GreyEyedGhost

It requires more material and financial resources, but isn’t necessarily harder. Transmitting energy effectively to reduce heat, or managing the excess heat starts running into some pretty tough limits of physics. Most of the issues with spinning habitats are engineering problems within the capabilities of our current technology level and materials science. It’s just super expensive and has terrible ROI for now.

How is it a bad analogy? You seem to be treating it like a scale model, which i don’t think was the intention. Moreover, most of the effects map over fine.

There isn’t a requirement for a Dyson shell to transmit energy. You could just envelope the sun in habitats that use the energy they collect locally and that would meet the criteria of a Dyson shell (and a K2 civilization).

It needs to weigh enough that it counters the momentum/drag of the cable plus the net of whatever mass is going up. Keep in mind that cars going down add to that overall value while cars going up subtract. Also, the general opinion is for the station/anchor to be slightly above geosync so the net effect of the orbit on the station is to be pulling away from the earth (there is some wiggle room depending on how robust your earth anchor is and the mechanics of your tether with respect to tension vs. compression, but most models plan for a little net lift). In other words, you also attach to an anchor on the earth (which could just be a chunk of bedrock) to counteract that net force. Since the net force of the tether (not counting the earth tether) would be away from earth, any net loss of momentum would be regained from the earth’s spin (which happens whenever we launch a rocket right now). You could also have a spool at either end to maintain the desired tension on the tether while accounting for slight elevation changes due to net momentum loss or gain. On top of all that, the space anchor mass isn’t really dependent on the mass of the earth so much as it is on the net amount of mass being lifted or lowered to the earth and the amount of time you want to wait to return to it’s desired orbital altitude. And finally, if the tether was severed only the part whose center of gravity was below geostationary orbit would actually fall to earth - the rest would leave orbit.

I’m pretty sure the article iIread said it had more than enough speed to reach escape velocity, but would have ablated/vaporized before doing so.

The answer is yes, depending on your frame of reference.

The phrase I heard was, when it comes down to it, free speech absolutists mostly want the freedom to say bigoted shit.

I’m pretty big on free speech, but if there aren’t limits, it gives a platform for terrible people to gather and reinforce each other, which only helps terrible people.

It was the first commercial version, from the NT line that was user-friendly and capable enough for home users. Prior to that, it was difficult to get games to run on the NT line and permissions were more complicated than most home users wanted to deal with. After that, they were essentially the same product line.

Typical Microsoft. “Let the user decide when their computer wakes up? Nah, they let us decide what’s important or it stays asleep.”

I stand corrected. She certainly could have determined this was illegal. But as far as I know, it is still illegal for someone to order prohibited items online, and it seems the military could stop a lot of those things on their side if they enforced the laws with their employees, as well.

Why is it her obligation to not fulfill these orders? Why is it not something that is handled between the military and their employee? She isn’t sending random flyers, someone stationed there, who should have been told isn’t allowed at that posting, ordered it nonetheless. If I break the rules by bringing a lighter onto my work premises (fire hazard restrictions), my boss doesn’t call Zippo, he talks to me. It would be a bigger deal if I had one shipped there, but they still wouldn’t be calling Zippo.

From the article:

The United States Postal Service and the DOD work together through the Military Postal Service Agency (MPSA), managed by the Army, to provide worldwide mail services (APO/FPO/DPO) for service members. These address formats don’t reveal the country, just the person and military unit.

Bennett had no idea her business’s products were going to a country where they would be illegal.

So how exactly is it her fault if someone buys something they will have shipped somewhere, she has no idea where it’s going, and the MSPA redirects it there? How does she even know where it’s going? Certainly, the buyer should have known, as should the MSPS.

Imagine being able to kill a coworker you don’t like and someone else goes to jail for it. I’m not saying the cop who pulled the trigger did it on purpose, but this is literally precedent if you wanted to.

This is what kills me about people complaining about inheritance tax. Oh, you’re worried you’ll only be able to give each child $15M? Plus $19k/year before you die? I wish my kids had to struggle with only $15M when I die.

All good.

Yeah, common usage in English “what a coincidence” often means “I don’t think it was a coincidence.” Don’t be surprised if people take it less than literally.

I think it would be so funny if someone spray painted pieces of shit (real or fake) and distributed them, possibly for throwing, at one of his events. He’s so fixated on gold crap, I don’t think he’d be able to ignore it.

There was a more general flipping off of the constituents in canada in the 80s. The Trudeau Salute.

As someone of German heritage I’m a little offended that you’re bringing that into it. Neither Hitler nor Trump did what they did because they’re German. The potential to be shitty is part of everyone.

Bad coincidence, though.

I think people at any age need to be given room to grow.