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Comment Re:Swirlies? (Score 1) 54

Dunno if you ever noticed, but the "let there be light" happened *before* the sun, stars and planets were created...

Where did that light come from?

The light was created in transit, to create the image of a universe older than it really is. Thus the stars and stuff could be created later.

The trick was making sure there wasn't an observable glitch when the post-creation light arrived behind the pre-created light.

Comment Re:markup should remain (Score 1) 55

Wikitext is the most awful thing ever. It is barely computable. It provably can't be put into EBNF. Large chunks of it are literally defined as "whatever the PCRE lib in PHP happens to do". It is so horrible it has literally delayed a proper visual editor for Wikipedia by several years. We now have a visual editor that barely works after a huge amount of money and resources have been poured in. The only reason it hasn't been thrown away is that we have ten billion words of legacy content that has to keep working.

tl;dr a markup language is a nice idea, but MediaWiki wikitext is quite possibly the worst possible example and oh if only we could set it on fucking fire.

Comment Re:Big disappointment (Score 1) 197

After looking through the blueprints I couldn't find anywhere designated for a Stargate. Bummer.

On the bright side, that is one more rumor that can be laid to rest.

Of course. They're building this as the studio for faking the Mars landings. They're not going to blow it by going low-budget this time around.

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