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[MetalSlimeHunt]

My roommate is skipping attendance classes because of light rain.

Yes....good.....give in to your sloth and fail!

o_o

Please don't tell me he's there on scholarship. That might cause me a 4-hour drive to Boone to beat the everliving shit out of someone.

He's here on scholarship. He was also part of some program where he did college living in high school, so he supposedly knows how to live on his own in a dorm (he doesn't, this place is a horrible mess because of him). It may be because that dorm had strict rules and nighttime motion sensors and this one is an anarchy. He's the first person from his family to attend college.

[RedKing]

My roommate is skipping attendance classes because of light rain.

Yes....good.....give in to your sloth and fail!

o_o

Please don't tell me he's there on scholarship. That might cause me a 4-hour drive to Boone to beat the everliving shit out of someone.

He's here on scholarship. He was also part of some program where he did college living in high school, so he supposedly knows how to live on his own in a dorm (he doesn't, this place is a horrible mess because of him). It may be because that dorm had strict rules and nighttime motion sensors and this one is an anarchy. He's the first person from his family to attend college.

* RedKing heads for the car, pausing only to pick up a six-pack of whupass.

[MaximumZero]

My roommate is skipping attendance classes because of light rain.

Yes....good.....give in to your sloth and fail!

o_o

Please don't tell me he's there on scholarship. That might cause me a 4-hour drive to Boone to beat the everliving shit out of someone.

He's here on scholarship. He was also part of some program where he did college living in high school, so he supposedly knows how to live on his own in a dorm (he doesn't, this place is a horrible mess because of him). It may be because that dorm had strict rules and nighttime motion sensors and this one is an anarchy. He's the first person from his family to attend college.

* RedKing heads for the car, pausing only to pick up a six-pack of whupass.

I should mail you a keg of that stuff, for this purpose.

[Euld]

* Euld gives RedKing a heavy stick made of whupass.  "Take this.  It's dangerous to go alone."

[miauw62]

* Miauw gets popcorn.

[Rose]

Man, Black Mesa is fun as hell. There totally needs to be a coop version of it.

[miauw62]

Man, Black Mesa is fun as hell. There totally needs to be a coop version of it.

This is totally the bestest idea ever.
You'd need modified maps tough.

[10ebbor10]

Huh. I might have to rewrite all of my sci-fi story. In my sci-fi story, I invented a state of matter known as a "quark soup," where I handwaved some particle physics and created a state of matter that doesn't have an element or a temperature or anything like that because it's just quarks floating around without any higher structure. The idea was that you could put two bowls of quark soup on opposite sides of the ship, and they would create two black holes, one stronger than the other; the ship would move in the direction of the stronger black hole, faster than light, but would not be sucked in because of the other. The only restriction was that, being quantum, if you observed a quark soup it would stop being nice and destroy everything within a radius of six light-years. The story revolved around a terrorist organization who planned to look at a quark soup to destroy everyone in a heavily populated star system.

What's stopping the blackholes from attracting each other? Where do you get the mass for the black holes? And third, why would observing them destroy anything?

Unless the system relies on one thing being in 2 places at once, nothing would happen. (Even then it'll probably be a misintrepretation of Quantum physics.)

[FearfulJesuit]

Huh. I might have to rewrite all of my sci-fi story. In my sci-fi story, I invented a state of matter known as a "quark soup," where I handwaved some particle physics and created a state of matter that doesn't have an element or a temperature or anything like that because it's just quarks floating around without any higher structure. The idea was that you could put two bowls of quark soup on opposite sides of the ship, and they would create two black holes, one stronger than the other; the ship would move in the direction of the stronger black hole, faster than light, but would not be sucked in because of the other. The only restriction was that, being quantum, if you observed a quark soup it would stop being nice and destroy everything within a radius of six light-years. The story revolved around a terrorist organization who planned to look at a quark soup to destroy everyone in a heavily populated star system.

What's stopping the blackholes from attracting each other? Where do you get the mass for the black holes? And third, why would observing them destroy anything?

Unless the system relies on one thing being in 2 places at once, nothing would happen. (Even then it'll probably be a misintrepretation of Quantum physics.)

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I mean, of course it's handwaved. But the thing is, modern sci-fi is moving more towards fantasy in a way it wasn't when it was born. At the turn of the century, science was new and exciting and the idea of magic elements or warp drives was perfectly plausible. Not so much now, when we know much more about the limitations of what we is possible. And I'm OK with that...it just means it's not so much sci-fi as technofantasy.

[Bauglir]

Still problems with the local spacetime effects though. Such as possibly frying everything inside with Hawking radiation, the fact that you might not be able to send information forward in the direction of travel even inside the bubble, and the fact that you're going to be massively distorting spacetime in the vicinity as you travel (and in one model, generate a naked singularity at the front edge of the bubble in motion).

What could possibly go wrong?

[RedKing]

Well, the other problem is that the ship would either have to be incredibly rigid, or it would wind up being deformed and stretched out into a long string. Think of a blob of Silly Putty. Pull steadily on both sides of it, and eventually you have two semi-solid lumps and a big soft stringy mess in between.

(And compared to the gravitational field of a black hole, ALL matter is Silly Putty).

Still problems with the local spacetime effects though. Such as possibly frying everything inside with Hawking radiation, the fact that you might not be able to send information forward in the direction of travel even inside the bubble, and the fact that you're going to be massively distorting spacetime in the vicinity as you travel (and in one model, generate a naked singularity at the front edge of the bubble in motion).

What could possibly go wrong?

Admittedly, having a naked singularity essentially act as your spaceship's hood ornament is pretty damn boss. Makes for a hell of a cowcatcher too.

[Solifuge]

Newsweek's latest cover depicts "Muslim Rage" and an article on "How to end it". They funnel people toward the Twitter hashtag #MuslimRage to discuss this.

Spoiler: The internet responds there with other shocking images of Muslim Rage: (click to show/hide)

In light of this, I am terrified for the safety of God-Fearing American citizens everywhere.

[Levi]

Newsweek's latest cover depicts "Muslim Rage" and an article on "How to end it". They funnel people toward the Twitter hashtag #MuslimRage to discuss this.

Spoiler: The internet responds there with other shocking images of Muslim Rage: (click to show/hide)

In light of this, I am terrified for the safety of God-Fearing American citizens everywhere.

Excellent.    Nice to see this sort of thing.

[miauw62]

"Too much pork in Angry Birds #muslimrage"

That just made my day.

[Truean]

I.... a criminal client (who was totally not gonna get off scott free and knew this from the beginning) was... appreciative...?

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O I'm sorry, I was just waiting for the punchline, or perhaps the other shoe to fall covered in the shit it just stepped in after said shit hit the fan.... No? What the .... Either something is terribly wrong, or hell hath frozen over. They all laughed at me when I bought that infernal ski lift and told me the temperature would never get to freezing.

Ha, the fools! I wasn't worried about the temperature in hell making my infernal ski lift a bad investment. It's the particularly flat nature of the landscape that does that.

I don't know what kind of idiot they take me for but I'm not. I'm a different kind.

What's that...? Doesn't appear the other shoe or any shoe is falling? So hell may have frozen over and I'll be selling ski lift tickets as soon as I can make a mountain or two down there? Awesome.