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Ruvan22 posted...

I thought David killed them because she had died (or been killed by him) already during the trip? Like he did it as s final twisted act of gratitude..

It explains pretty clearly that he killed her through intense experimentation and that experimentation leads him to create the "hybrid" alien of the old movies.

TheHoldSteady posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/8/2/AARjV_AAEaE2.jpg
My vegan fast food tier list

Top tier is reserved for places with actual plant-based proteins.
B-C: No plant-based proteins, but it's easy enough to game the menu to have fulfilling meals there. DQ is kind of shit for vegan food (expected, since Dairy is in the name) but they have a non-dairy ice cream now which saves them from D-tier.
D: Order fries.
F: Places where even the fries aren't vegan.

Since I don't feel like looking it up--what the fuck is in McD's fries that make them not vegan? And you have BK as your top choice, why is that?

C-zom posted...

That was the goal, yeah. Watching Prometheus and Covenant for what they are barely showcases 1% of that lore. It's all vaguely implied (Cut scenes and elements from the first script for Prometheus literally justify their extinction of humanity for killing Jesus, who was an Engineer.)

Prometheus got butchered in the editing room and the multiple screenplay rewrites did it no favors. The original was ham fisted but actually established all this lore. The released film has black goo, metaphor, and wooden characters. And don't get me started on Covenant.

There's a reason why an ancient Ridley Scott who was owed all the favors in the world by Hollywood was stopped after Covenant and told he couldn't continue the trainwreck, so he went on to produce Raised by Wolves which retells the same concept again.

WTF? Jesus was an Engineer? That doesn't make any sense in the context of the movie. But this crazy sci-fi religious shit definitely explains the plot of Raised by Wolves...that's now canceled.

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Damn, what a cool bro

AldousIsDead posted...

He wasn't. There really isn't anything stopping anyone from hopping in a vehicle and driving until they get pulled over.

So, it's not just a DWI then. And yes, there is. In several states, people who get more than one DWI have a breathalyzer installed in their car and the car won't start unless they can pass it. Of course, you can have someone else do it for you but then that's another law you broke as well as the person who did it for you. Also, if he was driving under the influence without a valid license, how is he not already serving time? Like, did he do these in between serving time for the other ones? Is this like a thing where he goes to prison for five years, gets out, does this, goes back for five years then repeats?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/6/2/AAAPJWAAEaN6.jpg

Wouldn't he have lost his license long before that? Like, how was he even legally driving at all?

KanWan posted...

But wait, thats not all even if they reconciled time it wouldnt explain that if cared enough to comment, if you get out of your way to tell you don't give a f***, that's actually giving a f***... at least in my books.

Me? I got into here thinking it would be at least interesting. Got intrigued by title, saying our time perception is weird and was waiting something else other than simply telling a specific event was "only" several million seconds or several hundred days ago.

As Einstein would say, time is relative. So it's not really measurable. I was expecting some kind of discussion pointing to that, but maybe my expectations were too high.

Now, reading topic title and reading what TC actually wrote, he seems a little bit confused. His topic title should be "Our method to measure our time perception is weird". It actually is based on a system developed by Sumerians over four thousand years ago.

This system would use a sexagesimal (base 60) system. No one is sure why to this day, but it's believed it's because 60 is convenient for expressing fractions. Sixty is the smallest number divisible by first six counting numbers and by 10, 12, 15, 20 and 30 as well. Sumerians used this system to base their calculations on astronomy (among other things). Said system was passed on from Sumerians to Babylonians, who then passed this system to Greeks later on. Keep that in mind.

First civilization to come up with the hour concept were Egyptians. They had a system based on a sundial for counting hours during the day and observing stars for counting hours during the night.

Day time was split into 12 parts because they used finger joints to count. For nights, they used a system based on observing stars and their positions. First they used 18 stars as reference (12 for total darkness and 3 for each twilight period). That means days would have 12 hours and nights 18. Later on, Egyptians updated this system to use only 12 stars as reference at nights, so both days and nights would have same amount of hours. This system was somewhat flawed though. Hours would be much shorter / longer during days or nights based on what season they were in.

