THE NEW Miscellaneous Talk That Doesn't Deserve A New Thread Thread Thread (Part 2)

These are those bots which usually have overly long profile descriptions and are either promoting something or promoting themselves as “useful individuals”. In most cases they get very quickly removed after being first detected because of the anti-bot filter.

I’ve been calling them like that because to my knowledge the first of such bots to attack our forum (which I saw) was named “greg”.

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Filling out long profiles was a thing even before that. Greg was the first, remembered, bot that used ChatGPT to generate topics and post them.

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Pretty sure it was with greg that bots started appearing more oftenly in the forum

He’s a big fan of HL2. He took inspiration from belgium Germany and the Combine to craft his little sci-fi stories.

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You just saw it more as the old bots were so bad they got hit with the immediate manual review flag before they could even post anything.

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Ah I see.
Guess that greg and the bots after it still would count as a “new age” for bots in this forum. Greg-class.

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New controller in the making? Is it for the Deck-ard?

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Is it supposed to be like a console controller or one of these things you hold in your hands whilist being in VR?

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I genuinely don’t know. If it’s a controller with a D-Pad, why the hell does it have anything to do with VR? You don’t see D-Pads on VR controllers; you see joysticks. Also, having 4 main buttons (ABXY) is unconventional for a VR controller as it normally only has A & B. However, a hand strap is ONLY found on VR controllers (or Wii controllers, what a relic). Conclusion? It definitely is a VR controller, but has more buttons than it needs to probably to allow more action inputs in Valve’s future VR games.

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How much such “additional items” thought to be relating to the deckard have already been revealed?

It’s the only accessory to have been datamined so far unless there is a Base Station 3.0 device.

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I got re-interested in Astronomy due to watching NOVA. I forgot how interesting “Dwarf” Planets are, which made me wonder what it would be like to explore other “Dwarf” Planets.

Which “Dwarf” Planets should Humanity explore next?

  • Eris
  • Haumea
  • Makemake
  • Gonggong
  • Quaoar
  • Sedna
  • Other (will reply in comments)
0 voters
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Why would we want to explore the dwarf planets at the present?

As long i think we should try to send some landers to Ceres and Pluto, (and force that belgium belger called IAU to recognize more dwarf planets, like ma little Orcus, Farout, and FarFarout) it would be interesting to investigate Haumea enlongated shape, or just get more information about Eris cuz, that thing is HUGE (for transneptunian standarts)

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What could we find on these objects? Are we sure if they’re more worth exploring currently than some objects in solar system proper?

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what do we expect to find on more normal bodies? Mars, water, yes, that’s valid, but we’ve had landers working on that for years. The moon, mercury, moons of other places… not much to do. Planets have higher escape velocities too, so leaving is quite expensive. I’d say the actual targets we need to get on are those that offer something, so neither normal destinations or dwarf planets. I’d say there’s no harm in going everywhere, I like mars rovers asmuch as the next nerd and plenty of dwarf planets are close by, but if we had to choose a few places to go, I’d say start mining asteroids, and go to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, as some of them might have life signs.

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Who is still excited for the dragonfly mission?

Edit: @tabat here’s your ping

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More Saturn interest more better

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I wonder when we’ll get an europa clipper for enceladus

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There is a proposed orbilander for it that will theorically get on it… In the early 2050s.

but hey, maybe that space x rocket thing (OR THE SUPER DUPER EPIC LONG MARCH 9 HELL YEAH) make deep space probes more viable

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