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  1. Channelknight Fadran
    It is now up to you to decide on whose side
  2. Channelknight Fadran
    "Then we're going!" Folkan announced. The Gateway swirled back into life behind.
  3. Channelknight Fadran
    I am no dad I am the Shard's uncle
  4. Channelknight Fadran

    GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS

    (Super Mario Bros. Movie spoilers)

    Spoiler

    (I'm serious)

    Spoiler

    So you know the "Peaches" song? The gag written by Jack Black because he is a god among men?

    Someone broke it down and

     

    well

     

    https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx3ejWKWuPp3eALMzZY32_Unqavxzlmprs

     

     

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    2. The Bookwyrm

      The Bookwyrm

      I STILL NEED TO WATCH IT

    3. Edema Rue

      Edema Rue

      I love that so much.

    4. Mat

      Mat

      Yeahhh I saw that :P 

  5. Channelknight Fadran
    Folkan seemed surprised. "Are you already ready to go?"
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  8. Channelknight Fadran

    How many stars have we looked at?

    Like, actually looked at?

    Like, Hubble/Webb telescope looked at?

    The fastest-spinning star we've ever found was a pulsar going at 700 RPM. However, some black holes have been theorized to be spinning as fast as 1150 RPM.

    This matters to me (and therefore to you; no, I don't have any projection problems) because the speed of a black hole determines the Innermost Stable Orbit.

    Fadran, what in the worlds is that?

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    You've all seen this image. The very first picture of a black hole. It was taken by applying a whole series of crazy equations to what's essentially just a really good cross-hatched image, and shows us the glowing accretion disk around the massive gravity well.

    But SOMEONE ENHANCED IT WITH AI and so NOW YOU GET TO LOOK AT THAT

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    Beautiful.

    Now, I could go on and on about how this was imaged and what each of the areas is and whatnot, but I made this SU about naked singularities and so you're going to hear about that.

    So what if I asked you to point out where the Event Horizon was? Well surely, you'd think, it's where the dark part begins. Right around... here:

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    Makes sense. There's no glow here. It's completely dark. Clearly that's where the Event Horizon begins.

    And you'd be  W R O N G

    THAT, my friend, is the Innermost Stable Orbit for matter. See, black holes are spinning; and they're spinning really damn fast. So fast, in fact, that matter gets sucked in and starts spinning around them for the fun of it. They get pulled in and spun so freaking fast that they start to heat up and eventually glow, forming what you recognize as the accretion disk.

    The Innermost Stable Orbit is the closest matter can get to the event horizon before it starts getting pulled in and eventually eaten. Past that any matter can practically spin around the black hole indefinitely, similar to how our moon doesn't fall into the Earth despite how hard we're pulling on it (it's actually falling away ever so slowly, but that's an SU for another time). But you can only ever spin matter so fast, so the Innermost Stable Orbit essentially acts as a secondary event horizon for matter only.

    It's different for light, though. Light can move significantly faster than mass - that's its job, after all. So if it can move faster, then it can spin faster, meaning it can counteract a higher gravitational force and therefore be closer to the singularity than matter.

    Surely this is the Event Horizon, then?

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    WRONG AGAIN

    This is the -

    ...ah

    ...Idk if it actually has a name, but we'll just call it the VIP (very important photon) Innermost Stable Orbit.

    The way to wrap your brain around this is to imagine what the Event Horizon actually is. It isn't just the point where "gravity becomes so strong that not even light can escape," it's "gravity becomes so strong that light moving literally perpendicular to the surface of the black hole cannot escape." We send ships into space by pushing them sideways in order to get that sweet sweet angular momentum for a stable orbit; this would be like trying to send a ship directly upwards against gravity and keeping it in orbit. Light is the fastest thing in the universe and even it can't put all of its energy towards escaping this bloody thing and win.

    But what light would be moving perpendicular to the singularity in a black hole? All matter at this point is being invariably sucked in, and we know for a fact that black holes certainly don't give off any light of their own. This is a hypothetical inner limit where you stick a laser pointer on the floor and watch as literally no light escapes it. See, the light that actually would be hanging out here is coming in from elsewhere: such as towards the black hole. Obviously light heading right for it is gonna get sucked up, but spacetime is so warped here that light coming up beside it also gets sucked in after a bit of a bending. Light that's farther than that gets sucked in later, and light that's farther than that gets sucked in even later - such that there is a lot of black image around the event horizon where light heads in but eventually gets eaten.

