The Factory Floor

dot_Sp0T

05:44

@Skye do you remember if we were talking about a follow-up for the crescent-roll-moon question?

Pete

06:20

So, the mind-crime killer thread is finally resolved. 92 views short of the 10K, so that's a bit of a pain. I guess it'll finally tip over at some point. Nice to see that it got quite popular though.

Pete

07:30

Wow. I'm top of the stats. How the heck did that happen. Beers are on me...

dot_Sp0T

@Pete great, I'll have 20

Pete

Epic - puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/43377/…

dot_Sp0T

07:48

@Pete I see you've been a busy bee

Pete

slow morning so far.

dot_Sp0T

See any issues with the booze-olution question so far?

Pete

Nope. Seems ok to me.

dot_Sp0T

10:04

Check this out: worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/56951/2746 now that's an answer I like

Pete

10:42

Well, that's nice. I get a Close flag within 30 seconds of posting a question. No explanation at all, it's just there. I guess I have a fan.

dot_Sp0T

@Pete what question? Oh, that animal thing; It wasn't me, I swear. But I can see why someone would flag it, it can be interpreted as offensive by people not accustomed to science

Pete

That's why I specified a dead animal. I wouldn't be fool enough to use live animals as weapons.

dot_Sp0T

@Pete booze-rat molotovs

Pete

Two flags now.

dot_Sp0T

The cool thing might be taken as a reason for marking it opinion-based

dot_Sp0T

13:38

Does anybody know how the speed of the spin of the earth relates to its mass and thus to stability? Resp.: Would a 1.1 times bigger, some 100kph slower spinning earth be less stable?

Or do I have to type it up as a question :(

DaaaahWhoosh

I don't think spin matters much to stability

the earth could probably stop spinning and be fine

dot_Sp0T

Does it matter to anything at all actually? Besides the length of days

DaaaahWhoosh

probably weather would be different

dot_Sp0T

Oh it matters to the amount of sunlight/heat over a specific area

slow spin -> more heat

DaaaahWhoosh

I was thinking of the coriolis effect

dot_Sp0T

13:41

I don't speak that fancy language of yours

DaaaahWhoosh

it's the thing where you throw something straight but it ends up curving because the Earth is spinning

I assume it has effects on air currents

dot_Sp0T

It seems that you're telling me to type it up

DaaaahWhoosh

that probably would have been the short answer

dot_Sp0T

I fear my question will be branded too broad

DaaaahWhoosh

and I fear that another car will drive off an overpass and crush me

because think about it, you can watch the other cars on the road, but what do you do about the cars above you?

dot_Sp0T

13:49

Don't you have a roof where you live?

DaaaahWhoosh

no, I mean when I'm driving

dot_Sp0T

God made roofs to prevent things falling on your head

DaaaahWhoosh

yes, but man made roofs to prevent rain, not falling vehicles

dot_Sp0T

If you believe in god and pray and pay money to the church you will be safe

DaaaahWhoosh

yeah, that's probably true

dot_Sp0T

13:51

God loves you nonetheless

DaaaahWhoosh

in a totally platonic way

dot_Sp0T

Needed to get that out of my system

DaaaahWhoosh

@dot_Sp0T you are forgiven

James

You two need to be supervised...

dot_Sp0T

@James well, that's your job, innit?

James

14:00

Go to your rooms.

dot_Sp0T

I am at my room!

Actually I'm not. I'm on the train back home from uni. But you wouldn't necessarily know that.

James

...no...of course I wouldn't know that. I really like your hat by the way.

dot_Sp0T

HA! I got you! I am not wearing a hat! It's a flat cap!

James

...semantics if it goes on your head its a hat...or a chicken but that's not relevant here.

Journeyman Geek

James

14:13

@JourneymanGeek ...I should have said poultry.

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, that's a turkey

dot_Sp0T

Glorious gorious death of infidels

DaaaahWhoosh

I must say, chat this morning is exactly how I want it to be

dot_Sp0T

It's late afternoon here :/

DaaaahWhoosh

@dot_Sp0T yes, and it's 5:00 somewhere

dot_Sp0T

14:18

Ene mene mine mo

dot_Sp0T

14:52

@rek is that last edit really necessary? For me it is now less understandable than before

@DaaaahWhoosh ping; I am sorry, I mainly want to test if you get a popup or sth to tell you that you have been referred to in this chat

DaaaahWhoosh

sth?

dot_Sp0T

15:07

@DaaaahWhoosh I beg your pardon?

