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Seems unlikely. Aren't contestants fans who want to get on the show and audition for a slot? (Not from UK, so unfamiliar with this particular show, but assume all such game shows have some similarities) Does it involve doing the Time Warp?

Depending on your browser, it's usually easy to delete cache without deleting passwords/logins that are stored. In a "delete browsing data," menu there is usually a column of boxes to check or uncheck - I leave saved passwords and sometimes autofill form data and history unchecked, so it just clears cache and cookies. Once you've checked only what you regularly want deleted, it will store that. The cache is where corrupted file debris tends to build up, causing problems....things like outdated temp files - old images, scripts, or layouts. Clearing the debris will force your device to fetch the fresh, correct data directly from the server.

These both sound like bad gateway (502) problems, where a middleman server accepts your request but the actual website is overloaded. Again, this makes me think Invision Community is another cheapo web service which cuts corners and doesn't allocate sufficient ports for its hosted websites. Be sure and clear your cache after these glitches happen.

Here, volcano, erupt uber-god! Rats admire her. ( I'm dastard ogre but pure on a clover, eh?)

Not an either/or, given other possible scenarios which don't involve rubber science. Present physics has options, and we also have yet to discover if those have engineering feasibility. E.g. we don't know if we could collimate a laser beam well enough to photonically push a lightsail ship through interstellar distances. Or suspend humans cryonically for centuries or millennia. BTW, Bob Lazar was exposed and debunked as a hoaxer decades ago, wasn't he?

Was down most of Tuesday and all of Wednesday here. Starting to wonder if Invision Community is really the best place for SFN. No idea why I kept getting a 502 error, but am logging it here in case it's ever useful.

Eva, can I set a tornado so Dan rotates in a cave? As a palindromedary (i.e. I can travel far without replenishing my supply of reversible words), I have long deified that 11 letter pinnacle of viniculture. Sometimes in a dairy myriad.

Emily likes asking her friend Eva what is feasible in a cave. The "Eva can I....in a cave" opens up many possibilities. Eva, can I face decaf in a cave? Eva, can I bonk a knob in a cave? (More her brother's thing, really) Eva, can I, a model apostle, melt so pale domain: a cave? Eva, can I stamp mats in a cave? Eva, can I let, oh, senior, eh, heroines hotel in a cave? Anyone is welcome to give Emily more queries to send to Eva. I remember Phi contributed early in thread to the Eva Permissions subgenre. With a nod to @sethoflagos dire narrative of disaster in the Sahara.... Eva, can I stop gnu dung pots in a cave?

Why CERN hasn't moved to the far easier dilithium crystal containment is truly perplexing. If there were a editing button for hearty applause, this summation would have me pushing it. Smaller and green/autonomous homes and rakes instead of leaf blowers would be baby steps away from thermodynamic crisis, but they are the sort we need to start taking. (I find it interesting recently reading that the nations with the largest houses (US, Oz) are among those with currently the most social isolation and least socializing in those houses - we seem to have vast districts of lonely and carbon-intensive castles now) To bring this (sort of) round to topic, I have to wonder if there are alien civilizations which are felled by the culture of plenty (built into their biology, too) and then emerge from the ruins with a distinct technophobia. Which could be how space faring ambitions end for some sentient species. Or some species could turn back even sooner, say after a catastrophe at the WW1 stage of chemical weapons. Or WW2's urban obliterations. With zero data, I couldn't be sure but what humans are a rare extreme of stubbornness and self-destructiveness in the galaxy (and I acknowledge this is also a well-worn sci-fi trope). And there's also the Dark Forest types of theories, where civs suppress technology that would show visible technosignatures and attract potential "wolves."

I have wondered if K3 just missing some key inflection point where civs realize they need their biosphere and move towards technology that is more efficient (like molecular computers instead of entire-star-sucking stacks of silicon) and producing less waste heat. And/or their energy goals and demographics shift massively away from the large-scale. @sethoflagos makes the point about 2nd law limits - I only toss "funneling waste heat" in there hoping sharper engineering brains will clarify where that's "rubber science." For all we know there's some arc that bends from K 0.8 to K2 to gentle eco-yogis sitting on rotting logs swapping droll anecdotes about their past brute technology phase. Unless of course Skynet goes live and takes over. I need to dig out Charles Stross's mindbending novel "Accelerando," where almost every bit of mass in the solar system is converted to computronium. IIRC he is one of the very few speculative fiction writers who at least tries to address the waste heat issue. (But given his civilization is just our solar system, I guess he can just punt)

