I'm on the "bah humbug" side of Christmas, honestly. I go along with it because most my family & friends, but honestly, I find it exhausting and obnoxious.

The Ironing

I mean, as far as I know, trichromates get a red-gray, a green-gray, a blue-gray, and a gray-gray already - tinted grays. I just have an additional octarine-gray.

In a college lab of about 25 students, we were experimenting with a spectrometer (a device that can emit all of a range of light). We got into an argument if a sample was lighting up in the spectrometer or not, so we decided to dry-run the spectrometer. Turned out, we couldn't agree on the dry run either. So, we decided that the X variable was ourselves. So we tested the vision range of all the students in the class. Half were spot-on visible light spectrum. One was known color-blind, and two others discovered they were colorblind that day. Most others were very close to standard visual range, with two exceptions. Me and one other girl discovered we were tetrachromates, but in different ways. She, (an ex-fighter pilot, how she paid for college), saw about half-again of the visible light spectrum into the ultra-violet. I saw half-again into infrared. We looked it up and found both were types of tetrachromate. Seeing that fourth primary color as the only light in the spectrometer kind of "called it out" that it was a fourth color and not just some weird eye condition that had made so many things "fuzzy coloring" as I grew up.

I call my fourth primary color Octarine.

You think that's tough, never play galactic risk.

My saurapod was fine until until he got a sore throat and became a bronchiosore.

That's mythology, not history.

Abrahamic history doesn't start to match real history until you get to the kingdom of Isreael period. That said it does start to match some things starting that point, so credence can be given to your point.

That said, the Sumerian version of the ark story also didn't happen. It's a story that got passed, but doesn't fit the archeology.

We've gotten used to old ancient writings from Abrahamic religions being so off kilter, we forgot that the same pattern didn't apply to the rest.

The Native Americans on the West coast accurately tracked multiple natural disasters that were evidenced later.

Sexist and hinting at an unaddressed need for homosexuality?

Preach it. My parents were military, so I moved all around the states as a kid, and a little bit after out on my own. Blue states are veritable paradises compared to the 3rd-world-country that is red-state USA.

I'm more than happy with that .46 extra a gallon with all the positive benefits living in the area has. And WA actually has some of the gentlist taxes I've seen. We don't even have income taxes in this state.

Basically how fast a neuron can transmit a signal by how many dendrite-to-neuron connections there are.

The funny part is in the human brain, storage and processing are pretty much the same thing (so storage and processing are the same); it'd be like if the whole hard drive was stored in L1 caching. Previously, I had been watching HDD's, wondering when they'd hit the 5 exa- threshold; this article about processors hitting exabytes completely blindsided me, because if its actively processing, it can effectively count as storage, like the brain does it of the two being synonymous - meaning I was expecting this point maybe a decade and a half from now; not potentially next or even this year. Thing is, with a 5 exaflop computer, you could actually do a full human brain. With 64 exa- well... you're solidly into territory where we better start looking to science fiction for advice.

As someone who has worked in bioinformatics and done the math... 64 exaflops is huge. And by huge, I mean, 5 exaflops is the processing capability of the human brain. This thing, depending on how they build it, has the potential to be five times as smart as a human. Up until now, our best has been approaching one exaflop, which meant on par with certain pets.

Not convinced they'll actually pull it off, though.

How else do you think he got all that investor money to not build tubes?

But wouldn't suffering nobody responding to him be a consequence of his bad wish making?

I really wouldn't call them "still real".

There's lots of posers, but land is sectioned up so much that actual cowboys (aka, shepards for cows) who guide cows across large vistas fatting them up while leading them to the destination to sell, are kind of non-existant now.

Also, people have a tendency to conflate actual cowboys with sphegetti western cowboys, which were faker than Sasquatch in a Polaroid shop.

Reminds me of a guy that claimed the G-spot was a myth women made up to shame men. He, also, did not get a second date.

I already see them frequently break down when I talk about cryogenic freezing. (I'm signed up for it). I'm like, "If my death isn't guaranteed to be permanent, what point does your religion have for me?" I've yet to get a good concrete answer. Pascal's wager means nothing if you don't have to play.

Fair, I missed that part, I was more focused on it being an Alcubierre derivative that can actually work. Thanks for catching me on that.

Also, my disappointment is immeasurable.

I think it's time to retire religion, especially the Abrahamic ones.

Magic not neccesarry.

Alcubierre drive concept has been refined to the point to where it's achievable with non-exotic forms of matter at semi-realistic energy requirements, and we've known thanks to the math behind super-strings that faster-than-light travel has always been technically possible, and may even happen naturally.

https://thedebrief.org/new-warp-drive-model-requires-no-exotic-matter-scientists-say-we-can-build-it/

Interesting... so the ideal is in between hard and soft?

Oh, interesting, I'll have to look that up

... I wonder if a solid sail would work on a sailboat...

Fair, I guess