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[DeinonSlayer]

Xkcd is far overrated. The only satisfaction is from 'getting' the joke and smiling sightly to yourself because you know enough to understand it. The jokes themselves aren't funny. At all. It's also pretentious.

SMBC is way more insightful and actually funny.

Is there anything which doesn't provoke a condescending scoff from you?

[CronoDragoon]

Putting David on ignore seems like a fruitless exercise. He always pisses off enough people to get quoted.

[Jukaga]

Given I seldom assault people with gaming memes in my daily life, that's a 'downside' I can deal with.

[MassivelyEffective0730]

Xkcd is far overrated. The only satisfaction is from 'getting' the joke and smiling sightly to yourself because you know enough to understand it. The jokes themselves aren't funny. At all. It's also pretentious.

 

SMBC is way more insightful and actually funny.

 

You're criticizing something for being pretentious?

 

*scoffs mockingly at the mocking scoff*

[Bob from Accounting]

I did just say SMBC is way more insightful and actually funny.

[MassivelyEffective0730]

Putting David on ignore seems like a fruitless exercise. He always pisses off enough people to get quoted.

 

There's no point to doing it. You also get to miss out on the priceless gems that make the BSN worth coming to.

[CronoDragoon]

Wait wait, before anyone quotes the latest post let me apply my David Mad Libz.

 

That is a completely ______ statement. What absolutely _________ drivel. Do people actually think that ________ means ________? That is ___________. But I suppose it should be expected from ___________ that ___________.

 

How close was I?

[von uber]

Xkcd is far overrated. The only satisfaction is from 'getting' the joke and smiling sightly to yourself because you know enough to understand it. The jokes themselves aren't funny. At all. It's also pretentious.

 

SMBC is way more insightful and actually funny.

 

[AlexMBrennan]

SMBC is way more insightful and actually funny.

Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council?

[von uber]

Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council?

 

Stockport - now there's a dump. Quality viaduct though.

[Fayfel]

For those of you interested in the direction the geth/quarian conflict might have taken if L'Etoile had stayed on here's something he posted awhile back.

 

 

I agree that the Reapers should require a bit more to bring them down. During ME2's production, I had a vision of an ME3 scene in which the quarians have to ram a Liveship into one to cripple or kill it. The only thing that would have saved the quarian fleet from destruction was the geth using a wormhole to jump in one of their great works - if not the actual Dyson Shell, then a Matrioska Brain. It throws back the Reapers by chucking black holes at them - biotic-style Singularities on a massive scale.

 

Some interesting implications in there.

[Bob from Accounting]

That does not sound like a good idea at all.

 

In fact, it sounds like a pretty damn horrible idea.

[Jukaga]

That does not sound like a good idea at all.

 

In fact, it sounds like a pretty damn horrible idea.

The whole notion of the Geth building stellar megastructures was a terrible idea, with no basis in any sort of plausible reality. I shudder at the math, but they would need the complete mass of an incredible amount of star systems to build the thing.

[Bob from Accounting]

The whole notion of the Geth building stellar megastructures was a terrible idea, with no basis in any sort of plausible reality. I shudder at the math, but they would need the complete mass of an incredible amount of star systems to build the thing.

 

Ridiculous.

 

Is this the same reasoning that concludes blast effects are 'irrelevant' based on Siberia having life? You're pulling numbers out of your ass and calling it science and 'plausible reality.' You have no idea to the extent of the density of the platforms.

 

Try using some actual evidence next time. Then maybe you can talk about 'plausible reality.'

[Jukaga]

Ridiculous.

 

Is this the same reasoning that concludes blast effects are 'irrelevant' based on Siberia having life? You're pulling numbers out of your ass and calling it science and 'plausible reality.' You have no idea to the extent of the density of the platforms.

Here's a snippet from wikipedia.

 

Also if assuming a radius of one AU, then there may not be sufficient building material in the Solar System to construct a Dyson shell. Anders Sandberg estimates that there is 1.82×10²⁶ kg of easily usable building material in the Solar System, enough for a 1-AU shell with a mass of 600 kg/m²—about 8–20 cm thick on average, depending on the density of the material. This includes the hard-to-access cores of the gas giants; the inner planets alone provide only 11.79×10²⁴ kg, enough for a 1-AU shell with a mass of just 42 kg/m².

I did overstate it somewhat, but still the engineering problems are outside the scope and the time of the MEU. And this is for a very thin shell. If the Geth were building a 'Dyson Swarm' then the plausibility edges closer to reality.

[Bob from Accounting]

That's for a Dyson Shell. i'm nearly certain it's said point-blank the geth are constructioning a series of platforms. Or a 'swarm,' as you call it.

[Jukaga]

That's for a Dyson Shell. i'm nearly certain it's said point-blank the geth are constructioning a series of platforms. Or a 'swarm,' as you call it.

I don't recall any details on the matter, does anyone have a codex or in game statement?

[MassivelyEffective0730]

Prepare for Davidian scoff in 3....2....1...

[DeinonSlayer]

I don't recall any details on the matter, does anyone have a codex or in game statement?

The description of it in the galaxy map in ME3. It's a dyson bubble configuration.

Prepare for Davidian scoff in 3....2....1...

Need a scoff jar or something.

[Jukaga]

If L'Etoile's idea of a 'Matrioska Brain' was ever included however then I will safely assert that for Type I civilizations that all the MEU races (save the Reapers) represent it would be completely impossible. A Matrioska Brain is an AU-wide double-hulled Dyson Shell.

[Bob from Accounting]

"Close to the star, the Normandy's scanner can detect a nigh-uncountable number of geth statites -- satellites that use solar sails to self-correct their position. The geth placed the ultra-lightweight constructions around the sun to collect energy, arranged in a vast array known as a Dyson bubble. Scattered among them are space stations and servers that draw power from the statites through wireless energy transfer. Most of the space stations are wreckage now, and no small number of solar sails have also been destroyed. It appears the quarians began to destroy them but were stopped before the attack was complete."

[Jukaga]

The description of it in the galaxy map in ME3. It's a dyson bubble configuration.

Need a scoff jar or something.

Edited as David posted in-game text on it.

 

I think their choice of 'Bubble' is misleading. That would imply a single construct. 'Swarm' is the more accepted term that I've come across.

[Bob from Accounting]

I'm Bob. From Accounting.

 

Back to the relevant issue. Despite L'Etoile apparently being the current darling writer of this section of the forum, the idea is terrible. God awful.

[Iakus]

I admit a Jupiter Brain would have been more reasonable, and are speculated to actually exist in the ME-verse