gandalf_der_12te
@gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Banning from social media 2 hours ago:
believe it or not, that’s exactly what a wealth tax would do.
- Comment on Banning from social media 2 hours ago:
Take away the kids access to communicate with friends and what the fuck do they have left? It’s not like we have youth centers or shit any more. Barely had any when I was a kid;
well, i grew up in the countryside and we did have youth centers. i can guarantee you i made a wide circle around them, in the sense that i avoided them like the plague
it’s not the absence of youth centers that’s the problem, it’s the fact that i grew up in a very backwards rural countryside full of the exact type of shitheads that you would expect to find there. one person more annoying than the next, the excesses in alcohol consumption weren’t the worst part, it was how people looked at people who didn’t fit their definition of “normal”. really not a good place to be.
- Comment on Anon was bullied 21 hours ago:
noo haha i don’t reject mainstream because it’s mainstream, i reject mainstream because it’s often stupid and bland.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 22 hours ago:
kein problem ;-)
- Comment on Anon was bullied 22 hours ago:
i … don’t? i don’t get it? is this some reference?
- Comment on Close enough 1 day ago:
upvoting for the “baby”
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 1 day ago:
i mean i agree that most people prefer to live in small groups. i was just pointing it out for reasons that i now forgot.
also, Johnny, it’s really weird to be called by name somehow.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 1 day ago:
because of WW2 and the experiences made there.
if euthanasia was legal, it would be immediately used against some kind of disadvantaged group, which is why it’s kept forbidden.
- Comment on not being able to experience a full-body-orgasm is just another example of the sad male reality. 1 day ago:
it really has nothing to do with whether you’re male or female but more with your state of mind and whether you can relax deeply enough. which many men can’t because they’re in a perpetual mental state of being tersed up and not relaxing.
- Comment on Future 1 day ago:
note that flying cars exist (they’re called private airplanes) but they’re looked down upon because they obviously consume way too much energy for getting people from A to B.
- Comment on Anon was bullied 1 day ago:
idk maybe bad anime was always a thing and i just ignored it until then, but i’d say around 2015 maybe.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 1 day ago:
i would be a bit more careful when ascribing general character traits to all humans because frankly, humans can be extremely different depending who you’re interacting with.
- Comment on Anon was bullied 1 day ago:
the moment that anime went mainstream is the moment that it got stupid and uninteresting, that’s when i stopped watching it. the quality just dropped to adapt to the mainstream
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- Comment on tech never works for long 4 days ago:
the master who loves simple things
it takes a genius to see the simplicity in things
- Comment on 20-20-20 rule 6 days ago:
well the only land not taken is the tropical rainforest, the arctic, the high mountains, and the deserts
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- Comment on NASA scientists says astronauts should not masturbate in space 1 week ago:
it’s highly unlikely, fluids stick together and make drops in the air which you can easily see and avoid. and also, come on, women getting accidentally impregnated by sperm floating through the air is even less likely that women getting accidentally impregnated by sperm swimming in the water of the public swimming pool …
- Comment on NASA scientists says astronauts should not masturbate in space 1 week ago:
there should absolutely be a shitty trash movie about this.
- Comment on Mein Vater erklärt mir jeden Sonntag unseren Nachthimmel. 1 week ago:
every planet is (approximately) flat if you only consider a small portion of its surface area.
knowing that the planet is a sphere is only relevant if you’re doing (a) worldwide business/travel (shipping routes, airplane routes, …) or (b) spaceflight due to orbital mechanics.
- Comment on Lmao 1 week ago:
space elevators aren’t feasible, but a space pyramid is. just build a really tall pyramid, some kilometres high, it would work. though expensive.
- Comment on 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 1 week ago:
only if the interest rate you pay on the debt is lower than inflation. let’s say, if inflation is 3% and your interest rate is 5%, you still make additional 2% real debt every year. if however inflation is 5% and your interest rate is only 3% then you win.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 1 week ago:
nobody can agree what “left” means
- Comment on Lmao 1 week ago:
Mars is better for launching rockets into deep space than Earth because it has a lower gravity field and also thinner atmosphere.
- Comment on Lmao 1 week ago:
game that secretly teaches you physics.
those are the best!
- Comment on Lmao 1 week ago:
I have written a post about exactly this phenomenon, arguing that that’s how most animals/insects see the world (assuming their sense of vision isn’t good enough or they just don’t care to look up). Apparently i was wrong, even insects can see the stars and navigate due to their light (milky way navigation).
- Comment on Lmao 1 week ago:
To put something in orbit, it has to go sideways very quickly. It has to rotate around earth, such that the free-fall causes the curvature of the circle. For Low Earth Orbit, that’s 7 km/s. You have to get it to that speed, just “jumping” isn’t enough. You’d need some kind of railgun or catapult.
- Comment on Lmao 1 week ago:
yeah this idea actually exists, i think it’s called a mass driver, which is essentially a very high-speed rail gun, that shoots objects directly into orbit without the object having to have much of a propulsion system itself.
This obviously only works if the object isn’t slowed down by atmosphere, which means you’ll have to launch it from high enough up.
This is where the pyramid comes in. You can, of course, also utilize naturally occurring mountains, if your planet has any. These mountains would have to be rather high, though. Like on earth, maybe 100 km. The highest we have are 8 km.
- Comment on Lmao 1 week ago:
If the planet is massive enough, getting to orbit becomes a real challenge because fuel consumption scales roughly exponentially with the mass of a planet (delta-v formula, rocket equation).
This leads to an almost sharp cut-off for the maximum mass that a planet can have so that a rocket which utilizes chemical fuel (e.g. methane+oxygen) can still reach orbit successfully. This maximum mass is roughly 10^26 kg.
For reference: Earth’s mass is around 6*10^24 kg.
- Comment on Being Difficult 1 week ago:
You know what, i keep thinking that maybe, our universe is the only universe that actually functions. Like, if the universe was in some different way, it either wouldn’t work and we would therefore not exist to observe it, or it would be equivalent to this universe, i.e. maybe not exactly equal, but similar in some way, sothat we could form abstractions and arrive at the same universal laws that we have today.
