Then they couldn’t sell ads to us

Typical

Nominative determinism

Is the woke in the room with us right now?

FUCKING THANK YOU, this is one of my biggest unreasonable pet peeves.

That’s what I’m in the process of switching to

I guess that’s why it’s posted in science memes

Will there be an English dub? Or at least subs?

I’ve been using the same sound for several years across multiple phone changes, and when my now-wife-then-coworker heard it at work one day she made fun of me. Now she’s a Trekkie too, haha.

Star Trek communicator sound that I downloaded, haha

I haven’t been in the industry for a while, but in a past life I did a lot of computational science. Intel’s Fortran compiler—and by extension their chips’ abilities to run Fortran calculations—was light-years ahead of the nearest competition. We had an AMD-based supercomputer (a bit older design, but still relatively new at the time; I think it was about a year old at this point) that was slower than a new Intel-based desktop cluster I had just finished building. The cluster was about a 4th the specs of the supercomputer across the board, mind you; it was really just designed to be a terminal, but it still had to be able to run the computing software so researchers could set up the calculations before moving the files to a supercomputer for calculating, or if they wanted a quick one-off computation, for example.

So as a joke I ran one of my big calculations on it just to stress test it and make sure I’d done the heat sinks right. I fully planned to kill the job once the machine warmed up, but it finished before I could kill it. I ran several of these “drag races” between the new computer and multiple of our supercomputers and clusters (all AMD of varying age) and none of them were nearly as fast as this new machine. The supercomputer I mentioned earlier even had then-state-of-the-art PCIe solid state drives, because I/O in computational science is frequently the largest bottleneck, but the new cluster just had a standard hard drive. And even still the Intel machine was faster. Meaning if we’d had a 1-to-1 comparison the differences would have been even more drastic. That speedup comes down to the tight coupling between their Fortran compiler and their assembly language. They could make use of, for example, a matrix transpose call as a single instruction that didn’t exist in the AMD assembly, and so took several instructions. And since computational science is almost totally linear algebra, this leads to a huge jump in computing speed.

I assumed it would be further inward than the photon sphere because heat radiation is (also an assumption) easier for gravity to hold back than light. I don’t know how “heavy” a star’s heat is, though, so ¯\ˍ(ツ)ˍ/¯

This

You’d also likely burn to death pretty early on in the process. Like, the moment you cross the event horizon, instant death.

Could also be currents from tides. This trip would have taken hours, and the tides around great britain are weird.

How do we know they weren’t just eating rancid meat rather than directly eating maggots?

That’s a cool concept

This is the election of our lifetime

Bro is a Jew

Yeah, kind of expected that from faux leninists who hate Stalin.

So they’re just going to ignore the rules and vote without a quorum. Got it.