    The light that does barely escape is at 2.6 radii away, forming that little ring of technical visibility (though it's really kinda dark around there so you don't really see much of anything). Light coming at roughly that side will come out just skimming what we intellectuals like to call the Photonsphere, which is right around here:

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    Is that the Event Hori--

    No.

    The Event Horizon is here:

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    But that isn't important what's important is that  S P I N N I N G

    See, the innermost stable orbit for mass and light COMPLETELY depends on how fast the black hole is spinning! In fact, these measurements I've been giving you are complete and utter gabbledygook because they are measurements for a schwartzchild black hole, which is fancy speak for a black hole which doesn't spin. These, in all likelihood, do not exist because they're formed from the likes of supergiant stars, neutron stars, and white dwarves, which are spinning before they collapse into black holes and continue spinning long afterwards.

    Spinning, as I'm sure you're aware, is the best way to counteract gravity. You all know full well that there's no gravity in space, but when you look at the astronauts aboard the ISS they aren't floating around because their isn't any downward pull; they're floating because the speed at which they orbit the earth counteracts its gravity. In fact they're being acted upon with about the same amount of gravity as you or me, but the lack of an atmosphere and such makes it perfect for spinning around the planet really really fast and pretending like that gravity doesn't exist.

    This means, of course, that you can get closer to a source of gravity by spinning around it faster; similarly, you can spin around it slower if you're further away. You might be seeing how this affects our Event Horizon and Innermost Stable Orbits: if the black hole is spinning really fast, then the stuff around it is spinning really fast, and if the stuff is spinning faster then the Innermost Stable Orbit gets closer.

    How scientists measure spin in black holes is absolutely baffling in the sense that they made it really unfortunately overcomplicated. For some reason they measure it on a scale of 0 to 1? Like... huh??? Was RPM not good enough for you?

    But anyways, black holes are spinning pretty fast. 

    The problem is that they could hypothetically spin even faster.

    Like I said, the fastest observed spinning black hole is going at 1.15k RPM. That, on these stupid physicists' scale, is 0.98 This means that its Innermost Stable Orbits are closer to the Event Horizon than they would be on other black holes: light could get closer to it without being sucked in, basically.

    Now, this speed pretty closely approaches the speed of light, but not enough so to be particularly alarming in the Wonderful World of Very Fast Things. We've shot neutrinos and neutrons and such through vacuum tubes at much faster speeds than that. What scares the scientists, though, is the fact that a black hole could spin even faster - fast enough, even, that the VIP Innermost Stable Orbit could be smaller than the Event Horizon.

    Scientists call this a Naked Singularity, because they're all children at heart.

    We, of course, have no idea what this would look like. Seeing inside a black hole? Looking at a singularity? We haven't got a clue as to what the inside of an Event Horizon would "look" like, because there's so much bloody gravity that all our physics just stops making sense. But in this scenario, we could observe the goings-on in there.

    Which brings me wayyyyyyyy back to how I started this SU: how many stars have we actually looked at?

    Go outside. Right now. RIGHT NOW. If it's daytime you're excused (it's almost 1 AM here). Look up in the sky and stare at all those little red, white, and blue dots (...strange, how patriotic the sky can be). We probably haven't directly observed most of them. The big ones, sure. The bright ones, sure. The ones that do weird stuff, sure. But all of them?

    And think of how many we've caught in the background of all our deep-space images and such. There's... a lot! Like, I don't even know what kind of number to begin with for how many there are. But to most of our images, they're all just big bright dots in the dark sky.

    Which makes me think...

    ...wouldn't a naked singularity kind of just look like a big, bright dot to us? If we weren't looking at it real close, we'd just get its residual radiation to observe.

    So what are the odds that one of those stars in the sky is actually a black hole that's spinning so blasted fast that you can see its singularity?

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    2. kajsa ㅇㅅㅇ

      kajsa ㅇㅅㅇ

      That's actually a really interesting read. I understood none of the crazy terms or words but this is what I gathered:

      There are so many stars in space that it would literally take eternity to count them all, and another LONGER eternity to actually observe them all. For all we know, some of them aren't stars at all, but crazy weird black holes that are spinning so fast we can see inside it, spinning so fast it   G L O W S !

