NAh it's just a simple mass*speed -> Energy -> mass*speed conversion, so it's really just a matter of adding more mass (ie. people).
Though i bet he alone could launch one of those skinny girls pretty far.
>> ^dag:

Noticed that all the people getting sky were pretty skinny - the end confirms this device's flaw.

Red Bull is saving it for a professional quality promotional viral vid. It'll be out soon.>> ^spoco2:

Skip to around 3:30 if you'd rather not see some seriously dull checklisting.
And then... meh, not that exciting watching a blob for that long.
Where's the video of the full decent from his helmet or chest?

Skip to around 3:30 if you'd rather not see some seriously dull checklisting.

And then... meh, not that exciting watching a blob for that long.

Where's the video of the full decent from his helmet or chest?

>> ^xxovercastxx:

Why is a heartbeat so important? Deer have heartbeats and yet, every fall, the forests are filled with armed Republicans.
Since we clearly only care about killing humans, if a line is to be drawn in the sand, then I say it needs to be on the basis of the development of a definitively human quality in the fetus.
I must have missed your comment earlier and wanted to reply, but the latest three replies in that thread were already mine, and the last one is, to me, the most important, so I figured I'd reply here.



I put the heartbeat comment in parentheses because it wasn't the point in itself, but illustrative of how quickly the fetus develops. After seeing my own developing children on an ultrasound, I can understand the reasoning behind the "mandatory pre-operative ultrasound" legislation a few states have instituted. I was very surprised by how quickly things go from "dark blob" to "vaguely humanoid" to "little person" and I suspect a non-trivial proportion of people seeking abortion may be as uninformed about it as I was. I was not at all expecting to hear their heartbeats when we did, which is why the heartbeat illustration carries weight with me.

I think your "line in the sand" is a perfectly rational approach. I disagree personally, but I can appreciate that you're taking a reasoned approach and I would be willing to accept it as a basis for legislation on the matter.
It gets problematic when we attempt to define "a definitively human quality". On one extreme, a human fetus is and will be a human fetus. On the other extreme, even newborns only look human, and exhibit few, if any, behaviors that distinguish them from primates. (Primate rights, or animal rights in general being another hot potato, tying in to the "only care about killing humans" sentiment.)

What, to you, would constitute a "definitively human quality"? Limbs? Beginning of neural development?
(This directly ties into what I think is that "most important question", so if you'd like to reply in the original thread, that's great.)

Boner: It is still confusing...

Astrophysicists have created the most realistic computer simulation of the universe's evolution to date, tracking activity from the Big Bang to now -- a time span of around 14 billion years -- in high resolution.

Created by a team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics (CfA) in collaboration with researchers at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), the Arepo software provides detailed imagery of different galaxies in the local universe using a technique known as "moving mesh".

Unlike previous model simulators, such as the Gadget code, Arepo's hydrodynamic model replicates the gaseous formations following the Big Bang by using a virtual, flexible grid that has the capacity to move to match the motions of the gas, stars, dark matter and dark energy that make up space -- it's like a virtual model of the cosmic web, able to bend and flex to support the matter and celestial bodies that make up the universe. Old simulators instead used a more regimented, fixed, cubic grid.

"We took all the advantages of previous codes and removed the disadvantages," explained Volker Springel, the HITS astrophysicist who built the software. Springel, an expert in galaxy formation who helped build the Millennium Simulation to trace the evolution of 10 billion particles, used Harvard's Odyssey supercomputer to run the simulation. Its 1,024 processor cores allowed the team to compress 14 billion years worth of cosmic history in the space of a few months.

The results are spiral galaxies like the Milky Way and Andromeda that actually look like spiral galaxies -- not the blurred blobs depicted by previous simulators -- generated from data input that stretches as far back as the afterglow of the Big Bang, thus portraying a dramatic cosmic evolution (see the above video for a sneak peek of that evolution from four billion years after the Big Bang).

"We find that Arepo leads to significantly higher star formation rates for galaxies in massive haloes and to more extended gaseous disks in galaxies, which also feature a thinner and smoother morphology than their Gadget counterparts," the team states in a paper describing the technology.

Though the feat is impressive -- CfA astrophysicist Debora Sijacki compares the high-resolution simulation's improvement over previous models to that of the 24.5-metre aperture Giant Magellan Telescope's improvement over all telescopes -- the team aim to generate simulations of larger areas of the universe. If this is achieved, the team will have created not only the most realistic, but the biggest universe simulation ever.



>> ^BoneRemake:

this video is a waste without addition information.
what am I looking at. spiraling gas' or something.
what is the significance, why did nine people upvote something they probably do not understand.
what part of the universe is this ? why didnt it start at the beginning ?
WHY WHY FUCKING WHY.

It's THE BLOB!

Don't you think not raping people is setting too high a standard for a group of people trained to bomb and kill other people? Sure sexual assault in the military is unacceptable but lets not forget we're dealing with a bunch of folks whose job it is to gun down blurry human shaped blobs through telescopic infra-red monitor displays five miles above the ground. Don't confuse them too much with ideas about ethics and respect for their fellow human beings.

Now before you lube up your keyboard for an angry response just take a minute to remember the tens of thousands of men and women who laid down their lives and the millions of men, women and children they killed so that I would have the right to type this trolling diatribe.

*splat* big blob of resin falls outta nowhere on the last one

Is pretty impressive that the display is an X/Y top down... needs a mouse where you can just click on a colored blob to send an extra gigawatt into that 1 sq ft area.

>> ^fissionchips:

It's a little complicated, because aluminum is also a good conductor (ie. low electrical resistance). To keep the coil from overheating, these induction forge rigs have water hoses that circulate cold water through the copper coil. >> ^Ornthoron:
>> ^mxxcon:
how did those copper tubes didn't melt?

Copper is a better conductor than aluminium.

water and electricity?

It's a little complicated, because aluminum is also a good conductor (ie. low electrical resistance). To keep the coil from overheating, these induction forge rigs have water hoses that circulate cold water through the copper coil. >> ^Ornthoron:

>> ^mxxcon:
how did those copper tubes didn't melt?

Copper is a better conductor than aluminium.

>> ^mxxcon:

how did those copper tubes didn't melt?

Copper is a better conductor than aluminium.

Your video, Levitating molten blob of aluminum is coming for you, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

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>> ^Ti_Moth:

I can't remember the last THQ game I actually enjoyed.


What about de Blob? I quite enjoyed that

thanks! ive always liked blob videos and this one is obviously the best!