At the time archive was trying to do a sort of internet library thing where they "lend" people pdfs (with drm, if i remember correctly). The idea was to lend at one time only as many digital copies as they physically owned, but with peak corona demand they waivered that rule. In the end of the day the whole operation wasn't technically legal, which is why they folded when hit by the Wendig lawsuit.
That's one of those stupid arguments I would frequently end up in on twitter where Americans would tell me that actually racism is very different and much worse than ethnicity-based prejudice.
Well, I just used 65 million as an example and Earth is 4.5 billion years old and there are much older planets. My point is that galaxy's size and age make factors other that possibility of FTL travel more important to the whole question. Factors like probability of multicellular, sapient life developing and sustaining itself long enough to colonize space.
The usual reply is that the universe is old and the galaxy isn't that big even at sub light speeds in geological time.
The dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago. The galaxy is 105,700 light years in diameter. If instead of dying the dinos spent five million years becoming sapient and building a 0.5 light speed engine, by now they could have traveled the galaxy edge to edge like three hundred times over.
What do you know, A24 and Neon are like two American distributors that didn't leave Russian market, so I just might end up seeing it in the theater. Also the worst person in the world while It's still out there.
Supposedly there's a Squirrel Girl tv show pilot sitting on a shelf somewhere that everyone who saw claims was grate but was never picked up because of some bullshit.
Man, I've never thought about the fact that it was just eight years between releases of Wolfenstein 3d and Deus Ex. Kinda puts things into perspective. I don't even know what you can consider progress in video games in past eight years.
Yeah. There's a ton of people who think Hunger Games is some sort of communist dystopia or at least that the whole thing is just broadly "anti-authoritarian".
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At the time archive was trying to do a sort of internet library thing where they "lend" people pdfs (with drm, if i remember correctly). The idea was to lend at one time only as many digital copies as they physically owned, but with peak corona demand they waivered that rule. In the end of the day the whole operation wasn't technically legal, which is why they folded when hit by the Wendig lawsuit.