      Oh, and the probability of that if you did it mathematically (which is technically impossible, might I add) would be very high since there are SO. MANY. STARS. 

      You should be a scientist, Fadran. 

    3. Frustration

      Frustration

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      So what are the odds that one of those stars in the sky is actually a black hole that's spinning so blasted fast that you can see its singularity?

      The chances are low, but not zero.

    4. PyroPhile

      PyroPhile

      What’s the difference between the Photon Sphere and the VIP ISO again?

  9. Channelknight Fadran

    It's important not to be a nazi

     

    it's also important not to be like this person:

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    2. Robin Sedai

      Robin Sedai

      Auschwitz.

    3. kajsa ㅇㅅㅇ

      kajsa ㅇㅅㅇ

      Oh wow. 

      We're actually learning about the Holocaust in English right now. It's... *shakes head*

    4. Frustration

      Frustration

      I mean, not the place I'd be doing a vacation shoot at, but you do you I guess.:blink:

  10. Channelknight Fadran
    Folkan blinked "I could've sworn you were taught on this."
  11. Channelknight Fadran
    "Polly?" Folkan said quietly, finger on his medallion. Seemingly no one answered - or at least they didn't have anything good to say, because he sighed and shook his head before standing back up to full composure to face the gathering. "Greetings, Reapers. It's an emergency, so I'll make this brief. An unusual number of Qualkans have been observed around Grestheide, and the brigade there has requested immediate backup for tonight's escort. Usually we'd have to decline - not enough Reapers to go around - but today we got lucky." He gestured at the group. "We have all of you. This will serve as your inaugural mission, I suppose. Try not to screw it up." @NerdyAarakocra @Tani @Frustration @The Bookwyrm @PyroPhile
  12. Channelknight Fadran
    JUDGEMENT CHAIN *SHANK* Condition: You cannot hate Leorio
  13. Channelknight Fadran

    The last several days I've been disgustingly sick

    It's been awful. Thursday night I didn't sleep a wink. I was up for every minute of it.

    Then the same for Friday, but I wound up falling asleep early in the morning and waking up mid-afternoon.

    Then Saturday I fell asleep in the morning again and woke up at EIGHT THIRY IN THE EVENING

    I stayed up all the night and all Sunday, then finally just couldn't keep my eyes open mid-afternoon. I had the most wild and feverish dream sequences and sleep patterns...

    ...then woke up today at 8:45 like a reasonable human being

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    2. Frustration

      Frustration

      That is the most perfect description I can imagine for that.:P

    3. Cash67

      Cash67

      Wow your sleep schedule got thrown bad. Do you think you’re getting better?

