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[Dozebôm Lolumzalěs]

Just two hours ago, I hadn't even decided on a topic for my six-minute speech (COMST, or speech class). One hour later, I had a three-page outline for a rather fine speech, if I do say so myself. Now I'm at school, and I have maybe 30 minutes, at best, of free time to make my PowerPoint and run a final check.

Bring it on. With this academia-rush, I can handle anything. Oh, and as I write this I'm also reading an article about the MAVEN and preparing a slide for the Space Fence. I never thought I was that good at multitasking *types on a slide* but I find new skills under pressure *types some more* and this is very very very fun *copies some pictures* I think I might have done this on purpose *writes a quick summary of the NIRCam* but I don't mind

this is muh happy

[scriver]

The cake(day) is mine. All mine.

HAPPY BIRTHCAKE, TENEB!

[TheBiggerFish]

The cake(day) is mine. All mine.

PREPARE THE IMAGE

[Rolan7]

Spoiler: AN IMAGE (click to show/hide)

[TheBiggerFish]

It's November.

[Rolan7]

I was hoping that it was still Monday somewhere in the world when Teneb posted, but looks like nope.  You win!

Spoiler: IMAGE DEPLOYED (click to show/hide)

[Tack]

Dang straight. Melbourne cup day just happened.

[TempAcc]

Nobody gave me cake during cakeday.
I'm ok with this.

[TheBiggerFish]

Nobody gave me cake during cakeday.
I'm ok with this.

AAAAAA

UNACCEPTABLE

[Rolan7]

Spoiler: My penance continues (click to show/hide)

[Mephansteras]

Surprisingly related to the above post, this video kept me quite entertained for an hour.

Damn, that was really well done!

[Amperzand]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Because accelerating ever-closer to the speed of light has no real limit

There actually is a limit, when your energy become so high that, metaphorically speaking, vacuum starts to have friction. Though it is pretty high, 1 kg of iron, having 1.1*10^23 number of atoms, could have maximum kinetic energy of 8 joules * 1.1*10^23 = 8.8*10^23 joules. Which actually isn't nearly enough to even mass-scatter Earth (which requires energy of 2.487*10^32 joules, or about 1 billion times higher).

You'd need about 1 million tons of iron to do that. And to mass-scatter Sun, you'd need a billion times that.

I'll leave it for you to calculate how many tons of iron one would need for a galaxy-killing impact, and how many iron asteroids you'd have to harvest in order to produce it.

This belongs here because making !!FUN!! calculations makes me happy

So there's a maximum energy of 8 joules/atom? Oh that's interesting.

Admittedly there do appear to be exceptions. The OMG particle had something like 50 joules, and there are other documented cases...

Nevertheless, very interesting.

Besides, at those velocities, an impactor of any reasonable size would be impacting many, many hydrogen atoms, which would likely tear it to bits in no short order.

[Eric Blank]

TDIL Sergarr is a weapons of mass destruction research prodigy

[Rolan7]

Mom visited and we had two nice days driving around the Blue Ridge Parkway
And
now I'm really drunk
this feels good too

I really enjoyed spending time with her, I'm just really sensitive right now.  Didn't drink since the lay-off until she visited
It's so nice that people are reaching out to me though, I guess
I'm honored that they're doing it but I wish I could politely decline I guess

this is all according to keikaku okay you don't need to comfort me, go away
please

[Gunner-Chan]

A couple of days late, but if anyone here also still enjoys doom Brutal doom64 Came out recently.

If you were turned off from brutal doom before, this just has light changes here and there, and some extra effects in the maps. It's otherwise just another way to play doom64 on pc without emulation. Though a quick poke has me preferring this over doom64ex simply because it doesn't have a weird hard fps cap in windowed mode.