7? Psh.

Try 40.

No but seriously, it’s addictive. One moment you’re like “I just need a good flashlight” and the next you’re telling somebody how the flashlight they got from Lowes has terrible tint and CRI compared to your hand-assembled copper and titanium pixel camo Emisar D4v2 with dedomed Nichia 519As you got for like $120 from a Chinese guy named Hank.

This is the comic Salvatore based his skit on.

Speak for yourself.

I see someone else has discovered the gold mine that is SkyCorp Home Video.

I mean, we’ve already surpassed The Expanse in some ways (at least the first couple books).

Something that struck me was in Caliban’s War they were relying heavily on mirrors to focus sunlight for growing crops out at Jupiter. I guess the authors just didn’t foresee LED technology advancing as rapidly as it did.

Leviathan Wakes was published in June 2011. Caliban’s War was published in June 2012.

The L-prize “60W” category winner was announced in August 2011 (it was Philips). It didn’t become commercially-available until April 2012, but even then, it was like $50 – far from affordable for most people. Now you can get equivalent or better bulbs for less than 1/10th of that.

Yes.

Talks about Perseverance.

Image is of Spirit or Opportunity.