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UnderpantsWeevil, do astronomy w Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia
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First they came for Pluto’s planethood.

Next they’re coming for Australia’s continenthood.

lugal,

When they came for Pluto, I said nothing because I wasn’t a planet
When they came for Australia, I said nothing because I wasn’t a continent
When they came for Bielefeld, I said nothing because I wasn’t a city
When they came for me, there was no one left to say anything

– Martin Niemöller

HER0, do gaming w What's your favourite and/or least favourite gaming hardware?
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I really enjoy all of Valve’s hardware. Others are mentioning the Steam Deck, which is great, but I also love (and frequently use) the Steam Controller and Valve Index.

I don’t know if I have a clear least favorite, as I never owned the things which interest me the least.

BruceTwarzen,

People really seem to hate the steam controller. I love that thing.

HER0,
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A big part of it, I think: the Steam Controller is different in ways that are unpleasant if you approach it like a standard controller. For example, it is not designed to be gripped around the handles like an Xbox controller, but to rest in your fingers. If you attempt to grip it like a traditional controller, it is uncomfortable and the trackpads are hard to use.

I have a friend who grew to like his Steam Controller after using the trackpads on his Steam Deck. For him, it was realizing the potential of the hardware combined with Steam Input.

troyunrau, do astronomy w Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia
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x4740N, do astronomy w Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia

Pluto is still a sphere, this is an unfair comparison because Pluto hasn’t been unwrapped

UnderpantsWeevil,
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It’s actually 4π*(0.5*(length-of-australia))^2 bigger than that.

doctordevice,

Fun fact: the surface area of Pluto is only about 4% larger than Russia.

RandomVideos,

So thats why Russia wanted to expand

NigelFrobisher,

Pluto unboxing video.

SkyezOpen, do gaming w Gamers Above 30, What Older Games Would You Still Recommend to Younger Gamers?

Morrowind is hands down the best elder scrolls. If you want a TRUE sandbox where you can do whatever the hell you want, that’s your game. Some issues include graphics, no quest markers (you have to read the quests and follow directions), the leveling system is not intuitive at all, and combat is heavily stats based.

Upsides are you can craft any spell or enchanted item using any spell effects you know. Ring of permanent invisibility. Spell of lock every door within 50 feet. Summon 3 different daedra at once. Conjure a whole set of bound armor. Explode yourself in fire. Literally anything.

The elder scrolls renewal project is working on recreating morrowind with skyrims engine and I really hope it comes out soon.

Daxtron2,

OpenMW replaces the engine with an open source one. Runs better on modern hardware, easily moddable, has multiplayer.

FlashMobOfOne, do gaming w What's your favourite and/or least favourite gaming hardware?
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Least favorite - Joycons. They make my hands ache, and I hate that to enjoy my switch I have to have a 3rd-party grip.

Favorite - my Lenovo legion laptop, which has given me for excellent years of service. I’m going to upgrade to a newer model later this year and keep this one, install Linux on it, and make it a Linux-only machine for better privacy in using the Web.

sleepybisexual,

Yea, joycons are the worst bit of the switch.

Also if you want I can give you some advice with linux

FlashMobOfOne,
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I appreciate the offer.

I ran a dual boot Mint install on my main PC for two months and it was just too buggy. I had to switch back to full Windows, but I know it’s an issue with Nvidia and some distros have been Nvidia compatibility, so when I make the switch again I’m just going to use a different one.

sleepybisexual,

Oh oki :3

some_guy, do astronomy w Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia

No shit? Wow, it’s amazing that we were even able to find it.

troyunrau,
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Even more amazing that it was found in the era it was. People were pouring over the skies looking for the next big planet, and instead they found this little guy.

There are still some orbital dynamics suggestions that something large and dark is lurking out there – an ice giant. But it’s still largely conjecture. It’d be interesting to see how they define it should they find something very large (say Neptune mass), but it hasn’t cleared its orbit. Is it a planet or not? :D

lugal,

Actually 🤓 it was James Cook who found Australia and he didn’t go there by ski but by ship and he didn’t find one little guy but exterminated a whole indigenous population

troyunrau,
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Ah shit, a switcheroo!

Buddahriffic,

They only found it because it’s more like a binary dwarf planet system than a planet/moon system, so the telescopes were able to pick up light reflected from both Pluto and Charron, while Pluto alone might have not been bright enough.

cosmicrose, do astronomy w Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia
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This picture is inaccurate, Pluto is actually much farther away.

mindbleach,

Telephoto shot, using a 1e50 mm lens.

Swedneck,
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if anyone wants to do the math, how far away from the sun would the camera have needed to be to take such a photo?

mindbleach,

Apparent scale is inverse linear, i.e., proportional to 1 / distance. If we want the apparent scale of two objects to be about 90% accurate to their actual relative scale, their relative distances to the camera can’t be more than 10% different. Pluto being 40-ish astronomical from Earth, you’d want to shoot from about 400 AU. Voyager I should be in prime position circa 2140.

lolcatnip,

Probably not necessary to use a lens so long it can reach distant galaxies!

sirico,
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Kiru17, do games w Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha
Kiru17, do games w Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha

Aw man I wanna play

mindbleach, do astronomy w Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia

The Alice Springs Pluto Observatory has opened considerably under-budget.

WereCat, (edited ) do games w Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha

I won’t say no to an invitation but I will say thank you very much instead

steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197999269752/

TriflingToad,

they man that’s pretty selfish to ask for an invite like that… steamcommunity.com/id/TriflingToad/

intensely_human, do astronomy w Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia

That’s an avocado pit and you know it

Adelphius, (edited ) do games w Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha

I know everyone here is already just asking for invites, but if anyone is feeling gracious, I would much appreciate one too.

steamcommunity.com/id/adelphius/

Wilzax,

Use a profile link, not a quick link. They don’t resolve to your profile the same way.

Friend codes are also multi-use.

174156043 or steamcommunity.com/id/Wilzax/, but not s.team/p/pjc-jnbq/drrtjgmh

Adelphius,

Understood thanks. Saw a lot of people using the quick links so I thought it was fine.

Updated my link

olafurp, (edited ) do gaming w Gamers Above 30, What Older Games Would You Still Recommend to Younger Gamers?

Shadow of the Colossus

Serious Sam first encounter

Warcraft 3

Starcraft 1/2

Medieval 2 Total War

Chrono Trigger

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