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L14[09:09:09] <raptop> !mission add You bolt a kraken to the sea floor so it'll stop eating your landing barges.

L15[09:09:09] <LunchBot> Added mission: You bolt a kraken to the sea floor so it'll stop eating your landing barges.

L16[09:13:20] <raptop> !8ball MechJeb Psychosis in the style of LLM Psychosis?

L17[09:13:20] <LunchBot> Very likely.

L18[09:18:38] <Mat2ch> !mission

L19[09:18:38] <LunchBot> Prince Rupert's Drops seem neat, so you devise a way to achieve the same effect with a planet. You decide to retire before anyone notices how this is going.

L20[09:18:52] <Mat2ch> not well, not well

L21[09:19:11] <xxcoder> first step: flame melt glass. yeah not going well

L22[09:19:51] <Mat2ch> no, no, first step transform planet into glas!

L23[09:20:03] <xxcoder> lol

L24[09:21:34] <raptop> Yay, magma oceans!

L25[09:21:46] <raptop> And then dunking the entire planet into an even larger ocean?

L26[09:30:24] <KrazyKrl> well, first you need to invent some zero-g apparatus in space... where there is no "up" to dip something in.

L27[09:42:26] <raptop> minor details

L28[09:43:07] <Althego> you take a minor planet, melt it with nukes, then you dunk it into a water world

L29[09:44:28] <raptop> A silly question that would be fun to ask would be about what the largest practical version of the drops would be

L30[09:45:22] <Althego> we could probably make several tonne sized versions

L31[09:48:32] <raptop> Hm, a meter (and change) so across then

L32[10:39:08] <packbart> the Gemini Hallucinator is less optimistic. a larger core might not build up the internal stresses as much

L33[10:42:43] <packbart> and Leidenfrost and others make dropping the glass into liquid nitrogen or similar difficult, too

L34[10:50:27] <raptop> Silly thought: Mercury chilled to just above its freezing point

L35[10:50:40] <raptop> (though the problem here is that mercury is way denser than glass)

L36[10:52:47] <packbart> the markov soup mainly pointed out that the center needs to cool slower than the shell but not too slow and that the thermal shock from +1000°C to -197°C could just explode the glass on contact

L37[10:53:55] <packbart> and large drops would more likely shatter into big pieces and not turn to dust. there's probably an optimal solution, though

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L44[12:12:59] <raptop> !mission

L45[12:12:59] <LunchBot> You discover a way to make fuel from lemons, and it is to be used in this mission. With considerable amusement, you listen that evening to the K.B.C.'s recorded version of the start of this epic journey. Although it is undoubtedly useful publicity, it contains some sound effects which must have struck the average listener as somewhat peculiar and even slightly alarming.

L46[12:13:51] <raptop> ...this feels like an outcome that was added by FLHerne

L47[12:14:32] <FLHerne> why? but also yes, obviously

L48[12:15:36] <raptop> What was the actual incident, and what sort of sound effects did it have?

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L53[15:02:54] <FLHerne> raptop: the first Talyllyn Railway passenger train of 1952

L54[15:08:15] <FLHerne> raptop: I shall not attempt to improve on Tom Rolt's description https://dpaste.com/F84DBTEBX.txt

L55[15:10:18] <FLHerne> it's a quote from his book Railway Adventure which you should read

L56[15:11:37] <FLHerne> an account of the operation of a small and ancient railway by a group of amateur enthusiasts and the many strange problems encountered

L57[15:11:45] <FLHerne> .quote rails were still

L58[15:11:45] <LunchBot> "In answer to our obvious question her driver cheerfully admitted that he had merely driven up to see whether the rails were still there."

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L64[19:56:29] <xxcoder> "You set out to produce the optimal paperclip. You get isekai'd into magical world, where you promptly start a magical rocket program."

L65[19:56:30] <xxcoder> lol

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