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AngryCommieKender

@ AngryCommieKender @lemmy.world

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  • I find that when I'm sucking at KSP, going and playing Factorio or Dyson Sphere Program seems to help with my return to KSP.

    Oh, and I'm a singular dude, not plural.

    Also, it is counterintuitive, but it's actually easier to get to Mars, rather than Mun. You need a lot less fuel because you can use atmospheric braking.

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  • Apparently it's more because of inertia and the rotational spin of The Sun affecting the entire solar system, than anything else. Which actually makes me wonder if Voager and Voyager II will have issues once they fully pass beyond the heliopause.

    Apparently our star, and therefore the rest of the solar system, moves around the galactic disc in the direction of galactic spin, but it wobbles "up and down", as well as possibly "left and right" as it orbits the galactic center every 225 million years, or so.

    The reason that Voyager, Voyager II, and pretty much every single other probe we send outwards might have some issues once they pass the heliopause is that our solar system is a bit tilted compared to the galactic plane of rotation. They may encounter some background inertia that we didn't account for.

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  • You may want to look at how we did the Ulysses probe, by using Jupiter as a gravitational slingshot at about 80° relative to the solar plane of rotation, or the Solar Orbiter probe that is set to use The Sun as its gravitation slingshot when it reaches perigee. Thereby using the least amount of fuel possible, and turbocharging the eventual later deployment of solar sails.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qbCCSDBRAlE

  • Australia Opens First Carbon Refinery Using Captured CO2

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  • Activism fatigue is getting old. My friends in their 60s to 80s don't show to as many protests anymore. My dead friends show to even fewer.

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  • It's still crazy to me that it's easier to fling something out of the solar system along the plane of solar rotation, than it is to get something above the poles of the sun. I understand why that is mathematically and physically. Still doesn't seem like it should work that way.

  • It got my shoelace [Puddlemunch]

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  • If you say so, Mugatu

  • Where to get tips and advice for someone new to linux

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  • Geek Nerd sniping was Hat Guy sitting with signs to show to trained geeks that got them to think about the problem in the middle of a crosswalk so that they get hit by a truck.

    https://xkcd.com/356/

    I do agree that it should be Geek sniping, as geeks are highly trained nerds.

  • It got my shoelace [Puddlemunch]

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  • This is the second comic in my feed that features the main character getting eaten by an escalator in the last 30 minutes.

    Weird.

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  • That probably depends on how litigious they are, and if we hit anything with it.

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  • Wash was the pilot. "I'm a leaf on the wind," was one of his lines that was repeated a few times.

  • 'Exactly how the dot-com bubble burst': A market research firm says keep an eye on this AI warning sign

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  • That was the biggest thing I liked about my SAABs. No matter what color they were, no other car in the lot looked like that.

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  • It's the floating roof of an oil storage tank outside Moscow, Russia that got destroyed earlier this week. The video makes that gigantic piece of steel look like it thinks it's Wash from Firefly. Just a leaf on the wind.

    Terrifying.

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  • Only a tiny fraction of it probably melted. The atmosphere is really thin when you're moving at the velocity that cover seemingly achieved. Raw iron meteors that are much smaller, and moving significantly slower than that steel plate routinely reach the ground intact.

    That's a real use of a time machine. Go back with ultra high speed film and camera so we can catch more than one frame of the thing and determine if it hit escape velocity of the solar system, or if it may be coming back to us in a few hundred thousand years.

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  • I know it's been a thing for decades, but even in the '80s I could still walk on a lot and find yellow, green, orange and purple cars. These days it seems those are all special order.

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  • No business does anymore. I maintain that's why all the cars are the same 4-6 colors these days. Black, white, grey, and silver aren't offensive to the corporations that buy fleets. Blue and red have to be there so they can do "patriotic" displays.

    Oh, and I'm really quite sorry to all of you that hadn't noticed that all the cars are the same colors these days. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

  • California ‘billionaire tax’ makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls

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  • What you are probably thinking of is actually called a pillory. Stocks attached to your ankles, not the neck and wrists. I suppose they still allowed for the chucking of spoiled produce and eggs.

  • We live in the future!

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  • You just reminded me that it's been a couple of decades since I Candyflipped. Need to do that again soonish...

  • Trump Calls Obama a “Son of a B*tch” After Disastrous Iran Deal Leaked

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  • Russian Tail is a term, not a source of influence. It is called that because the Russian elections have shown this specific type of internal manipulation for decades.

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  • This creates a white hole, and also destroys the universe.

    /s