The Factory Floor

Mazura

5:06 AM

Man, you guys aren't even trying anymore... or are you all out of close votes for today?

Worldbuilding Meta

6:45 AM

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Q: Community Promotion Ads - 2018

It's almost February in 2018, which isn't supposed to be the proper time to cycle these, but for this year it'll be once again, so we'll be refreshing the Community Promotion Ads for this year now! What are Community Promotion Ads? Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements tha...

Mithrandir24601

7:41 AM

@Mazura Other options include: bed, it was still the weekend for many of those not in bed, haven't noticed the question/answer that's so bad :P

Bellerophon

7:53 AM

@Mazura Did you flag it for closing?

@Mithrandir24601 Stop talking about bed when I'm trying to make myself get up.

Mithrandir24601

@Bellerophon OK. Must be really cold outside though. Wouldn't it be really nice to somehow stay all warm and wrapped up?

Secret

10:05 AM

amp.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2018/jan/24/…

We are in the 2nd dark age, and collapse will be arriving soon

Ferret Civilization

Good thing the 2 minutes to nuclear war is there then.

Secret

But for a dark age, this one sure is open:

The fringes don't need to hide

so something is weird about the 21st century...

Future Historian

12:06 PM

@Secret? Which of the "torpedo" designs is more plausible anyway?

As for a "second" dark age.........

There was never technically a "dark age" until now in the first place.

So, by that logic, this is the REAL dark age.

Secret

Uh, I don't have the knowledge to judge the design of weaponry, let alone bombs

but it seems that your design reminds of ICBMs mixed with rockets due to the staged design

Future Historian

12:24 PM

More or less, yes.

Future Historian

12:40 PM

@Secret. Those are nuclear/antimatter "torpedoes" or more accurately, autonomous suicide drones.

They are designed for use in space combat.

Secret

then weight is not a problem, why does it need to be staged?

Future Historian

@Secret. Two words: orbital mechanics.

First stage is to accelerate it on a trajectory towards its target.

Second stage is for course corrections. Once on a terminal approach, fairings separate (in the latter design) and a swarm of MIRVs are sent towards the target.

Future Historian

2:56 PM

ambient, unsettling music plays in the background to the images of heavy fighting across the globe

Worldbuilding Meta

3:18 PM

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Q: Know Your Site Monday: Who were the first to gold?

Welcome to 'Know Your Site' anevery Monday Worldbuilding trivia feature where I use the Stack Exchange Data Explorer and maybe some python parsing to find out interesting things about the site. I will post a question on Monday, and people have until Thursday at noon to guess the answer! To be cl...

discussion trivia

Future Historian

Hmmmmmm.@FerretCivilization? Do you think that the Voyager Golden Records would be seen by the Visitors as thr final message of a long-gone species by the time they recover Voyager 2?

Ferret Civilization

Don't know, be up to you.

Future Historian

3:35 PM

@Secret? Physics SE is not taking this seriously, are they?

Secret

it's their nature to make a joke out of anything, just continue to push through and they will give relevant responses

Future Historian

Because I get the feeling that they are probably going to argue about how Visitor biology is unrealistic or realistic once we show them, blah, blah, blah. You get the point.

Secret

remember, be precise, (and try to take advantage of their jokes in formulating your questions)

The problem of that slurry of discussion there is that the whole spectrum of alien physiology tropes have been basically deadhorse

so it is no longer clear what is the best

almost everything had been tried at least once and different groups have differen idea on how aliens is to be implemented

It's almost the same situation as the time travel trope really, where there are dozens of models being used

Future Historian

@Secret? Do you still have that Visitor concept art?

You might want to post it there.

Secret

This?

the one you posted on h bar is more descriptive

Future Historian

3:47 PM

Oh.

Secret

in The h Bar, 9 mins ago, by Future Historian

Future Historian

Yes, that is the one.

:P

Future Historian

4:11 PM

@Secret? What do we do? :(

Well, at least I tried.

Ferret Civilization

You could start using the information you already got from the questions you have already asked a few times.

Future Historian

Not that!

It is something on Physics SE.

Besides, I was talking to @Secret, @FerretCivilization.

Hmmmmmm.

Secret

I have no idea, I am now a bit busy cause I have 5 days worth of task needed to catch up.

But yeah, amist the joking nature, slereah and semiclassical does give you enough fragments to start piecing the puzzle together

Ferret Civilization

Ha, little hypocritical of you to say that isn't it Future?

Secret

you cannot expect anyone to be able to give you a full block of answers

Future Historian

4:15 PM

Oh..........

Hmmmmm.

(computer voice) Processing data.......

And I know how to get started.

Secret

Fun fact: When I tried to solve problems, I actually asked a lot of indirect questions at other people. Their answers will often contains enough overlap with the original question thus allowing me to piece the answer together for further experiment

and in none of the cases do I expect a full answer

because we humans are not experts at everything

AndyD273

5:35 PM

@FutureHistorian I'm not sure how you can say it's not completely hopeless (for humanity at least). They all die. No one is left. The invaders finding a relic 37,000 years later isn't going to make them less dead. The most that might happen is that it might make them feel a little sad about past mistakes. "Oh hey, this came from that one species that crazy group wiped out a long time ago. Man, isn't it good that we're more enlightened than them. Lets put this in a museum."

Now, if they were able to find and restore some genetic samples to bring humans back, like people talk about doing with mammoths, then I'd agree that it isn't all hopeless. As is this feels like the ending to I am Legend except without the twist that the human might have been the monster all along.

James

6:37 PM

Whats shakin wubbers?

AndyD273

6:52 PM

@James Not to much. Kind of a quiet Monday

James

Best kind of Monday. Lets you ease back into the week :)

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Questions

We have a lot of questions about climate on this site. Climate is remarkably complex, so I would like to develop a simple procedure to help participants with climate questions. My hope is that the results of a series of questions can be posted as a cannonical wiki that will benefit everyone. T...

Worldbuilding Meta

7:10 PM

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Q: Links to chat have disappeared from main?

I have noticed in the last week or two, though I am not totally sure about the timeline, that the links to chat in the right hand navigation pane of the main site have vanished. They used to be somewhere below the yellow features box and above the HNQ list. Just curious if I am the only one. T...

discussion bug

Secespitus

7:27 PM

@James The Great: I am honored

James

7:57 PM

@Secespitus Lol, hows it going?

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