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Games / Re: Minecraft; Version 1.4.7 Is Now Released! New OP!

« on: January 21, 2013, 10:02:46 PM »

it would be pretty nice not to have a HUGE poll at the top lol
it is slightly annoying to scroll past it every time

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Games / Re: Minecraft; Version 1.4.7 Is Now Released! New OP!

« on: January 21, 2013, 01:09:27 AM »

guys run we're going to be crushed by mega's enormous ego

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General Discussion / Re: Explaining the main purpose of my vehicles (and maybe Phydeoux and Barnabas too)

« on: January 20, 2013, 07:11:58 PM »

imo only like one of these fits BL's style

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Games / Re: EVE Online - fly cool spaceships and whatnot

« on: January 20, 2013, 06:42:28 PM »

it not being free makes sense
monthly payments is just bullstuff

i'm sorry to inform you that EVE's payment model has been working wonderfully for a decade now

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Games / Re: Minecraft; Version 1.4.7 Is Now Released! New OP!

« on: January 17, 2013, 09:47:55 PM »

played vanilla for the first time since like
ender dragon was added

kinda fun

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Off Topic / Re: Well, my dad is giving up farming

« on: January 16, 2013, 08:10:58 PM »

so many starfishs in this thread that clearly have no understanding of what's going on

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Off Topic / Re: Nasa needs more funding.

« on: January 15, 2013, 08:02:26 PM »

Mars also has a thin layer of radiation.

I have no idea what you're referring to. Perhaps you mean mars has a thin atmosphere, which allows more radiation to reach the surface? This is true, there is enough UV on the martian surface to fry any small organisms, which is why if there IS life on mars, we'll find it under the surface with the liquid water, protected from radiation.

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Off Topic / Re: Nasa needs more funding.

« on: January 15, 2013, 08:00:37 PM »

That's still thousands of years away.

I think you forgot to read my post

There has been documented liquid water on the surface of mars.
There are continent-sized areas on mars that are over 60% water by weight.
There is more than likely liquid water beneath the surface.

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Off Topic / Re: Nasa needs more funding.

« on: January 15, 2013, 07:55:06 PM »

Btw, NASA's budget makes up HALF A PERCENT of the federal budget. Defense spending is what, 40%?

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Off Topic / Re: Nasa needs more funding.

« on: January 15, 2013, 07:52:55 PM »

Mars has dried up river deposits up there. If there were any life on mars it's dead by now because there is no loving water. The entire planet of mars looks like a nuclear warzone.

There has been documented liquid water on the surface of mars.
There are continent-sized areas on mars that are over 60% water by weight.
There is more than likely liquid water beneath the surface.

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Off Topic / Re: Random insomnia?

« on: January 15, 2013, 03:43:45 AM »

It sounds like you just have a case of can't get to sleep. At some point in the next day your sleep should return to normal. Most people have episodes of can't get to sleep in their lifetime. Don't worry about it.

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Off Topic / Re: Nasa needs more funding.

« on: January 15, 2013, 03:35:48 AM »

Actually, funding space exploration is pretty loving expensive.

On the topic of there's no life in space, I find that incorrect. A far more acceptable answer is that there's no intelligent life in space. Life itself is an incredibly complex thing to be made, it more than likely does not exist in more than a few thousand places in our universe. To further that by saying all the exact proper changes were made perfectly to yield intelligent life is almost ridiculous. Our existence is actually one of the main proponents of the multiverse theory. It's so unlikely that intelligent life would exist that scientists think the only reason we exist is because there's an infinite number of universes out there where every possible path exists. I'm serious.

lol

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Games / Re: The Elder Scrolls Megathread - Dragonborn DLC and other stuff

« on: January 15, 2013, 12:10:18 AM »

With enough graphical mods you can make it look better than skyrim

lolnope
with enough graphical mods you can entirely ruin the atmosphere the game
and make everything look ass-ugly and weird

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Off Topic / Re: Nasa needs more funding.

« on: January 14, 2013, 09:58:10 PM »

NASA's doing just fine with the funding they have. Though I wouldn't mind them getting a bit more. They're great at scientific missions - probes, landers on mars, things like that. They're absolutely HORRIBLE at designing their own launch vehicles. The space shuttle cost fortunes more than originally projected - and could only accomplish a tenth of the work originally projected, if that.

The federal government is, through NASA as an intermediary, giving private companies such as SpaceX small grants (relative to amounts of money sunk into failed programs such as the space shuttle) to develop their own launch vehicles and capsules. This is orders of magnitude more efficient than NASA doing it themselves, and will result in a varied, effective, and useful array of vehicles. Off the top of my head, companies developing their own launch vehicles/capsules include SpaceX, Boeing, ATK/Thiokol, Orbital Sciences or some such, and probably a few others I'm missing.

Virgin Galactic is also a joke. Sure, the flights get to space, but you don't even complete one full orbit. They're suborbital flights with a huge pricetag. Laughable.

As far as life in space, there's a very good chance there is microbial life beneath the surface of mars, as it used to be a warm planet with oceans of water much like earth, and liquid water could still exist under the surface. Liquid water is still occasionally found on the surface.

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Off Topic / Re: Mars One applications start this year!

« on: January 11, 2013, 02:27:03 AM »

It's still pretty hard to get to mars. Putting satellites up or moving stuff into orbit isn't that hard anymore though.
I thought everybody that new about Mars One knew it was a loving scam.

pretty hard to get to mars? not really
delta-v requirements are higher, sure
bit harder to achieve an orbital capture due to lower gravity, sure
aerobraking isn't as effective due to the thin atmosphere, sure
but we've done it many times now, with a pretty decent success rate. thrown in a little innovation - perhaps things such as propulsive landings, as seen in the Curiosity mission - and it could become pretty routine.