“a colony of undersea humans repurpose dopey robots from the pre-electronics age into mech suits for the ocean floor”
Read moreAuthor: m1k3y
“This is gonna sound a little strange, but: You can’t see water. There is no splashing. There’s no nothing. It just felt like I was standing on an alien planet. I felt like I was on the surface of the moon. The water was so clear, it looked like a hazy atmosphere.”
Read moreThere is a lot to say about quantum mechanics, perhaps the most mysterious idea ever to be contemplated by human beings, but all we need is one simple ( but hard to accept ) fact: How the world appears when we look at it is very different from how it really is.
“The Particle at the End of the Universe –
The Hunt for the Higgs and the Discovery of a New World”
Sean Carroll (via ashramof1)
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The Hunt for the Higgs and the Discovery of a New World”
Sean Carroll (via ashramof1)
NASA plans a robotic mission to search for life on Europa
No. No. No. No. No!!!
Posthuman Flight Club rule #1: ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
Gorram pseudomasonic NASA folk trying to break my hyperreal spirituality. Hell no.
NASA plans a robotic mission to search for life on Europa
Read more "NASA plans a robotic mission to search for life on Europa"If rewilders are successful, thousands of years from now our descendants may think of African lions roaming American plains as “natural” too.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129581.700-when-is-an-artificial-ecosystem-no-longer-a-fake.html (via fuckyeahdarkextropian)
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Twelve Monkeys was Right.
What we can learn from galaxies far, far away – Henry Lin on TED-Ed ‘s channel
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Read morefig. 2 ~ Protostar
stars are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust, when a gravitational “center” develops in a molecular cloud
Read moreGandhi has been historically the most aggressive character in Civilization due to an original bug in the first game that caused him to go all-out once he reaches democracy. They just kept the thing going ever since.
To further explain this bug, because I was chatting with mothmonarch about Civilization and other strategy games last night and I never got around to explaining this fully, but I love this story:
Gandhi’s AI in the original game had its aggression set to the absolute minimum (0 on a scale of 0 to 10, I believe, I may have this wrong but the basic idea I’m about to explain is accurate, as far as I can tell). Adopting democracy lowers an AI civ’s aggression by 2 points, so when someone who is fully peaceful loses two points of aggression, they should still be nice and polite, right?
Except this is an old DOS game, and so computer math is in place. What actually happened was that Gandhi’s aggression level ticked backwards two steps, from 0 to 255. On a scale of 0 to 10, Gandhi is now 255 points of pure nuclear rage.
And that’s the story as I recall it, but again I may have gotten some details wrong, so feel free to correct me! After that, as the original poster said, the devs loved the bug so much that they just kept it in as a running joke!
Automation: glitching warfare since 19xx
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 