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Yep, this is accurate if it weren’t written as a quote. Since it is it’s satire but, as with all great satire, based in fact.

God, that sounds so nice. If you play these stupid games then you instantly end up on the chopping block. That fixes so many issues.

Lol. None of this had to do with Musk. I don’t know why you brought him up. If anything, a space elevator is anti-Musk, as he owns a rocket company, but whatever.

You can’t just maneuver a space elevator. The entire way it works is it sits at one point. The amount of forces it’d put on the structure to maneuver it is insane, especially if it has to be in time to avoid a hurricane. It has to stay at the equator, so it can only move along that axis, and the speed would need to be insanely fast. Basically, the structure needs to be built to multiple times the minimum required if you’re going to be moving it, without a stable base platform to have oscillation dampeners or whatever on.

The cable can maneuver to avoid trash and satellites, and satellites can maneuver to avoid the cable. Shielding can be applied to protect it from micrometeoroid impacts.

Trash can’t be maneuvered. We don’t even know where 100% of it is. You can’t shield the cable. The weight of the cable is the entire issue why we need insane materials to build it. If you add shielding then you’re adding to the weight, and therefor multiplying the size the cable needs to be. A cable made of steel literally needs to be larger than the size of the known universe because you need more weight to support more weight. It compounds. If you add shielding with a different material, you run into the same issue. The cable has to be very light so the compounding size doesn’t grow to impossible levels.

Space elevators aren’t “pop-sci”. There’s a plenty of real research that says that one is possible…

… The people who did that research weren’t idiots and did in fact account for everything you brought up rather than just assuming a perfect vacuum and spherical cows.

I didn’t say they’re idiots. They know what they’re talking about. Most of them are doing physics papers just showing how the calculations work out, not engineering. It isn’t stupid to assume spherical cows if the shape doesn’t matter to you. Physics is not engineering, just math.

The people who opened companies “doing research” into it have all shut down. Either it was a scam or they realized it isn’t possible. I’m leaning towards scam, because, like you said, I don’t think they’re stupid. They know other people are, and will give them money because it sounds cool and they don’t know any better.

The people doing materials science adjacent to this are not doing materials science to build a space elevator. They’re just trying to come up with new useful materials. They may write a paper about how it could potentially be used in a space elevator, based purely on the math, because they looking for grant money, recognition, or a media attention for a product for investment purposes or to sell. They aren’t stupid. It’s just useful.

Space elevator on the moon? Sure. That is somewhat reasonable, though still far out of our grasp. Space elevator on Earth? Not happening. We’ll have fusion reactors and nearly unlimited energy well before we even have the ability to build the mathematically minimum version, without any safety margins or defence for the environment, or systems to deal with vibrations/perturbations.

It’s impossible. You didn’t “explain” anything. It’s on the very edge of being physically possible in a perfect vacuum. That’s it. Consider how a hurricane effects a building. The building requires a ton of extra infrastructure/strength to keep it from breaking. Even the most exotic material possible it’s still on the very edge of technically possible, that if you add any extra overhead to protect from the environment it isn’t possible. Then there’s also satellites and space trash which will be hitting the cable. It’s not a thing that can work on Earth.

then proceeded to spout strange and verifiably false nonsense like this on multiple different points.

Sure… How do you deal with wind on a space elevator? I’m making strange and varifiably false nonsense? You’re repeating pop-sci stuff as if it’s real, without considering how it’d actually need to be to exist. We can barely build buildings that withstand storms. How is a thin cable going to? Carbon nanotubes are only good for tensile strength (resistance to tension). Shear strength is significantly lower, which is what would be required to withstand forces like weather or impacts. Even assuming it’s possible to make the cable, it wouldn’t work because of this.

I don’t care how many pop-sci articles or YouTube speculation videos have been made saying it’s totally possible and just around the corner. They ignore the reality and only discuss the absolute minimum vacuum requirements. It makes a much more appealing article/video to say it’s actually possible than to point out that, in reality, it isn’t because there’s a lot of additional things that were ignored.

This video talks about some of the issues realistically, though it’s mostly focused on math. It mostly is in the position of “if it were possible, why would we even want it” though, not is it actually possible: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z5aHMB4Tje4&pp=ygUcYXJlIHNwYWNlIGVsZXZhdG9ycyBwb3NzaWJsZQ%3D%3D

It seems like it should be playable on your MacBook. I don’t know how well it handles something like WINE/Proton/whatever is available on Mac. You could install Linux on it though and it should work if you’re willing to do that.

No, it’s physically impossible. Even the most advanced material possible couldn’t hold the strain that would be required for Earth. Technically it’s right on the limit, but that’s ignoring that we have an atmosphere that’s going to exert forces on it too. On Luna it might make sense.

The top can be anywhere. It would just require adding force to it at/after release. That’s trivial. We already know how to make rockets, or it could be something that pushes or throws it. Compared to building a space elevator, speeding something up is easy.

What devices do you have? It’s available on PC, and it looks like PS4 and Xbox One.

I do agree though, it’s probably the easiest to get into. The Shenobi tools are more explicit counters to certain enemy types, and exploration is fast and easy. It potentially has the highest skill level of any of the games, but that’s far from required, even for the optional bosses —only to show off or challenge runs.

Well, the “top” of the elevator could be anywhere. That’s why I said it needs to be as low as possible, because it’s already physically impossible for Earth. The lower and lighter the station is, the less impossible it is, though it’s impossible even with no station and just a cable.

Above geostationary orbit isn’t suddenly in solar orbit though. It’s still got quite a ways to go. It could be at escape velocity, but that’s not necessary.

