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A gap emerges in the protective tangle of machinery all around, exposing the night sky. Although fearful, I must investigate this dangerous opportunity.

#HintFiction - a story in 25 words or fewer.

Europa's Rhadamanthys Linea

This image from NASA's Galileo Solid-State Imager (SSI) shows Europa's surface is covered with a vast network of linear features such as cracks, ridges, and bands.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Instrument: Solid-State Imaging
Mission: Galileo
Tags: Europa
More: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23166
#space #NASA #JPL #photography #astronomy #astrodon

Catalog Page for PIA23166

@tobiasfeijoo perhaps this is planet B, after we wrecked Mars?
Hubble Captures Rare Event: Star Eaten By a Black Hole 300 Million Light Years Away (LOOK) https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/hubble-captures-rare-event-star-eaten-by-black-hole/ #stargazing #science #space #nasa
Hubble Captures Rare Event: Star Eaten By a Black Hole 300 Million Light Years Away (LOOK)

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have recorded a star's final moments in detail, as it gets gobbled up by a black hole.

Good News Network

@ahau speaking of dead ends, the Metaverse is right up there with the best of them!

Give me Beat Sabre over that anyday ;)

@ahau you can still tether the Q2 to a PC though right?

@ahau I mean that people that have only ever seen Quest VR gaming are quite happy with it because they've never seen what a decent gaming PC can offer.

Personally I find it slightly frustrating when VR titles have obviously been created to run on the lowest end VR hardware without the ability to turn up the detail for a PC rig.

@ahau I disagree that it's a dead end though - it's what the consumer wants and not all games need the level of detail of PC AAA titles, IE Beat Sabre.

@ahau there's some side by side comparisons of PC Vs Quest 1/2 games here https://youtu.be/kwUUzNwJD7U

Evidently there's been a lot of careful optimisation work to allow games to work on Quest, but you can see how the reduced poly count and texture limits have reduced the detail. Still playable, and perhaps if you've seen nothing else that's fine, but I'll be sticking with an RTX card and a cabled headset for the foreseeable future.

@paul he's no longer the world's richest man, partly due to his behaviour on Twitter.
@mangor oh that is really good! Very organic.