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- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 15 hours ago:
Fair question. You’re not going to catch a soda can, but a boat should be a closed system. The thresholds should be as low as is practically enforceable.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 16 hours ago:
First - The major problem with trash isn’t the getting rid of it part, it’s the gathering it up part. If we could do that, it wouldn’t be a problem.
The frustrating part is that this could be the easiest to solve. Require boats to weigh in and out, and account for everything on board. Minus fuel, plus fish, but those old, broken nets and plastic waste need to return to port to be properly disposed of. Throwing even a soda can overboard should result in significant fines.
- Comment on Worker Slams Boss For Telling Colleague With Dying Mom To 'Man Up': 'Now His Mom Is Sick And He's Falling Apart' 5 days ago:
Reddit prose is news now?
- Comment on Amy Adams Says Henry Cavill ‘Was a Brilliant Superman,’ Reacts to Rachel Brosnahan Taking Over Lois Lane: ‘She’s Gonna Be Great’ 6 days ago:
Cavill was a great Superman casting, but Margot Kidder will always be the Lois Lane standard for me. Amy Adams is a good actress, but she never seemed to fit the role in my mind. I didn’t buy her as the hard-nosed, street-wise investigative reporter gone looking for trouble.
- Comment on Are PVOD Rental Prices Going Up? ‘Alien: Romulus,’ ‘The Wild Robot,’ ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’: All $24.99 6 days ago:
Yeah, prices go up as long as people are willing to pay.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It is a crime to film inside a polling place.
codes.findlaw.com/…/ga-code-sect-21-2-413.html
How is it not election interference?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Conspiracies happen in secret. This was election interference in broad daylight.
- Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks? 1 week ago:
It depends on where you are and whether you join a union or not. Labor laws vary by state and by country. Paid lunches and breaks may or may not be part of your employment contract.
- Comment on Too Much 2 weeks ago:
I was going to say, the butter one looks correct to me.
- Comment on Missed connections 2 weeks ago:
If it’s Philly, it might be Jason Kelce. He’s been spotted in the burbs driving around in his cybertruck with an Eagles bumper sticker on the back.
- Comment on How is anime and manga more popular than comics and western cartoons? 2 weeks ago:
Check out Blue Eye Samurai, Twilight of the Gods, Arcane, and the Masters of the Universe revivals on Netflix, or Invincible on Amazon Prime, or Harley Quinn on HBO Max. It’s a good era for adult animation. Obviously there are a lot of anime influences, but these are all western-made for western audiences.
- Comment on ‘Captain America: Brave New World' bombs at test screening 2 weeks ago:
Barnes did take on the mantle of Captain America following Rogers’ apparent death in 2008, but Rogers eventually gets better and returns. For a while they were both Captain America, but eventually Bucky’s identity as the Winter Soldier becomes public and he’s put on trial. He is acquitted, but gives up the mantle because he thinks his checkered past taints the symbol.
A few years later, Steve grows old and retires, and specifically picks Sam as his replacement. Sam wonders why it wasn’t Bucky, and spends most of his time as Cap trying to prove himself.
- Comment on ‘Captain America: Brave New World' bombs at test screening 2 weeks ago:
I mean, Anthony Mackie is not Chris Evans. But they should have leaned into that. Play with the insecurity. Sam isn’t Steve, and pretending that Sam can learn to throw the shield in an afternoon, or stand against the might of Thanos. But Sam can lead, and he can inspire others. The show did a piss poor job of riding the fence on whether the terrorists were sympathetic characters. From the sound of it, the studio wants to have their cake, eat it, and sell it all at the same time. Is Sam “as good” as Steve? Does a black man wearing the flag condone the nation’s challenging historical (and current) crimes of racial violence and oppression? Will Americans accept a new person carrying the shield? Will the world governments allow a moral leader to operate autonomously the way Steve did? The show raised all of those questions, and then just kinda shruged.
- Comment on ‘Captain America: Brave New World' bombs at test screening 2 weeks ago:
The “why” is because that’s what happened in the comics, and it was a huge deal. Black Captain America was as divisive on the page as it was on the screen, but not giving Wilson the shield would have been a major deviation from the source material, one that looks a lot like caving to pressure from racists.
