I guess that could work? Earth is actually the densest planet in the solar system so our baseline mass > size ratio might actually be a bit abnormal.

Iirc near that +50% level you end up needing a saturn 5 to launch sputnik, so its more expensive to the degree that it might just be deamed unfeasable, at least at the technology level humans started launching rockets at.

The problem is you can’t have mountains like that on tectonically active planets (a mountain that big on earth would sink into the mantle), which is kind of a prequisite for a long-term magnetosphere so its unfortunately not something a species could likely ever have except as a result of terraforming a world like mars and setting up some kind of artificial magnetosphere.

The old site is gone, there’s now a new site by the new owners and if you didn’t migrate at the time your account and purchases are gone.

They also just outright took away ownership from a lot of the early backers (like me!) via a migration that many of us were not informed of. Hell when I got the game the purchase terms guaranteed access to all future DLC (which I did get until the game was rescinded from my ownership) and actually encouraged distributing copies to friends because they were still very much in the word of mouth phase.

Option 1 is hope for a new beginning too depending on certain theories.
There’s a lot of fancy math involved that I don’t understand but the upshot is that mathematically a completely barren uniform universe and an infinitely dense point are technically identical and theoretically one could spontaniously become the other.

People born in the late 90s onward sure do, we get to see every expected milestone dissapear under a pile of enshitification and vanishing wages/opportunities as people who increasingly seem like disney villains do their best to make everything even worse.

Most of the developed world has the same societal problems that boil down to, no one has the money, time or energy to have kids.

By avoiding means testing, the government is giving handouts to the rich

Fixed the headline

Or you just create a new timeline each time so you can’t actually mess up your original timeline.

Japan got their first trains second hand from the UK, this understandably traumatized them so much that they went on to make the best trains in the world.

Guy on TV this morning saying they’ve ‘created a new species’ and I’m like yeh, you’ve created a group of humans so dumb that no other human would be willing to have kids with them.

I’d say they’re hemorrhaging hard power too, the US strategy was always to immediately establish air dominance and then win from there, but it turns out that step 1 kinda just doesn’t work against people armed with more than old toyotas and tents. I’d still bet on the US to win if they just wanted to flatten some place but I’ve got serious questions on their ability to achieve a non-phyric victory against any near-peer after this display.

I’ve read some posts on here saying that in asian countries it’s fairly common to jab the food with the chopsticks if you’re in a rush.

Everything that is now a DLC or microtransaction was instead some cool secret you could find or unlock, the games were smaller but that discovery meant they FELT so much bigger.

Major infastructure projects (in certain countries) tend to turn into infinitely deep money pits due to rampant mismangment and corruption that can swallow the entire budgets of smaller nations and still not get done. They tend to drag down the average.

That sounds like a great way to get more work for the same pay.

At this point I’m pretty sure an asteroid could obliterate 95% of the US and the markets would just skyrocket even more. They’re so detatched from reality its gone from satire to sad.

I think even with solar, wind, tidal and perfect grid storage nuclear is still worth investing in, simply because its a useful technology to have in some space travel applications, in some cases even more useful than fusion power would theoretically be.

Everyone hates getting stuck because it turns out that one tech from half the tech-tree ago was mandatory for progression.

The UK has very fucked up land management, virtually all the capacity of the land to hold onto water has been destroyed in favour of dumping it into the sea as quickly as possible, the result is a country thats prone to both floods and droughts.