Inviz has the power to shut down all ST merchandise because they are based off of SFM models, which Valve owns.
even if inviz somehow works around the merch part, if Valve wanted to, they could restrict or entirely block monetization on videos containing their copyrighted 3D meshes
i am playing as white
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I COUNTER CAST!! https://www.reddit.com/r/icast/comments/1t8tfst/i_cast_according_to_all_known_laws_of_aviation/
let us tackle this persistent old urban myth about our fuzzy little buzzing companions, shall we? You have likely heard some clever clogs down the local pub proclaiming that according to all known laws of aviation, the humble bumblebee should not be able to get its plump, velvety bottom off the ground because its wings are far too minuscule to support such a remarkably rotund frame. For the longest time, even the most proper chaps in white laboratory coats were left thoroughly scratching their heads over this baffling conundrum, as standard fixed-wing aircraft calculations simply could not account for the sheer marvel of apian mechanics. The truth of the matter, however, is that bees do not fly like a stately British Airways airliner at all, but rather like an incredibly frantic, highly sophisticated miniature helicopter operating on absolute overdrive.
Instead of flapping their wings up and down in a calm and dignified manner, these industrious little creatures sweep their wings back and forth in a rather peculiar ninety-degree arc, flipping them upside down at the end of each stroke like an expert chef tossing a pancake. This remarkable twisting motion happens at a staggering pace of roughly two hundred and thirty beats per second, creating a series of tiny, low-pressure air vortexes directly above the wings, which quite literally sucks the bee upward into the breeze. Furthermore, their thorax is packed with a rather brilliant set of indirect flight muscles that do not wait for individual brain signals to twitch, but instead vibrate automatically in a rhythmic resonance, allowing the bee to carry a massive load of pollen without suffering an absolute bout of physical exhaustion. It is a splendidly chaotic, brute-force approach to aerodynamics that utterly defies traditional engineering, proving that nature does not give a toss about human blueprints when there is sweet nectar to be harvested for queen and country.
now first of all, ground to globe, you want one, one continous video of a rocket going into the orbit to either see the earth and its curve or the entire earth itself- now here is why that isnt practical or financially smart even with todays technology.
Second of all, we have MANY ground to globe (or atleast when the earths curve is obvious), some are even from 2017, its the proof you have been asking yet saying its "ai"
Thirdly, about Artemis 2, you wonder how a spacecraft at mach 33 can slow down to 16mph, well, thats simple, at mach 33, the air is not something you can phase through, it becomes a brick wall which slow down orion VERY much until it reaches a safe speed for the parashutes, and why is it not hot when the Navy touched the capsule? thats because it landed in the fricken ocean.
i have this feeling every time when i see good ai art, and yes, its not "good", i mean good, like actually nice, and i get mixed emotions about it.
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and just to expand this a bit since my title is permanent, this can include music.
So, Water usage, i have seen some counters to "AI is using so much water" posts saying other daily services, take Dairy, Meat, Restaurants (Pros prefer fast-food), for example, they say they use more water, which is not false, but not true in the way its shown.
a single dairy milking cow drinks 30-50 gallons of water (113-189 liters) per day, depending on conditions.
about 80% of the water either turns to milk or manure for the soil, so the water stays in the local cycle.
on the other hand, large AI data centers use roughly 5 million gallons of water, its all or mostly evaporated, not much return instantly.
researchers now distinguish between Green water (rain) and Blue water (tap). Pros love the 15,000 liters for beef stat, but about 94% of that is actually Green water—rain that falls on a field to grow grass. That rain was always going to fall; it wasn't pumped out of a city's reservoir. AI, however, uses 100% Blue water. This is the clean, treated freshwater from your city's supply. A 2026 study from SemiAnalysis showed that a single large AI data center consumes as much Blue water as two and a half of the world's busiest In-N-Out burger joints combined. While the burger joint uses the water and sends it to a treatment plant to be recycled, the data center evaporates it into steam. One is a withdrawal from the environment; the other is a permanent delete key for the local water supply.
a dishwasher load used 3-5 gallons of water, and recycles it.
a car wash uses an average of 40 gallons, almost all the water is recycled.
standard services (like cows and car washes) WITHDRAW water. It moves through a system and stays in the local environment. AI consumes it, to local communities, that is the same as alt f4, all unsaved tabs close, you can eventually get them back, but it takes a long time.
lets take some other common services shall we?
Coca-Cola, aims for 1.7-1.9 liters per 1 liter of soda, Pepsi does 1.4, Soda and Beer companies spend billions in water replenishment.
McDonalds or a Tacobell, they use a lot of water daily, but it doesnt just poof.