In my opinion, they shouldn’t have tried to do a pure standalone Captain America movie. It should have been worked into the Secret Wars event, and filled with additional Marvel characters, similar to the Captain America: Civil War treatment. In the comics, Sam Wilson deals with major insecurity and imposter syndrome. Shit, that would have been a great subtitle for a Secret Wars story. Captain America: Imposter Syndrome. Following the events of FatWS, Sam is struggling with the weight of the shield, and then Fury and Talos come to him for help with the Skrulls. They can’t trust any other Avemgers, not Rhoady, not Thunderbolt, not anyone at SWORD. And then Wilson, with no superpowers, has to duke it out and prove himself against the Super Skrull with all the powers of the Avengers.
And he can’t, because he’s just one guy, but he keeps getting back up. And that’s when he remembers that Steve’s superpower wasn’t strength or speed or intelligence, or even the shield. Captain America was resilience, defiance, and inspiration personified. That’s what the world needs against an unseen, invasive threat. People need hope, courage, and leadership. And that’s when people rally to help Sam defeat the Super Skrull, regular soldiers and coexisting Skrulls, maybe hint that Eli Bradley inherited some super from his Grampa. And Nick Fury can have his final blaze of glory before officially definitely for the last time no cap retiring.
- Comment on How fast do you need to travel to JUMP the Grand Canyon? 3 weeks ago:
I feel like ChatGPT would have been more correct and also more wrong at the same time.
- Comment on How fast do you need to travel to JUMP the Grand Canyon? 3 weeks ago:
Depends on your launch angle. Acceleration due to gravity is constant.
45 degrees is the theoretical ideal launch angle to maximize horizontal distance, but accounting for wind resistance make it closer to 42 degrees. Since you won’t be doing it for real, let’s say 45 degrees to keep the math easy. In fact, we’re ignoring air resistance and friction of all kinds. If you want to get real, use a glider.
At its narrowest point, Marble Canyon, it’s about 600 feet across. It could be as much as 18 miles, so let’s start small and go from there.
S is speed. Vx is horizontal velocity, Vy is vertical velocity, and t is time in the air. X is the distance across the canyon. Y is only necessary if the two sides have different elevations, but let’s ignore that, too.
The time in the air is how long it takes for gravity to make the vertical velocity -Vy.
X = Vxt
0 = Vy + gt/2 so -gt/2 = Vy and t = -2Vy/g
S^2 = Vx^2 + Vy^2 and at 45 degrees, Vx = Vy so S = (√2)Vx
Replace some terms, and we get
X = Vx(-2Vx/g) so X = -2(Vx)^2/g
√(-Xg/2) = Vx and S = (√2)(√-Xg/2)
S = √(-Xg)
So if X is 183 meters at the smallest, and g is -9.8 meters per second squared, then you need a speed of 42.35 m/s at launch, or just shy of 95 mph. You will be in the air for about 4.3 seconds. That’s theoretically possible, but remeber you’d be landing while traveling at close to 95 mph at a 45 degree angle towards the ground. The jump is just half the battle.
If you go to the average width, 10 miles or 16,000 meters, requiring a speed of 397 m/s, or 888 mph. At its widest 18 miles, 29,000 meters, you need a speed of 533 m/s or 1,192 mph. At that speed, it’s a good thing we’re ignoring friction, because air resistance would start to make things toasty.
- Comment on Playing this on Halloween 3 weeks ago:
OooOOOOoooOOOOOoooo Everyone is going to go around and say something about themselves…
- Comment on Ackchuallly 3 weeks ago:
Ok… Data are a character on Star Trek.
- Comment on Hippos 3 weeks ago:
There are several studies that claim that mosquitos could be eliminated from the food chain without affecting their local ecosystems.
The problem is a lot of those studies sre 20+ years old, and there are far fewer insect species today than there were then. Mosquitos are more important as a food source than they used to be. Driving them extinct now would save human lives, but it might also cause ecological collapse.
That’s not to say we shouldn’t wipe them out if we can. But we need to be more cautious about how and where we kill all the bugs, because that might be the last of the bugs.
- Comment on Honesty is the best policy 3 weeks ago:
I feel like that’s who he was playing as Aquaman. I never got a King of Atlantis vibe, even a reluctant one, from his portrayal. But a renegade badass who does whatever the fuck he wants and represents an almost parody of gritty anti-heroes? Maybe it’s not a perfect Lobo, but it sure isn’t Aquaman.
- Comment on Anon lives in the midwest 3 weeks ago:
“Indigenous” seems to be acceptable most people. When you know them personally, use their nation or tribal affiliation. Like if your friend was Korean, and you only referred to them as “Asian,” it might feel like you don’t care about the difference.
