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Imagine a whole universe hidden within in a single floppy disk. Yep, that's correct, that's all that David Braben needed to create Frontier: Elite II in 1993. The game simulated around 200 billion stars. Nearly every star had its own system with planets and moons. Each of those systems...

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I often think about the technical limitations that game designers of the 80s had to work with - both in terms of software and hardware. The game that stands at the very top is Elite. Think about this for a second: The core game code on the BBC Micro version occupied roughly 22 KB of memory. Now think about what Braben and Bell turned that into: a universe with eight galaxies, each containing 256 star systems (for a total of 2,048 planets/systems). Each system featured unique details: government type, economy, technology level, population, commodity prices, and even descriptive text (e.g., a planet known for "carnivorous arts graduates" or similar quirky combinations). If you still need a bit more help to contextualize that, try this: Elite was smaller than many modern text files or desktop icons, yet it contained (and let you freely explore) a multi-galaxy-spanning universe that felt vast and limitless. Oh, and by the way, the game also rendered 3D wireframe ships, stations, and planets in real time on a 2 MHz 6502 processor. This is no slight on today’s game designers. They work with what they have, and that's okay. But when you think about the worlds that some programmers created with the tools they were given, it sometimes breaks my brain trying to understand how they did it. Elite is a true masterpiece on so many levels. I played the C64 version back in the day, and even 40+ years later it still feels like one of the most incredible programming wonders ever.

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Zack Snyder on his dyslexia: "It was a challenge for me when I was, you know, young in school, and all I wanted to do was make movies because that was the thing that I got great pleasure from and reward from. I love books, and I'm an avid reader, but I just have a hard time because of the way that I perceive. "I've had a great sort of - one side of me anyways - was really satisfied by art and drawing and sculpture and sort of visual expression. And I think that that started to, you know, was the thing that kind of made me feel un-frustrated. And also the way the system was designed, sort of not to support me when I was in high school at that time. "It was very difficult, you know, there was a lot of, you know, just, difficulty. My English teacher in high school was worried about what my career would be, and I'm like. He would be happy to know that I'm in the Writers Guild of America now. "But, I think that that all those things are, they're all... you can transcend all those things with perseverance and with interest and with with help. And I think that that's an important part of it. "And I just think I've had to adapt, and sort of... I have my own style of the way I write, I write all, you know, but I'm pretty prolific. And I love- I listen to tons of audio books on tape, unabridged hours and hours and hours. That's all I do when I'm driving in the car or wherever I'm doing. And it's helped me a lot. "And yeah, I mean, I just hope that anyone who is- feels trapped or frustrated by the world in general. You know, they need to just, I think that we all have like a magic spark, and you need to just find the thing that makes you, you know, inspires you and, and gets you excited and pursue it as hard as you can find your passion in the world. That's a, that's a great motivator."

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There's a whole laundry list of proofs that I find independently convincing, but if I had to pick just one single argument to hang my hat on for why I believe the Earth is flat and stationary, it is the STARS & PLANETS, and their paths in the sky from Earth's POV. How do you explain in the heliocentric model, how every star traces perfect circles around the North Star, and every PLANET traces perfect sacred geometrical patterns around the North Star as well? According to the heliocentric model of the solar system (1st video) all of these spinning ball planets in the Milky Way are orbiting the SUN, at different speeds and path circumferences, at distance ranges from 36 million to 2.8 billion miles away from us. The North Star, NASA tells us, is 2.5 QUADRILLION miles away. Now tell me how all of these independent Sun-orbiting planets would trace PERFECT patterns around the North Star for 6,000+ years of recorded history? Venus literally creates a PERFECT flower of life pattern, which we see appear in nature here on Earth as well. Get the f*ck out of here if you think that's just a fluke cosmic accident. Not to mention, EVERY SINGLE CONSTELLATION has remained the exact same in our sky for 6,000 years? Not a single one has appeared or disappeared, while the universe is supposedly expanding at countless millions of miles per hour? Remember, these are all of Earth's movement vectors we are supposedly experiencing as we soar through the infinitely-expanding void of space 👇 🫨 1,000 MPH spinning around Earth's axis 🫨 66,600 MPH flying around Sun 🫨 500,000 MPH flying through the galaxy 🫨 1,300,000 MPH entire galaxy flying through space 🫨 All while the entire universe is EXPANDING, speeding all of these vectors up and warping the directions in different/random ways 🫨 ALL OF THE STARS we see are flying in different directions too, at their own incomprehensible speeds And yet, the stars we see in the night sky have never changed. Ever. I'm sorry but the "it's parallax" response from the globers doesn't cut it for me - that sounds like a glaring example of starting with a pre-determined conclusion in mind, and making anything up in the middle in order to get to that conclusion. (I WILL GRANT HOWEVER, that at least the parallax effect is something we can visibly see and experience on the micro level—unlike "gravity"—so I will concede that it obviously exists. I just don't believe that it explains all of the above motions, distances, and perfection of consistency in the patterns created by the cosmology we observe). Every ounce of my common sense-trusting brain tells me that all of these insanely huge numbers are just brain-numbing nonsense to obfuscate away from the far-simpler truth: that NONE of these incomprehensible speeds/distances are even happening at all, and rather, the Earth is flat and stationary, and these unchanging constellations and planetary movements are indeed revolving around US. The North Star (Polaris) lies directly above the North Pole, and does not move. The stars and planets rotate around the North Star, above Earth. Just as it looks and feels. I dove into way more nuance on all of these concepts in the first 3 Parts of the 5-Part Flat Earth video series I made for my podcast, which I will link below. WATCH THOSE VIDEOS. And as always, if you have refuting points to share, please drop them in the comments below so we can discuss! #FlatEarth

