Profile pic is from Jason Box, depicting a projection of Arctic warming to the year 2100 based on current trends.
Great quote: “The term ‘recovery’ can be misleading” says Dr Chris Mays, Leader of the Mass Extinction Group at University College Cork, “forests recover eventually, but extinction is forever.”
I jumped to the assumption this would be about the PETM, the most recent and best understood catastrophe, but of course the one mentioned was far worse. We’re exceeding both at the rate of change so far, so that doesn’t bode well.
James Horner nailed the starship motif. I enjoy the various other composers’ works as well, but Horner is my top for Trek.
Howard Shore for all the Tolkien work. His music alone will paint the image of Middle Earth in my head.
And Hans Zimmer has some stuff I love, like Time, but he did his best job imo for Dune.
I’m sure it’s Mbin specifically and just not in the software for some reason.
Got me. Not that I believed the text, but that my first brief thought was, there is a raised horn symbol right there that would work just as well. Then I thought, you dummy.
It’s to honor the sacrifice made. Although in the end it wasn’t really a sacrifice, not even the prophesied three full days. Just a long weekend with the payoff being returned to godhood. What the writers should have done is made it so Jesus was still in hell being tortured for our sins until the end days. That would be more of a plotline to suggest a sacrifice.
The paper trail of blood citizenship would be a lot easier to lose.
Just tried. It will only presumably stop new messages, but I can refresh and the old sent one is still there as well as the user name that shows it’s blocked. Plus that wouldn’t be a great workaround for normal messages of people you want to talk to and just are cleaning house. I don’t know why the option isn’t there. I put something about it on the main Mbin page a while back. Maybe not many people actually use messages?
This is from a Kbin/Mbin viewpoint, but from the very start a year or so ago spam was incredibly bad, usually porn. It was common to daily add more to the filter to see other postings. Then one day it got a lot better, either through a version update or better moderation control. I was even able to clear the old filters and not be flooded anymore. These pfishing attempts from Nicole and a few other names before her are the first ones I’ve seen in a long time. I just wish I could delete them from my PMs, for some reason that option isn’t present at all.
The impact of Theia would in my unscientific opinion be a far better suspect. It both tore away lots of lighter material that would have made the crust too thick for continental drift, while adding to and remixing the remainder.
This could have potentially happened to Apollo 11, had Armstrong not taken over manually to steer clear of the targeted landing site with some rough areas. Maybe it would have been just leaning and not a big deal, but at the time we had no clear idea what a real landing would end up like. And I would hazard a guess that even though we’ve done a lot over the decades, the polar regions of the Moon are still pretty unknown.
Free market. People will just start buying from companies that don’t give them food poisoning.
Or we can try to regulate things so that few or none get sick.
One seems a better choice than the other.
J. Michael Straczynski’s Babylon 5. Like most series it starts slow and awkward, but when it starts moving…also Crusade, a lesser known spinoff in the Babylon 5 universe that got pulled by the same creator because of network stupidity.
Flyby: The Interplanetary Odyssey of Voyager 2 - Joel Davis (1987)
Lots of behind the scenes stuff of innovation, discovery, and making adjustments for things that went wrong.
Oh yes, it’s absolutely dependent on the car’s abilities. But honestly there’s nothing wrong with using the handbrake if you need to in a bad situation. I’d say it’s a sign of a good driver to know the option is there and to use all of them together to get going safely.
I had to use the handbrake once on a 73 Beetle to prevent disaster. I was coming to a stop sign near home, pressed the brake, and it went to the floor. The sensor on the brake cylinder had shorted out and melted a hole, and the brake fluid went right out. Terrible design. But my awareness of what was left made me go straight to the handbrake and slowly come to a stop just in time, then I limped back home and figured out what had happened. So it’s not there just for a parking backup.
It’s a quick motion, but the essence is that while moving from the brake to the gas, you’re also starting to apply the clutch to grab even at the still idle speed of the engine. It’s not several steps but a fluid motion, and as weird as it sounds, it’s something you pick up by feeling what the car needs to maintain the right engine speed while also not engaging the clutch too much and causing lugging or a stall. It’s why most new manual drives start in a empty level place like a parking lot and practice just going from stop to moving slowly, over and over. I also told both my boys the first time they got behind the wheel the same thing my dad did - you WILL stall out the first time. And they did. :D But they both have and love driving stick now, and hate if they have to drive someone’s automatic.
We’re the only(?) species that have evolved them to become more than their basic function. Other species use colors and other features for mating signals, humans use shapes. Definitely wired to be interested in them.
This guy? No, his lobes are far too inferior to be even an average Ferengi.
There could be some maximum threshold or critical number where people’s discussions goes downhill, regardless of the infrastructure. So while the idea of splintering into new communities that share names and topics was initially a big concern with the Reddit migration, calling for a way to imitate a Reddit sole source, perhaps it’s better to allow diversification even if some things aren’t directly and timely shared.