DebatableRaccoon

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 31 minutes ago

I think you're overestimating how generous a government or research group would be if they found someone they truly believed to be immortal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 36 minutes ago* (last edited 35 minutes ago)

It's not about close position in this case, it's that the idiot was typing quickly and hit the numbers in the wrong order. Also, a numpad was more likely used than the number row.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

At best, they only ever live long enough to see themselves become the villain, except they're too delusional to see what they've become.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In case anyone was wondering why Thor planted his flag...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Azrael was in City and Knight.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Jack of all trades, master of none.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I think (see: hope) this is a stop-gap solution. It's at least better than the current implication of buying something and being able to keep it despite these companies knowing full well that the game will be gone in a much more permanent way the moment they flick the switch on the servers.

To paraphrase Ross Scott, it may be a bare minimum but it's at least nice to have it in writing just how fucked we consumers are.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Even among a lot of SW fans it's a "Wait for a sale"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I'm sure that's not totally a bad sign or anything...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You mean triple ehh?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago
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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/nostupidquestions
 

As hinted at in the title, assuming the technology/means existed that could absorb energy fast enough, would it be possible to stop a star from going supernova, effectively "calming" it?

This is for a novel (not exactly a sci-fi one) but I'd like to keep in the realms of "technically possible".

Edit. Thank you to everyone for providing answers and specific thanks to @[email protected] @[email protected] and @[email protected] for the for the further reading/watching materials that have inspired a narrative solution that is kinda hand-wave-y but should be good enough to hold up to scrutiny until the moment someone with a PhD (or good enough knowledge) takes a closer look at a fictional word with a soft magic system and smashes the big ol' BS button which I think is about as much as fantasy novel writer can ask for.

 
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