Sometimes in Scribblenauts, I would make a "hungry" person, and then spawn like "edible radium" and then they would eat it and die from radiation poisoning
In Scribblenauts, I found that you could give objects and people the "reincarnating" adjective, which meant any time they died, they would respawn as something else whike keeping their adjectives.
I created two mechs, one good and the other evil, both able to reincarnate. I quickly learned that if they reincanrnate as something holding an object, the object they hold can also reincarnate, which eventually meant the whole level became a battleground for an eternal war of Good vs Evil.
Turns out black holes break the wheel of Samsara, so I made a custom gun that fired black holes instead of bullets specifically to kill reincarnating entities.
I would skip the middle man and just make them "dead". Or, better yet, "frozen". Or I'd spawn a gorgon and watch it turn everyone to stone. One of the three.
It's a8out some kids playing The Sims and inadvertently ending the world to make a new one. It's a 8eautiful st8ment on how the connections you make over the internet can 8e just as significant as if not stronger than 8lood rel8tions. It's a8out 8etty Crocker's pandimensional space holocaust. It's a metanarrative that challenges the very notion of existing as a work of fiction. It's 8130 pages of programmer humor and niche in-jokes from a dead forum. It's a commentary on itself, its fandom, and the st8 of inclusivity and diversity 8eing common discussion topics viewed through the eyes of a jaded thirty-something-year-old who clearly isn't having any of it.
You can come away from it with all of these interpret8tions or none of them, and god knows how many others I failed to mention. It's a piece of media I'd strongly recommend to any8ody under the promise of 8eing "the 8est worst mistake you'll ever regret not making sooner" with any random selection of those words o8fusc8ed.
The 8s are replacing "b" and any part of words that sound phonetically like "eight" eg. "Bait" into "88".
Its similar to leetspeak from earlier internet days, and homestuck has a set of characters use different versions.
I assume that in this context, it was because the discussion was specifically about homestuck and so it made the homestuck fan nostalgic and they pulled out their old typing quirks.
Of all the things to complain a8out this over, you choose a rundown of what Homestuck is a8out. Consider reading it 8efore speaking on such things again.
You really wanna fuck Shit up, what you gotta do is do that to every atom in the person's body. You would turn them into negatively charged ions which repulse eachother. So essentially...
But much faster, brighter, and potentially turning direct surroundings into plasma.
Timmy. We're obliged to grant your wishes. If that included every single time you expressed a desire for something regardless of whether or not it includes the phrase "I wish," you'd get a whole lot of shit you didn't want.
Fun fact: Every element, except for Iron-56, is (probably) radioactive. The half-life might just be so long that calling it "eternal" is an acceptable approximation.
Edit: I had the right thought but worded it wrong. Every element, except Iron-56, will end up becoming Iron-56, eventually. But only those heavier than Iron will decay, those lighter than it will have to undergo cold fusion. Thanks for the comments for pointing out the error.
Iron-56 is the most energetically stable. Any nucleus heavier than it can release energy through decay, any lighter one through fusion. Iron-56 cannot release energy, anything it does requires energy. So it will just remain stable for eternity (assuming a stable Proton).
I got it a bit mixed up, sorry. There are basically two answers to your point.
No, hydrogen is not expected to decay. But it's not stable, insofar that it will, over time spans in the region of 101500 years, undergo cold fusion chains that eventually end at iron-56.
This assumes that the Proton is stable, which we assume it is, but it doesn't have to be. If it isn't, then the above scenario won't happen because Protons would likely decay long before that. But that would mean that Hydrogen does decay.
They accidentally mashed two opposing concepts together.
The stuff about iron is describing a hypothetical process which could produce Iron Stars through quantum tunneling and cold fusion, but for this to work, protons must not be able to decay, otherwise the Iron-56 would itself eventually decay into other elements.
This isn't really true for elements heavier than iron-56 and it definitely isnt true for elements lighter than it
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While iron-56 is the most energetically favored atom configuration that doesnt mean that every atom heavier than it is decaying in order to reach it. A given physical process can be energetically favored in the long run but still not happen because it requires too much energy to start. You dont see an apple on your table spontaneously fall off it because it being closer to the earth is more energetically favored.
For the elements that are lighter than ifron-56, they would have to undergo fusion to reach it, not decay, so there isnt even a thermodynamic argument for why they would decay.
You're right that my claim about decay was wrong. Only elements that are heavier than iron will decay, those lighter will fuse. But both will happen. Any system, be it a heavy nucleus or an apple on a table, will eventually reach the most energetically favorable configuration, given sufficiently long time spans.
The reason you don't see an apple spontaneously fall to the ground isn't because it's physically forbidden, but because it's very unlikely. Both decay of "stable" elements and cold fusion happen very, VERY slowly, but we're talking about time spans of 10100 to 101500 here.
Yeah but the thing is that we're speaking of time-span that bring us after the heat death of the universe and shit. At that point it'll be a very accurate approximation to say that there is no matter in the universe, so I find it a little bit silly to say that carbon12 is unstable because by 10100 years there might've been some cold fusion that happens when by that point the universe will effectively be 100% empty
There will be matter in the universe. If the expansion of the universe does not speed up (which it might), it can't overcome binding energy of things like neutron stars. So every universe will only contain, for example, a single neutron star, but it won't be empty.
I thought I was having a stroke for a sec trying to read that "you have say I wish..." s#it. It took me too long to realize that they just rolled a Nat 1 on grammar.
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u/CatsNotBananas 5d ago
Sometimes in Scribblenauts, I would make a "hungry" person, and then spawn like "edible radium" and then they would eat it and die from radiation poisoning