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It's okay that means Dies is shit too Actually from what I gather from my more trustworthy sources (batman and Rooke) all VNs are shit anyway, no reason to hype all that much.

It's basically confirmed (from chats) that it's the "secret" garejei/conjueror/moogy project, so it seems to be in good hands.

Getting a master's degree can give you higher income at first but also a higher likelihood of getting hired somewhere, which can be relevant for countries where unemployment is growing (pretty much everywhere). And well, there's also the question of what the hell you want to do with your life, too. But of course you can't always afford it.

Y'know, this isn't gonna go anywhere if someone doesn't concretely lists what plot holes they think there are in Steins;Gate so we can examine them.

The original confessions thread can be used for "real life" things too, although it is admittedly more common to see "tfw when no gf ;_;" types of posts than "my father literally died" ones. Condolences, by the way. Throw down all prisons, as they say.

Plz, all it'll take is some good unban run shitposting and you'll be back. Also Fuwa can literally help you at maths bro

daaaaaank meme rate on fuwa just spiked to 200% higher

It's a definite current trend and people are keenly aware of it, see for example this blog post about some of the japanese fandom's reaction to it.

You'll have to wait in line, I've infiltrated the fuwa mod team years ago in order to execute my plan to start a Revolution and make Fuwa a marxist state.

Doesn't seem to be (although there's hardly anyone in there). Address is ts3.fuwanovel.net (You could also swing by batman's discord server)

Are you asking because you actually wanted an advice or did you just want to make a thread to complain about muh panty censorship?

I like a lot this analysis of Brexit by Glenn Greenwald which puts it in a broader perspective. I think he's right on many points. https://theintercept.com/2016/06/25/brexit-is-only-the-latest-proof-of-the-insularity-and-failure-of-western-establishment-institutions/

Different physical constants is a costly hypothesis, for two reasons. The first one is that physical constants being, well, constant, is a very fundamental thing: if physical constants vary in space, then we no longer conserve linear momentum and that has huge implications on the very structures and symmetries of the laws of physics. The second one is that, I don't know if the math has been done or not, but you'd probably need a fairly large difference (everything lies in what exactly is 'large') in order to account for dark matter and/or energy. And there are theoretical limits to how different physical constants can be without having a completely different universe. Doesn't mean we should rule it out, but it's less costly to hypothesize currently unknown, weakly interacting matter. There's still a huge thorn in the side of that leading hypothesis though, namely the fact that although some theories predicted the existence of particles that seemed to fit, we haven't been able to find them experimentally in the LHC & co. So yeah, nothing's really certain. (As for dark energy I know very little about it)

Meh. Politics is fundamentally about conflicts. Making society is all about finding a way to configure the various balances of powers so as to minimize violence in all its multiple forms. But you're never going to completely suppress violence and conflict. If there's no conflict in the public space, then you're probably living under a dictatorship. That's, in the end, how things play out: through conflict. Not by discussing in the ethereal realm of abstract ideas and balanced arguments where everyone is equal and rational 100% of the time. I can't really say much more considering I don't really know the american political climate all that well but I don't really see this kind of turmoil as a necessarily negative thing, I'd rather take it as a sign that things are about to change.

It would. You moving towards the object and it being still or you being still and the object moving towards you is exactly the same, it's only a matter of perspective.

Aside from what Flutterz said, if you were going towards it at not the speed of light but a bit less (let's say 0.9 times the speed of light), it would actually appear to be slower. In special relativity there's this fucked up thing called time dilation.

The simplest spectroscope you could imagine, and indeed what was used by astronomers a century or two ago, is a prism. A prism deviates each wavelength of light by a different angle and thus allows to view what we call the "spectrum" of the light, i.e. what wavelength we can find in it. Spectroscopy in general is very broad, though. The explanation iamnoob gave is actually only partial: if you observed the light of the sun through a prism, as you know, you'd see a continuous spectrum (i.e. all the wavelength would be there). That's because the light emitted by stars does not come from the transitions of the atoms in it, but from what is called "black-body radiation", which is purely due to temperature. A physical body without particular other optical properties (hence the black-body term) will emit light according to its temperature, in the form of a continuous spectrum. The peak of this spectrum depends on temperature: on the surface of the sun, around 6000K, the center is around visible light. Cooler stars will look red, hotter stars blue. For bodies at ~300K (30°C) it would be pretty far in the infrared. Yes, we do radiate too. What happens then is that a part of that black-body radiation is absorbed by the molecules within the stars (the absorption spectrum of a molecule is simply the complementary of its emission spectra), creating small gaps in the otherwise continuous spectrum (not really visible with the naked eye and a simple prism). We can compare those gaps with the known emission spectras of various molecules we test on earth and match them onto the star's spectra. Emission spectras are more useful when we want information on other stuff like gas clouds in the interstellar medium. Molecules in those regions can get into excited states because of all the shit going around (cosmic rays etc) and then emit light at specific wavelengths which allows us to identify them. Of course that's only the basics of it: in reality it's more complicated. Stars are mostly made of hydrogen, so it's very easy to see the marks of hydrogen in a spectrum. There's also a bunch of Helium, but the rest is only there as tiny fractions, which means you won't see clear gaps in the spectrum but only slight deviations to the anticipated black-body radiation... There is a whole range of techniques available to astronomers though.

AMA about astronomy, I work in laboratory astrophysics. Which contrary to what the name implies means I know a lot about lasers and ultra-vacuum and spectroscopy and shit but nothing about astrophysics and astronomy.

I personally plan to get all my news from Rooke's upcoming live streaming of his morning news reading sessions. I can't imagine a better way of doing it.

If people could only read this sentence right here, maybe we would get less people complaining because announcement X or kickstarter Y wasn't updated every single week or something got delayed for a mere month.

The manga is still ongoing so you'll have to pray for a 3rd season rather than a conclusion. And believe me what happens after the 2nd season is that shit gets real, so I really want to watch it on screen.

I've had panic attacks a few times over the last year too. It usually comes with physical pains, slight vertigos and headaches that last days or even weeks afterwards. Not very pleasant, although it's been getting better lately. It took me a while (several months) to realize I was actually getting panic attacks and that it wasn't "normal" to freak out over what I had so I never went to see a psychiatrist though. Only pointless medical exams to check if there wasn't something wrong. You probably know that already but be wary of what you can read on the internet. Sometimes reading other people with symptoms similar to yours help easing the anxiety, but sometimes it just makes it worse as you become persuaded you have some horrible illness and are going to die soon.

Heh. Sheer coincidence, I discovered yesterday this site (because of the massive twitter leak) and learned that 1) I have a hongfire account (I think, maybe that's someone else with the same username) 2) it was hacked last year

Sounds rad. Don't close the door behind you Rooke, I'm coming too.

Took a tablet so I can emulate gamez and read mango on it. Probably less good in terms of reading comfort but I'm fine with it so far.