52% of restaurant water is used in the kitchen and 31% in restrooms. This water flows into the municipal sewer system, where it is purified and put back into the local environment.
Traditional data centers, the ones that handle your Netflix, emails, and cloud storage, are bicycles compared to the rocket ships that run AI. Standard server racks use about 5 to 15 kilowatts of power and mostly stay cool with air fans. AI racks packed with GPUs pull 50 to 100 kilowatts each. They generate so much heat that air cooling literally doesn't work; the physics break down.
Because of this, AI clusters require liquid evaporative cooling. A standard cloud data center uses about 300,000 gallons of water a day, mostly in a closed loop. A large AI cluster siphons up to 5 million gallons a day. That is the difference between supplying a single neighborhood and supplying a town of 50,000 people.
Even worse, 2026 research from UC Riverside shows that while traditional centers have steady water use, AI thirst spikes 10x higher during summer heatwaves. When it gets hot, these AI centers start siphoning massive amounts of municipal drinking water right when local families and farmers need it most for their own survival.
And don't let the "efficiency" stats fool you. While a standard CPU server draws maybe 500 watts, a single AI GPU server can draw over 5,000 watts. You can't group a flamethrower with a candle and call them both "lighting" just to make the flamethrower look safe.
Pros use numbers, but never look too deep into it.
Many of these huge numbers are from a global scale, like object 1 is used in place A, and also used in place B, so the numbers add up, thats why the numbers are huge.
AI data center water usage is usually meassured locally, so while it appears less, in reality, its not.
Sources:
https://oysterlink.com/spotlight/water-energy-usage-statistics-restaurants/
https://www.pepsico.com/esg-topics/water
Feel free to correct my research.
AI does use water, a lot of it.
we give you proof, we give you unedited videos, videos with NO barrel distortion, proof that requires no science, yet you still reject.
tbh, looking back on this post, its a little corny gotta say that, and yes im saying this before someone says it is
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they cannot appreciate our world, they do not understand how lucky we are, if earth was just 1% off of everything, earth would be totally different, so perfect, yes theres imperfections, but that is how nature works.
Since space exploration started to become a thing, thousands of people wanted to be astronauts, they wanted to explore space, they wanted to be proud of something.
Astronauts arent just average people who went through training, astronauts were formerly surgeons, pilots, military pilots, people who also have PhDs, its not just some normal people with no experience.
Now, columbia and challenger, two fatal space shuttle accidents, for NASA and many space agencies, this taught them to be more careful and not reckless, and to always look into errors before launch, Flerfs? they see it as "fake", CGI, "ai", whatever excuse they have, and ignore that REAL people died, REAL people were guilty of their actions, Troll or Real Flerf this is just messed up.
Vladimir Komarov, the first astronaut on the first soyuz rocket, died of a parashute error, he knew that Soyuz 1 was a literal tomb for him, but why did he go in anyway? to make sure his best friend, Yuri Gagarian lives, he died.
you all say its fake, edited, cgi, ai, whatever, and ignore the actual people who died to make sure future astronauts don't end up the same, they are not alive as your delusion says.
whatever shit you say, it happened, accept that.
yall say that everyone has a smartphone and free wifi, so why not use ibis paint?
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This video may be 6 years old, but Dave is so pin point, watch video along with my post to have a better understanding.
(sentences in "" are quoted from the video)
so, first, you say that things fall down because of density, and buoyancy, (next sentence qouted from video)
"well i hate to break it to you, but these 2 are NOT forces, a force, is a vector, which has a numerical amount, and a direction."
if you skipped school and do not understand what these 2 words mean, well no fear!
Density is how much matter is/sits in a particular space, it does not point, anywhere, its just how much stuff (matter), in in one spot.
Bouyancy is just an objects want to float.
"Let me repeat, THESE, ARE, NOT, FORCES."
some flerfs say that objects fall down because they are more, "dense" than the air around them, BUT, air is EVERYWHERE, why cant it go forward? Sideways? how does it know, to go down? How?
Objects also fall down in a VACUUM, which means there IS no air around you, no air!
"Face the facts, things accelerate DOWNWARDS because of a DOWNWARD force."
Said force is GRAVITY, which pulls everything to its center of mass, Earths center, of mass.
"denser things displace less denser things, because GRAVITY exists"
GRAVITY, IS, A REAL, THING.
in science, its called a theory, a proven one, a non proven theory is called a "Hypothesis", learn science, before you fight people who know how science, WORKS.
(skipping number 2, you can watch it yourself)
The third one i really like to talk about:
"Water doesnt curve, water finds it own level".