Some of the speculative stuff I've seen takes the view that civilizations at that Kardashev level three are doing types of thermodynamic capture we can but dimly (NPI) imagine. Dyson clusters and galaxy wide AI networks and so on, then routing waste heat to power specialized megastructures, such as stellar engines or accretion disks around supermassive black holes at the galactic core. There's even hypothetical cosmological engineering - manipulate dark energy distributions, alter vacuum energy, or even estivate over cosmological timescales to outlast the universe's natural heat death. Like I said, we can only dimly imagine a K3 society and struggle to postulate what their technosignatures might be. They could shield themselves in ways we can't penetrate, so it's not like we'll find some anomalous IR signature as a telltale. Can they make a decent sourdough? We only find out if they like us.

That's some mighty fine grub, pardner.

If you can forgive my sci-fi pedantry I can forgive you pulling up the wrong fish. (Sturgeon btw was the inspiration for Kurt Vonnegut's "Kilgore Trout" character) I will stoically master my yearnings to read the Maxwell files. ;)

The reaction mass issue with any impulse engine seems hopeless for anything practical and fast. Ground-push from lasers makes a bit more sense, if you can work out tacking for the deceleration. Otherwise you have the bootstrapping problem with the deceleration phase of a journey, e.g. how to put laser decelerators on your destination planet or system. And also any trip beyond a close neighbor like Proxima C requires extraordinary feats of alignment, targeting and collimation to deal with beam divergence. So even approaches that seem grounded in real physics can run up against mindboggling engineering hurdles. And using natural solar output for a lightsail as @npts2020 mentions will have the inverse square law to reckon with when traveling interstellar distances. (Might be okay for small UM probes, though, if you're not in a hurry.) I have some pictures of a hair-sprouting mole. From someone. How would you rank its evidentiary value compared to your documents?

Sturgeon, not Heinlein. It's even called Sturgeon's Law. OT - I had a weird pattern in my life of moving into neighborhoods where lived famous sci-fi authors and encountering them in mundane situations. Lived near Asimov in suburban Boston, then Connie Willis in Greeley, Colorado, and Sturgeon in Springfield, Oregon. Mundanity ranged from seeing Ursula Leguin examining produce in a Portland grocery to stepping on Asimov's foot during a game of tag in a Unitarian church, apologizing, and Asimov replying it was okay he stepped on his own feet all the time.

Random and cryptic headlines in Emily's feed, as she eats her Lady dal... Gold Iranians secede Cessna in arid log. A Dave note: tart's no Medieval slave, I demonstrate to Nevada.

I've had similar molasses-in-Greenland slowness on Edge, Firefox, and Chrome, and on both desktops and handheld, FWTW. You are our last hope, Obiw-, Iodine, both for this matter and the rising incidence of goiters.

Haha, yep. Like watching plate tectonics this morning. CAN A MOD PLEASE NOTIFY THE OWNER AND/OR ADMIN?

ETA: And here's another symptom: when I posted, the site did it's now usual "grinding the corn" and I went off to fix coffee. Came back and it had successfully posted but had also logged me off. Now I'll see if it does that again. Clicking submit button now... .....okay this time I wasn't logged off. So that is just some intermittent glitchiness. Hope not, and I'm wondering if this is some planning error with our web hosting service not adding enough ports or processing for the end of the school year in the States. Maybe the owner could pass our feedback along. If any conscious brains still are there in customer service.

Still quite slow here. As with yesterday I had some tasks where I could click and then go do something for a couple minutes while the site glacially responded. SFN has a problem, Houston.

@swansont Haven't been able to log on for two days. This morning it took about fifteen minutes to log on and make this one post (I did this with tablet while fixing breakfast etc. as each step took several minutes). A couple others at a sister website mentioned same difficulties accessing SFN.

Seems an extraordinary claim, if you mean the sort of cognitive surrender we're talking about in this thread. What evidence is out there for core damage before age seven and what kind of damage is that? (And are there early learning programs that could mitigate such damage?)

M. Reeves emits raw rats, red nudes, opposed under Star Wars times, Eve? Erm....

A Peru decor precluded ulcer procedure, Pa.

He was using a metaphor, dude.