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there was that one episode with the shape shifting salt fiend.

Somebody won the name lottery.

(also, wtf… it’s always the guys you expect.)

I mean, like. She’s not ugly, and he’s kirk, so, like that went without saying. or showing.

they’re gonna use Grok, aren’t they?

in the next pane, she rips them off, and in the last pane, he breaks out into the “hello darkness, my old friend…” song.

KSP players would be unable to watch the movie Gravity (2013) for example without screaming at the screen: “THIS IS NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS”.

can confirm. which incentally led me to playing KSP with my nephew while everyone else watched the very boring movie.

the longer you spend at sub orbital speeds, the longer you’re spending energy to counter gravity. Building a ramp and lifting it up slowly would only be feasible if you had cheap power to do it. but over all, you’re still using most the same amount of energy to get there anyways.

also… if you’re going to slow, you’ll just fall back down…

So…you’re gonna have to define what 'into space" means. 160km is the bare minimum for LEO (its still low enough it’ll degrade, but not so low that you can’t make a full orbit.) the ISS is still in LEO, and still requires some occasional burns to lift it back into orbit at 400km. To get above the atomosphere so you can (mostly) float endlessly in space, you’d need to go to 1,000km

Pick one. that’s how high you need to be.

If you want to just technically reach orbital speeds… you could do that at sea level by going about 7.9 km/s. there’s a small problem of air resistance causing you to burn up and, if you somehow survive that, well, here’s mountains to go splat into.

If yo wanted to orbit at 160km’s amid musk’s space junk… that’s about 7.8km/s, 400 is about 7.67, and 1000 is about 7.35.

There are some systems that may or may not be viable in the future that don’t rely on rockets at all, for example, the launch loop which is basically a cable held up by making it rotate really fast. (yeah. talk about whacky.) This thing, as propose, is 60km high and several thousand km long. The idea is that you lift up a mag train and then that mag train accelerates at a comfy 3g. You then use relatively inexpensive kicker motors to circularize your orbit as you reach apoapsis (aka, the point of an orbit that is furthest away from the body you’re orbiting.) This raises (or lowers, depending on which way you’re pointed,) periapsis, which is the closest point.

The thing about ramps, though, is that if your rocket car is already accelerating at 3 or whatever g (most modern launches push 3-4g, mostly limited by the squishy payload.)… you don’t really need a ramp, and trying to use one anyhow just introduces more inefficiency into the system.

The point of the launch loop is that it gets us off dumping shit loads of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses- it can be powered by nearly any kind of power (though nuclear is the proposed plant,) and the train is accelerated by riding eddy currents off the loop itself.

Edit: there are other, more reasonable methods for a non-rocket launch, but launch loops are basically a ramp. so. there.

Maybe not the answer you’re looking for, but I have an uncle like that.

I suggest going no contact if you can.

Reason being, they don’t care about facts, nothing you say will convince them.

If I ever get elected president, I’m having the white house painted something fun. Maybe hire a bunch of graffiti artists to come paint-bomb the place at night, or something. have them go all Jackson Pollock or maybe tiedye.

I say that because even I find extra flagpoles… tacky

Trump or gabbard?

They’re both traitors ….

/sigh. Doesn’t matter.

See you July 17th?

“That’s not good.”

Dude’s bringing John Madden levels of announcer-ing to space flight, lols.

There’s also the people that have to chose between feeding their kids and missing work to go vote, etc, or who are disenfranchised of their voting rights simply by how onerous it is to vote.

And I’m saying “probably not”. If you step out into direct sunlight, you feel warmer because you’re absorbing heat from said sunlight.

You don’t generally feel warmer because you’re in a well lit room. (Though you do feel warmer if the colors in that room are warmer reds and oranges compared to cooler colors like blues and greens.)

If there’s enough light on you to feel warmer, it’s likely because the lights are warming you up (like stage lighting for news anchors.) rather than an illusion or placebo or whatever you want to call it.

Why we don’t go on about pigeon and seagull guano though? I have no idea.

Mammallist birdshit.

Not an illusion, no. The sun does impart some warmth (or a lot of warmth in some cases), Even when it’s bitter cold out, being in direct sunlight will be a bit warmer.

Senator Mike Lee has forgotten that the internet doesn’t forget.

This is what happens when MSM doesn’t cover actual news properly.

Look at the protests. instead of showing the overwhelmingly peaceful protests as such, they focused on the relative handfull of assholes, who are probably false-flags to discredit the movement against trump anyways.

its not a very large dick, so, that makes it easier.

Christianity is, by definition, a cult of human sacrifice.

Kinda puts the entire faith into perspective.