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- Comment on Lmao 1 week ago:
Space elevators require a counterweight on the other end, but there are various (theoretical for us, for now) launch systems that could be used. Spin launch and a launch loop for example. There’s also orbital rings which are somewhat similar to space elevators but AFAIK don’t require materials as strong as a space elevator would.
- Comment on Lmao 1 week ago:
The best part about it is that it’s an extremely gradual slope completely unlike the mountain ranges on Earth, so you could haul stuff up there on trucks or trains easily.
- Comment on Lmao 1 week ago:
They were well funded back when their real goal was to develop ICBMs capable of delivering nukes.
- Comment on Lmao 1 week ago:
I think Mars, assuming you terraform it, would be pretty close to that on both counts. Space planes might still be difficult, but the delta V is much lower and Olympus Mons would pretty much sit above the atmosphere.
- Comment on Lmao 1 week ago:
Apparently with 50% higher gravity it would be pretty much impossible with chemical rockets, but with the median of the estimate (so about 12.43 m/s^2^) it would be possible, you’d just need an incredibly large rocket, or non-chemical propulsion (e.g. nuclear).
A space program on that planet would definitely advance much slower than on Earth.
- Comment on Lmao 1 week ago:
That’s, uh, not really how that works. A taller atmosphere would mean you have to go through more of it, but unless it’s not a terrestrial then the atmosphere won’t be that much taller.
If it is a non-terrestrial planet, it’s unlikely anyone would be building rockets on there to begin with.
- Comment on Lmao 1 week ago:
According to Wikipedia this planet has an estimated surface gravity of 12.43 m/s^2 with a margin of error of about 2 m/s^2. That’s only up to 50% higher than Earth’s 9.8 m/s^2 (on the high end of the error margin) so it probably would be possible to get into orbit.
That said we don’t actually know much about it for sure. We don’t know if it’s a terrestrial planet for example. It could be composed mostly of gases and liquids like Neptune.
- Comment on Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing. 1 week ago:
Good point.
- Comment on Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing. 1 week ago:
Maybe, but I don’t know if that’s a good thing. Social intelligence is how CEOs and other charlatans get disproportionate success in society, and if all we had was social intelligence humanity would be nothing but smooth-talking cavemen.
- Comment on Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing. 1 week ago:
Just curious, what’s the most important one?
- Comment on how things become science 1 week ago:
“Liable” means they might post a correction later that nobody will see because corrections aren’t sexy to algorithms. Big deal.
- Comment on Let's ask this AI app! 2 weeks ago:
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why’d you erase the first line of the second name
- Comment on Anon is bored of it all 2 weeks ago:
Unless you live in Australia the ozone layer is not a problem. If you do live in Australia, my condolences.
- Comment on Killing the intellectual future of Iran. Science has no borders. 2 weeks ago:
Good way to ensure that whatever regime rises from the ashes will be even more backwards than the last.
- Comment on Turpentine story 4 weeks ago:
Those white clumps were probably his gut lining
- Comment on Jeff Kaplan is sick of hearing you demonize games you weren't going to play anyway: 'Shut the f**k up. No one cares. We don't need to hear that you weren't into it' 5 weeks ago:
If Red Dead Redemption is anything to go by, there’s a sizeable and very dedicated audience to immersive multiplayer western games.
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 1 month ago:
“Why can’t we live in a world where women don’t have to think about these things? It’s heartbreaking to hear of things women close to me have dealt with,” Chaney said. “It would be nice to work towards a world where there is no difference between the heat maps in these sets of images. That is the hope of the public health discipline.”
I’m not convinced this phenomenon would disappear in a world where women don’t have to think about these things. It could be an evolutionary psychology thing. Would have to repeat the experiment in different societies and environments to find out.
- Comment on Beans 1 month ago:
I take offense to that. I’m a guy who hates cats but still doesn’t think they should be declawed.
- Comment on ESL homework 2 months ago:
The “???” suggests they didn’t get the joke. Like come on, not even a sarcastic “very funny, 2/5”?
- Comment on The cops pay Anon a visit 2 months ago:
Even better is to memorize it.
- Comment on Drug dealers hate this one weird trick! 2 months ago:
Can you believe that’s how sheep feel all the time?
- Comment on We need to talk about Nigel Farage and Russia. 2 months ago:
It’s not a text, it’s a video. You can download it with yt-dlp if you don’t want to just open the URL for some reason.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 months ago:
Lots of trees there. That place still looks pretty nice in the summer.
A quick web search had someone say it’s Yaroslavsky District, Moscow and while I’m not entirely convinced (having trouble matching the photo to a map), in the summer it will probably look similar to the photo of Yaroslavsky District on Wikipedia.
- Comment on ✨️ DIVA ✨️ 2 months ago:
- Comment on Tankie 3 months ago:
Just wait until you hear what happened to the guy standing in front of the tank in the original photo.
- Comment on U.S. Is Seeking Exemption From a European Climate Law, Officials Say | Diplomats told E.U. officials that the bloc’s law on methane, a potent greenhouse gas, would hurt American oil and gas companies. 4 months ago:
Hurting oil and gas companies is, uh, the point.
- Comment on We can play that game too 4 months ago:
That makes more sense. I was thinking printing money only to pay pensions, which honestly seems like something European social democrat parties might actually do.
- Comment on We can play that game too 4 months ago:
Them being born in a certain period is actually very relevant here, because the state pension system as it works in many EU states (and, to my understanding, many other countries like Japan too) allowed boomers specifically to pay in way less than they are getting out. This was then conveniently adjusted so that millenials and the younger half of gen Xers pay in more than they will get out, because their payments are used to finance the pensions of those above them on the ladder.
In most/all of these countries boomers are a massive voting bloc and politicians are consistently either doing nothing about the issue or making it worse. While there are populistic aspects to it, young Europeans have a plenty of valid reasons to hate boomers.
- Comment on We can play that game too 4 months ago:
I imagine you’re not being entirely serious, but I fail to see how that is anything but yet another inventive way of kicking the can down the road so that boomers don’t have to deal with it.
- Comment on We can play that game too 4 months ago:
You’re saying that as if it makes any difference whether I talk about boomers or pensioners. The two are currently synonymous and we live in the present, not in the future. In the future when boomers are dead, if this problem still exists I will be using some other word.