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Quote from: MonkeyHead on July 21, 2013, 11:05:58 am

Which is totally absurd, considering the USA's devotion to free market economics.

The USA has actually pretty much always been a mixed market economy.

Boy. I can't wait for another day of my problems being unimportant and being criticized for things that aren't my fault, no matter where I go. And all my coworkers sniping at eachother, talking shit behind eachother's backs and picking sides while simultaneously kissing ass as hard and fast as they can. And the prospect of my next check being gone almost as soon as I can cash it, because the shoulder and back pain from sleeping on an airbed is getting unbearable (not that anybody would like to hear about it because again, my problems are the littlest in the hierarchy of terrible shit). And the suggestion of "Just move out!" even though the few places that there are to live in this shithole are expensive as fuck just to even move in, let alone continue living in. And of course, if I ever want an apology from anybody, I get a lecture about how I need to sit down, shut the fuck up and listen, because everybody else's problems are bigger than mine, even when they're the same problem.

I've seen a lot of junk science talking about various nonsense involving dark matter as if it's some exotic particle that might completely overturn physics. Many of these are about teleportation, time travel, exotic propulsion etc.
However dark matter represents matter we haven't yet seen that appears to be slowing the expansion of the universe. Astronomers recently did a survey where so many black holes were discovered that it would account for all the missing mass, take that exotic "dark matter" proponents.
Dank matter on the other hand will fuel societal developments well into the new century, and I for one welcome our new probot overlewds.

Quote from: MarcAFK on June 28, 2016, 03:42:23 am

I've seen a lot of junk science talking about various nonsense involving dark matter as if it's some exotic particle that might completely overturn physics. Many of these are about teleportation, time travel, exotic propulsion etc.
However dark matter represents matter we haven't yet seen that appears to be slowing the expansion of the universe. Astronomers recently did a survey where so many black holes were discovered that it would account for all the missing mass, take that exotic "dark matter" proponents.

1. The expansion of the universe is accelerating. Dark matter accounts for the shape and behavior of galaxies, not the expansion of the universe.

2. While the black hole findings did give credence to MACHOs, there's still way too much dark matter for MACHOs to be the only dark matter AFAIK. WIMPs are still likely. They need not be exotic; in fact, by necessity if there are WIMPs they have mass and don't do anything electromagnetically, so no reaction propulsion.

Quote from: x2yzh9 on June 28, 2016, 02:40:35 am

Power source/fusion/etc. snip

Well the fastest way to get around the "needing buttload of matter/energy to start fusion reaction with" thing is with Antimatter Initiated Fusion. Which I know about from KSP so I'm not sure how far along the theories/applications on that are.

Also from KSP, and more specifically Scott Manley, full on Antimatter Reactors are apparently already a theoretical possibility [citation needed] but the main problem of which is releasing like THE WORST form of radiation. I believe it was neutron radiation, that basically penetrates everything ever.
Though I DO have something of a theory on this front.
Specifically, to my knowledge radiation tends to be a form of light, and thus have a wavelength, so you basically just apply destructive interference (think noise cancelling headphones) and bam, radiation contained, antimatter reactor is now a thing, world power issues solved.

One experiment with the EM drive found the thrust generated changed direction when you flipped the axis of the measuring device, but not changing the orientation of the engine which is interesting to say the least.

Quote from: LordFreezer on June 28, 2016, 07:44:21 pm

Build a fortress made of the bones of hippies.

WWUD if his cat became a noble and demanded a slade bed?

Arrange an unfortunate accident.  And make a featherwood hammer just for insurance.

WWUD if he just noticed that the dwarven mayor has been mayor of this fort for the past 348 years?  ("My family has voted for him for generations.  Wait a minute...")

Quote from: uber pye on June 28, 2016, 10:56:42 am

The EM drive

basically you got a box that you shoot microwaves into a highly reflective box that they bounce around in and it make tiny tiny amounts of thrust. The only problem is that it violates the Conservation of momentum, and Newton's Third Law, but it at least seems to work in testing.

It does not seem to work in testing, at least by any reasonable margins of error.

Considering there had apparently been a reorganization of the forums when Various Nonsense was shut down that resulted in the creation of multiple lower boards, I decided to mark that as the beginning of the Third Era and shifted down the others.

Added the Troll Watch, Dwarven Child Care, Mermaid Farming, and DPRK threads.  Anyone know of where the grisha5 thread is?  Might be good to add to that entry.

Edit: The Descan thread might be good to add as well, anyone got that date?

Edit2: What was the name of the guy that spammed magma in large red letters?  May want to add the date he joined.

Someone who was around while VN was still a thing will have to provide the date for the first, but the second penguin thread ran from 20/april/2012 to 02/may/2012.

Rage thread was locked and the topic banned in 12/february/2015.

And grisha5 (praise) graced us on 03/august/2014.