• 0 Posts
  • 454 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 15th, 2023

help-circle




  • Lightning would probably be bad for any organism but thankful, on whatever planet things your corals are on, the gas is an excellent conductor which safely directs the lighting around and though the coral, creating amazing light shows.

    Sadly though, if one gets close enough to the ground and there’s not enough gas production, errant strikes can happen, leading to at least one tragic event in the past - since that time, dwellers on any coral are diligent about watering their… Yard? And have either magical or physical parachutes if they’re particularly well off. Larger colonies have taken to drilling a lightning rod though the whole comet (I dunno, sounded like a good name) but this has felled more than one, so settlers need to find really good specimen for that procedure - A strike of dry coral, due to the air gaps in the structure, can engulf an 80 sq. km island in under 8 hours, so any colony without active protection is more nomadic and less ‘earthly possessions’ than other tribes because when the bell rings, you go or you die.

    Pyroanthropology is a passion of mine, so this was a fun thought experiment. I’d imagine if the civilization was industrialized enough, they’d be trying to harvest and utilize the power but I could also see them becoming a siege weapon, essentially a flaming shot you could drop on your enemies heads.

    Edit: Forgot to add, due to the conductive nature of the gas, residents would need to stay inside during storms or go out wearing essentially gimp suits worth of rubber - so emergency services would look really funny.



  • Yeah, I’ve been a pirate for so long I have zero moral grounds to be against using copyrighted stuff for free…

    Except I’m not burning a small nations’ worth of energy to download a NoFX album and I’m not recreating that album and selling it to people when they ask for a copy of Heavy Petting Zoo (I’m just giving them the real songs). So, moral high ground regained?



  • Veterans Service Officers are a legally protected position which provides Veterans with that information. The law is to attempt to stop ‘non-certified’ VSOs from offering for pay services…

    Even though legally anyone can look up the VA codes and what counts for benefits.

    I can see both sides. I’m generally against ‘for pay’ services but most VSOs are booked out for months… So, what are ya gonna do?






  • Okay, but you’ve never seen a 10’ pile of clothes at a donation center, or a 10’ pile of trash?

    Think about it, assuming average height is 5’ (short, I know) and a person is roughly 1 1/2’ wide, the bottom later of a perfectly laid body pile is only going to be 12 people. The next layers will be smaller because it’s less stable. You could easily have, say, thirty dead to make a 10’ pile. In a prison of that size with those conditions, that’s an easy number. 10’ isn’t a mass grave in WW2 or Syria.