I have a serious question: what stops a spaceship from just accelerating indefinitely? How long would it take to reach the speed of light with normal thrusts (ignore fuel consumption)? Would something drag it down? Would it implode like a black hole (due to near infinite mass) and destroy the thrusters?
Nothing really "stops" it from travelling that fast. With what exists today, nothing of significant mass can accelerate that fast, primarily due to the fact that the thrusters are pushing something that approaches the aforementioned infinite mass. It'd be like trying to push a building with your own two hands; eventually, the mass is just too great for any further acceleration to be possible, hence why light travels at the speed that it does.
As far as implosion goes: the answer is no, it would not. It would be dense beyond any conceivable form of recognition, but it would not implode.
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I have a last question .. o.o
Does that trick with the end flag of levels ... loses frames? If not, that should be used on a next run (if this game is still being improved, I liked to see that Mario can get stuck on the flag block, and the castle flag appears behind him) =P
It's usually faster, but there's a frame rule involved that can cause it to be slower.
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Did they take into account that the earth is spinning in their calibrations? Is that something that would need to be taken into account? Like, the earth is spinning in the opposite direction of neutrino travel so you get speed of light in direction of neutrino movement + whatever speed the earth is spinning at that radius in some other direction.
From what I gather, some of the earliest experiments in determining the speed of light showed that things don't work like that. Time and space dilate in such a way that the speed of light is constant no matter the setup.
Basically, yes. The speed of light is always constant. Take, for example, the brain bender that asks: "What would happen if you are driving at the speed of light and turn on your headlights?" Factoring out the fact that it's physically impossible (you would, theoretically, have infinite mass at such speeds (Newton's laws of motion back this up pretty well), nothing would happen. The beams would not present themselves ahead of you; they would stay right where they originated.
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Nobody would have cared about this thread if the submission never happened (very low exposure).
A submission (critical hit) about MLP (x2 super effective) for G3 (x2 super effective again) was unfortunately enough to hit some sensitive nerves. I wonder how this will play out.
Actually, the submission had nothing to do with this thread's creation. I just felt like creating it out of boredom.
Except I was the catalyst. Don't deny it.
You weren't. I discussed ponies on the IRC just as much as before you submitted the TAS. Stop being a narcissist; not everything is about you.
This thread is not at all going in the direction I had hoped for.
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Nobody would have cared about this thread if the submission never happened (very low exposure).
A submission (critical hit) about MLP (x2 super effective) for G3 (x2 super effective again) was unfortunately enough to hit some sensitive nerves. I wonder how this will play out.
Actually, the submission had nothing to do with this thread's creation. I just felt like creating it out of boredom.
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Yoshi's Island any% TAS with Carl Sagan
I'm an anti-MLP, and the way I practice my anti-MLPness is to do nothing, and to hope that this fad dies or gets considerably reduced after Season 2. Because every fad has an end.
You kind of contradicted yourself by posting here.
This is my last post here. See ya!
I saw that before you edited it!
Regardless, okay.
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The producer made Derpy Hooves an actual character in the show!
Her name is not going to be Derpy Hooves, though,
Mister Epic wrote:
I'm an anti-MLP, and the way I practice my anti-MLPness is to do nothing, and to hope that this fad dies or gets considerably reduced after Season 2. Because every fad has an end.
You kind of contradicted yourself by posting here.
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I'm not sure TASVideos should be one of those forums. This isn't the place for fads.
This is a community. People in a community discuss things. This just happens to be one of them.
My intent was not at all to create an argument thread. Could we please just stick with the pony discussion and keep the general hate out?
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Okay, open about it, sure, but when you claim to be proud that you're watching a show really meant for kids, that's probably a sign of that you're talking it too far.
"Proud" isn't really the right word for it. I'm not ashamed of it, and I tell people who ask about it that I like it (on the internet and IRL).
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In other words, it's a fad. I think a contributing factor to that is the irony of it all. While it is, on some level, legitimately good, I think many people play it up as much as they do because being a man who enjoys a girl's cartoon makes them feel special. And since it does have actual quality, they can get away with it.
Not everybody is as open and proud of it as, say, I am. A rather large chunk of the community lives in shame because of it - for fear of being ridiculed or otherwise.
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