DebatableRaccoon

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

And I can't beat knowledge into the unreceptive, ignorant and assumptive, so I guess we're at an impasse.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 hours ago (8 children)

We'll keep wondering cause the shift to digital clearly isn't stopping piracy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

Sorry but it really is. Basic language (a)theism is the antithesis to theism, meaning non-belief. Otherwise, that's what we have "agnostic" for. Like I said, correct yourself before someone who's got more of a clue.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like you need to look it up too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 children)

I'd say YoFrodo's answer of apatheism is possibly the closest you're going to get, but speaking in general terms of not believing or caring one way or the other, you'd be agnostic, not an atheist. Atheism is the belief that there are no gods and out right rejection in the belief of any gods. Those saying you're atheist don't know what one is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It's really the honourable thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I've been playing it post malware removal and it plays well. Fairly certain it was still buggy until then though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Let's see if they can somehow manage to make it even more of a performance train wreck than the last one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well damn. Someone's just been added to the watch list.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Bad expectations and probably a lack of understanding of how launching expensive games as platform exclusives can hurt sales numbers. They were likely expecting the kind of numbers a game can only get from launching on the big 3.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Correct, and likely because some people refuse to download the apps. I know I was one of them. I say was because I now do my best to not use their services at all, and where I do need to, I use a third-party app so I can use one app for multiple messaging services.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

As hinted at in the title, assuming the technology/means existed that could absorb energy fast enough, would it be possible to stop a star from going supernova, effectively "calming" it?

This is for a novel (not exactly a sci-fi one) but I'd like to keep in the realms of "technically possible".

Edit. Thank you to everyone for providing answers and specific thanks to @[email protected] @[email protected] and @[email protected] for the for the further reading/watching materials that have inspired a narrative solution that is kinda hand-wave-y but should be good enough to hold up to scrutiny until the moment someone with a PhD (or good enough knowledge) takes a closer look at a fictional word with a soft magic system and smashes the big ol' BS button which I think is about as much as fantasy novel writer can ask for.

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