But now, about a thousand years later, comes the Greek.

An astronomer named Eratosthenes used that sexagesimal system to divide a circle into 60 parts, as early geographic system of latitude consisting in horizontal lines through known places on Earth at the time. About a hundred years later, another astronomer named Hipparchus standardized latitude lines by making them parallel and proportional to Earth's geometry, also coming up with longitude lines encompassing 360 degrees. Based on that, Hipparchus also suggested splitting days into 24 equinoctial hours, based on those latitude / longitude coordinates he had just came up with, so hours would no longer vary in duration based on season, as Egyptians had.

A few decades after Hipparchus work, Claudius Ptolemy (an Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer of Greek descent) expanded on Hipparcus work. He subdivided each of the 360 degrees of latitude and longitude into smaller segments (60 parts each), then subdivided each of those smaller segments into 60 parts each. First division was named partes minutae primae (first minute), known simply as the "minute", while second segmentation, partes minutae secundae, (second minute), became known as the "second". However, hours were still not divided into minutes and minutes into seconds initially for time keeping purposes.

This would become standard time measurement only by the end of 16th century (almost 1600 years later) with the invention of the mechanical clock, in order to keep all clocks adjusted, minutes (1/60 hours) and seconds (1/60 minutes) were used as reference, thus standardizing time measurements as we know them today.

This leads us to modern days, where scientific advancements made us change how seconds are defined. Instead of using the definition of 1/60 minutes to tell what a second is, International System of Units (SI) had other definitions which were than changed in 1967. That was when a second was redefined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 energy transitions of the cesium atom.
Said definition still persists and governs how we measure time today. Atomic timekeeping allowed Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). But then there's one interesting fact about atomic time and UTC...in order to keep atomic time in agreement with astronomical time, leap seconds need to be added to UTC occasionally. Even though our time measurement has never been so precise and standardized, even so not all minutes contain 60 seconds. About eight minutes per decade actually contain 61 seconds instead.

Why did I take the time to search and share all this? Working. Hardware upgrades on some servers. Waiting folks to reboot the servers after hardware upgrades just so I can do my thing on software side. Adding some information to this topic, so now whoever comes here do know how our time is defined and measured.

But why is a year 365 days? Why 12 months in a year? Why some have 30 days, others 31 and February has only 28? Why leap years exist? I'll leave those questions unanswered for now, as first server is coming back up and I need to start working.

Cool. How many times have you posted this on CE?

ChrisReeve posted...

Cafe du Monde

I personally think their beignets are horrible--I really don't get why they're so popular

Nirvanas_Nox posted...

Ugh I hate my phone. I meant anyone.

( O_o)

Nirvanas_Nox posted...

Anyone is absolutely delicious as a dessert.

Damn, you scary ( O_o)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0zwOf4JAmk&ab_channel=AZ_Bros

I went to a bar like that in Vegas, robots make your drinks and bring them to you--they still want a tip

pegusus123456 posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nix6tC3vvjs

That was pretty funny

Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/9/8/AAABltAAEZz6.jpg

I have one of those 10 year old laptops that are just for the internet too.

I'm viewing this on 15-year-old desktop connected to my TV even though I bought a new desktop three years ago and haven't even touched it

Aloc posted...

Oh my God. You people are the exact same as the ban video games of the 90s.

Generations don't change.

Yeah, this isn't a thing specific to TikTok...

joe40001 posted...

...even if the person they are calling right-wing has never voted for a republican president?

How do you know who people voted for? >_>

So, how would the bill deal with the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA)?

That seemed super random for that level of aggression

Queen Elizabeth was a trained mechanic.
During her time as a princess, she was a member of the Womens Auxiliary Territorial Service during WWII.

HannibalBarca3 posted...

Enough about Kleopatra VII Philopator. There's much more interesting stories about the diadochi to be told.

BurmesePenguin posted...

