@FutureHistorian a downtown is going to take longer to crumble (esp. re: reinforced masonry hi-rise buildings) than a pile of McMansions made of cheap was-wood
@Green ah. things are alright here. hoping @James swings around sometime or the other :) want to bounce some of my thoughts re: what elves would do for a blademetal if they couldn't use iron off of him
@Shalvenay? How long would it take for the GPI to clear the radiation from ALL of China's nuked coastline?
Or from Seattle? Or New Orleans? Or Boston? Or Manchester? Or New Delhi?
Anyone have any ideas on how long it would take to artificially clean up radioactive fallout?
And I mean like: try to use HazMat teams to clear entire cities of radioactive fallout somehow.
@FerretCivilization? Since @Shalvenay is taking forever, any ideas on how long it would take for the GPI to clean up the cities that got nuked from radioactive fallout?
@Vylix yeah, even native English speakers sometimes have trouble understanding each other :P get someone from the far north of Scotland and the middle of rural Tennessee together :P
Santa's broke. How much does it cost for someone else to be Santa?
I fail to understand what's worldbuilding in it. There could be some worldbuilding, but I just can't understand. It seems like a question that we regularly close as "story-based" or "off-topic".
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I got that gold badge one though, I was lucky, Green asked the T.Rex question two weeks ago but I got the gold badge like an hour after winterbash started
Well, I've had a couple ideas floating around for a long time. I have a standard fare Joseph Cambell heroic seeker fantasy story that I really aught to have published by now; I have a bronze age meets jungle civilization story that reeks of Conan; and I have a post singularity humans in space story.
@kingledion ah. I tend to do fantasy stuff myself, although I'll often play around with little thought experiments too, often of the worlds-collide variety
imagine having to file something that's a cross between a Daubert motion in limine and a Brady discovery request because you have evidence the prosecutor is hiding evidence that not only exculpates the defendant, but impeaches the testimony of one of their "scientific experts"
and that's just talking "core due process type stuff"
you can really get into the weeds with tricky appellate-level legal interpretation stuff
look at Cyan v. Beaver County Employee Retirement Fund before SCOTUS for instance
where Congress' sloppy patch jobs left two justices (Alito and Gorsuch) using the term "gibberish" in oral argument to describe the codified results
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they were trying to do what basically amounts to a relatively uncontroversial bugfix to a long-standing piece of securities law, and made a total hash of the job.
@JourneymanGeek yeah. we know how to deal with robots though :P and I'm not even talking about public pull requests here, just internal-to-Congress stuff
writing patches out longhand in the year 2017 AD when diff and patch have been part of POSIX for how long?!
Because I am starting to feel that the Imperium of Man may be on its last legs.
Especially since, the Imperium is struggling to maintain control, and the only reason it still stands is inertia, millennia of cultural evolution and brutal means of repression.
So, is the Imperium of Man doomed to fail?
Or can it restore control over the slowly decaying interstellar empire it gave birth to?
Pretty much what Ferret said. The W40K universes' humans are on the brink of collapse for millenia now, by design and lore. That's why we've got so many different space-marines, as well as the Imperial Troups, etc.
@kingledion do you think I could use Americum instead or in addition to Radium? e.g. creating different heatet units of the same size so we have different energy outputs
What would happen to humanity once the Imperium of Man RIPed out?
Also, is there a way to make an interstellar “empire” without relying on FTL-anything?
@FerretCivilization? Remember how I said that the Visitors have the capacity to use genetic engineering to change their own genome, as well as use cybernetics and make whole brain emulations?
Well, what if the Visitors could also use radical life extension as well?
As in: there are probably a few multi-system interstellar nations in their species, in addition to the various independent planets, systems and self-sustaining military spacecraft.
@dot_Sp0T Americium has a higher elemental number than Uranium. You can't make americium except in a nuclear reactor. The reason I picked the elements I did was because they are natural products of the Uranium or Thorium decay chains, that is, you can find them in nature.
The sand would not bury it, at most the street level would be covered, I'd be more worried about that ocean front property. Though that would vary if it was a bad storm year or not. Overall most their modern structures would be mostly okay.
@kingledion yeah. But the train-world is an extrapolation of earth, thus elements created in a reactor are fine. I was mostly asking if my reasoning makes sense at all
Grasses would probably be thriving in the cracks of the concrete in lower levels. Though this is still a short time frame. Ocean front, hot cold seasons, snow. It would be starting to take a toll.
Well yeah a person would still be able to recognize it if they knew the place. And radiation would really only mess up biological life. That nuclear explosion might take a chunk out of the city.
Does not change the fact that there will be a chunk taken out, so what was corrected. And here is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmanskop Kolmanskop,a real place abandoned for half a century to the desert.
Santa's broke. How much does it cost for someone else to be Santa?
I fail to understand what's worldbuilding in it. There could be some worldbuilding, but I just can't understand. It seems like a question that we regularly close as "story-based" or "off-topic".
(I think this is relevant) The au...
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