Bumblefumble

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If it's 44 quadrillion Watts per year, how many is it per second?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah it probably is, my comment was really about raw deltaV numbers without using gravity assists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, you would only need to burn a little bit more on your initial burn, that's why I said the cost would be similar.

[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 month ago (16 children)

It's definitely harder to decay the orbit into the sun directly than it is to get to escape velocity. But to play devil's advocate, there is probably a way to get them into the sun while being a similar cost to escape velocity. All you need to do is burn prograde to a super high aphelion, ride all the way out there to Pluto or whatever and then do a small retrograde burn to bring your perihelion inside the sun's photosphere. When you then get back towards the sun years later you would slam into it with a sick velocity that I think would be worth the decades-long wait.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago

She's the person who managed to be so racist that MTG called her out publically for it, which is honestly quite impressive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Technically there is no boundary, it's atmosphere all the way in. But what we might call the "surface" is the photosphere. That is where the density becomes "low" (read not insanely high) enough that light can escape in a free path.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The sun has an atmosphere so there are soundwaves coming out of it. It's actually all one big atmosphere getting thinner and thinner as you go out just like ours.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 month ago (14 children)

It's actually the exact opposite to what he says. In the US you can do almost anything you want with human remains, while in Europe it's much more restricted. In Denmark for example, you have to have the body/ashes buried in a licensed cemetery. You can't keep the ashes yourself, you can't bury them in your backyard, you can't spread them at some random special place (except for the sea in rare circumstances).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, 9.1% less money, but yes ;)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Unless you're German or several hundred years old, no, nouns are not capitalized. If you wanna use grammar as part of a political debate, which doesn't make a lot of sense to begin with, at least make sure to know what you're talking about.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

In an unchecked anarcho-capitalist market, the economically disadvantaged are even more fucked. No social safety nets, no regulation on companies price fixing, monopolizing, etc. So using taxes as some scary Boogeyman just doesn't make any sense. A strong welfare state is so much better for the little guy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Sure, but there is a north say 30 ft away from the north pole.

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