For example, The Fantastic Four debuted in 61, Kamilah Khan debuted in 2014 (assuming she isn't butterflied) etc.
"Permanently killed" refers to situations where the writer was treating the characters death with gravitas and very clearly didn't intend for them to come back. Phoenix would be an example, as Claremont refused to return her to life for most of his tenure (I can't remember if they made him or if it happened after he left.) Punisher wouldn't be, as his death at the hands of Daken was clearly a set-up for that FrankenCastle thing and not intended to be permanent. Also, Big Cosmic Things like the Infinity war and the 2015 secret war have their effects undone.
Captain America was in the ice for twenty years before being thawed out.
"Ages normally" means for the character. Ben Grimm and Thor will still both live for centuries, as they are shown to in the comic.
Extrapolating from what happened in Canon events, and assuming that things are contrived enough that the butterfly effect doesn't wipe out most of the newer wave of heroes, what is the sociopolitical situation on Marvel Earth after 60 years of Cape chaos? Who are the top dogs of the superhuman community? For example, would Thor wind up as a strong cultural comparison to Superman just due to his longevity?
They say that when everyone is special, no one is special. Not true, I used to say. Look at the most powerful heroes of the generation - X-Zero, Crowstorm, Magenta...all of them exceptions even among the exceptional, with abilities that seem to defy the laws of physics.
My power was ordinary among extraordinary. "My condolences," said the Coordinator, when the silver screen finished processing my activated DNA and displayed my ability. "It's a C-tier ability at best, but hey - I've known great translators who went on to do great things. Diplomatic services, and the like."
Mom and Dad weren't as worried, but that was even worse. "You don't need to achieve much in life, Sally," Dad said. "Just keep by the straight and narrow and earn an honest living."
"Your Dad and I did that, and we're away from all the danger," Mom added. "Look at those crazy loons fighting each other, warring over who knows what. Let them kill each other, I say."
No, said a part of me. It wasn't until a few years later, when I was acting as a desk translator for a nameless startup that I realized something very important.
You finally figured it out, inner-me said. Your ability helps you communicate with me, your unconscious mind as well. Isn't that something?
Not everyone can do this? I asked. Isn't the unconscious mind just a part of you?
It is, but most people can't hear us like you can. We can talk with ourselves whenever we want.
I blinked. That barely made sense, but okay. Let's work through it together.
And so I...or we, rather, quit our dead-end job and started traveling. We entered a buddhist monastery and learned from schools of thought who had tapped into their inner selves.
I was meditating on a mountain when both me and inner came alive. It was like molten lava running through our veins as a whisper entered our ears and crackled through all synapses firing like lightning. That made no sense. That made perfect sense.
The voice of the universe.
It was the rumbling in the creek, the sibilant hiss of the wind, the yawn of the rising sun and the mournful howl of the coming dusk. We spoke to it, as one, and it spoke back.
Beauty lies in everything, it said. But what meaning does beauty have if there is no one left to appreciate? You must stop the Calamity.
What is the Calamity? I asked alongside inner-me. And how can we stop it?
There was no answer, but as we sat there and meditated in the midst of leafy bamboo, on a high peak clothed in wreat
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When Origins came out in 2009 it was one of the earlier games to hop onto the "gritty" fantasy franchise. The racism, systematic oppression of mages made sense in the universe. Fights were slow & melee characters would face of regular people with slow attacks & very unflashy techniques while mages were incredibly dangerous & actual killing machines. It lent a way for the universe to feel alive. Bosses or tougher enemies required preperation & every hit was important. For martial characters the auto attacks were your most important tool for attacking & you'd choose between trying to hit slow & hard or fast & weaker.
The combat felt a lot more deadly for all characters involved & your PC felt a lot more vulnerable especially. The mages ruled the combat & it honestly made sense with how mages were treated. They're killing machines who can cause a lot of collateral damage.
Queue Dragon Age 2. Suddenly you're facing hordes of enemies & your PC uses their two handed swords to brazen enemies & just chug out unlimited amounts of auto attacks. Magic characters are weaker. You no longer sacrifice anything by auto attacking but rather just do it to fill time between cooldowns. You face incredbile amounts of enemies constantly & your weapons hold no weight. Nothing makes any damage anymore. You're mashing the attack queue while waiting to do a backflip to one shot a creature. It's flashy & maybe more engaging but suddenly the "gritty fantasy" feels at odds with it's combat system where you're some god of war.
