AMA daily duck facts

[Orcaline]

why did you choose to become a weeb

 

[Mab]

why did you choose to become a weeb

i cant answer that until i have a lawyer present

 

[professor plum]

what's the worst anime you've watched? like i mean you couldn't get through one episode
sao doesnt count

 

[Orcaline]

If you could be cool for a day what would you do

 

[Mab]

If you could be cool for a day what would you do

I would simply hang out with other cool people instead of u dorks

what's the worst anime you've watched? like i mean you couldn't get through one episode
sao doesnt count

idk! despite what yall are saying i havent actually seen that much anime. All the things I've watched more than one or two episodes of have been pretty good and popular shows.

 

[professor plum]

ok so heres a scenario
you have an unlimited budget and you can cast ANYONE you want.

you're in charge of Disney's next live action Villain Origin Story (think Maleificent or Cruella) - what story would you adapt? Any ideas for casting? What would your twists be? how would you make them sympathetic?

 

[Orcaline]

Why

 

[Mab]

Why

Chronology of the universe

Spoiler:

For the purposes of this summary, it is convenient to divide the chronology of the universe since it originated, into five parts. It is generally considered meaningless or unclear whether time existed before this chronology:
The very early universe
The first picosecond (10−12) of cosmic time. It includes the Planck epoch, during which currently understood laws of physics may not apply; the emergence in stages of the four known fundamental interactions or forces—first gravitation, and later the electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions; and the expansion of space itself and supercooling of the still immensely hot universe due to cosmic inflation.
Tiny ripples in the universe at this stage are believed to be the basis of large-scale structures that formed much later. Different stages of the very early universe are understood to different extents. The earlier parts are beyond the grasp of practical experiments in particle physics but can be explored through other means.
The early universe
Lasting around 370,000 years. Initially, various kinds of subatomic particles are formed in stages. These particles include almost equal amounts of matter and antimatter, so most of it quickly annihilates, leaving a small excess of matter in the universe.
At about one second, neutrinos decouple; these neutrinos form the cosmic neutrino background (CνB). If primordial black holes exist, they are also formed at about one second of cosmic time. Composite subatomic particles emerge—including protons and neutrons—and from about 2 minutes, conditions are suitable for nucleosynthesis: around 25% of the protons and all the neutrons fuse into heavier elements, initially deuterium which itself quickly fuses into mainly helium-4.
By 20 minutes, the universe is no longer hot enough for nuclear fusion, but far too hot for neutral atoms to exist or photons to travel far. It is therefore an opaque plasma. At around 47,000 years,[2] as the universe cools, its behaviour begins to be dominated by matter rather than radiation. At about 100,000 years, helium hydride is the first molecule. (Much later, hydrogen and helium hydride react to form molecular hydrogen, the fuel needed for the first stars.)
At about 370,000 years,[3] the universe finally becomes cool enough for neutral atoms to form ("recombination"), and as a result it also became transparent for the first time. The newly formed atoms—mainly hydrogen and helium with traces of lithium—quickly reach their lowest energy state (ground state) by releasing photons ("photon decoupling"), and these photons can still be detected today as the cosmic microwave background (CMB). This is currently the oldest observation we have of the universe.
The Dark Ages and large-scale structure emergence
From 370,000 years until about 1 billion years. After recombination and decoupling, the universe was transparent but the clouds of hydrogen only collapsed very slowly to form stars and galaxies, so there were no new sources of light. The only photons (electromagnetic radiation, or "light") in the universe were those released during decoupling (visible today as the cosmic microwave background) and 21 cm radio emissions occasionally emitted by hydrogen atoms. The decoupled photons would have filled the universe with a brilliant pale orange glow at first, gradually redshifting to non-visible wavelengths after about 3 million years, leaving it without visible light. This period is known as the cosmic Dark Ages.
Between about 10 and 17 million years the universe's average temperature was suitable for liquid water 273–373 K (0–100 °C) and there has been speculation whether rocky planets or indeed life could have arisen briefly, since statistically a tiny part of the universe could have had different conditions from the rest as a result of a very unlikely statistical fluctuation, and gained warmth from the universe as a whole.[4]
At some point around 200 to 500 million years, the earliest generations of stars and galaxies form (exact timings are still being researched), and early large structures gradually emerge, drawn to the foam-like dark matter filaments which have already begun to draw together throughout the universe. The earliest generations of stars have not yet been observed astronomically. They may have been huge (100-300 solar masses) and non-metallic, with very short lifetimes compared to most stars we see today, so they commonly finish burning their hydrogen fuel and explode as highly energetic pair-instability supernovae after mere millions of years.[5] Other theories suggest that they may have included small stars, some perhaps still burning today. In either case, these early generations of supernovae created most of the everyday elements we see around us today, and seeded the universe with them.
Galaxy clusters and superclusters emerge over time. At some point, high energy photons from the earliest stars, dwarf galaxies and perhaps quasars leads to a period of reionization that commences gradually between about 250-500 million years, is complete by about 700-900 million years, and diminishes by about 1 billion years (exact timings still being researched). The universe gradually transitioned into the universe we see around us today, and the Dark Ages only fully came to an end at about 1 billion years.
The universe as it appears today
From 1 billion years, and for about 12.8 billion years, the universe has looked much as it does today. It will continue to appear very similar for many billions of years into the future. The thin disk of our galaxy began to form at about 5 billion years (8.8 Gya),[6] and the Solar System formed at about 9.2 billion years (4.6 Gya), with the earliest traces of life on Earth emerging by about 10.3 billion years (3.5 Gya).
From about 9.8 billion years of cosmic time,[7] the slowing expansion of space gradually begins to accelerate under the influence of dark energy, which may be a scalar field throughout our universe. The present-day universe is understood quite well, but beyond about 100 billion years of cosmic time (about 86 billion years in the future), uncertainties in current knowledge mean that we are less sure which path our universe will take.
The far future and ultimate fate

