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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Or maybe they literally one have that one guy/gal installing the railings throughout the entire Republic‽

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Everyone here is talking about how not having eyelids is messed up while I think being able to rotate your eyes either completely upward or completely forward is crazy!

(Also having no eyelids to protect against the aggressive blinding lights of your predators/prey probably beats having your eyes destroyed by said predators/preys toxin spewing tentacles any day if the week!)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Unless you WANT your transistor to be this way and use it so you put an actual led inside the plastic as well to mess with (i.e. turn on and off) the transistor!

Also I would argue that wind could also be considered 'steam' turning a turbine. It's just vapour pressure 'steam' with a LOT of other pollutants which somehow increase the efficiency!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Great one! (Not just a nice one, a great one even.)

Now get out! Just Get Out!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Also they are all way too spaced out! Every good physics teacher should know that the objects should really be touching before impact to properly transmit the energy of the impact...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Well ever set a password or pin or security question for a bank? You might be able to construe these as riddles...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So do I understand correctly that a certain hox gene is activated in basically all cells which are in the "domain" of a certain vertebrae and they all activate some subset of homeobox genes which in combination with the original hox gene cause them to start turning into all the different parts associated with that vertebrae (so organs and other structures)?

Would we then need an entirely new hox gene to produce even a single gill? (I know you basically just laid out most of a response to this question.) Because I would assume although the exact point at which the development of our arms and legs begins is part of the whole hox gene "superstructure", but couldn't we 'basically just' highjack this same system and duplicate this gene to produce at least a single gill in the region where the current hox gene for our neck is expressed?

Long story short: what is the biggest reason why we can't just hack into a later part of the sequence and continue on from there with what you said?

Or would your proposed plan also just end up like this in the final product and you laid it out like this because it's already the most viable route into this mess? 😅

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

And that's the thing:

Assuming it did, you couldn't see it approach until it hit you because it's moving at the speed of light! It could also have happened, but just super far away such that it will never reach us due to expansion between its origin point and us being faster than c!

Also just because the universe is frickin old doesn't mean it is statistically bound to have happened. There are plenty of ways of making it even more astronomically unlikely but still possible...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay what the hell did I just read?

From my very very rough and cursory glance though: wouldn't this also likely be infringed by games such as Genshin Impact for their Auto "fuse" (aka enhancement) selection mechanic or does this patent have some more nuanced/specific thing which everyone else did not implement to skirt around it?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago

Fine! I'll use a second order polynomial to fit this instead. But that's the last order I'm willing to go to!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

No! Mit like that! You macro is all wrong! Now we won't be able to capture the dragon on the ridge in the right framing!

(What do you mean, Bob Ross never painted any drains‽)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing this as well! I also just imaged a detached hand + short bit of lower arm pushing the ball (for which I did imagine it to be of a gray shiny metal slightly larger than the hand)!

And I also imaged a super plain square wooden table so when the questions about the person hit I was super confused wether or not this counted as aphantasia or not (because I am fairly certain that I don't have it...)

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