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[Heo Seongbeom Youtube] 260305 Jin - Moon 🌕🌏 (part1) 👨‍🏫It’s a solo song by Jin, and BTS are also preparing for a comeback in March. I’m really looking forward to it. I’m the moon, and you are the Earth. So it becomes a kind of love triangle. Earlier the sea loved the moon, but who does the moon love? The moon loves the Earth. That idea is reflected in this song, so let’s try interpreting it. Since when have the moon and the Earth been together like this? We’ve been together for so long, but when did it start? About 4.51 to 4.53 billion years ago. Scientists figured this out through radioactive isotope analysis, which showed that the Moon is about 4.51 to 4.53 billion years old. “Shining just by existing.” This line is directed at the Earth. But does the Earth actually shine just by existing? No. Because the Earth is a planet and does not produce its own light. If the Earth appears to shine, it’s probably because of artificial lights made by humans. “Can I stay by your side and protect you?” It sounds shy, but in reality the moon can’t help staying there, because it’s bound by gravity. And here we see the main line of the song. “You are my Earth, and to you I’m just a moon. Your small star that lights up your heart.” It’s poetic, but is the moon actually a star? No. Celestial bodies are generally divided into two categories. First, there are stars (stellar bodies). These produce their own light. Second, there are planets. Planets do not produce their own light. Instead, planets usually orbit around a star. The Earth is a planet. From our perspective, the star in our system is the Sun. So when you look at the night sky and see stars, those lights are actually other suns, each producing their own light. But sometimes when you see a particularly bright “star,” it may actually be a planet like Mercury, Venus, Mars, or Jupiter. Then you might ask: if planets don’t produce their own light, why do they shine? Because they reflect sunlight. The Moon also appears bright because it reflects the Sun’s light. #JIN #방탄소년단진 방탄소년단

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Warren Buffett on how he'd make 50% a year if he had to start over with just $1 million "In my particular case, it would be going through the 20,000 pages. Since we were talking about railroads, I went through the Moody's Transportation Manual a couple of times, that was probably 1,500 pages, and I found all kinds of interesting things when I was 20 or 21" "There were hundreds and hundreds of railroad companies, and I liked to read about every one of them. The Green Bay and Western was known as 'grab baggage and walk.' They had a bond that was actually the common stock, and a common stock that was actually a bond. That could lead to unusual things" "That's actually what impressed Charlie when I first met him, because I knew all the details of these little companies on the West Coast that he thought I'd never have heard of. That became an instant point of connection" "I would try to know everything about everything small. And with a million dollars, you could earn 50% a year. But you have to be in love with the subject. You can't just be in love with the money" "You've really got to find it, like a biologist looks for something because they want to find it. There are people who just find it exciting to expand their knowledge in a given area" "I've had the luck of meeting a lot of people who are unbelievably smart in their own arena and do some unbelievably dumb things in other areas. The human brain does its best when you find out what your brain is really suited for, and then you just pound the hell out of it from that point"

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