Sitting here at 2:30 am trying to figure out if it would even be possible to survive firing the theoretically-possible-to-make-from-off-the-shelf-parts thousands-of-rounds-per-minute multibarrel antimatter-grenade-launcher full auto. (I mean, no-one in their right mind would assemble the thing, much less fire it, even if they could afford the ammunition – but still, I’m curious.)
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In today's recommendations, I should like to draw y'all's attention to The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor, over at A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry. Why? Well, apart from being interesting in its own right, it is one of the latest and best posts whose
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Complete back through: November 2017 (This means we have passed the point at which Discourse comments were introduced. Progress can be expected to be slower from this point forward, since I need to copy the WordPress comments across.)
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Okay, folks, we're doing this. At midnight tomorrow (that would be midnight following 29 October 2024, Central Daylight Time), we'll be cutting over to the new shiny Ghost-based site instead of this old, busted WordPress one. Not everything is finished, because some things are very hard
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Here, for your edification, is a list of all the things still to be done in migrating over here from WordPress, but which I know about and so which you don't need to remind me of. They'll be struck through as they're done, and