    4. kajsa ㅇㅅㅇ

      kajsa ㅇㅅㅇ

      I hope you get better soon, Fadran. Being sick is the worst :( 

  14. Channelknight Fadran
    Sixteen. I developed the character after Fifteen.
  15. Channelknight Fadran
    Inform her posthaste that it's her turn this week to make the random SU about space
  16. Channelknight Fadran
    I've mentioned that my current draft of the Iconar Collective is Mark Eighteen. That's a lotta redrafts. Allow me to go through them: Written probably over ten years ago, on my mom's long-forgotten tablet-sized laptop called Zippy (it was the fastest computer we had... lol). I had watched the Fallen Kingdom minecraft music video and thought it was so awesome that I decided to go and write a story that was just as awesome. I got one chapter (read: one paragraph) in after maybe two or three minutes of deep, masterful writing... then forgot about it and never edited it again. As a wee lad I was absolutely certain that this singular idea was going to take the literature world by storm and make me the most famous author of all time. I vaguely remember writing it. The POV was a royal guard person (nameless), who was running towards the king and queen (nameless) to take their child (nameless) and run away as they (king and queen - nameless) fought some unspeakable horror, sacrificing themselves for the hope of the kingdom. This was the dawn of my first "epic" idea: superpowered magical weapons wielded by the king and queen of whatever kingdom this was. It was also the dawn of two characters (nameless 1 and nameless 4) who would become very prevalent later down the line. Never written. Like, I never wrote down a single word of this. It was just me keeping myself up at night with wild fantasies of the same characters doing crazy stuff. It mainly featured two primary characters: Male (nameless) and Female (nameless). Honestly so much random scud happened throughout it that I couldn't even begin to describe it all, but I spent so many nights on them that I felt the need to call it a "draft." The two protagonists are very important. Idk if you caught onto that but here we are. The first "completed" draft I ever wrote! I would've been twelve or so with my brand-new gmail and google docs. It begins much the same as the first two drafts: the king and queen must stay in their doomed kingdom to keep the enemies at bay, entrusting their infant son to their most loyal warrior (in this case the Fastest Runner in the Kingdom: Lars). He is forced to leave them to die at the hands of the Shadow King, who leads an army of Shadow Stalkers and Shadow Warriors and Shadow Giants and Shadow This and Shadow That and basically I wasn't particularly creative at the time. Lars takes the child to the forest and raises him with an old elf friend (who he winds up marrying), then had a child of his own to accompany Child 1 on their eventual quest to retake the kingdom. The story then follows three titular characters: Philip, Aurora, and Tristan. That's right - not Corrin. Philip. As a kid I actually had no idea that Philip was the name of the prince in Sleeping Beauty, so the fact that he was Aurora's brother was... a little strange. His whole gig was that he was super muscular and really good at swordfighting, while Aurora used a bow and arrow and also maybe magic? (I don't remember). Aurora got herself wounded at some point, so they found a town and took her to the local medic: Tristan. His entire deal was being Love Interest (tm) to Aurora, who would repeatedly get herself stabbed and shot in various damsel-y ways so Tristan could use his magical band-aids and heal her invariably. It was bad. It was also going to be a three-part series (I don't think I knew the word "trilogy" yet). Part 1 would be the three gangstas taking down the Shadow King and retakign the kingdom (Tristan dies at the end); Part 2 would be them going off on an adventure to bring Tristan back to life (???); Part 3 would be......... ....something. I don't think I had a plan for it. But I wanted Philip to die at the end for some reason (because h e r o i s m). In total... almost 50K words. Not bad, Past Me. Though every single one of those words was complete and utter garbage. Still - formative years. Simply titled "My Story," and basically just a reboot of 3 but with slightly more bearable prose. I'm actually skimming it a little and... honestly, at this point I'm not entirely sure how much my memory serves the distinction between 4 and 3 at this point, because they're really similar. Apparently they're hunting down a prophecy? Or something? I only got 20K words into it, giving up about halfway through by the looks of it. I finally changed Lars' name! To Dain. Yep - Dain was originally Corrin's surrogate father (and the fastest runner in hte kingdom by trade, apparently). Very little of his "original" character has been carried over into more recent versions. Lars, by the way, was recycled as an "easter egg" into the name of Corrin's uncle in the current canon. It's just so bad that I can't allow myself to ever forget it. The dawn of Times New Roman! This was likely the first version I started writing after The Realization (when I scored several perfect 100s on creative writing assignments way back in 9th grade and was like :0 - basically I'd convinced myself, yet again, that I was to be the next billionaire author). It is seven pages long, and the first of many many many attempts at the same opening I couldn't seem to rewrite. Once again it was another take on the "loyal warrior must flee the kingdom with the royal child and raise them to retake it from the demons" thing, this time following Dain as the Captain of the Royal Guard (featuring Henry, Brice, Avelyn, and Neal). I'd written up to them defeating the first wave of a siege. And... apparently with some elves coming in? I FORGOT ABOUT MY ATLA ELVES OMG okay so I was just getting into worldbuilding and decided to make four clans of elves (one for each element). Dain had a