Inquisition gets it worse. Suddenly your health regenerates after a fight. You can't heal anymore & honestly doesn't matter how hard the fight is because at the end of the fight you're full health & your character is about as engaged as he was with the nug you just finished off. Instead the difficulty of the fights are in regards to how many potions you still have. The inquisitor feels unfaced. In origins you'd prepare for a fight by swapping your elemental weapons; using different spells for the situation. Manage your TACTICS which has been severly bogged down from the last game. You have to either completely micromanage your companions or just disable their potion usage & play on a lower difficulty. You're facing your partys AI most of the time.
It also gets a lot harder to justify magic hate when literal warriors can sheet their sword & decide to fight with their hands instead while summon
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But wouldn’t this number change based on how much better our telescopes/instruments get over the years?
Like when Galileo started making observations of space with his crappy (by our standards) telescope he wouldn’t have been able to see light from those sources yeah?
But nowadays with our insane ground observatories and space based telescopes, we can see the residual heat of the Big Bang and supernovae from other galaxies and whatnot. So isn’t it feasible that 100-500 years in the future, we would have to update this number?
I’m sure my logic is wrong for some reason, but someone please explain thanks!
Members of /r/creation are excited by this AP article with the headline The universe may be 2 billion years younger than we think.
I haven't read the paper that this article is based on, but there are a few simple take aways from the AP article.
Jee used two instances of gravitational lenses to come up with a new Hubble Constant, resulting in a margin of error that includes 13.7 billion years in her work.
And as per the article:
>Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who wasn't part of the study, said it is an interesting and unique way to calculate the universe's expansion rate, but the large error margin limits its effectiveness until more information can be gathered. "It is difficult to be certain of your conclusions if you use a ruler that you don't fully understand," Loeb said in an email.
I don't have know enough about cosmology to know if this is relevant criticism, or just a failing of media reporting on science.
Finally I'm very confused as to why the YECers are excited about this new finding. Aside from continuing to demonstrate their inability to understand error bars, this appears to desperately grasping for straws from the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
The link below talks about a machine that was built to detect dark matter interacting with normal matter.
But interestingly enough it observed the decay of an element Xenon-124 which has a half life of 1.8×10^22 years.
If that is the case doesn't that make the universe a lot older than we think?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2019-04-dark-detector-rarest-event.amp
In this video talking about the size of space, someone says it would take longer than the age of the universe to drive to Alpha Centauri at 60 mph. It's about 4.4 lightyears away. Here's the video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy7NzjCmUf0
However, according to my calculations, 4.4 lightyears is 25,870,000,000,000 miles. 25,870,000,000,000/60= 431166666667 hours. (Because it's 60mph) And that's only 49,219,939 years. So who's right?
Can't remember where I read this but... yeah.
This just dawned on me,
For some reason I hadn’t thought of it before —
Their youngest child is 8 years old,
Which could imply that the same length of time has passed in the Avatar universe than in our own, just like the Jurassic films?
I quite like this — interested to see what a 10-years older Neytiri and Jake look like!
I wonder when we’ll see the very first glimpse of a finished shot of the film?
Teaser poster perhaps....
I never realized the difference in age between Britta and Troy and I don't remember this ever being brought up. I guess I always thought they were about the same age because of how they act and the actual actors ages.
If gravitational time dilation means that the speed of a clock is affected by the mass in the local area of space, then different physical regions of the universe will have different times elapsed since the big bang. The age of the space inhabited by the solar system will be different to that in the intergalactic vacuum. Wouldn't the vacuum observer come up with a different age?
What exactly is it that is 13.772 billion years old?
It kinda blew my mind finding out that Chadwick Boseman is 40 years old. From the movie I assumed he was late-twenties/early thirties. I figured he wouldn't be much older than his sister, who is like 16-18. I then looked up the actress's age and she's 24. So now it's got me thinking about all the other MCU characters and what age they are supposed to be, disregarding the actors age. Here are the actors ages of the major heroes for reference:
- Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man) - 52
- Mark Ruffalo (Hulk) - 50
- Paul Rudd (Ant-Man) - 48
- Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) - 48
- Benedict Cumberbatch (Dr. Strange) - 41
- Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther) - 40
- Anthony Mackie (Falcon) - 39
- Chris Pratt (Star-Lord) - 38
- Chris Evans (Captain America) - 36
- Sebastian Stan (Winter Soldier) - 35
- Chris Hemsworth (Thor) - 34
- Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow) - 33
- Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch)- 29
- Tom Holland (Spider-Man) - 21
Cap and Bucky must have enlisted when they were 18, so counting maybe 4 years in the army before they were frozen, leaving them at 22? Seems too young. Thor is...immortal? Spidey is definitely 16 or 17. I remember Cap referred to Scarlet Witch as a "kid" in Civil War, but I don't know if that's "teenage-kid" or "she's a kid compared to me" kid. I don't know; I'm sure someone better-versed in the movie lore can do the math.
