Then it has accurately captured the essence of the source material!

The Phantom Menace had a post-credits “Vader Breathing”. I remember because I made my friends stay for it and they were already pissed at me for dragging them to that shitty movie.

It’s a good thing us humans have total immunity to lasers in our eyes. Suck it robots!

Christ those all sound depressing.

I’m not moving the conversation. You keep using the word filter without having any idea what it means, and hold up true-color as if it means something instead of being some made-up bullshit. Which it absolutely is. Every time amateurs like you talk about “true color” and “false color” professional astronomers roll…

Here, this pdf breaks it down really well:

I’m not being pedantic. You seem to lack a basic understanding of how these detectors function or are constructed. The CCD is made as a single unit, and then a filter layer is placed on top of that. They do NOT construct individual color pixels. It is entirely the arrangement of the color filter layer that determines…

Sorry, but you’re wrong on this. Read up on this:

Of course it uses filters, they’re just built into the CCD. There’s no such thing as a “true-color” image.

Cue all the idiots going “I just don’t like ‘dark matter’ or ‘dark energy’. Why don’t these scientists just say they don’t know? Hey, maybe it’s just $really_obvious_thing_that_was_disproved_decades_ago. Why didn’t they think of that?”

Very rarely are the large supercomputers run in single-user mode (1 computation utilizing all of the nodes). Typically there’s dozens, if not hundreds of jobs running on different number of nodes. The petaflop scale machine I work with has only been fully utilized by a single user a few times. We call that a “hero…

Exactly. I’ve only been in the field about 5 years, but I’ve already worked with every single language up there except C#. I wouldn’t list Java or R on a resume, but I know that if someone gives me their code at the beginning of the week, I can tell them how we’ll integrate into our system by the end of the week.

Too many craters

http://www.bodycounters.com/bodycounts.php

It’s 20 years on from a war in which *billions* of people died, and most of our infrastructure is completely destroyed. What we’d have to work with would be a weird amalgamation of early 90’s tech and far-future alien tech.

My TI-92 calculator. It’s enormous, but runs forever on 6 AA batteries. It sits on my desk at work and I use it almost every day. It still has my physics notes sitting in memory.

So this is you?

Looks like Margaery Tyrell.

One that I love that nobody else seems to remember is The Big Hit:

Neptune is pretty bright, and what you’re seeing are the CCD pixels directly over Neptune getting saturated. Think of it as a bucket that has overfilled. The white lines are charges from the saturated pixels leaking out, and because of the way the CCD is structured they tend to leak out along vertical lines.