egregiouscodswallop

egregiouscodswallop t1_j9k3ih9 wrote

Reply to Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

Damn! There goes my conspiracy theory that Russia maintains a war footing in order to force the American military into constant production which speeds up global warming in order to unfreeze Siberia, revealing enormous swaths of arable farmland.

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egregiouscodswallop t1_j5uffub wrote

Reply to Netflix Special Challenger The Final Flight - curious omission. by GhostRiders

I'm too young to remember the Challenger personally but here are two theories when it comes to making documentaries: 1) his public appearance made him seem important at the time, but he was essentially a mouthpiece for others who were more entrenched in the story and 2) the creators could be either too old or too young, either assuming everyone would already know him or that he was some irrelevant character since he never came up during interviews. Either way, sounds like he could have been cut for time. Especially if his role was mainly media based since media offer us a window to the drama and the documentarian was already backstage in the thick of it.

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egregiouscodswallop t1_j5a6jmt wrote

Reply to The critical atom (thought experiment) by ThePropagandaTower

Since the explosive forces, swirling gasses, and gravitational rotations create a total force that is NOT spherical, there is likely a window of time when part of your blackhole requires an FTL escape velocity while the other hemisphere still lets loose photons and gamma rays. So a critical atom (singular)? No, probably not. There is also an accretion disc around blackholes which block and reflect light back into the central mass. So for a non-zero amount of time, the blackhole is not trapping photons but the blackhole system (the Greater Metropolitan Blackhole) does effectively trap everything.

Tl;dr there would be a window of time and mass during which your escape velocity is sub c but nothing escapes AND/OR your escape velocity reaches c but not uniformly in a sphere.

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egregiouscodswallop t1_j3kbxd5 wrote

Reply to FTX attempting to recover millions donated to charities. by imhergod

Typical! My company did an event for some NFT and they tried to sue us for their money back because their value collapsed after the event. Our part was just making the venue look sexy and, boy howdy, we did. The value tanking likely had to do with wind blowing or the sun rising since that's now NFTs work.

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egregiouscodswallop t1_j2vfews wrote

Reply to Why did the scientists of any country go to the moon, they saw something there, then we, who do not go because of its fear, do not find anything on the moon, but they search the blocks on the earth too, but you do not search on the moon. people what happened on the moon by forexpost

Really interesting points. Extremely in-depth analysis. This honestly might be the smartest thing on Reddit, maybe a little bit too smart for me since I absolutely have no idea what you mean or what you even were trying to convey.

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egregiouscodswallop t1_j2dxqgo wrote

Reply to TIL John Steinbeck IV wrote an article in January 1968 about marijuana usage among the troops. This set off a media firestorm, & the Army began clamping down on marijuana usage, arresting ~1000 G.I.s a week for possession. Many G.I.s switched to heroin, which was odorless and thus harder to detect. by The_Critical_Cynic

Another Steinbeck work that caused way more pain than necessary. The primary work being Grapes of Wrath

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egregiouscodswallop t1_j1tdain wrote

Reply to "Speed up" terraforming of Mars by using Enceladus' icy crust? by LumberjackWeezy

Crash ten thousand asteroids into Mars and you: 1) slightly increase it's gravity closer to 1 g, 2) launch particulate matter into the atmosphere to make it thicker and potentially warmer, 3) bring in other minerals and water, 4) reshape the landscape clumsily but selectively, 5) potentially collapse tunnel systems, 6) reveal some but erase much geologic data, and 7) reduce the overall mass of the asteroid belt.

But do the same with Enceladus and you lose a unique moon that could be used for something else entirely.

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egregiouscodswallop t1_ixqbtha wrote

Reply to Polarization around climate change is growing on Twitter. Since COP21, engagement with climate sceptics has grown 4 times faster than pro-climate content. At the same time, criticism of the COP summits as a failure has grown 5-fold. by fractalfalcon

Remember that when you measure public sentiment or the focus of public discourse by using Twitter, you are measuring robots designed to inflate those numbers and give those results. You are literally falling for the internet's third most obvious trick and it's sad that you can't see it

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egregiouscodswallop t1_ixmptj5 wrote

Reply to Space travel Shielding by Actual-Macaroon8240

Alistair Reynolds uses ice shields. Essentially, the front of the ship is coated in meters of ice while in space. Holes are easy to repair by melting then refreezing the shield. It acts as a backup water supply if it's water ice. If it's not water, it's probably common and cheap. Either way, it gets added in space so this idea requires space-based shipyards. It helps that the ships are also thin and long, smaller profile to protect

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