Let's think about all the ways we can give a prejudicial label to brothers and sister in Christ.
You're a heretic and compromiser because:
>you don't have the same view of GeoCentrism that I do that is so plainly taught in an plain literal reading of scripture. Calvin said it best:
>https://postbarthian.com/2014/05/21/john-calvin-nicolaus-copernicus-heliocentrism/
>>The Christian is not to compromise so as to obscure the distinction between good and evil, and is to avoid the errors of] "those dreamers who have a spirit of bitterness and contradiction, who reprove everything and prevent the order of nature. We will see some who are so deranged, not only in religion but who in all things reveal their monstrous nature, that they will say that the sun does not move, and that it is the earth which shifts and turns. When we see such minds we must indeed confess that the devil posses them, and that God sets them before us as mirrors, in order to keep us in his fear.
> you don't have the same view of infant Baptism that I do
>you don't have the same view of predestination that I do
>you don't have the same view of the last 12 verses of Mark that I do
>you don't have the same view about speaking in tongues and gifts of the spirit that I do
>you don't have the same view about divorce and re-marriage as I do
.... etc.
>you don't you don't have the same view about the age of the Earth that I do. It's a plain reading of scripture just as it's a plain reading of scripture the Earth is immovable.
Even many atheists believe the correct reading of the Bible is the YEC interpretation. A lot of good it did them, because they don't believe in their heart it is true. A lot of Christians in their heart don't believe the YEC interpretation for the simple reason, the world doesn't look that way to them.
One avenue to correct that is to help them gather information to settle the issue. If all the science creation scientists did is to read the bible, then seriously, don't do any research connecting what we find in the natural world as evidence of YEC, since, as even one commenter here suggested, we should not rely on the facts we have in hand because they could be wrong. By way of extension, don't even use the facts we have in hand since they could be wrong. Just use the Bible and hermaneutics -- the problem being is that one will be eventually be reasoning in circles, because ultimately something in a believer's life has to
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from A Short History of Nearly Everything
So Cronus got jealous of his father Uranus who was the ruler of the universe, castrated Uranus with a sickle and married own mother to overthrow Uranus, then while ruling he ate all of his own children after being cursed that they would one day do the same to him.
Yet this era is known as the "golden age of humanity"?
From wikipedia:
By extension, "Golden Age" denotes a period of primordial peace, harmony, stability, and prosperity. During this age, peace and harmony prevailed in that people did not have to work to feed themselves for the earth provided food in abundance. They lived to a very old age with a youthful appearance, eventually dying peacefully, with spirits living on as "guardians". Plato in Cratylus (397 e) recounts the golden race of humans who came first. He clarifies that Hesiod did not mean literally made of gold, but good and noble.
In classical Greek mythology, the Golden Age was presided over by the leading Titan Cronus.[3] In some versions of the myth Astraea also ruled. She lived with men until the end of the Silver Age. But in the Bronze Age, when men became violent and greedy, she fled to the stars, where she appears as the constellation Virgo, holding the scales of Justice, or Libra.[4]
How come this asshole Cronus ruled over the most prosperous time and when he inevitably was overthrown mankind was corrupted and had to work and fight?
Basically what I'm asking is, what is the connection between Cronus's ruling and the golden age being so golden?
It is from his lecture at FermiLab, here: Particles, Fields and the Future of Physics
Perhaps he discusses this in more depth in one of his books? I believe Feynman mentioned something similar in his lectures on the nature of physical law. I've searched quite a bit, but haven't been able to find any more detailed discussions on this. Any pointers would be much appreciated!
In this video talking about the size of space, someone says it would take longer than the age of the universe to drive to Alpha Centauri at 60 mph. It's about 4.4 lightyears away. Here's the video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy7NzjCmUf0
However, according to my calculations, 4.4 lightyears is 25,870,000,000,000 miles. 25,870,000,000,000/60= 431166666667 hours. (Because it's 60mph) And that's only 49,219,939 years. So who's right?
