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I mean yeah… that’s a PI. Ball was in play and he wrapped his arms around him

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Not sure how you can consider it “catchable” if the WR wasn’t even pretending to try to get to it.

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If that’s the case then they definitely both ran routes.

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No. He’s talking about Green being covered up, and Green stayed in to block.

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Another bonehead play by Hankton’s WRs

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The inside guy who was covered up wasn’t even a WR. :lol:

Sharp didn’t do anything wrong. Refs blew the call.

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen an offense so afraid to throw downfield. Particularly over the middle.

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Welp.. we tried :lol:

That was an effort play where Dom got unlucky. It sucks, but it happens. Nothing to do with stupidity. GFY.

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He struggled for sure, but Davis was in a horrible position being asked to coach two blocking schemes to a bunch of young players. They needed to focus on gap blocking instead of zone blocking and that could have solved a lot of the problems.

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You don’t think a power 5 offense should be able to run both gap and zone schemes? :lol:

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Elon may not be worried about radiation but he IS worried about fuel.

And he would have to refuel his rocket approximately 23 times while orbiting the earth to get his technology back to the moon.

But they did it with no refueling in a tin can with duct tape and electrical tape?

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The Apollo and Artemis programs are completely different missions. Apollo’s goal was to put astronauts on the Moon and bring them home. Artemis is about putting permanent infrastructure on the Moon, eventually leading to a long-term, manned lunar base.

So yeah. Saturn V could get to the Moon without orbital refueling because it didn’t have to haul nearly as much shite out there. The Saturn V was capable of sending a ~43,500 kg payload into lunar orbit. Starship aims to send 100,000 kg of payload directly to the surface of the Moon.

But that mass doesn’t include the Starship vehicle itself (which will land on and take off from the moon) or its fuel. When you do the math, the total mass of Starship + fuel + payload is likely to be something like 725,000 kg.

There is an enormous difference between putting 43,500 kg or 725,000 kg in lunar orbit. Just doing some napkin math, getting that payload into lunar orbit would require ~17x as much fuel as the Apollo missions from low Earth orbit.

I suspect the remaining difference (Elon’s estimation of 23 refueling missions vs. the 17x fuel requirement) has to do with the fact that the Super Heavy boosters and the Starship spacecraft that will be carrying out the refueling missions in LEO are reusable, which reduces their payload fraction compared to a single-use launch vehicle like the Saturn V.

The TL;DR is this: Artemis is a much more ambitious program than Apollo, so it’s dumb to try to use it as a measuring stick for whether Apollo should have been possible.

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• Their claimed goal is to assimilate everyone on earth, and until that happens with the remaining 13, their sole purpose is to placate them and keep them happy and answer any and all questions and desires of the 13 (except for ones potentially damaging to the Hive itself).

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We finally learned the big picture goal this week - to “pay it forward” by rebroadcasting the transmission.

Seems like their biological imperative, so to speak, is to spread the “virus.” We saw that when the first scientists were infected, we saw it when the larger group of infected people worked to spread it across the world, we see that with their research around how to infect the remaining 13, and now we know they have larger plans to help spread the infection to other planets. So.. that’s what they’ll be doing with the combined economic capacity of the human race. Building a huge transmitter.

Something just dawned on me that I find kind of interesting: The hive appear, in many ways, to be governed by Asimov’s Laws of Robotics. For those who aren’t familiar:

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1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

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They take it a bit further in that they won’t harm any living being (putting the whole assimilation process aside for now). It kind of makes sense though considering that humans wouldn’t exist wherever the signal originated.

I just find the parallels intriguing. The hive almost behaves like a “paperclip maximizer” that’s still fairly aligned to the Three Laws. Granted, they aren’t robots. They’re biological.

I’m going to take a wild-arse-guess about the signal’s origin, based on the behavior we’ve seen so far combined with the robotics parallels:
- A species on a distant world develops the “virus” as a way to subjugate another species, or perhaps a caste within their own species.
- They inoculate themselves against infection first. Then they infect everyone else.
- Boom. They’ve created subservient drones. They’re the biological equivalent of robot workers.
- Everything goes swimmingly, until the master species dies off somehow. Maybe natural disaster, maybe war.. who knows?
- With no master left to serve, the drones shift their focus to the Third Law. They know their existence on their planet is finite, so they decide to spread themselves to other planets via the signal.
- When other planets start getting infected, though, there are no (or very few) masters to serve. So the Third Law continues to rule as they spread themselves further and further across the galaxy.

Is this theory particularly likely? Probably not. But it puts an interesting spin on some more classic sci-fi tropes, so I like it. :lol:

FWIW, part of me thinks the most likely answer is that we never learn the true source/purpose of the signal.

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Carol & Pirate Lady are gonna scissor then she’ll be super regretting it or fine with it.

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Considering the scene where Zosia woke up naked in Carol’s bed, I think that ship has already sailed.

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the point is some, even though illegally here, have become us citizens. My point is also how do you know without a doubt all were here legally and none have done anything that could have had their visas or green cards cancelled. Just bc they were almost finishing the naturalization process doesn't mean they did everything legally...which is what you are assuming.

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1. As far as I’m aware there is no “visa or green card” when it comes to naturalization. You have to be a permanent resident, meaning green card holder.

2. USCIS confirmed that they’ve paused all applications for people from the countries on the administration’s list of “high risk” countries. If everyone from those countries have had their applications suspended, I think it’s safe to assume that at minimum, the vast majority who were at the end of the process did everything legally. More likely all of them did everything legally. Otherwise, you’d have to be assuming that a significant number made it all the way to naturalization with bogus paperwork.. which would be crazy.