ok so heres a scenario
you have an unlimited budget and you can cast ANYONE you want.

you're in charge of Disney's next live action Villain Origin Story (think Maleificent or Cruella) - what story would you adapt? Any ideas for casting? What would your twists be? how would you make them sympathetic?

I don't know that many disney villains so I'm going to have to make do with what I do know. Ok so I dont know if she was a villain because I never watched the movie. However I think they could definitely get more mileage out of this queen

Spoiler:

Of course they would have to write an original plot for this which disney does not do but I'm pretty sure they could google "new queer cinema" and copy something from there after five minutes of research. And everyone would praise them for pushing boundaries again. She could be played by... hmm I don't know let's just go with Scarlett Johansson I hear she does a lot of good work around here. The twist halfway through is that all the main characters friends hate her because of her big nose. Or because they're homophobic, it depends who the target audience is. She goes through a long period of self doubt, has some moment of revelation at the 1-hour mark, and the story ends as she convinces her friends that all noses matter and they sing a beautiful boundary-pushing song about how everyone is beautiful and we should just respect everyone and their differences and then the curtains close.

@ disney execs i am available for freelance consulting

 

[professor plum]

what resources would you recommend to someone with zero knowledge of coding to get into it? best language to start with?

 

[Izanagee2005]

Have you played any Fire Emblem game?

 

[Mab]

what resources would you recommend to someone with zero knowledge of coding to get into it? best language to start with?

Ok so coding is pretty broad. I'm going to approach this from a web developer perspective because that's really all I know. The first thing you need is HTML and CSS. Neither of these are really programming languages, they're simpler, more static markup languages. HTML is for describing the layout of pages, CSS the appearance. If you've done BBCode on PC you've already used both of these to some extent.

Then you introduce an actual programming language. The only language that you can actually run directly inside a web browser is JavaScript, which is why I recommend starting with it. Open your console with F12 and type alert("Hello, world!") and see what happens. That's JavaScript. You can also use it in a ton of other contexts, like to power the backends of web servers, so it's a very useful one to know.

The ideas also translate over pretty well to other languages like PHP or Ruby. However unlike JavaScript, these languages can't be run in the browser, but they can be used to power web servers. PC's server, as is well known, is written in PHP and uses JavaScript for small client-side user interactions like making the [Respond] button work.

Anyways, some resources.

- HTML tutorial
- CSS tutorial
- JavaScript tutorial (Do NOT look for JS tutorials on w3schools they are grossly outdated and not representative of the way modern developers write JS)
- JavaScript reference

 

[Mab]

Have you played any Fire Emblem game?

I dont even know what that is

 

[Roni]

can you write a whole paragraph without using the letter e?

 

[Mab]

can you write a whole paragraph without using the letter e?

no i tried that is really hard and i run out of things to say

 

[Squirtlenator]

Donald or Daffy?


Why do you like ducks so much?

 

[Mab]

Donald or Daffy?

Theyre both lame

Why do you like ducks so much?

Honestly it's more just a pun on my name that people started making years back (dakota, duckota) which evolved into the joke that I'm a duck or obsessed with ducks. That kinda drove me to become interested in ducks for the sake of the meme rather than the other way around. Also ducks are really interesting.

 

[professor plum]

what's one dish that you really excel at cooking?

 

[Austin]

what's your favorite technological advancement that you've seen in your lifetime?

 

[Mab]

what's one dish that you really excel at cooking?

i am possibly the worlds biggest yorkshire pudding stan ive gotten really good at making those

 

[Mab]

what's your favorite technological advancement that you've seen in your lifetime?

none of them. technology was a mistake, i would live in a swamp as a witch if i could