JohnDClay @ JohnDClay @sh.itjust.works

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It's infuriating when a light turns red while only a few of the cars have gone though, makes sense a more intelligent algorithm would be more efficient.

We'd need to break the speed of light, which isn't possible with our current understanding of physics, but who knows.

Not till the heat death of the universe.

You could also use a wormhole to travel to different universes. It 'breaks' the speed of light, so all bets are off.

It'd be interesting to see what a log scale would look like for this. I'll see if I can find one.

Here's one.

Looks like the image at the top is a bit condensed comparatively.

The edge of the observable universe is moving away from us faster than the speed of light from our perspective. (Due to space stretching) So we'd need to go faster than the speed of light to catch up.

If we assume the hubble constant is the same in all directions, the farthest we'd be able to see would be a sphere, dictated by the time light has had to travel to us.

Hmm I haven't had any issues with my university gmail, I wonder if it's that specific college?

I saw a chart that globally, the incumbent parties have lost more in these elections than before.

I'd guess this is because things are going badly economically, so people wanted change.

Is the radial scale logarithmic? Or is it even more compressed than that?

You left off Hitler being impressed by Henry Ford.

I've had some mandatory training sites specifically disallow Firefox. But I've also had some that only work on Firefox, so it evens out.

I like it's pdf viewer interface. It's less cluttered than Adobe, and it's markup is a little better than Firefox.

Which they don't have the authority to do because Congress allocated those funds, but like like they're doing it anyway.

Vid from legal eagle https://youtu.be/lmBkk4nvp9A

If you use Reddit, but don't like the direction it's going, (more extractive, less user control) Lemmy is a good alternative. Same thing for Instagram or Twitter, pixelfed or mastodon are good alternatives for those. And they have the advantage that it's harder to make them universally worse in the future, since the infrastructure is more distributed.

So fluffy!

The better comparison is online service games and casinos. They both pull all the psychological tricks in the book to suck you dry.

Thanks for the number, do you have a link where you got it from? I suspected something like this might be the case, but I couldn't find a source easily online.

By the time they're going fast enough, they're high enough they don't have much air to worry about. (And they do have an angle over too, not just straight up)

Missiles do go more or less go straight though the atmosphere horizontally. Most are slower than what we're taking about, but hypersonic missiles get close to rocket speeds. And they do need big heat shields to keep from melting immediately.

You're going much too fast to hit the earth, you'll miss it and continue in orbit. To deorbit, you'll need a lot of things to throw in the other direction, like the oxygen from your magic tank. You'd need about a full rocket full of oxygen (~170 tons) to slow down, probably more because the exit velocity would be slower than a rocket.

The other issue with this scheme is you'd slow down too slowly. You'll start getting slower and lower, but you'd start to get into the atmosphere, which because you're still going so fast would cause you to not have a great time. So your magic oxygen bottle will also need a massive tube off the end of it, maybe a couple meters in diameter.

But if you had your magic infinite air tank with a huge tube off it, theoretically you could get back down to earth safely with just it, a space suit, and a parachute.