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  • Gonggong is named after a Chinese water god, and it does indeed have it's own ice. It's also red, covered in thiolins like Pluto, but even moreso. There's also likely a thin methane exosphere, leaving methane frost on windows.

    Gonggong is very far out, moving between 33 and 101 AU over it's 554 year orbit. It orbits at a 30° inclination, so telescopes would pick up some interesting shots of the other planets poles.

    The 1/30 g gravity is nothing special, plenty to jump around in, but enough to not fly away easily. It's slightly flattened by it's rotation, which is a nice 22 hours, much slower than other trans-neptunian bodies. This slow rotation is caused by tidal forces between it and it's moon Xiangilu.

    Xiangilu is named for Gonggong's minister, a nine headed venomous snake monster. It orbits every 25 days, nearly exactly a month like Earth's moon, but in an eccentric orbit, changing size throut the month. Gonggong has a polar orientation like Uranus as well, leaving Xiangilu a constant half-moon in the dim sky half the year. Sadly eclipses would be very rare.

    The trip out there is rather long, but once there it seems quite unique and cozy.

  • Anon dislikes reddit
  • Yes, there were, and for the most part YT promoted those dislikes the same as likes. I think they still do. The dislikes they actually removed were the visible ones, the ones people could use to steer clear of ads and scams.

  • Also "parasite".
  • On one hand, synthetic methane is set to be rather important in the medium term future. On the other hand, bio methane is probably the worse greenhouse product at the moment.

  • What do you think the Great Filter is?
  • This universe being unfriendly to interstellar and especially intergalactic travel would seriously hamper a galactic civilization, and thus be less likely for us to notice them.

    There might be hundreds of civilizations out there, each having only expanded to a few dozen stars, not caring to go further. Even the makeup of the interstellar medium might be incredibly dangerous, basically necessitating generation ships to cross. Large scale expansion might simply be too hard.

  • What do you think the Great Filter is?
  • Kelp farms? Domesticated bamboo? We need large areas of land to grow food anyway, we just skipped the charcoal agriculture step. Lathes and the three plate method are the real heroes of industry any way.

    A slower ascension into the computing age could mean a more stable set of cultures and a more uniform global situation to avoid anthropogenic filters. Bright candles and all that.

  • What do you think the Great Filter is?
  • It might have something to do with the available elements.

    We live in a population I star system, full of crap spewed out from long dead stars. Perhaps it is exactly this crap (like copper, iron, nickle, manganese, and possibly the bulk of carbon and nitrogen) that allow life to develop with enough agility to survive mass extiction events with any kind of complexity.

    Or perhaps it's exactly those mass extiction events that have allowed enough breathing room for new paradigms to take hold. Maybe our 5-7 mass extictions that didn't end life entirely are exactly what is needed to prevent stagnation. We just happen to be on the edge of dead and too slow.

  • What industry secret are you aware of that most people aren't?
  • Also, who's going to call them out on that? What court wouldn't throw that out immediately? And even if you did win, the company wouldn't even notice. You probably signed away the right to be part of a class action lawsuit in the Terms of Service anyway.

  • What industry secret are you aware of that most people aren't?
  • I've come across several sites with abhorrently short password limits, as low as 12.

    Worse, 2 of them accepted the longer password, but only saves the first n characters, so you can't log in even with the correct password, untill you figure out the exact max length and truncate it manually.

    Even worse, one of those sites was a school authentication site, but it accepted the full password online and only truncated the password on the work computer login. That took me an entire period to suss out.

  • He remains at large
  • How do you expect cops and unfranchised criminals to circumvent a reality bender? I'd be more worried about the reasonable uses for guns, like flare guns, PAFS, harpoon guns, nail guns, and so on.

    Not to mention that a lack of guns just means nightsticks and lead pipes become popular again.

  • Planetary travel guide
  • Pluto is here, so minor planets count. That leaves at least Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar, Sedna, Ceres, Orcus, and Salacia as vacation candidates.

    There are 19 more planetary-mass moons to consider as well, if orbital designation isn't important to your stay. (I'd say it's a bonus, as you can see some sick eclipses.)

  • This has to be a joke...
  • Ehh, the fragmented nature helps prevent systemic abuses that encourage that redditoid behavior, and also encourages instance hopping more regularly than once a decade.

    Dumping that reddit behavior should be a lot easier now.

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