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I seem to have to repeat myself. The solar wind will take the thing down before the atmosphere at those densities. With respect, Paul, that seems like your idiosyncratic usage. To NASA: Low Earth Orbit = orbital period of 128 minutes or less (and eccentricity under 0.25). This is basically...

I imagine it was a quick way to get algorithms to show company content a little more often, is all. If it is saying much about D&D, it is that it is also a pop-culture icon, and welcomes all types. The question is if it was cost-effective. And it was pretty much free. Honestly, when you...

Citation on that, please? Thanks much. While you get that, we can also remember it... ... was #2 in Publishers Weekly's "Best-selling Books Week Ending July 29, 2022" in hardcover nonfiction. ... was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing in March 2023. ...was nominated for...

Oblique? It seemed very direct. I believe this was noted early in the thread - from a marketing perspective, it is a search optimization and algorithmic manipulation thing. Find an excuse to reference big Taylor Swift news, and you can get a boost in views, even on unrelated social media posts.

Nobody has used that explicit phrase within this thread, no. But I didn't make it up. It is in other social media a lot the past few days, though it has been around for quite a while now. As for what is happening here, at least one person in this thread is insisting that this is about more...

And, maybe consider that what you are saying, in a broader context, may have negative impacts on others, even if that's not your conscious intent. Being part of a community - or perhaps more properly, being a good citizen of a community - should include having some empathy for members of the...

Especially when the first eyeglasses came around in the late 13th century (so, 1268-1330, in Italy, to be more precise) - they predate plate armor!

Your post happens within a context. That context currently includes a swath of vocal folks right now telling people to "Embrace tradition. Reject modernity". Which is really freakin' ironic. If Gygax, Arneson, and friends had followed that advice, we'd be going out bowling, not playing...

Wow. This thread is not about arguing over what constitutes an edition. One person thinks it is about... hotplates? I don't recall Taylor Swift mentioning hotplates, but fine. I can see that as more relevant to this discussion than edition nomenclature.

C'mon, this season's already in the can, and the next one is already in production. Our influence on the budget would, at best, fall in the final short season. You can wallow in the dissatisfaction, if you like. I prefer to use it as inspiration for goofy Trek references to get through days...

Why? Is his hair an alien being that, if not placated, will take over the ship? Headcanon accepted!

That scene is not how you describe it. They establish that the scavenger ship is in search of aldentium - yes, they like to eat their ships al dente.. They establish that the tentacles disable ship power systems. They establish that Scotty can make ship parts look al dente. They launch the...

If you define "wrong side" as "those who avoided the conflict when folks started getting hauled out of their homes and shot", then yes. It seems like she's a member of a species that has had galaxy-spanning interstellar travel since before humans had writing. Getting the heck out of Dodge when...

Yeah, and the archaeology and research on that'll take a decade... finishing after both Pike's and Kirk's missions.

I gotta say, I'm not loving the ... striping in PIke's hair? I'm all for him being well-coiffed, but the white on grey flame effect he has going seems like he'd have to be in Mr. Mot's chair more than the Captain's chair. And, then, why wasn't the ship's hairdresser running the thrusters...

Yeah, it is a tough problem. You can't use matter/antimatter reactions. Those require keeping containment of the antimatter, which uses power. Radioactive sources have half-lives, and decay. Water and wind depend on weather patterns, and can stop working, and require you to be planetside...

The ship, including sick bay, was without significant power. You want M'Benga to work with stone knives and bearskins? Dude can't even replicate sutures without power!

With respect, it ain't that simple. Because error correction means keeping around the data that defines "without error", and that data is subject to the degradations of time, too. One cosmic ray going through your data store, and you no longer have pristine data. So you keep a backup of your...

1) There is no appreciable atmospheric drag in Earth geostationary orbit. Atmospheric density at that altitude is some 4x10^-19 kg per cubic meter. If I have done my math right, that means about 3 molecules of air per cubic centimeter. Solar wind will have a larger impact than the atmosphere...

Note, as an example, that much of the deterioration of the Pyramids of Giza came from human action looting the outer layer of the structure.