Truly ancient history is astounding to ponder. You can think about how things were in your grandparent’s day, and very little has changed. You can go back 5000 years in human history and the only real difference is the knowledge and technology. Hell we could go back 100 million years and it might seem like strolling through a field, except you have to watch out for dinosaurs instead of bears. But go back a couple billion years and we would probably have no chance of survival.

Now take that on the cosmic scale, the differences in the early universe when it was less than a billion years old would be unrecognizable from anything we know. A cosmic hydrogen fog??? That sounds like an atmosphere, something that a space-dwelling creature from a sci-fi novel could develop in. And given the immense stretch of time since then, could such a creature evolve to survive in the rarity of matter between stars today? When you consider just how long of a period several billion years is, it really seems like anything could be possible.

What exactly do they mean by “one dimensional”? I know that’s not factually correct, but are we talking about threads that are only a single atom thick (in which case how would you even detect that in space?), or is it just hyperbole due to the length being extremely greater than the width? Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t see anything in the article actually giving an estimate of the average width of these threads, so maybe they’re just so narrow that we can’t really measure them from this distance?

I’ve been getting pretty decent results from torrent magnet for awhile now. Really they just seem to collect listings from other servers, but their status of each torrent has been pretty decent.

They always seemed to have the active episodes seeded well enough, but every tracker should go through their inventory to update the current status on a timely basis. I didn’t really think it was too much to ask that a file I started downloading a year ago, which had a couple dozen other people attempting to download, should have been marked as having zero active seeds in that time?

One thing I REALLY hope doesn’t make it into the clone… Rarbg made a point of claiming every single entry was seeded, despite the fact that pretty much anything more than a few months old was in fact not seeded and could only be obtained if another user came back. If you wanted to grab a TV show that had ended a couple years ago, you could bet that many episodes had a number of peers listed who were hoping it would be seeded again, but they never were. I guess I should clear out that stuff from my client now, but I actually have entries that have been waiting for up to two years because I couldn’t find them anywhere else.

So if any of the devs are reading this thread, please don’t insult your users in this way. Rarbg eventually became my last resort for finding downloads since I knew I couldn’t trust if anything was seeded, despite the high quality of the files that were represented when you could get them.