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Got tired of formatting text

They appear to have a job opening for editor too

Outside of the caffeine and kidney stone issues you must've been peeing every 30 minutes

Sounds like something you could get at a state fair

Just never close your browser

Psychopathic behavior right there

Average vs mean vs median is always a clusterfuck argument waiting to happen.

So someone chimed in on a subject that was never broached in the first place? It reminds me of the people on reddit who will always pipe in about how mean John Lennon was no matter what the subject about him is.

It requires a LOT of energy to counter the earth's orbital motion. Hitting the moon is different because the moon is traveling with the earth and you are going outwards. Energy is always part of the equation since orbital mechanics is all about energy. You can't ignore it by saying "Assume 0 costs, how hard would it be?" then we could just say it can approach the speed of light since we are ignoring any energy costs.

"It doesnt have to be moving fast"

But you will be moving fast, you are starting at an angular speed of 30km/s. The Apollo missions with their massive engines reached 11 km/s. Now think of someone wanting to dump hundreds of tons of nuclear waste into the sun and the energy that would require.

Maybe this explains it better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHvR1fRTW8g

The earth has a lot of angular momentum, in fact the planets combined have more than the sun and planet formation may actually be necessary to "bleed off" angular momentum from protostellar discs for star formation, but I digress. So if you were to aim directly at the sun you'd miss it wildly as the tangential motion of the earth would be added to your motion. Even worse it would miss the sun, go around it, and orbit back to where you came from. A bad thing if you were trying to toss, say, radioactive waste into the sun. To hit the sun you have to bleed off all of that angular momentum by using rockets (very expensive) or do what NASA usually does and use gravity assists swinging by planets to gain or lose energy. The Parker solar probe had to do a bunch of swings past Venus to lose enough angular momentum to get close to the sun.

Well small farms all got turned into developments near me.

Dammit! You WILL use this tech we spent billions on whether you want to or not.

I'd hike across campus in college with wet hair and it would be frozen solid by the time I got to class in the winter. lol

My wife does this with notecards. I have to hide the passwords on my PC so I don't have to dig through her notes.

My mom resented anything tech related. I knew she was smart enough to learn it, she just hated being forced into it so we always had to do it for her.

Do what I do with my wife. I say she has to learn how to do it and I sit down in front of her and make her take notes and then have her try doing it. I've finally been able to get her to do some stuff on the computer on her own.

They might want to look up how the parties flipped during the civil rights era.

Confidently ignorant people really bother me. Even if I thought that I would've thought "Is that true?" and spent a second googling it. It is amazing how some folks are devoid of even the slightest curiosity but are blindly overconfident.