gear and Formula 1. Otherwise, I'm stuck with watching whatever she won't complain about (just for an easier life). I get to watch what I want (or play on the xbox) whenever she leaves the house for more than an hour (which seems to be hardly ever).
I would simply take some leave and do it in the day-time, but she's not working right now, so is at home all the time.
Watching in another room on a tablet isn't an option because "why don't you want to be with me?" Sigh.
@a4android Talking of dramas, have you seen "The Night Manager" and "Fortitude"?
Sounds like a rerun of my televiewing. Streaming and downloading is my main option. Finding time to watch them is murder. Also, I'm a big fan of old-fashioned steam radio. The BBC has an amazing archive of their recent programs. Their coverage of all sorts of drama and comedy plus documentaries is simply fantastic.
@Pete "The Nigh manager", no. "Fortitude" is that set in the Arctic? If so, I saw some of it. Currently watching 'Broadchurch" series three and tomorrow night we have "Luther" series five starting.
@JourneymanGeek Nobody's perfect. Sometimes it's nice to be married to a civilian -- but not all the time. Marriage is all about adaptation and tolerance. Though when I explained the ending of one Doctor Who episode she was quite taken with its human drama content.
@Pete What you said about "Fortitude" explains a lot of what I saw. A while back I bought a boxed set of "The Sandbaggers". This was "Spooks" for an earlier generation and had a former MI-6 officer writing for it or helping with storylines. Apparently he died in an air crash in the Arctic Circle (I think) and the series folded soon afterwards.
@TimB That tends to keep people out of mischief. I understand the feeling well. I've been trying to divest myself of various organizational things. I want to concentrate on what I enjoy doing instead of trying to stop the wheels from falling off.
@TimB You can still find time to breathe. If so, you're doing well.
Sorry, lads and lasses, the witching hour approaches. My pumpkin will turn into a coach. Time to hit the hay. It's the depths of night on this side of the planet. Tomorrow will be a long day. Take care and have fun!
@DaaaahWhoosh - Yes, I think story-based questions are ok, provided they don't venture into "too broad" or "opinion based". I think it's pretty telling that a VTC reason was created relatively recently, but not used that often.
@kingledion You argument is not convincing me. If the only reason to keep a question open is because we didn't close another question in the past the close-reason is not good enough, because there are no real arguments we can use to talk about this. We should be able to talk about any question only looking at the question itself. Otherwise it's kind of like kids saying "But he started!".
@Pete as I recall, there was a lot of discussion on meta about it. We agreed that stories are not on-topic here, and wanted a good way to tell users that. I would say the lack of those kinds of questions might just be because we did so well discouraging them
story-based covers the three first things listed in the help center as stuff you're not supposed to ask questions about
I guess it'd be easier to sell slavery to slaves that aren't the same species as their masters
if I could reliably compare myself to someone trying to enslave me, then it might feel unfair. But if there's no comparison to be made, one could be invented that makes the whole thing seem justified
but it's one of those ones where the premise of the question doesn't match the tags, but the tags are for the answers, not necessarily the premise of the question. If that makes sense?
kingledion: That's the bit that's not hard sciency: The suit can take the air, pull it apart into energy, then stick it back together into whatever configuration it likes
At some point, some coding genius will create a "Worldbuilding Answer Generator" web page where you insert a few key words from the question and it'll spit out an answer including citations.
something I learned recently is that apparently in seppuku someone's supposed to cut off your head after you stab yourself. Which kind of confuses me as to why you'd stab yourself in the first place.
It's an honour thing. You used to have a second that cut your head off as a mercy after you had disembowled yourself. Strictly speaking, you should cut across your belly and then turn the dagger and strike upward into your heart.
The second used to cut the head off all the way, but it ended up being messy for the witnesses who were watching the ceremony. To keep things neat, the second needed to cut the head, but leave a piece of skin to keep the head on the body. It was an extremely skilful cut.
The guy committing sepukku was on a dias, with witnesses in a horseshoe around the platform beneath. In the old days, the head used to roll down the steps and shower the dignitaries in blood.
I am really bored of seing questions downvoted with no comments left.
I can understand a question might not be clear, but if no comment is left for the OP to improve it, what's the point of downvoting?
Wouldn't be better to make commenting mandatory (even with prefilled in comments) when downvo...
@SPavel yeah, in my most recent question I knew the one answer was wrong, and there were comments saying so, but it took almost a day for an alternate answer to be posted
@DaaaahWhoosh Yeah I am not sure why they chose that but for what ever the reason something sticks in my ancient brain cells that you have tied yourself to physics so how do they achieve such a drastic reduction in fuel?
@DaaaahWhoosh It is specificaly this part :if a crewed spacecraft were to rely on conventional engines, the journey would require so much fuel that the ship would have to support 4,000 Hall thrusters. The fuel tanks alone would equal the size of the International Space Station. But if the trip were made using Accion's TILE propulsion, the engine and fuel system would take up the space of shoebox"
@DaaaahWhoosh That is a ... hum ... significant reduction ...
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I am really bored of seing questions downvoted with no comments left.
I can understand a question might not be clear, but if no comment is left for the OP to improve it, what's the point of downvoting?
Wouldn't be better to make commenting mandatory (even with prefilled in comments) when downvo...
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