This episode of Star Wars is brought to you by the letter E, and the number 2187.

TFA was decent. By the time TRoS came around, Rian had taken the story in a different direction and left JJ to pick up the pieces. If there was a consistent storyline planned from the start, things could have been much better.

Yes, but since faces are essentially distributed over a cylinder, rather than a sphere, it is more of an issue.

“52 weeks o’ fart”

An E?

He looks like he’s already had enough of our sh*t.

Nice to see some more writing communities on Lemmy. Not sure if I’ll have much to contribute, but if I do, I’ll know where to post it!

there is no post at all for the moment?

I currently see two posts. If you are the first user from your server to visit the community, you might need to subscribe to trigger federation, which could take a minute or two.

shouldn’t you be able to go to 240?

Not really. The faces of the D120 are already asymmetric (scalene) triangles. There’s no way to split these into additional faces while keeping them all the same shape.

Any larger geometrically fair die would have to be from an infinite family (prisms, bipyramids, and trapezohedra), which are “impractical in reality due to the tendency to roll for a long time”.

there are gaps between some faces and there arent on others, so it really isnt well balanced

But as long as all the faces are the same size, and the die never lands on the gaps (or is rerolled if it does), would that be a fair die?

I just got here and don’t know the backstory, but this looks super cool.

I think the D120 is the maximum possible isohedral (geometrically symmetric) fair die. A golf ball is probably pretty close to fair, though number 327 seems like it might be more difficult to balance than 12, 20, 30, or 60.

How do we know his thoughts in his final moments?

Huh, TIL. Thanks.

all those years ago

Is it that many? I thought the server was younger than 2…

Fish shells? I only know bash and sh…

I’d love it if the fediverse as a whole grew to that size. Any individual instance? No. That’s kind of the whole point of the fediverse.

Upvote for Getafix. (Paramix?)

I assume you mean beneficial to humans?

Viruses make up a large portion of Earth’s ecosystem, and a large class of them help keep bacteria in check.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage

There are even efforts to try and harness them to treat bacterial infections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy

But embryos are people too.

Eh, they’re not people yet.

How many potential sibs can you waste for the perfect child?

Human bodies produce way more gametes than most people want children, so I’d say that one could “waste” quite a few.

Not everyone can benefit from gene therapy, so it is not truly a benefit to society or humanity, and therefore should not be developed

Strongly disagree. While socioeconomic inequality is an important issue to address, that is no reason to halt scientific research and technological progress.

!plantid@mander.xyz might be able to help.