I'm not even an underlord, how I am supposed to know who the overlord is? also, where is the registration form to become an official worldbuilding lord?
@dot_Sp0T Well it was Cort Ammon first, maybe at some point HDE. Monica took over after the whole HNQ issue. Then I think Glarnak took over, followed by Jon Skeet. We were leaderless for a little while there. The position of overlord seems to be shared by a small group of people who all try to steal it from each other.
The principle is simple, all energy is fundamentally vibration. If you hit something hard enough it heats up. How often/fast/hard do you need to slap a chicken to cook it? To which an answer was given (which I can't access from work).
So the next problem is the question of whether a world without fire that's learned to cook food by slapping it, can transition from the stone age to the bronze age.
I have a feeling that if you imparted the same amount of energy into a chicken that it takes to cook it all in one instant, it would no longer resemble a chicken
@AndyD273 I'd like an extra paragraph at the end explaining the downsides of a slap hitting a chicken at 3700 mph but otherwise that is pretty excellent.
@James Does have some major flaws though... You'd never want to get the chickens internal temp to 400f. 165f is perfectly cooked. And starting out from frozen is just dumb.
Making Drastic the Effects of Space-Time Dilation
I enjoy writing, but I've got commitment issues. I can't stick to the same plot over consecutive months, so I write little asides or short stories. This is for my latest creative evasion excursion.
In some ways inspired by Greg Egan's Orthogonal...
@AndyD273 There are rocket humidifiers, but the mist seems to come out the top of those. Sure, having the mist aimed up into the air instead of onto the table is better for humidity and for your table, but it takes away from the realism.
I know... Maybe some kind of tube that sends it down toward the table, but then has a J to aim it up from there... I'm thinking I'm going to have to see about 3D printing something at some point in the future
@JohnLocke Also more realistic, as that is an unrealistic amount of vapor in that image. we have a few of those sonic humidifiers where you can see the water vapor, and they don't put out anywhere near that much
@Mephistopheles According to the page on PEPCK-C, the mice would also get diabetes. "PEPCK-C catalyzes an irreversible step of gluconeogenesis, the process whereby glucose is synthesized. The enzyme has therefore been thought to be essential in glucose homeostasis, as evidenced by laboratory mice that contracted diabetes mellitus type 2 as a result of the overexpression of PEPCK-C"
@TheMattbat999 Dude, I don't hardly know how to spell sicence let alone enjineering. I just come up with cool ideas and then make other people figure out how to execute.
Reading down the page, it's like, "oh, this could be a fun CRISPR project; increased muscle, stamina, life length, reproductive potential... all sound great! Eat twice as much, well, that's not the worst thing... Increased aggression... Well, that's not good..."
@AndyD273 That doesn't sound like a bad idea, if the viruses can somehow reproduce without killing the cell. But then you might infect others, and give them the mutation
@JohnLocke exactly. I got alot done by myself tho. Combat system, enemy spawning and AI, NPCs, and game world are all practically complete. Gotta add more quests tho... only got the main story and some side quests.
@JohnLocke Fun book along those lines is Seize the Night by Dean Koontz. It was written before CRISPR, but a has virus that carries genes between species.
@JohnLocke And gotta do some small stuff like finishing the Enchantment system, adding more enemies that the 14 i got, and adding more misc. items for varied loot and alchemy
@JohnLocke Probably a bit, but in the story at least you had stuff like people with animal eye shine and heightened aggression, a troop of intelligent escaped monkeys, human level intelligence dogs and cats, etc
@JohnLocke Sure. I'm not a geneticist, so for me it's mostly a "well, that sounds plausible, so why not!"
With those mice, I wonder if they might be able to find the genes for the aggression and diabetes. Then they'd only have to find the genes for the whatever side effects those ones cause.
@AndyD273 It looks like a cause and effect. Increasing the enzyme= anger issues and diabetes. It might be possible to fix the diabetes, but maybe not, because you're already messing with the sugar regulation.