Honestly yeah, the conflicts that followed Alexander's death are as interesting as the fall of the Roman Republic but gets way less focus on pop education.

I'm to lazy to look it up but very interested and upset that you didn't include links to anything ( -_-)

all you haters on here, can you explain the magic of reflection?

I feel like that should be the end of the show--everything wrapped up nicely

DepreceV2 posted...

Enjoy your random drug test coming up!

I think you're living a decade in the past

wackyteen posted...

If you want these kids to be forced to have kids, you should be forced to support and/or adopt said kids.

It's fairly apparent that Republicans only care about life before it's born. After that, they need to start taking care of themselves.

Damn... ( -_-)

Takes me back to being a kid, although I'm not sure kids should've watched this show

kunoichi = 9+1

are they nude?

Letron_James posted...

Milk in tea is low-key not good anyways tbh

not even low-key, just straight up nasty

Many oranges are green.
Even when fully ripe, several oranges are green. In some locations in the world such as South America and tropical islands, oranges are green all year round.

MedeaLysistrata posted...

In the Three Body Problem books blackholes exist because intelligent species use them to hide the presence of their planet from danger

Cool idea but it wouldn't be very practical as it's just a huge sign pointing at you--like, if you're hiding, you probably want to appear just like everything else around you and not a massively strong gravitational anomaly.

Yes, but I put my cart away...that dude has such a punchable face

radical_rhino posted...

I think its only bad if you shove it in your ear hole. I use them every day to clean the opening of the hole, plus under the ridge across the middle of the ear.

But that's what most people do with them

working fine for me. You all on Android or something?

Compsognathus posted...

It's perfectly fine to post the call in number since it is public and meant to be shared.

774-258-6500

That's fucking cool. I'm listening to it now

R1masher posted...

Best movie was Better Off Dead, should make a sequel

They did, and it has Demi Moore in it

Deteled posted...

There's another It movie?

I think they just started filming

The next movie is a prequel so...

nexigrams posted...

There is nothing in the news about that. Tensions with China? Sure. China being butthurt about a free an independant Taiwan? Yep.

But the decade-long US effort to block China from getting their hands on the latest and smallest process nodes? No. About how the entire point of taking over Taiwan is to get their hands on their smallest dies? Never. The closest thing I can remember hearing about is how TSC recently moved 48% of their production to Arizona. They talked about how it was unprecedented, but nobody in the mainstream media talked about why that was significant.

The Cold War with China is specifically about computer chips, and I really don't recall ever seeing this in the news. Much less daily.

You are objectively wrong, and obviously haven't been paying too much attention, because negotiating the TSC plant in Arizona was why Pelosi was in Taiwan and is another example of the U.S. trying to keep semiconductors out of mainland China. This is old repeating news. For your own benefit, I would stay away from doubling down on your ignorance >_>

nexigrams posted...

Meta data is the new oil? How very 2005. Whatever the smallest process node Taiwan Semiconductor is currently pumping out is the new oil. People still haven't realized it, but the new Cold War with China has been underway over this resource for at least 10 years now.

Really? Because that's in the news practically every day...

VampireCoyote posted...

plants dont have brains or a nervous system and I gotta eat something

They kinda do tho...

https://www.science.org/content/article/plants-communicate-distress-using-their-own-kind-nervous-system

VampireCoyote posted...

Do I really want treat eat meat from something that had thoughts and felt pain likely fear

Everything feels pain, even plants. You just got to decide on your level of empathy. Like, I don't eat mammals because I sympathize with their pain but not so much with fish or broccoli

interesting

Gobstoppers12 posted...

No, it's the guy who was going to play Deathstroke before the DCEU imploded on itself.

He's a major D&D fan.

Oh, the werewolf dude from True Blood? Cool

Were_Wyrm posted...

Yep, headed by Joe Manganiello.

Is that Bender? Is it going to be a comedy?

Were_Wyrm posted...

It was great, and anyone that wants serious D&D can just watch the Dragonlance TV series that's coming.

Dragonlance series is coming?