This is all impossible on Earth anyway though, so if you’re making a story where this is taking place it could be any of these outcomes you want. Whatever works best for the story.

Where is that being implied?!

Every state (meaning country/government) supports terrorists. They only call it terrorism if it’s a non-state actor though. Ignoring what we do to other places in the world, do you think policing in the US is terrorism? I don’t see any way it isn’t. Violence and fear for political gain is the definition.

You’ve just drank the kool-aid. You think what the state tells you is true and they can’t lie. Terrorism is a valid and useful tool. Again, it’s why every state uses it. It’s only since about 9/11 where politicians and the media discovered they can call anything they don’t like “terrorism” and get people like you to repeat the drivel.

OK, you’ve got space elevators wrong, and that’s OK.

The counter-weight doesn’t orbit the sun. It orbits earth. If it orbited the sun it’d rip the thing apart. It sits somewhere above a geostationary orbit, as a geostationary orbit is where the orbit point is always over the same point on the ground, which would be where your elevator is tethered.

The station part is somewhere below this. The higher it is the heavier or further out your counter-weight needs to be —and since it’s already impossible around earth no matter what, this needs to be as low as possible.

Because of this setup, your velocity (while below the geostationary line) is always less than the orbital velocity at that altitude. For example, the ISS orbits the earth 15.5 times a day. Our point on the space elevator cable stays at the exact same position over the ground, so it orbits 0 times. At the same altitude as the ISS you need to be moving the same speed as the ISS or you’ll fall down. It only doesn’t while attached to the cable because it’s being pulled by the counter-weight.

Basically, stuff dropped off a space elevator falls, unless it’s at geostationary altitude. It needs to be given some extra horizontal speed to stay in orbit.

I agree, to an extent. If you decide not to support them because of one thing though, and decide you won’t change your opinion, that isn’t helpful though. If you aren’t winnable then you don’t matter. You need to hold them to account, but not be so strict you’re a waste of effort. You need to be a target that they can actually hit, or they will move to a group that is winnable (or they’ll lose and you’ll get their opponent).

Oh my god, you keep going. Nothing makes me think they’re trustworthy. I don’t know why you keep saying this. I’m pointing out that this effect is not an indication of them sending your data off the device. Are they sending data off the device? Almost certainly. This effect is not an indication of that. It doesn’t require anything more than just displaying the text does. Both of them require processing the data in the message to figure out what to show.

They’re specifically designed to have easy options for almost every fight. There are very few bosses where you actually need skill, and they’re mostly optional. If you’re paying attention, it’s normally pretty easy to find a pretty easy option to defeat most bosses. Sometimes the game tells you this, like jumping down on the head of the demon at the start of DS1. Usually it doesn’t directly, but there will be hints if you’re reading everything and looking at your environment.

You don’t have to just “git gud” and dodge everything while fighting. That’s an option, but not the only one. Most people hear “Souls games are hard” and they think this is the only option, and they don’t look for more. If this is you, then you were mislead. The community has ruined the game for so many people by acting like there’s a huge skill barrier that you need to overcome, instead of the reality where the game just wants you to pay attention to the world/lore.

The Souls games are easy. They’re just easy in a way that makes you a part of the game/world. You don’t just click a button in the menu. You earn it by paying attention. The point is, every player comes out satisfied of having accomplished something. Either they directly defeated a challenge through brute force or they looked around and founds it’s weakness, or got stronger to overcome it. It makes it earned.

Sure, story games the story is maintained with an easier difficulty and that’s fine. However, games where the act of playing forms the story are made worse by this. I’m all for difficulty modes in games where it makes sense, but a lot of people would turn down the difficulty in a Souls game and end up with a boring experience, because they didn’t actually try to meet it at its level.

Just like paintings, there’s a place for slop that just looks pretty and things that engage you. If you go into a museum and complain that an artist challenged you, that’s on you, not them.

I don’t know how common this is, but I’ve heard the opposite sentiment. It caused a lot of restaurants to stop being careful to ensure there was no cross contamination because most people asking for gluten free foods didn’t actually have an issue with eating it.

I’m curious if it’s just additional labeling or new options? Are they just labeling things they already served as gluten free that didn’t have wheat, or are they making new options specifically designed to avoid gluten?

I’ll still complain about them having the market cornered. Sure, right now they mostly only do things I agree with. If things change though we’re fucked, and there’s nothing we can do about it. If there’s competition in the market then we can choose to support whoever is doing things right (like Valve currently) and the others will be forced to follow.

Your comment that started all of this:

so… is ios reading all your messages now or what

You’re message implies you think it’s being sent off to Apple for processing because of this effect. You further prove this is what you meant later.

If course, the comment is technically correct. It is reading your messages. It has to to even display the text, so obviously it is. It always has been and always will, and the same goes for every other phone that has ever existed or will ever exist. It’s a requirement for you to interact with it.

This does not mean it’s being sent to Apple. It gives us no insight into whether that’s happening either. It is neither necessary nor sufficient for that. All that we can understand from this feature is that your system is reading your messages, which again is a requirement for them to display them at all.

This is not defending Apple. It’s arguing against stupid takes. It has nothing to do with Apple. I hate them and will point out when they’re doing anything I even slightly don’t like. This isn’t evidence of anything (except being a dumb feature that I don’t even want).

Lol. I don’t. However, you’re acting like just displaying something is an indication of them sending the data off. You do know the text message itself is not just displayed on the screen, right? It takes in some bytes of data and processes it, and them uses that to select characters to print to the screen. It has to process the messages no matter what. This little effect isn’t anything more dangerous than the characters being rendered to the screen. Both of them are just processing the data in a message to choose what to display.