Craigg75
Craigg75 t1_j28rd10 wrote
Reply to Just back from witnessing a test firing of a rocket motor that my neighbor built by goatharper
I wouldn't so much call it a motor as an engine. A motor implies rotation to impart energy to a process.
Craigg75 t1_j0z2uud wrote
Buzz kill -- this can never happen because there is no magnetosphere. Colonists would die from cancer within a year. Next.
Craigg75 t1_it8nbv5 wrote
Reply to comment by INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS in Does 1984 ever dive into how the Party took control over Oceania? [no direct spoilers please] by INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS
I was really disappointed in We. I stopped after about 70% of the way through. I just got so tired of the prose, going on and on about his love interest. I just kept thinking man can we get on with the story and stop all of this nonsense. Finally I didn't care if he was killed or not, or the fate of any of the characters.
Craigg75 t1_it8mjso wrote
Reply to comment by TamusSenHadar in Does 1984 ever dive into how the Party took control over Oceania? [no direct spoilers please] by INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS
Well said. I was going to respond with the same. Also the party controls history. The past is a part of the myth/story of the party. I can imagine that North Korea assumes year 1 started with the communist revolution, there was no Korea before that.
Craigg75 t1_jdtpux4 wrote
Reply to Everyone talks about how huge Andromeda will look in the sky billions of years from now. I present you what the Milky Way *currently* looks like in the skies of our neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud. We appear absolutely huge in their skies! [Simulated view] by lampiaio
Actually you wouldn't be able to see it because there is not enough photons reaching your eye. If you kept a camera film exposed over several hours you would see the image of the galaxy. It's a sad fact that we will never see a galaxy with our eyes even if Andromeda was almost on top of us.