RIP. Used to love MythBusters. Ars Technica wrote up a great obit here https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/07/l...ssed-away/

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/

This is pretty big. I'd imagine a whole lot of people are going to be getting some love letters from their ISP in the next couple of months...

Essentially, this site is the data collected from a couple of bots running various torrents to see which IPs connect to it and are downloading certain torrents which include copyrighted material (or in some cases, non-copyrighted material.) for instance, back in the day, I would use TPB or KAT to download games and movies, but nowadays I just use private trackers to download anime or fully-legal torrents to download Linux distros because HTTP transfer of large files is usually unreliable.

Luckily, in my case, I never got caught back in the day (Canada is very lenient on torrent-use and piracy, often times not caring unless you turn a profit selling unlicensed content), and nowadays I use a (premium) VPN to torrent anything, so these guys don't have any data whatsoever on my IP.

So, I'm gonna turn this into a somewhat informative thread.

Actress Kelly Preston has died following a two-year battle with breast cancer.


(CNN)Actress Kelly Preston died after losing her battle with breast cancer, her husband John Travolta said in a post on Instagram Sunday. She was 57 years old.
Preston had been battling breast cancer for two years, Travolta said, and "fought a courageous fight with the love and support of so many. My family and I will forever be grateful to her doctors and nurses at MD Anderson Cancer Center, all the medical centers that have helped, as well as her many friends and loved ones who have been by her side. Kelly's love and life will always be remembered."

Lisa Marie Presley's son and Elvis Presley's grandson, Benjamin Keough, has died of an apparent suicide ... TMZ has learned.  Law enforcement sources tell us Ben appears to have died Sunday in Calabasas from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  Not much is known about him other than the fact that he's got a super-famous family. He's the son of Lisa and musician Danny Keough -- and his sister is actress Riley Keough, who's been in a number of indie and horror films over the years, including 2019's "The Lodge."  Of course ... his grandparents are Elvis and Priscilla Presley.  Ben has kept a low profile throughout the years, but the one thing he's well-known for is looking almost identical to his famous grandfather, The King himself.  Lisa addressed the similarity, saying ... "Ben does look so much like Elvis. He was at the Opry and was the quiet storm behind the stage." She added, "Everybody turned around and looked when he was over there. Everybody was grabbing him for a photo because it is just uncanny." She even wrote a song about Ben called "Storm and Grace." Storm's his middle name.  He was also a musician ... he even struck a record deal back in 2009 worth $5 million. He's got a couple acting credits under his name, but aside from that, not much else is known about him publicly. He has few social media accounts.  One of the last times he was seen out with the family was during Elvis' 40-year death anniversary during a vigil at Graceland.  Benjamin was just 27.  RIP

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Hello, my name's Megan (used to go by Maroon/Maroon Caludin).

I'm kinda nerd. XD Into games, role playing, computers, web design, manga/anime, cartoons/comics, drawing, writing, reading, animals, etc.

Huge fan of ferrets, Gravity Falls, Steven Universe, Infinity Train, and role playing.

Yes, I am joining in on this one. Got a question for me? Go for it! 

Hi everybody. I am Kim. My real first name is Tori(Vicki offline). I am 48 and mom of two girls. One is special needs and is such a sweetheart. Both are young adults.

I'm in the process of building up a forum with a certain theme that ties into the forum. You have to solve the pieces of the puzzles of the different realms to be able to unlock the whole land. 
I have a backstory and working on expanding the realm stories. Also how I can expand this further.   
The premise of the theme is;
The portal that surrounds us from our past and present lives. We seek the "Bizzare wonderland" called (). A land filled with rides, games and wonders beyond human imagination. Each realm is a piece of a puzzle to connect eh different realms. If you unlock all of them you get the key to the secret lore that is waiting for you. 
The land has different realms you can enter. Each realm has a different topic. 
Culture will have buisness, science, exc..
I am using Mybb.
Edit: So I forgot to change the actual topic of this post. My bad. So I guess it's Idea A. That was only a placeholder.
I will post updates as I continue developing this idea.

