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Even if we fail, Elon Musk ends up further away than he currently is

There's 1,000+ miles and the Carpathian Mountains between Estonia and the range of the golden jackal, though

I like the future that this suggests

Depends on what you mean by the "come to a stop" bit. Stop relative to Earth? You're still going Earth speeds relative to the sun, which is what you're trying to hit. It's like throwing a ball at something while driving past it. If you mean stop relative to the sun then sure, you don't even need to shoot him towards the sun, he'll fall right in. The trouble is that stopping relative to the sun is specifically the bit that takes a lot of energy.

He'd still have the 30 km per second (67,000 mph) of sideways velocity that Earth has when it's orbiting the sun, and that speed is enough to prevent Earth from ever hitting the sun.

Orbits aren't very intuitive; if you want something you launch from Earth to fall straight into the sun, you actually need to fire it directly opposite to the direction that Earth orbits in. So if you imagine Earth orbiting clockwise, you want to shoot the thing counterclockwise. If you do that at the right speed, you counteract all the orbital speed and the thing just falls into the sun.

If you can speed something up a completely unlimited amount then sure you could aim straight at the sun and just fire it so fast that it hits the sun anyway. It'll be off-centre a bit but the sun is pretty big. Consider how much of the sky isn't sun though. If the sun is directly overhead and you shoot straight at the sun, the thing you fired is already going 30 km/s sideways before you even started. We could do the trig to figure out how fast you need to shoot it to still hit the sun anyway but I think the more important part here is getting a feel for the motion involved.

You can get caught in the sun's pull by just leaving Earth's sphere of influence, but remember that all of the planets are already caught in the sun's pull and have remained distinctly outside of the actual sun for essentially forever

And if I were the bear, yeah, I probably know I could kill that little thing as soon as I got hold of it, but it's way faster than me and it's made of knives. It's gonna hurt me the whole time I'm killing it. Why risk it?

To be fair it was a prefix in the Latin word that it's ultimately derived from. We still treat it a little like a prefix when we use the im- part of the related "import" like a prefix, as we also have "export" and "transport"

Should be exportant, obviously

“It’s like It is relying on unpaid labor when the company has nearly a billion dollars in revenue,”

Any hobby would fit honestly. Musicians call it Gear Acquisition Syndrome

If there is a heaven, patatas bravas is what I will eat there

I wouldn't even mind them as much if they showed you who posted the short before you watched it. There are a few creators I like enough that I'd watch shorts by, but I've got no way to know it's by them

Pale, but like... Swedish pale, not clown makeup pale

More tanned. Outlines are a bit fucky on this one and I had to change the building behind him a bit because it was too close to the new skin colour, but I'm not doing an effort job for this

https://i.imgur.com/piyx3RH.png

Samples taken as the average of a 5 pixel radius circle. The ankle is a little darker than the rest, but the colour is consistent

9/11 did give Bush a pretext for the Patriot Act though, and his own presidency was not in question at the time.

To be clear I don't think that Bush did 9/11 and don't know who did this shooting. Just pointing out that Putin absolutely can benefit from it politically.

It does if you can convince them that only giving you more power will keep them safe, unfortunately

They're actually American-built!

The Virginia-class submarines will be primarily from a U.K. design and will have a U.S. weapons system onboard.

oh no

Ahh, Charlescuterie

Heads up OP, you might want to change the community name to "loneliness" rather than "lonelinnes" before it becomes a hassle to move stuff over. People are definitely more likely to find it and immediately understand what it's about that way