Gravity wells don’t have breakpoints like that though. They extend out to infinity, decreasing with the reciprocal square of the distance (Inverse-square law).

What you may be thinking of is the event horizon, but the way that works isn’t nearly as magical as people might think. As your orbit spirals in closer to the black hole (which takes an extremely long time from a stable orbit) your escape velocity gradually and smoothly increases. The event horizon is the point at which your escape velocity reaches the speed of light. What this means in practice is that you disappear from view, as the light reflecting off you can no longer escape.

The really weird part though is the gravitational time dilation effects near a black hole. To an outside observer, your approach to the event horizon (during spiral in) slows down more and more. That observer never sees you cross the event horizon because time dilation extends your descent time out to infinity. So you’ll end up appearing frozen in time, never reaching the event horizon.

Pretty funny but not accurate. Black holes do not suck you in like some kind of giant vacuum cleaner in space. You orbit a black hole just like you would any other large object (star, planet, etc). In fact, if you were in orbit around a star that spontaneously became a black hole of the same mass, your orbit wouldn’t change at all!

If you want lowest possible cost then canned stuff is out. Buy beans and rice in 20 lb bags. Hard to beat that!

I think it’s susceptible to the same problems we have now. Elites gonna form and do their thing. Whether they’re in the party or on the board of directors, the effect is the same.

I think we’re just way too naive about systems. We expect them to work for us without putting in any effort. We should stop focusing so much on systems and start focusing on communities and cultures.

The best societies have tight-knit communities and a culture of cooperation. You can’t achieve that by passing laws or writing a new constitution or whatever. You have to get buy-in from everyone.

From what I’ve heard, wild animals that lose their fear of humans are much more dangerous than ones who aren’t used to us.

Anyone else find that praying hands emoji very condescending when used like that? I would destroy the backend DB if they tried to send me that!

Yep! And people have different sized feet, so measuring distance in feet is silly and arbitrary!

No. The comic is talking about airspeed: speed relative to the wind.

It records an air speed of 0. Isn’t that working exactly as intended?

Sure you can. Just need a pitot tube!

The issue with prions is they’re not that contagious. An infected person is not a danger to other people. This means you need to contaminate all the meat in the food supply because you can’t rely on transmission.

It lubricates the skin for a smoother shave!

I just use a few drops of oil from my squeeze bottle and then spread it around. Oil is easy to spread around and it sticks to everything (which is why we need soap to wash it off).

The soap is the source of the lather. Shaving cream is literally a soap lather/foam. Loads and loads of microscopic bubbles.

Why do you need to spray oil? Just seems like another way to make a mess.

I use those basic restaurant supply squeeze bottles that you can fill with anything. I squeeze a few dabs to a few tsp of oil depending on what I’m cooking and away I go. I’ve never needed to spray a fine oil mist to cook anything.

The brush is for working up a lather with the bar soap. You can achieve the texture of shaving cream just using bar soap and a brush (and water obviously).

It’s not just more people choosing not to have children at all. People who want to have children are having a lot fewer. In my grandparents’ time families would have 10+ and sometimes 20+ children. Now even having 4 kids is considered a lot!

Genetics may be expensive but rooting hormone powder is cheap! Also don’t buy fancy grow lights. Shop lights are way cheaper and work just fine!

Whenever you put any hot, bread-based food into the fridge it’ll get soggy. Gotta wait for it to cool down completely before putting it in the fridge.

This extends even to the trip home from a takeout pizza place. Putting the box in one of those thermal bags is one of the worst things you can do, since it traps all the steam inside. Much better to leave the pizza on the passenger seat with the box ajar (some pizza boxes even have steam vents).

I like the Stargate-lite system in the game Terminus (2000). Unlike Stargate, each gate connects 1 to 1 with another, so there’s no “dialling up” a new destination. In fact, these gates don’t go anywhere unexplored. They only go where we’ve already been (around the solar system).

See, in Terminus the space ships can only fly at realistic speeds (similar to real life rockets) and maneuvering is difficult (with pretty decent Newtonian physics). If you want to travel to other places in the solar system it takes an extremely long time, so the gates make it actually feasible to get around.

This all had the effect of making space feel like the age of railroading. You can get around but you’re limited to where the rails can take you. I don’t know why, but there’s something so romantic about that.