DaaaahWhoosh

@dot_Sp0T I wasn't aware of the meaning of 'sth'

dot_Sp0T

@DaaaahWhoosh I didn't even know I used it. Sorry. Abbreviation for something

DaaaahWhoosh

@dot_Sp0T abbreviation for what?

dot_Sp0T

@DaaaahWhoosh abbreviation for something

DaaaahWhoosh

@dot_Sp0T can you be more specific?

dot_Sp0T

15:10

@DaaaahWhoosh I like you too

DaaaahWhoosh

but anyway, I was in chat, so it just updated the page title and played a noise

dot_Sp0T

How's green?

DaaaahWhoosh

15:26

@dot_Sp0T the person? Dastardly. The color? Invisible to me sometimes.

3

dot_Sp0T

15:38

@Pete I chose to write it here instead of in a comment, but: Because normally is not considered a valid response to a How question... E.g. if you look at this example: How did little Jimmy drown? a) Because of global warming b) Little Jimmy drowned by ingesting large amounts of water without expulsing them fast enough

DaaaahWhoosh

16:54

whoooooooaaaaaa I just read a comment on SFF that connected fairy-stories with stories of alien abductions

so, like, maybe people have always been 'abducted', they just made up different explanations through the ages

Nex Terren

17:11

@DaaaahWhoosh Well, the existence of aliens would certainly explain you.

DaaaahWhoosh

@NexTerren that burn was out of this world

you deserve a star

did you planet, or was it a spur-of-the-moment kind of thing?

dot_Sp0T

@NexTerren Do you mean he was bred?

Nex Terren

@DaaaahWhoosh STAAAAHP.

Those were cosmically bad. :(

@dot_Sp0T You can infer what you wish to infer.

DaaaahWhoosh

@NexTerren I galac-see what you mean

Nex Terren

DaaaahWhoosh

17:26

... there was an attempt

Nex Terren

And you got a gold star! Albeit one fitting the nature of your attempt.

rek

18:31

@dot_Sp0T I had to ask what "more sole-area" meant, so yes I feel "each foot's large sole" is easier to understand.

Worldbuilding Meta

18:52

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Q: Are TV Tropes links unwelcome here?

When I was idly browsing this site, I found something odd: someone, posting a link to TV Tropes, considered it necessary to explicitly warn people that this is a link to TV Tropes: You need an Applied Phlebotinum (warning: TV tropes link) to explain why this superpower is real. What can giv...

HDE 226868

19:25

I read in this one article that the breaking of electroweak symmetry is the reason we have SOULS. This guy with a degree said so!

^ Megan in the last panel was pretty much me during my special relativity class today.

dot_Sp0T

@HDE226868 I should probably not start teaching you guys about the 5th force then

HDE 226868

@dot_Sp0T ?

Nex Terren

@dot_Sp0T I think you mean the Force.

dot_Sp0T

@HDE226868 well.... there's Gravitational force, electromagnetic force, weak force, strong force..... and there's the force driving everything constantly apart thus making the universe expand: Hatred

Nex Terren

@dot_Sp0T Heavy sigh

dot_Sp0T

19:37

@NexTerren it's called the Unified Hatred Theory

HDE 226868

@dot_Sp0T There's a relevant xkcd, but I don't want to be the guy who always links to those. It's be worse than TV Tropes.

James

@HDE226868 That's fantastic...

DaaaahWhoosh

@HDE226868 'there's one of these we don't really understand. ' 'Is it strong or weak-' 'It's gravity.'

HDE 226868

@DaaaahWhoosh Yep. Right comic.

DaaaahWhoosh

but I can't remember the title

well... the other title

HDE 226868

19:40

@DaaaahWhoosh Voila: xkcd.com/1489.

dot_Sp0T

And with that bombshell good night

And don't forget your daily dosis of booze-rats (I am not shamelessly self-promoting my horrible questions)

James

20:29

This is amazing:

Nex Terren

@James It's nearly 15,000 pixels tall.

James

@NexTerren xkcd timeline

Nex Terren

@James Shouldn't that be a timeline of the comic?