"as for the first phrase, at least its a coherent thought, but it is dead wrong"
Watch a droplet of water on ANYTHING, your window, a leaf, those zoomed in photos of water droplets, what do you see?
"a FREAKING sphere"
Water, does, indeed curve, Waves, they curve! those bubble levels, look at the water around the bubble, CURVED WATER
WATER, CURVES.
now, "water finds its own leveL" is even MORE absurd,
Level, does NOT, mean, FLAT.
"Level just means being as close to the center of the earth as possible"
Fourth, though its very uncommon for me, i have seen some people say this.
"how can our atmosphere be right next to the vacuum of space"
"You are all quite perplexed about how earth's atmosphere can exist next to the vacuum of space. This one is rather amusing, because what's happening is that since you have no science education, your only context for the word vacuum is a vacuum cleaner."
Vacuum, is a reigon where there is literally no stuff, on earth,
"there is stuff (like air), in space, there is no stuff, or close to no stuff"
Space, does not suck things up like a vacuum cleaner.
on the ground, there is a lot of air molecules, and as you get higher, the amount of air molecules get lower, fading into space, its not some sudden transition, it GRADUALLY transitions to space.
Fifth.
"Show me water sticking to a ball"
this is a VERY common "gotcha" by flerfs, easily debunked.
"The implication is that water and everything else should fly off of it, like a child getting thrown from a merry-go-round. Well it's very cute that you get overwhelmed by numbers with four digits in them, but in actuality the earth spins once per day. "
Like i said in one of my other posts, spinning an object once ever 24 hours is NOT fast at all.
Earth spins 0.000694 rpm, Earth linear velocity is 1000mph, two comepletely different things yet you use the wrong thing to describe your hypothesis.
the funny part is that planes cruise more than HALF that speed, with most fighter jets being able to go PAST 1000mph, in space terms, 1000mph is slow.
now back to that "gotcha" thing.
Earth make big gravity, ball make small gravity, so unless you have an earth sized ball (which is impossible for your sake),it might work.
when you put water on a ball, the water falls down the the earth, because said earth make bigger gravity than said ball, that is why water doesnt stick to objects.
"Stop asking for ridiculous and impossible demonstrations, like having to build an earth-sized object to show you how water sticks to something as big as the earth."
(watch the video from 6-8, he explains better than me)
so now number 9, and 10 (putting them together), you say we believe in "scientism", you treat as if science is a religion, well in fact, science is FACTS, students are not told to believe science, they are told to DO it, even today they still use balls and ramps and wheels to learn about science, because science has ACTION involved.
when all else fails, you say we are brainwashed, which already has many wrong things that its very simple to understand, you say you tell us the truth when in fact its just very stupid (at times harmful) misinformation.
"The Flat Earth is a CULT. not the "kill yourselves with koolaid" kind, but its not that far off"
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, i'm not so sure about the universe"
-Albert Einstien
Dont you know the earth spins ONCE, thats right, ONCE per day, 1 time per 24 hours, now, go on a merry go round and ask someone to make spin you one time over the course of a day, not so fast to make you fly off, right? well that is what is happening, ON EARTH, thats why we dont feel it.
Most AI images i see look like genuine trash, for me it just looks ugly, not just because i dont like AI art generation, its also because it just looks unnatural.
yeah, there are photorealistic ai images but that just scares me instead of helping
now first of all, ground to globe, you want one, one continous video of a rocket going into the orbit to either see the earth and its curve or the entire earth itself- now here is why that isnt practical or financially smart even with todays technology.
Second of all, we have MANY ground to globe (or atleast when the earths curve is obvious), some are even from 2017, its the proof you have been asking yet saying its "ai"
Thirdly, about Artemis 2, you wonder how a spacecraft at mach 33 can slow down to 16mph, well, thats simple, at mach 33, the air is NOT something you can phase through, it becomes a brick wall which slow down orion VERY much until it reaches a safe speed for the parashutes, and why is it not hot when the Navy touched the capsule? thats because it landed in the fricken OCEAN, plus the air cooling the capsule itself.
and if the Flat Earth was a real thing, HOW DO YOU KNOW ABOUT IT!? you say its a secret operation, so HOW do you know about it? HOW did you get "classified" images? why would NASA or any space agency even do this? and dont bash me with "iTs sAtAniC DeSiRes" because thats utter nonsense.
Stop saying nonsense like your smart, you might think you sound smart, but in reality your just yapping stupid nonsense, do your own expierements.
try to make a map of the flat earth, A REAL MAP, you have never made one, you just use AI images or random stock images, a REAL map.
oh and learn about gravity too, i bet you skipped 2nd grade so go back please.
