Recent content by AlrightChaps?

Oh dear. You just ruined my enjoyment of the game. I only played it in the belief that it was a DX11 showcase. Not because, you know, it has reasonably well-balanced, agile and fast-paced gameplay. Considering you've dropped several thousand dollars on a gaming PC, you're probably not the type...

Oh I don't know, man. I have an i7 995X OCed to 4 GHz, 16GB of the fastest RAM I could find, two heavily OCed Radeon 5970s in Crossfire, all cooled with phase-change and/or water cooling, with RAIDed SSDs for programs and twin WD Raptors for storage. I'm looking forward to Crysis 2, even...

Waterstone's Gower Street, and I'm sure many others, have a section devoted to debunking-BS books like 'Voodoo Science'. I've thumbed through them, and debated science with people both in the real world and on the Internet, and the sheer technical ignorance is astounding, even outside the New...

The photon's gravitational potential energy is converted into increased frequency?

Nope. I'm sure others could express it more precisely but the whole point of gravitational collapse into a singularity - the process that creates the black hole - is that no known interaction or phenomenon can resist it at the event horizon, including the electromagnetic force (which tensile...

You're always going to feel weight - the 75kg of your own body mass exerts an attractive force on itself, although it is almost nothing. Over time you will drift towards the combined centre of mass of you and the spacecraft , overshooting it, and leading to the world's most boring oscillations...

Correct, but since most spaceships are much heavier than most humans, the ship would move a lot less than you. Were you to push off the Vanguard-1 satellite - the first US object in orbit, which was nicknamed the US space grapefruit by Khruschev due to its 1.47kg weight - you'd obviously push it...