If any veteran No Man’s Sky players haven’t yet tried Abandoned mode, it totally transforms the experience. It removes all alien life from the universe, including most fauna. The only sentient thing in the universe is you. It’s an incredibly eerie experience, even contemplative. It’s entirely about scavenging what you can and hoping you get lucky.
I’m not sure that this video counts as news, as it’s more a single person’s speculation. But I think it’s worth watching. Somebody’s thoughts on links between the big US spending bill, RFK’s wearables comments, Neuralink, and Alligator Alcatraz.
Next year’s World Cup will be even more chaotic - it’s being jointly held in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. I’m making a prediction that Trump will poke his nose in at the very last minute and demand that either all of the games are held in the US, or none of them can be.
Probably. Pretty much everyone does, at least the civilian receiving-signals-only version.
This seems to have flown under the radar, but I think it’s pretty significant. Iran’s government has switched to using China’s BeiDou satellite navigation system. Firm details are in short supply, but my own (possibly wildly incorrect) reading from the various articles is that Iran’s government now has access to the more precise military version of BeiDou, and is possibly directing its agencies to disable the use of the American-run GPS in government-issued devices. I doubt that GPS is being actively jammed.
The squeaky tank sound has become pretty popular on tiktok, filling the same comedy purpose as the traditional cricket sound.
I want warp engine nacelles and a saucer section. And I want it to hum and glow like a warp core.
(also, something else about the tungsten producers - Canada’s actually 4th, so I guess we might see the Fallout 1 intro but about ores instead of oil )
Funny thing is that the new Liberal minority government, with the help of the Conservative party, recently passed a prominent piece of legislation that seems laser-focused on making it easy for mining companies to ignore a lot of safety and environmental regulations. I wonder if the idea is to make Canada the go-to source for minerals important for the US defence industry and use that as a trade-negotiation bargaining chip now that the US is having problems sourcing them from China, Russia, and countries allied with China and/or Russia.
Sounds like he wants to give you the workload of your ex-boss but with no additional real authority or pay increase.
My prediction is that Trump will threaten FIFA with a last-minute demand that either all games are held in the USA, or none of them can be.
They effectively do, or at least they’re most of the way there. Iran does have rockets capable of putting satellites into fairly high orbits. If you have the technology to put a satellite into a high orbit, you can drop a warhead anywhere on Earth.
They’ll deny approval. Simple as that.
In some alternate universe - Trump is some z-lister gossipmonger host with a show on an some obscure cable channel that nobody watches.
He is a natural-born showman.
FO, fucker. FO.
Starship V2 is turning out to be a real lemon of a design. V1 was too heavy for production but at least they were reliable prototypes.
Starship is a huge vehicle. It holds a lot of methane fuel and oxygen. Artist’s impression size comparison with the space shuttle. The Starship/Super Heavy stack is the biggest rocket ever to fly, even bigger than the Saturn V that launched the moon landing missions.
All of the major Starship/Super Heavy R&D problems in the past few years seem related to a big redesign of Starship. V1 was the original test design and it worked pretty good as a testbed for the flight systems, but it was too heavy to be used as a production design. Starship V2 was intended to reduce the ship’s mass to improve cargo capacity, but it’s been unreliable even beyond the normal unreliability of prototypes. I’d bet that we don’t see another Starship test flight until a Starship V3 redesign.
Some people have tried to pin the Starship issues on the Raptor V3 engines, but the Super Heavy booster uses literally the exact same engines from the same production line, and Super Heavy has proven to be very reliable. They’ve even successfully done that crazy “catch the booster in midair back at the launch mount” manoeuvre a few times.
Khorramshahr series missiles are liquid fueled, but require much lower set up time due to using a different kind of liquid fuel.
Hypergolic?
This is why I’m feeling so detached (in an unhealthy way) from current events. Yes, capitalism is why we have an ongoing and worsening climate disaster that cannot be stopped even if we can slow down the rate of the worsening, and capitalism and imperialism are two sides of the same coin. Yes, I should keep educated on what’s happening geopolitically. But it’s just getting harder and harder to care anymore. Not at all a healthy mental attitude, I freely admit. But nonetheless that’s where my mind is at.
On another note, I’ve long theorized that there’s a split between isolationist, and imperialist conservatives, who primarily differ in foreign policy. Alt-right and Neocons respectively.
Isn’t that simply the split between Republicans and Democrats?
It’s a surprisingly good platform for what one might call “mid length” videos.
It’s also still quite good for leftist content these days, despite their algorithm changes over the past year. The trick is to make extensive use of the like button.