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> You could integrate acceleration to get speed - the flight is short enough to make compounding errors easy to ignore. ‘Easy to ignore’ is not a term I would use here, especially …

My sketchy napkin math gives an order of magnitude of a few months of panel output to get it in space. 5kg, 500W panel (don’t exactly know what the ratio is for a panel plus protec…

I’d like to introduce you to the internet. There’s a reason /s was a big thing, one persons obvious sarcasm is (almost tautologically) another persons true statement of opinion.

Halloween happens once a year, that’s a big reason it’s tolerated. Also, many parents do provide guidance/control over how much and how fast the candy is eaten. Because otherwise e…

This is a really interesting comparison, but a flawed analogy. (I’m absolutely not challenging your preference for tube amps.) LEDs clearly do not produce anything like the spectra…

Why stupid? Vector images are widely used and extremely useful directly and to render raster images at different scales. It’s also highly connected with spacial and geometric reaso…

Anyone expelling a student over a single “ai” label from turnitin alone is a complete idiot. Perhaps that happens occasionally, but that’s clearly the result of horrible decision m…

“Less interesting” is an interesting value to compare things that are typically measured by utility. Human form factor robots are definitely more interesting to us as humans, but r…

So you don’t think the government should have any economic policy? No taxes, education, or social welfare services?

That was widely ridiculed, but despite how it sometimes seems policy makers are not so stupid to believe saving water from cups not drunk would make a meaningful difference directl…