Fair enough

This is the plot of an episode of the anime “mushishi” called “tree of eternity”, IIRC.

Dragonflies are likely to be with the mantids at the “we will rip your head off if we like you, you don’t want to know what we do to our enemies” table.

It does not.

I could be wrong, but I’m fairly sure that, while ‘f’ is a function, ‘f(x)’ is the function’s output, not the function itself. So f(x) is a meme (as.long as x is a meme), because function f’s output is a meme. The function itself is a mathematical operation, not its output.

f and F are not memes, but functions which output memes.

Without a nervous system, the only thing it can feel is ANGER.

One of your precepts is flawed. f is not a meme any more than the word “all” is a meme in “all your base are belong to us”. f is defined by text within the overall meme, but while it is part of the meme, it is not the meme itself, as it lacks the context of the remainder of the meme. Your precept is like saying “9 is prime, because it is the prime number ‘19’”.

9 is not prime. It is part of the representation of the number 19.

f is not the meme. It is part of the context which defines the meme.

He played a murderous papal inquisitor in the fourth season of Warehouse 13?

Fair enough! For me, it scratched the itch of “procedural exoplanet biogeochemistry” that I always had, but could never scratch.

If you love seed ship, you have to try beyond the Chiron gate. It’s genuinely the culmination of what seed ship started. Its amazing.

Orson Welles’ War Of The Worlds broadcast

FOSS (no ads, available on FDroid):

Puzzle games:

• Simon Tatham’s Puzzle Collection
• Gurgle (Offline, infinite Wordle Dupe)

Strategy games:

• Mindustry,
• Tanks of Freedom
• Unciv (It’s Civilisation V, but free)

Mindless games:

• Ricochlime

Emulator:

• RetroArch (just need the ROMs)

Free (no ads): Seedship (by John Ayliff)

Paid (no ads): Beyond the Chiron Gate (also by John Ayliff)

Inb4 the next Ramanujan sidles up onto YouTube and breaks the entire concept of mathematics

So, did a bit of research and, when you get to the scale of “a laser that can destroy objects”, it turns out that the reflectance of natural materials is just utterly insufficient. Consider the following: suppose that a mirror finish reflects 90% of the light from a laser in the range you’re looking at (a fair assumption, from what I’ve read). Now, let’s do some basic back-of-the-napkin math: we’ll use a 30 kW laser, which is apparently standard for current destructive laser weapons. Let’s further assume that the laser light is spread over a surface area of 0.04 m^2 (because a spot 20 cm on a side seems to me a fairly high estimate for the spread on a precision laser, even on a moving target, if it’s motion-tracked, I should think). Let us be generous and assume that this reflective paint coating is 0.5mm (0.0005m) thick. Given the paint’s approximate specific heat of 2.302 J/gK (polyethylene) and density of 1400000 g/m^3 (PVC), and let’s also assume the breakdown temp of the reflectance is near the boiling point of PVA (spray paint), which is 112C.

So, the mass of paint absorbing the energy is 0.04*0.0005*1400000=28 g.

To heat the entirety of these 28 g of this material by about 90C (from 22 to 112), completely destroying the protective layer, we would need 2.302*28*90 = 5801J

Now we know that we have 30000*0.9= 3000J/s, so it would take about 2 seconds of lancing to completely destroy the protection. Given that it already takes 2-5 seconds to destroy things with the laser, and it doesn’t actually have to destroy the entire area for the reflectance to deteriorate and let the laser through, this would only be adding another second of work. I think that, no matter what you do, the laser’s gonna win.

I can give sources for any of these estimates.

You know the actual reason why these things aren’t on every military vessel? The lasers stop working if there’s fog, dust or rain

Honestly, I memorised the bands once in orgo, and never looked at them again, so you’re more likely to know than I.

I think that wouldn’t necessarily work once you get to the right wavelengths for it to start interacting with the organic bases of the paints. There’s only so much you can do when someone shoots an infrared laser at the resonant frequency of a C=C double bond.

I believe that, nowadays, it is generally accepted that dinosaurs, crocodilians and birds are all “archosaurs”. In a similar way to how Australopithecus, Humans and Chimpanzees are all “hominids”.

I have always read that meme as basically being the original “Wanda, declaring her vengeance. Thanos, professing ignorance”

The cat looks like “who are you, and why is it interrupting my dinner?”

They do, but in order for them to regurgitate, they first must gorge upon it. They eat it, chew it up and spit it out in the shapes necessary (planar, cylindrical, or otherwise).

Until a Cartesian Solipsist points out that your senses are inherently fallible, it is impossible to prove that you are not a Boltzmann Brain, and the only thing it is possible to know with certainty is that you exist, in your present moment of experience. You have no valid proof that you didn’t run into a pole, let alone that other people are running into them more than you are, nor that the pole even exists.

Oh man, pre-FNAF? Thats the deep magic.