Guess it’s about time for more polls
Which of these creatures do you think is the largest one which Disturbance could realisticly take down?
- Mouse
- Rat
- Lynx
- Wolf
- Bear
- Elephant
- Tyrannosaurus
- a member of Titanosauria
0
voters
so, here’s a train of thought i’ve been going over for a while.
since all the waste products of an electric heater eventually turn into heat(heat produced directly by the heater isn’t waste heat sinceit’s the goal, light eventually turns into heat, and sound is just ordered vibations, while heat is chaotic vibrations), every electric heater that doesn’t have the goal of heating one specific spot is technically 100% efficient(the thing that’s being heated with it might not be at storing heat, but that’s not a loss in efficiency of the heater, and if it were you would just remove the heater after you get it to the correct heat), but where they vary is the speed of heat production and the electricity used.
that led me to thinking what else has its efficiency drastically differ depending on what you’re using it for, then at some point i adopted the view that the view that whether or not you can reach perfect efficiency depends solely on if you’re defining efficiency as how much energy is converted into what you want, how much energy is converted into what you can use, or both. that then led me to think of how efficiency should be defined, which i eventually decided the efficiency of a thing’s intended purposes should be made the most noticable, while purposes said thing can be used for, and the efficiency of them if you do, should be listed in text anyone can notice and read if they want to, with a general efficiency score for if you use it for all of its possible purposes, as well as a disclaimer for everything thats not converting energy with no information stored in it to energy with no stored information, that a higher general efficiency score doesn’t mean the product is better.
at some point after that i was thinking about portals([1]) and the applications they would be use for in a modern magical setting, with rules as similar to our universe as magic allows, so i eventually thought about how gravity would interact with the portals, and basically it would almost definitely go through them unless the spell was cast in a very specific way to make the portals not let gravity through them, which means the portals would create feilds of decreased or ‘negative’ gravity[2] around them depending on how strong gravity is on each end, meaning that a tungsten lined from top to bottom in magnets with the outwards facing pole alternating along a square grid wrapping around the cylinder would allow infinite energy production if you just wrapped a coil around it(so would a water wheel or weight powered turbine, but the idea remains the same), and the only ways energy would be ‘lost’ through the portals are if putting matter through the portals took energy(which, ideally, it shouldn’t), and by the gravity well pulling the heavy magnet stick accelerating in the direction the magnet stick is relative to it, which can be fixed with another one of these setups using a magnet stick weighing exactly the same as the first one on the exact opposite side of the gravity well, being slowed down exactly as much as the other magnet stick, and through the wighted magnet stick reaching terminal velocity(which should be pretty high if the clearance is good).
if you managed to read all that, i’m impressed, and i probably couldn’t if i tried without separating it into more parts. anyways, assuming the portals essentially create a spot where going through the portal instantly(without the limitations of light speed) moved you from one spot in space to another by essntially just being a two sided, idealized wormhole that didn’t take nearly as much energy to maintain as it did to create, with ways to make portals that maintain themselves (rather than needing a mage to keep them open) with stuff that can be supplied without human interaction, how do y’all think the society you live in would exploit this, and how well do you think the infinite water wheels/infinitely falling magnet stick would work, if at all?
they’re a bit of a fantastical concept, but they’re essentially just stable, fictional wormholes that everything that can get to them can get through them unless something(usually magic or magic handwave pseudoscience) is preventing something specific or everything but a specific thing from getting through ↩︎
meaning matter is being pulled away from the nearest gravity well to the portal ↩︎
1 Like
reading and understanding this is like reading and understanding the principia mathematica on release, you will get pretty lost at first (and at second, and third… you get it) but when you finally understand the rambles you also ends up having an complex understanding of gravity.
the fact, that in theory we could generate infinite energy with portals, and that makes the stupid second termodynamics law angry, i suppose that wormholes wouldn’t be possible in real life (but of course i don’t have any authority to disprove an highly studied scientific hypotesis, this is just my personal conclusion.)
since more than 70% of my country energy comes from hydroelectric plants, I can easily imagine essentially an ordinary hydroelectric plant, but instead of being connected to a flooded river, it has an exit of portals at the top that fall into the turbines very quickly (probably using some system to accelerate the water beyond gravity acceleration) and this same water falls at the portal entrance, which is surrounded by a hydrophobic cone to minimize losses.
2 Likes
If it continues like that, the company is going to get bankrupt.
https://steamdb.info/app/1422450/
Valve is going to release a new game soon! noclick received an invitation to playtest the game.
1 Like
I thought you’d say that this game would have anything to do with the blessed deckard…
Well, I’m not so sure about that. It seems to be a hero type of game and I saw some screenshots. I don’t know how you could play the game in VR.
1 Like
creature stage could definitely be played VR, especially with how the player creature’s senses are supposed to be supplied to the player
1 Like
I mean the disturbance is like really small in the original picture, I think it would take a lot of luck to even take down a mouse.
1 Like
Where and when did sciont say that? Was it provided in the original art upload?
Also, did anybody ever manage to kill 2 birds with 1 stone?
No you don’t, there was only magic portals with a few mentions of gravity, the entire argument is not based on any sort of truth, it’s just magic with science words.
I was referring to principia mathematica.
Also, wormholes are cool, and theoretically possible.
Wasn’t the expression “two birds with one arrow”? But, in a way or another, if i dropped a stone in a nest it would kill a bit more than 2 birds, depending on the species.
1 Like
Don’t they require a 4th spacial dimension to work?
1 Like
theoretically possible. The strings theory are an very serious hypotesis, and if i’m not mistaken it deals with more than 12 dimensions, so everything is possible™ when you go too much deep on the theory.
1 Like
Wormholes are, but Dawn wasn’t talking about wormholes, she was talking about literal magic and just named it “wormholes”.
1 Like
I was talking about Deadlock, not Thrive.
Quest handtracking in SteamVR Beta?
Eye tracking from the lighthouses!?
The Deckard is coming next month! The Deckard is coming next month! HAHAHAHA
Bro is starting to make me hyped
1 Like
“Valve is going to put blue belgiums on your fingertips”
What in the name of Romp is a blue belgium?
2 Likes
Shuttlebelgiums are what replaces a tennis ball in a sport called “badminton”.
1 Like
Shuttlebelgiums? Space Shuttle but corrupted with belgium?
1 Like
No, I just told you what it was.
Patent ID: US 20240265650 A1
Date Published: 2024-08-08
Date Filed: 2024-03-26
Title: HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY WITH PASS-THROUGH IMAGING
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-
blackjacksike.exe has stopped working.
2 Likes