James

Global temperatures back to 20,000 BC. Basically pointing out the idiocy of not believing in global warming

Nex Terren

@James I'm RSS'd to the comic. I read them when they're new every day. :P

James

20:32

@NexTerren Well then be quiet and let people who haven't see it enjoy it....jerkwad.

Nex Terren

@James :(

James

good. You should feel bad.

DaaaahWhoosh

@James not only global warming, but human-caused global warming

I think these days no one doesn't believe in global warming, they just think it's Earth's fault

James

Republicans have seriously gotten dangerous. The present belief and lies as fact.

...which is not to say that democrats don't do the same.

DaaaahWhoosh

@James that's not true. And that's a fact.

James

20:37

It just seems the repercussions of republican lies are potentially world ending which is a little more concerning than rogue emails to me...

I can't vote for people who deny SCIENCE.

On a less depressing note has anyone seen this:

Mumford & Sons - Hopeless Wanderer

►

Mike Nichols

Can anyone explain how this answer got 11 upvotes: worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/56946/879

Nex Terren

@MikeNichols 11 people clicked the upvote button.

Mike Nichols

but why...

Nex Terren

@MikeNichols Because 11 people disagree with you as to if it's a good answer or not. :P

James

@MikeNichols Reading comprehension is hard

Mike Nichols

20:44

But the answer makes no sense, on any level, and barely even answers the question.

Nex Terren

@MikeNichols I saw it was a biology question and stopped reading, since that's one of four tags I avoid (the others being meteorology, chemistry, and hard-science). What was wrong with it?

Hm.

DaaaahWhoosh

yeah, the jump from alcohol->antifreeze->poison doesn't make sense to me

James

@MikeNichols I'd say, do your civic duty and downvote/comment but you already did that.

DaaaahWhoosh

and doesn't alcohol actually make you colder?

James

Its an issue on WB because we aren't all experts on all the topics since there are many.

@DaaaahWhoosh Yeah it thins your blood which means your blood can't retain as much heat

DaaaahWhoosh

20:47

so... alcohol in the blood would make you freeze faster and taste better to predators, essentially the opposite of what that answer is suggesting

James

Biologically the answer makes quite literally no sense beyond the idea that alcohol doesn't freeze.

Freeze to death faster yes, actually freeze solid no.

not to mention that alcohol is a solvent and not great for biology...

Mike Nichols

There were other issues I was aware of that I couldn't fit in my comment.

DaaaahWhoosh

wait... how does the booze rat's defense mechanism even work?

Mike Nichols

@DaaaahWhoosh As per the question or the answer being discussed?

DaaaahWhoosh

as per the rat, how does it defend with a booze-sac?

Mike Nichols

20:57

@DaaaahWhoosh My interpretation was that it was just really, really gross.

DaaaahWhoosh

I seem to recall that there are a lot of animals that seek out fermented fruit

Mike Nichols

That is correct. I think the larger deterrent would be the feces as opposed to the ethanol.

DaaaahWhoosh

if they were able to spit alcohol/ethanol, that could be useful

and it's only a step away from breathing fire

a fire-breathing booze rat would be awesome

imagine how architecture would need to change

Nex Terren

...

DaaaahWhoosh

imagine how... boating? ... would change

either a world of stone, or a world that's really, really clean

maybe they'd avoid the plague

Mike Nichols

21:09

Would humans domesticate them and milk the alcohol?

Shalvenay

hahaha

DaaaahWhoosh

lol that would be great

feed them grapes for wine, honey for mead, hops for beer

and you might as well use them for meat and hides too

especially if they breathe fire, they'd probably evolve to be fireproof

if we domesticate them, they'd get bigger

so maybe hat-sized? booze rat hats?

Mike Nichols

They could always start pretty big too. The question only says they have to be rodents: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara

Or hell: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephoartigasia_monesi

DaaaahWhoosh

...fire-breathing booze rat mounts?

Nex Terren

princessbride.wikia.com/wiki/R.O.U.S.

DaaaahWhoosh

21:19

I'm thinking if a booze rodent gets too big, they wouldn't call it a rat

perhaps a booze-hog

I really want to build a world with these animals

Nex Terren

@DaaaahWhoosh i.imgur.com/0Defbt3.jpg

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