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[MaxTheFox]

Yeah also this community has more actives than my home servers on Discord. Which are mostly stable.

Honestly I treat this forum as a slow-motion Discord.

We'll be fine.

[Magmacube_tr]

We'll be fine.

For many more years to come.

[McTraveller]

I prefer the long-form communication of forums.  I don't think this format will ever completely disappear.

[dragdeler]

I allways say the day you stop learning is the day you're really going to start to age...
Can I even learn? Or do I only consume knowledge to discard it the second it starts to smell?

[King Zultan]

This forum is as close to social media as I'm gonna get, and quite frankly it's as close as I want to get.

[dragdeler]

I saw the tiniest shrew, first my heart sank, but then I noticed it didn't see very well and tried to smell me through the window, it was kinda cute.

It must be desperate if it's checking the place where we feed cats from time to time, I'm sure it can smell the predators and is all racy... cats, magpies and such.


So since it's not exactly a civisilation following animal, I built it a nest, hoping that in desperate times, it will pick that over finding a way inside, or drowning under half a meter of snow.


It's basically a tube that is about 3-4 times as long as a cat arm, and hopefully much narrower than a marten's head. Put some old handkechiefs in there that should have gone in the trash, I hope my smell and my germs aren't too much but it's a wild animal ya know, not going to use virgin materials for a nest it might not like. Also I put 6 little nubbins of dry catfood in there, so I can count them when the snow is gone.



I'd like to believe it's sitting in that relatively well isolated cartbox tube, a few meters below my window.

[Bumber]

Is that right? 80k posts/year is only like 220 a day.  Surely it's more than that, isn't it?

And 5 of those 220 are mine...

And 220 of those 220 are Pathos's.

[MaxTheFox]

Shower thought: "burn" and "set on fire" are different.

You can only set something on fire if it's flammable, whether by itself or being doused in accelerant. But you can burn something non-flammable if it's placed on a fire and gets charred.

[dragdeler]

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[scriver]

Shower thought: "burn" and "set on fire" are different.

You can only set something on fire if it's flammable, whether by itself or being doused in accelerant. But you can burn something non-flammable if it's placed on a fire and gets charred.

Well I can burn myself on something hot just by touching it

[Eric Blank]

Technically, you could be set on fire too, you just didn't hang onto a hot enough object for long enough

[Schmaven]

What is fire?  Isn't it just a plasma caused by a chemical reaction?  The giant sphere of plasma our planet is currently being sucked into (aka the sun) is basically a big ball of fire.  When our planet finally is absorbed into it, it seems likely that everything on earth will become fuel for that cosmic fire, and everything will burn.  Even things not usually considered flammable.

Edit: the "set on fire" aspect - If something is turned into flowing waves of plasma, it would very much appear to be flames, and to have been set on fire.

[McTraveller]

Wait what? Since when is our orbit decaying?

Earth is going to get absorbed into the sun because the sun is going to go red giant, not because of orbit decay.

Best I can tell in about 5 seconds of searching is that currently the orbit is expanding, not decaying; however because of the nature of the n-body problem we can't be sure of long-term behavior.

[Frumple]

Wait what? Since when is our orbit decaying?

There's a yo mama joke in that, but I'm too tired to think of it and that's mildly disappointing.

[Schmaven]

Wait what? Since when is our orbit decaying?

Earth is going to get absorbed into the sun because the sun is going to go red giant, not because of orbit decay.

Best I can tell in about 5 seconds of searching is that currently the orbit is expanding, not decaying; however because of the nature of the n-body problem we can't be sure of long-term behavior.

Alright, well not sucked in, but pulled toward.  Despite losing this coamic tug of war, the sun will still absorb us when it goes red giant.

Interestingly, the ice moon Europa will then be in the habitable temperature zone.  And surely it has tardigrades on it by now.