@DaaaahWhoosh As has been foretold, I have seen the King Bun. It was a wee lil bun in the front yard when I got home from the store. I attempted to take a picture as tradition dictates, but one does not simply take the image of a king. So I substitute the traditional bun emoji š. Long live the bun. š
@Green @DaaaahWhoosh There is a movie where Peter O'Toole plays a loony aristocrat who decides he is God. When praying he realized he was talking to himself.
@Green Bicameralism really happens with a severed corpus callosum. Speech is located on the left hemisphere. Show an object to a bicameral one eye at a time, and only eye will be able to name it. It's the right eyes, because, paradoxically the left hemisphere controls the right side of the body. @TrEs-2b's aliens might have evenly distributed hemispheres. This could enable them to shutdown one hemisphere at a time & be fully functional. Which takes out the duality idea. Pity!
I really enjoyed this question but I am fairly new to World Building. worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/85751 Why do none of the answers mention Iain M Banks Culture orbitals? Although they orbit a Mind rather than a planet, Banks wrote at least one graphic and IMO believable destruction sequence, that could inspire the OP.
@dcorking I have never heard about that. If you think it would be helpful it might be a good idea to write an answer. Just make sure to write all the important information into the answer. A short book recommendation would be better as a comment than an answer.
And welcome to WorldBuilding! Have fun on the site.
great thanks, I thought it might be off topic. Although at the moment I can't remember which book has the destruction sequence, so I can't even post a book recommendation comment :laugh:
@JDÅugosz I saw your glue, and followed the clear instruction on the label. You'll find it in my usual hiding place.
@dcorking If you want to get feedback on an answer before posting you can also try the Answer Sandbox on meta. It's not used very much, but if you want you can post a draft there and ask in the chat if the answer would be okay.
Though people around here are generally more sceptic about questions than answers, which is why we have a Sandbox for questions.
@dcorking An orbital gets destroyed in Consider Phlebas, there are attempts to destroy one in Look to Windward
Cultural Orbitals are spun up to simulate 1G and 24hr day/night cycles though - this puts large stress on the system. In the case of that question it would (as described in the first answer) completely depend on the nature of the orbit.
Is it just me or does the latest edit here say that the editor added 37 characters, but the markdown is only showing one additional superfluous space at the end of the text?
the edit he made to his own answer was more recent, though. I wonder if he tried to edit his own answer, but accidentally edited the other one, and then at some point corrected the mistake.
Huh, I just got the Announcer badge for a link I shared - as a comment. I always thought that only applied only for links to questions that are posted in answers or questions. Interesting.
I wonder if I would lose it if I deleted that comment.
@DaaaahWhoosh Doesn't the automatic message only get added once you click on send?
Once you cross the 2k you are free from the shackles of "at least 6 characters", "only 5 pending edits at a time" and "thanks for the edit. Please wait until they are peer reviewed".
The 6 are to make sure it's a useful edit when it comes from new users. Later you can fix small typos of one character. You should know by that time to be careful (which a lot of people are not)
It would be safer with a peer review, but the whole idea of the rep system is to give you more control at some point. There are a lot of points where the system could be optimised.
You have to use some sort of system. And when you value answers above everything else then it makes sense to give those that produce the best and most answers the most privileges.
But it's not a good indicator about how much a user knows about the site and it's goals/rules in general.
@Secespitus I'm pretty sure they gained less than 500 rep with that answer. Their total rep sits at 501 and they had the association bonus when they started. Rep caps hit hard on popular questions like that.
@AndyD273 I pinged a CM about our swag last week ('cause it sure has been a long time with no news), and apparently we and one other site fell into a black hole (more appropriate for us than Salesforce, I guess?). They're trying to get it sorted out and send apologies.
Well, I occasionally get email from SE if I get a comment or something and don't sign in for a day to see it on the site. It's possible that they could just reach out to people that way.
I assume they'll have to do something like that just for shipping info. I'm just hoping that they'll be smart about it, and give a chance for the new guys to get subbed in
so, unrelated, but you know those times when there's a tedious workaround for a problem that's most likely a simple configuration issue, but since there's not enough documentation and too much configuration you end up having to do the workaround anyway?
for the past two weeks I've been putting off the workaround, and I just found the configuration issue.
I've been teaching myself circuitry, IC programming and how IOT works, and it felt really good when I pushed a button on a web page and the little LED on the circuit running off a battery on the back deck turned on. Like it wasn't all a lot of wasted time.
@AndyD273 reminds me of my senior project in college, I was seriously halfway done when I could generate a black screen with a single blue pixel
in hindsight, it wasn't a very big project. But it took a long time to get that pixel to show up
come to think of it, I never went back and finished that project. It's apparently very difficult to accurately display 3D objects when you can look up and down.
I'm trying to remember what my final project was... I remember the prof had two classes, one was a programming class, the other was a circuitry and the like class. So he'd get a real world company with a problem, and get the programming class to research the problem and come up with a whole big specification and design and everything, and write a working proof of concept.
Then the following semester the other class had to actually take that and make it work in the real world. I know the year before me they had to make a RFID sign in and access for the YMCA
@DaaaahWhoosh Have you seen the new video shorts by the guy who made District 9. Its been a couple weeks but I think the aliens in his Rakka video have a sterility program as part of the extermination...
Big Hero 6 was good to, I felt the sad scene with past recording of his brother was lacking in the musical department (something Pixar usually excels at)
Like watching Moana with the kids, and the song Shiny(?) comes on, and compared to the rest of the music it's jarring. Like someone really goofed when they were composing that song for that movie. I'm not even sure what it is about the song I hate.
@DaaaahWhoosh That actually doesn't bother me though. Its alien music, played by aliens, with alien ears and alien instruments. It all fits together cohesively.
I mean, if you were watching Phantom of the Opera and suddenly the cantina song was playing in one the scenes it would be wrong on lots of levels. Out of tune being only one of them.
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