You're right, somehow I managed to miss the tunnel completely... But still, it's all very clean, neat and lacks any fixtures, machinery, velcros etc. It looks very nice, but not very realistic. But I admit I'm not the target audience.

The reason for the 50 years of oil, as I heard it explained, is that this is how far ahead the oil companies plan. They look for enough oil to cover the timeframe they plan for. When they have that covered, they don't look, until they need more. When they need more, they go and find it.

I seriously doubt it will look like that. Where is storage? Where is research equipment? I don't think it will be nearly this spacious.

I honestly don't know how tall I am. I know I'm taller than last time I was seriously measured, but I don't know by how much and I don't care. But everyone shrinks during the day anyway. Measuring height to precise centimeters has just a little more sense than weighing someone with precision of ⅒ of kilogram. I have basically no chance but to estimate and possibly round.

Cviridis or whatever they used here? Cviridis (and other scales constructed with the same philosophy) does.

There are colour scales that combine colours and intensities consistently, so that if you discard (or can't percieve) colour information, you still get a nice black to white scale. For a moment, I though the map used cviridis scale, which has this property and is designed to look as similar as possible to people with various variants of colour blindness. But then I realised that the scale used here has the brightest point in the middle, not on one side.

I use Pocketbook. It opens just about anything - epub, mobi, pdf, pdb, and many more formats. Just get a book anywhere and copy it via USB. Or send it as an email attachment to your special address and it will download automatically. You can even replace the reading app with another relatively easily, if you want.

I thought these were disproved by lack of gravitational microlensing?

Not everyone feels the need to read such articles. I'm glad for this summary. Provided it's true, but it's entirely believable.

Frankly? Yes, a bit. I wouldn't have expected Tesla to make it that high and I would expect Google somewhere near the top. And I guess it focused only on american companies, or I would be much more surprised.

Why are there such high differences around Britain and pretty much nowhere else? I understand why the Mediterranean sea has almost none, such a large volume just can't pass the Gibraltar, but I don't understand why there is so much water moving around Britain. Is it just water moving along and being stopped by land wihnout having much other places to flow?

That makes sense. Thanks!

What does the "/s/" mean? Probably not that the "Respectfully" is sarcasm, right?

I didn't check the calculation, but I guess it assumes perfect conversion of motion to heat. But it's good to know that if you can get a perfectly static chicken, you can hypersonic-slap it cooked.

The time when you get power armor. I usually rush mk2 and skip mk1, but still, around that time. At that time, you definitely don't have a spidertron. Spidertron is definitely late game. Of course, at that time, spidertron is the weapon of choice.

I know. And I'm sure there will be more weapons. I'm just a little worried about what is currently late midgame situation on Nauvis, especially during expnsion. Just when you get your your power armor and finally can clean up nests with relative ease. I'm not especially fond of combat, especially in person, so I really like finally being quite safe. I guess I'll have to change tactics and use combat robots much more.

Even in legendary quality, it does 25 damage compared to 30 now. I'm sure you can still be a formidable killing machine, but quite late, and not on Nauvis alone. I'm going to miss being safe and unstoppable. But I trust the devs to make a fun game, they were incredibly successful in this so far.

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You mean like official EU data? https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_r_d3dens/default/map?lang=en And "go see in person" is a very bad advice to anything data-related in most cases. Compating population density anywhere in Europe with Netherlands isn't fair. Poland, Hungary and Romania (and north Balkan as well, it seems) have denser population than rural France, for example. Spain is less densely populated, but still has about as many tennis courts, so it must have much more per capita. It just isn't a population density map. It is another Iron curtain division map, but even so, Czechia and Slovakia stand out as exceptions. There is interesting information in there.

Are we looking at the same pictures? Spain is less dense, but Poland seems mostly denser than rural France and Balkan roughly the same.