OK so I'm going to try to explain this as simply as possible without losing the explanation, this is in regards to so called "hyper space" or as it's more aptly known, hyperbolic space.

now to start with, you have euclidean, spherical, and hyperbolic space/time.

the first is simple, a flat plane with objects on it, from the observer all lines are straight as well as from above, a dimension someone living in euclidean space cannot see.

think of it like living on a piece of paper, not the surface but on that plane of existence.

you exist in 2 dimensions and if someone where to pass a sphere or ball though it you wouldn't see the ball.

you'd see a dot, which becomes a circle, getting larger and larger until it stops then gets smaller and becomes a dot again, then as before the dot ceases to be.

that dot exists in a dimension you are not aware of and cannot perceive, in this case the third dimension.

the same is true for higher dimensions and this is important when thinking about black holes and singularities.

The second, Spherical space is like what we're living in now.

all lines eventually converge and as before everything travels along that 2 dimensional axis, the only difference is, if you were to travel in a straight line on that 2D plane, you'd end up eventually reaching the same point, and if two people walked a straight line they'd meet at roughly 45 degrees halfway along the sphere.

weird I know right?

it get's weirder... then you have hyperbolic space/time...


ok so that's a 2D hyperbolic object, it's technically a circle and you can travel from one end to the other, but it get's weirder.

imagine the real world, our space time, it's like moving along the edge of this object and it takes ages to go around it even though for us it's perceived as a straight line, much like 2D people on that hyperbolic object.

the reality is, the fastest way to travel between two points is a straight line, however the straight line of the plane you exist on is not necessarily the straightest line across an object that exists in more than 3 dimensions such as space/time.

in fact according to string and M theory there could be up to 11 dimensions!

so in theory the distance from earth to let's say the andromeda galaxy is much shorter across a curved hyperbolic object in the dimension closer to the object's actual dimensions than it is in our 3 dimensions.

crazy right?

so that means traveling through Hyper-space or hyperbolic space is taking a straighter path than through 3 dimensional space.

now there are other ways to traverse these distances.

you can travel hyperbolic space of course, provided you have a way of accessing it.

you can bridge 2 points by creating a wormhole through hyperbolic space allowing you to traverse it without leaving your space/time.

you can fold it through hyperbolic space side/stepping it entirely and just jumping across with a folded space or jump drive.

or you can traverse 3 dimensional space by bending or warping it in a manner similar to folding space only less intensive with a warp drive or gateway.

and then there's the space above hyperbolic space, much like how we can see the entirety of a sphere or a flat piece of paper if you were to go above hyperbolic space some how you could exit at any point within hyperbolic space effectively short cutting the straightest line with an arc, this is how some science fiction depicts jump drives and such.

effectively that would be the multiverse though, you leave the universe and re-enter it at a different point.

as a side note though I recently learned of a new multiverse theory that kinda shook up all this.

the multiverse may in fact all be part of our perceived universe, and each universe is like a pocket of causality on the same space/time which means simply using hyperbolic space would allow you to travel to other universes, not that you would want to, they would have completely different laws of physics with infinite possibilities starting from their own big bangs.

this also means that space/time has always existed and that universes are merely periods of chaos from explosions as entropy normalizes that region of space/time.

for us that's trillions upon trillions of years from now, but it does mean the universe doesn't die, instead the space/time we exist in is literally everywhere and everything at once, it is older than we can imagine, and will exist longer than we can perceive, and when our universe returns to static empty space/time, another universe will simply pop into being where ours was now, or at least nearby it.

Don't forget that as spacetime normalizes from the compression in the singularity everything get's farther and farther apart too, though this may apply less in higher dimensions where you can side/step the ripples, hills, and valleys in and around gravity wells which we currently have to travel along.

not that this matters for us humans of course lol.

anyway wanted to get that out there, get knowledge out and stuff!
Zalost - out.