As a little nitpick, "extreme pressure" is partially true. We do need "extreme" pressure; not extremely high pressure, but extremely low pressure. We have these series of pumps that are able to remove more and more particles at each step. We have your standard pumps that get rid of most gases, then we have turbomolecular pumps that blow away a lot of the matter that remains, and then we have things like ion pumps, which electrocutes molecules in a vacuum and sucks them out using electric fields. This way, we're able to create better vacuums here on Earth better than Space itself.
And honestly, that's pretty much wizardry to me.
Space is a terrible vacuum. It's full of literally everything.
So is my vacuum.
This is absurdly untrue. Space is VERY empty. The above comment is just plain wrong. CERN has the best vacuum in the world at around 1000 atoms/cc. Deep space is less than 1. Even nebulae have a density far below 1000 atoms/cc, and those are the most dense regions of space.
It may be true that we use vacuum pumps for chip manufacturing that get vacuums less dense than the exosphere, which we like to call space sometimes, but it's definitely influenced by Earth and not a good definition of a space vacuum.
If space was a vacuum then Roger Wilco would be out of work.
Won't anyone think of the molecules!
Huh, I always thought my chamber is way worse vacuum then space (usually about 2×10-10 mbar)
extremely rare rocks
Silicon is the second most common element in the Earth's crust... 90% of all rocks are some form of silicate...
You also don't use extreme pressure.
Those warlocks do seem to experience tons of pressure from their masters to work faster though.
my guess is most modern electronics are mostly plastic by weight. oil is kinda like a rare rock? like semi-rare rock juice
a lot of electronics have a fair bit of lithium for the battery, but apparently we get most lithium from seawater. rare by concentration, but usually not extracted in rock form
so yeah rare, not really, and rocks, hardly at all...
I'm proud to be one of the warlocks that can harness the magical powers of the stone, although I'm not yet very powerful. I'm not an apprentice, but I have a lot to learn.
Stone Warlocks are often very specialized. Don't feel bad if you don't understand every incantation and every spell that gives vitae to your creations.
Understand? No one understands the magic spells they just recite the ancient scrolls of the stack overflow almanac.
I'm a warlock's apprentice, training to be a defendant of the stones and maybe eventually carve my own intentions into them. I salute your work and hope to get there someday myself.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C Clarke.
This actually makes for a great sci-fi writing prompt! TLDR: I started writing cause I was bored, and stuff got out of hand.
Long ago, humanity discovered the element Obscurium with the innate ability of capturing and holding lightning. Ancient sculptors discovered a series of runes that, when carved into slabs of the element, allowed them to manipulate the lightning. Cults of Wizards developed, focused on creating ever more complex spells with the runes. Different cults saw beauty in different classes of spells: The Sages developed practices to imbue the stones with memory, and developed complex architectures to store and retrieve any information at a whim, giving them the power of shaping humanities collective memory. The battle hardened Order of Warlocks trained for years to become proficient in manipulating enormous amounts of data, creating spells that could solve any practical problem in seconds. It is said that some warlocks even claimed capable of imbuing the stones with an artificial soul. The more proletarian Order of Sorcerers believed the magic of the stones should be available to all, and created interactive artworks that allowed the non-initiated to communicate with the stones, and feel some of their power.
While these cults gained much power, they remained beholden to two small groupings. One was a group of Hermit scroll compilers, who dedicated their lives to the discovery of new runes, and the creation of translation scrolls that translated wizards' spells into the language of the runes. These were loosely organised in the Order of Scrolls. The other was the Order of Sculpting Monks, whose monasteries were the only places where lightning could be harvested, and runes could be carved into the stones with the required precision.
For many years after the discovery of Obscurium, humanity prospered. The conflict beholden "Nation States" of old gradually dissolved as the global Orders gained power and kept each other in balance. The first major conflict occurred when a monastery of the Sculpting Monks broke with established doctrine. For years, the Monks had worked to carve ever more complex and specialised runes into their slabs, but the monastery of the far eastern island of Taketomi had begun simplifying their slabs, creating dense meshes of simple runes. These dense meshes gave the slabs fascinating Azure-Red-Magenta colour patterns, giving them the name ARM's.
The global head of the Order of Sculptors, seated at the Monastery of Intelaken called this out as heresy, and claimed "These Simpleton slabs will be forgotten in the archives of the Sages". However, soon some of the Hermit scroll Compilers had written translation scrolls for the new ARM's, and even promoted them to the wizard cults as GNU's (Genuinely Necessary Utilities). The wizards discovered that the new, simplified slabs required far less energy, allowing them to perform more powerful spells before reaching exhaustion.
Seeing this, the Intelaken Monastery proclaimed the Monks of Taketomi as excommunicated. They used their vast monetary funds, and were capable of the nigh impossible task of bribing a few of the Hermits of the Order of Scrolls to write scrolls dedicated only to their slabs, and only providing the scrolls to paying wizards, thereby breaking their oath to provide humanity with Free, Outstanding Scroll Stuff.
With tensions rising, the Wizarding cults began to fracture, unable to decide who to support. Some wizards saw the magic of the stones as their birthright, and supported the provision of scrolls to only a select few. Others, especially many members of the Order of Sorcerers, fought to make the power of Obscurium available to all. However, the Order of Sorcerers knew that their true power was in creating intuitive and beautiful structures that made it possible to use the spells developed by the Warlocks and Sages, and that alone, their power was fleeting. They also knew that laymen were largely unaware of this, and as tensions were rising they began to seek allies among the laymen to support them in the conflict they saw on the horizon.
What the Sorcerers didn't anticipate was that in the fracturing power-base of the global Orders, some of the "Nation States" of old, ruled by laymen, which had long since been replaced by the global Orders of Wizards, Hermits and Monks, began to re-emerge. With tensions at a peak, the re-emergent Nation State of Miklagarðr on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean launched a surprise attack on the Monastery of Taketomi. They had recruited a break-out band of Warlocks to infiltrate the archives of the Sages on Taketomi. The Warlocks attempted to extract the secret to the ARM's, but were countered by powerful shuffling spells, making the archives unreadable to them. However, in the final moments before their destruction, the leader of the band, known only by his battle-name Strostrup the Bear, cast a corruption spell, destroying the archives.
With their archives destroyed, the Monks of Taketomi could no longer manufacture the GNU ARM's, and chaos ensued....
There's no such thing as Fortnite porn. It's all just porn of other characters that happen to have Fortnite skins.
Weird hill to die on, but ok
Ackchyually (sorry lol), your phone most likely runs some arm soc, not an intel chip
I weep for the man with an Intel® chip in their pocket.
I had a Zenfone 2 with an x86 processor, the miserable thing had to go through two motherboard repairs in 3 years. It was literally falling apart once I replaced it with my current phone. Also the battery life was crap and it overheated constantly.
I had an asus phone with intel chip, battery lasted like 2-3 hours of screen time, and less than 1 day on standby.
Pynchon wrote it better.
This is how the renfair types on Hysperia talk.
Billups would not be impressed
