Try drawing a triangle on a globe and measure the angles, it will be more than 180 degrees. That’s probably the simplest visualisation possible.

Common misconception. The smooth in the smooth newts name actually doesn’t refer to the smoothness of their skin, but rather to how suave they are.

I got run over by a Lexus

That’s essentially what the comments were telling him, so at least there’s some sanity.

Look, I’m Scandinavian as well, and I kinda agree with you to some point, at least historically. Although I have some serious trust issues with the US given, well *gestures broadly at everything*.

With that said, I find it quite delusional that this guy dreams up all these fearmongering scenarios, many of which I’m not even sure are technically feasible, while completely dismissing any criticism of OpenAI or similar US based companies. To him China=100% evil and out to get ya, US=0% evil and out to get ya. And this sort of view of the world is just so detached from reality.

Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll check it out, I don’t need super fancy features anyways.

Alright, I might be wrong then. The reason I speculated they did that, is that it plays ads at the beginning and end of every episode that are localized to my region and up to date, even though it’s an old, foreign podcast I’m listening to. But maybe it’s the podcast itself being able to do that dynamically instead? Then I don’t mind it as much as I do want to support the creators.

Yeah, that’s fair. But it’s used like a unit. Also, do you always browse year old posts?

Don’t you meen Murphy’s Law?

Bit of an awkward scale for a ruler, but I can sell you one from -6.6666666… to -6.65 goobs.

0 K is like when there is 0 heat basically, while celsius isn’t. Imagine a unit for distance called “goob” where 0 goobs is 100 m and 1 goob is 115 m. In that case the goob unit would behave differently than a meter when you multiply and divide because 0 of the units don’t actually correspond to “nothing” in a physical sense. That’s exactly how the Celsius scale is, with zero being placed somewhere arbitrarily, not at a physical zero.

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

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.

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.

It’s just not true though, unless you do an out then in maneuver.

No that’s not really the case, the earth will be destroyed.

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.

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.

Thanks, I’ll give it a try

How did you get an invite key? I would love to get one to try it out.