- Comment on Disney lost nearly a third of a billion dollars on two Marvel movies 3 weeks ago:
Sure, but also Pym is dumbing down his explanations for Scott, because he thinks Scott is a moron. The exact functioning of Pym particles isn’t at all clear.
It would be like if Superman could tear his S emblem off his chest and throw it at bad guys like a giant cellophane net. Or if Superman could fly fast enough to spin the Earth backwards and reverse time.
Or like if Hulk could be stopped by some crazy loud directional speakers.
Super powers and weaknesses are, and always have been, entirely plot dependent. Vision can phase because he can phase. The explanation that Vision can control his own density makes zero sense. That could make him float, but it wouldn’t make him fly sideways, and it certainly wouldn’t allow him to pass through solid matter. Air is not very dense, but it doesn’t pass through solid stone. The physics of Starlord and Gamora in space make no sense. Groot makes no sense. Yondu’s arrow makes no sense.
Ant-Man can shrink and punch a dude because he can shrink and punch a dude. The only problem is they tried to explain it like it’s science.
- Comment on Disney lost nearly a third of a billion dollars on two Marvel movies 3 weeks ago:
The physics never make sense. Iron Man should be a pink smoothie in a can. Hulk generates mass from nothing and sheds it back to nothing when he changes. Spiderman should be pulling drywall off the studs. Vibranium makes zero sense, either as a shield or as a suit or really any other time. 90% of the fighting Hawkeye and Black Widow do is absurd and would leave their bones shattered.
Thor is all magic, so that gets a pass, but you can’t throw a hammer and the get dragged behind it, and then change directions midair. Thor is flying because magic, let’s just leave it at that.
And it’s not just the MCU. Superman can’t catch a plane by the nose. Batman can’t launch a grapple hook while he’s falling and prevent his death.
Aragorn can’t toss Gimli that far. Luke’s X-Wing doesn’t bank through air in space. The USS Enterprise wouldn’t always be oriented to be upright with everything. James Bond can’t just recover from all those concussions and venereal diseases without brain damage. Indy can’t ride out a nuclear explosion in a fridge.
- Comment on Disney lost nearly a third of a billion dollars on two Marvel movies 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t mind the Marvels. I thought it had problems, and parts were cringy if you’re not into it. But the biggest flaw was the writing. It’s like they had these ideas for set pieces, and then tried to bring it all together as an afterthought. It wasn’t as bad as certain people wanted it to be.
Quantumania was unfinished. It was like they ran out of money and time and just submitted the minimally viable movie. Paul Rudd is always charming, and the actress playing Cassie/Stature is going to be a net plus to the Young Avengers. I think Michelle Pfeiffer was poorly utilized, and of course Kang became a PR problem. But the writing had some high points. The story was engaging, the stakes were real, and the characters all had arcs. The CG was shit, and the Giant Goof schtick is overplayed. Letting go of the physics is a prerequisite for any Superhero movie.
They did poorly because Disney was rushing. They wanted to generate energy and enthusiasm by deliberately releasing each new movie before the last one was available on streaming. But instead of creating fomo, they fostered indifference because the product wasn’t good enough. Nothing post-endgame felt like must-watch content. The tie-ins were half-assed, because the studio clearly did not have faith that they would ever get to wrap up each dangling plot thread.
The Marvels was better than Eternals. Quantumania was better than Wakanda Forever. None of them are great movies, but none are as bad as anti-woke or anti-superhero critics suggest.
- Comment on Horse-flippers? Have any horses from history, ever been fitted with horseshoes that improve their ability to swim? 3 weeks ago:
Like drink the beer, and then flip the horse.
- Comment on Horse-flippers? Have any horses from history, ever been fitted with horseshoes that improve their ability to swim? 3 weeks ago:
That was the first thing he did. You might have trust issues.
- Comment on What a musical genius 4 weeks ago:
I tried to get into his music, but then he told me to stop and I did.
- Comment on How do I tame my mustache for handlebar style? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, there’s an awkward length where it’s long enough to curl into your mouth, but too short to comb out of the way. You just kind of have to get used to having hair in your mouth.
- Comment on How do I tame my mustache for handlebar style? 4 weeks ago:
I like scissors for my mustache, only because I find myself usually going after whiskers one at a time. But the electric razor is good for getting straight lines.
- Comment on Arizona Democrats fret about discovery that coud see rigged election 4 weeks ago:
Bullshit. The Arizona Supreme Court rules on this that those voters can legally vote. There’s no scandal except for the attempted disenfranchisement of 98,000 Arizona citizens.