girlfriend elf called Sapphire. This one... starts exactly the same way as the last one. And then continues. Why did I have seperate docs for the two of them? And also my prologue was several chapters long? Dain fought off the siege, then went off on a side quest to go find some of their elf buddies. Didn't get much farther than Dain and Sapphire flirting (as best two adults could as written by a fourteen-year-old child who'd never spoken to a girl in his life). Checking... checking... okay, he was still called Philip back then. I had two dwarf clans, apparently. Cool. OH YEAH this is when I'd just barely started getting into magic system creation. I think I had... eight forms of magic? Though I'm also pretty sure I just straight-up yoinked them from 5e, soooooo ...I can't seem to find Mark Seven in here. How odd. The FIRST EVER rendition of the Channelknights. There were five realms, connected by the Parallarity, each with a Channelknight guardian. This version was so intensely formative for the entire series, man... and it's so mediocre. Honestly I don't know where I was going with it, but I had setup chapters for my four Primary Characters (tm): Corrin (FINALLY named Corrin - the new general of the currently nameless army, who is immediately defeated by some random invader and winds up running off into the woods to escape), Aurora (a... *checks notes*... necromancer? Apparently? And I guess that's taboo enough that her teacher deemed it necessary to leave her in the woods at night to be killed by a manticore?), Tristan (a professional thief who gets captured by some elite guards and sold to a colosseum), and Avelyn (a professional fighter who already lives in said colosseum). Oh and a lot of the current characters have their names recycled from this version. The Last Order of the Channelknights? Lead by Darnell (not Garnell - yet), Mareth (who was a girl, and Darnell's... *snickers* - wife), Iolar, Quarden, and Eileen Skimmed it... huh. Similar to the last one where I gave each character their own POV chapter, but I added a fifth to the mix: Ridge, the elf child. How I went about it was different (Corrin was vying for the position of captain instead of general; Avelyn is an assassin instead of a colosseum slave). Prose is still... eh. Introducing Lacy! Mentioned once, in one singular chapter. I would've been fourteen at the time of writing this. In fact, Mark 8 was written by me right before I went to EFY as a wee lad - and Mark 9 here would've been after. Lacy's name is very loosely based on a friend I made there (I was like "hey wanna cameo?" and they're like "sure!" and then badabing badaboom you have yourself one of the most important characters in the entire story). Five pages long, barely a thousand words... first mention of Garnell instead of Darnell, but his personality is completely switched with Dain. Dain is Corrin's weird friend and Garnell is the ruthless commandmant. And I introduce Avelyn right off the bat into Corrin's story (I probably should've mentioned in earlier drafts that she was intended to be his love interest). Seven pages long, roughly 1600 words... Dain is still the weird friend instead of Garnell. This one's featuring the first iteration of a certain Channelknight prologue I was working with. Six pages, roughly 1700 words... same prologue, different approach to the plot. [Error 404 - draft not found] Looks like I finally found the first ever iteration of the Silverclad Enclave: an independent military faction, rather than a sort of national conglomerate. Dain's somewhat bearable in this version for the first time ever. Also the first mention of Amy being Aurora's nickname - but she doesn't like it for some reason? I like it. Screw you, past me. Literally the same as the last version but shorter and with a slightly different ending to one particular paragraph. Why past Fadran ever felt the need to give that its own doc is beyond me. And THIS, ladies and gentlemen, is is the longest written Iconar Collective draft to date. It's the only finished one since Mark 3, and serves as a monument to my development as an author. The plot is exactly the same as it will be in future versions so I can't go over it much, but it should also be noted that how I paced it and a lot of the intermittent scenes are kinda... bad. It gets better as it goes along, but really I'm glad I'm taking on a new approach to the story. 136,700 words. And... bloody hell, 327 pages?? Kind of the first initial redraft of 16 (the first good one) but apparently I didn't like it because I abandoned it eventually and moved onto the next version. I have all the chapters marked out in it tho, which I think is cool. Current version, and as it stands I am r e a l l y happy with how it's going. Steadily chipping away at the word count, getting closer and closer to finishing it... recently I finished Act II, and have moved into the early chapters of Act III. So far my character development and anti-filler have been (in my opinion) pretty solid; we'll see how my skills fare against the upcoming battle sequences.
  17. Channelknight Fadran
    You have bad taste I was wrong begone from this place
  18. Channelknight Fadran
    He's canonically the nicest person on the face of the planet
  19. Channelknight Fadran
    We love Alluka. My favorite character is Leorio
  20. Channelknight Fadran
    Well now you have to create an ability. Mayhap make one Transmuter and one Specialist? We'll see which one fits most.
  21. Channelknight Fadran
    Science time! Take a whole bunch of them. Let's see what happens.
  22. Channelknight Fadran
    https://hxmanga.com/
  23. Channelknight Fadran
    HxH is about 95% story and 5% spectacle, so you get all the epicness of the anime with only a fraction of the time
  24. Channelknight Fadran
    If you don't have the time just read the manga. Seriously.
  25. Channelknight Fadran
    It's so good ...what nen type are you?
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