*ramdomly

that would be sick

I would love a tungsten cube and I want think sheets of titanium so I can burn them because turns out titanium burns

My admittedly not great understanding of it was along the lines of some metals are too good at conducting heat and would basically put their own fires out in most circumstances. I do not know if that is correct

Aes is the greatest.

Erosion is largely done by sediment being transported by the water I believe. The same principle is used in cutting water jets, it isnt the water pressure that cuts things, the water is a medium for abrasive materials

Mine is Rusty Shackleford, I did indeed find him in the garbage at work eating sausage patties, and he is the dumbest animal on earth. I love him edit:

Obviously I am just an observer with only the media to get case information from but it's always seemed pretty fishy to me

*rapist and child molester Peter Thiel

Dude I am so sick of all these weird half assed randomly censored posts. You can say drunk on the internet. You can say onlyfans on the internet. You can say fuck these goddamn piece of shit cuntsicles on the internet. Jesus fucking christ.

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Okay I get the people saying the sentence is criminally light and I agree but it is also nice to see a headline that isnt using a bunch of terms that beat around the bush

That is definitely not the impression I got, I think it's just your SO is showing off the goods?

you motherfucker do not fuck with me when it comes to david "no belt" attenborough

I would heavily recommend the Culture series books by Iain M. Banks. They have a lot of advanced technology. Their societies are largely ship and space station based rather than on-the-ground cities but there is a huge variance across the series.

I would also recommend basically anything by Alistair Reynolds, but primarily the books in the Revelation Space series. Banks is probably a bit more accessible of an author but Reynolds is fantastic if you give him a chance. House of Suns is a good standalone novel outside the rev space series if you want a starting point.

Edit: also basically anything by Peter F. Hamilton. Fairly similar to Reynolds in scope but with quite a bit of raunchy stuff, whether that's a positive or a negative is your preference lol. Pandora's Star is where I'd recommend starting for him.

Dude how are you singlehandedly holding down multiple subs at the same time? Crazy kudos, I appreciate your hard work

I believe they are (at least one of) the only animals that have venom injecting claws.

Heinlein was suuuuper in favor of a colonial/martial culture. The whole reason he wrote Starship Troopers was because he was disappointed that the US suspended nuclear weapons testing which he saw as further evidence of the decline of martial culture. The book clearly advocates for the promotion of civic duty as a moral imperative as well as for things like corporal punishment. He WANTED the "toxic masculinity" culture, that was his own culture as he perceived it.

The movie is basically the complete opposite, satirically portraying colonial/martial values against the backdrop of an imperial state. It's one of the biggest disparities in intent vs interpretation I have ever seen.

The movie rocks, by the way. Still watch it once a year

I used to follow hossenfelder's channel on youtube after hearing her on an episode of the Mindscape podcast. It seemed like a good place to get a skeptical point of view on some issues. Over time it became apparent to me that it waa pretty much just skepticism for the sake of skepticism. I don't know of any actual controversy she is involved in, though some of the other comments here seem to imply there is some, but I definitely didn't get good vibes.