Why does the second picture look like it’s rendered on PS3?

The monkey paw curls: all insects and other “bugs” are gone now, the food chain collapses bottom up and the human race is just about extinct within 10 years.

+1 for FreeRDP, I use it all the time!

What did the doctor say? You may have a fungal infection, where the welts and itch aren’t caused by dryness or the scratching, but by the fungus. It’s actually really common and can be extremely annoying if left untreated. Some miconazole nitrate cream can really help out with this, just a few weeks of applying twice a day and it’ll clear up.

But never take medical advice from the internet, go see a doctor and ask them what to do.

The Rutte team has confirmed it was indeed a real text sent by Mark Rutte to Trump.

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As long as the object doesn’t reach escape velocity, it’s in orbit and thus bound by the primary object. Now this orbit can by very weird and huge, but it’s still a loop. Only above escape velocity does the loop “break” and leaving the object without a guaranteed return is possible.

So in theory if an object is in orbit and the boost is sufficient, it can just leave. However even then it is subject to the gravity fields and will make an arc instead of just a straight line. So “point and shoot” is never really an option. But often in movies a small spacecraft is seen making a small maneuver and somehow being seen as lost to space. That will for certain not be the case, a small boost just gives you a different orbit, but an orbit still.

For example the movie Life (2017) comes to mind. Spoiler alert. In the end they decide to use an escape pod to launch into “deep space” with the alien. The escape pod just points up and fires the rocket for a short while and now is lost to deep space forever. This is total nonsense. The reason escape pods can work with very little fuel is they often have just enough oompf (or delta-V if you want to be technical) to put the pod into a slightly lower orbit. This lower orbit means more drag from the atmosphere which slows it down further, lowering the orbit again etc. until the thing is slowed enough it can totally re-enter and land. It isn’t like an escape pod pointed down goes to Earth and pointed up goes into outer space. The pod actually fires in the direction of the orbit, so horizontally, in order to slow it down.

Orbital mechanics get really weird really fast. For example slowing down can cause the orbit to become higher before it goes lower. And putting in energy sideways can alter the angle of the orbit just like those spinning flywheel desk toys. Playing around with orbits in Kerbal Space Program can give a better understanding and can even make the concept of delta-V very easy to understand. KSP players would be unable to watch the movie Gravity (2013) for example without screaming at the screen: “THIS IS NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS”.

It’s hard to figure out, that’s why we refer to hard things as “rocket science”. It’s not just the complexity of the rocket as a machine and engineering challenge. But also figuring out stuff like orbits, taking into account the different gravity fields of objects that are of note. Doing things like gravity assists or Hohmann transfer orbit, taking into account the influence the extremely thin atmosphere has. And remembering everything moves, so shoot for where the target is going to be, not where it is now.

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There is a few different concepts here in conflict, which is why the question is hard to answer.

What do we mean when we say space? Usually we mean above the Kármán line, or above 100km. At that point you are above almost all of the atmosphere, so we consider that space. The atmosphere does actually extend quite a bit above that, but at that point it’s so thin we consider it to be space.

However as we know, the Earth has a bunch of gravity from its mass. So when you get up to 100km you just fall back down. Space isn’t free of gravity, the gravity of the Earth extends basically forever. It’s influence does get less (thanks to Newton we know by how much), but considering the Earth is thousands of km wide when we get up to 100km we are pretty much still on the ground as far as gravity is concerned.

So why do we see astronauts fly around? They are weightless, so there is no gravity right? This is something popular media gets wrong a whole bunch, it’s not like there is some magically line called space and beyond there you are weightless. Those astronauts are actually in orbit, that’s why they don’t experience gravity from the Earth. To understand orbits, imagine we fire a big ass cannon. The ball flies through the air in an arc and lands on the ground. How far away it lands, depends on how fast we shot the ball. The faster it went out of the cannon, the further it flies. Now imagine we shoot the ball over the horizon, so it lands so far away we can’t even see it anymore. It still lands right? Yes, but only up to a point. It turns out if you shoot the ball fast enough, the arc just continues falling beyond the horizon until it loops around the Earth. As it is falling, it doesn’t experience gravity except for the arc it follows.

Usually when we put stuff into space, we mean put it in orbit and especially something called Low Earth Orbit . That means it needs to have a speed just like the cannon ball, to keep falling indefinitely. The speed we need is dependent on how large the arc we want to have, or in other words how high the orbit is above the Earth. For context, if we want to fly in orbit in space so at an altitude of 100km, we would need to go almost 28254 km/h. Imagine driving that fast on the highway, it’s crazy fast.

That’s why we use rockets, it’s not as much about going up, it’s more about going really fast. So a rocket takes off and goes vertical for the first bit, this is to get to a thinner part of the atmosphere to reduce drag. Then it does something called the pitch over maneuver, usually in the form of a gravity turn. This is to go mostly horizontal and get that speed up. At the speeds rockets are going, they get to the 100km altitude in no time. So they pitch over as to not overshoot and use all their energy to go as fast as they can horizontally and thus into orbit. Then you get into the realm of orbital mechanics, which popular media also gets wrong a whole bunch. You can’t just point your spacecraft into space, give it a boost and be flying off into the void forever. If you want to learn more I would recommend playing Kerbal Space Program, to get a feel for how orbits work.

But say we are totally done with Earth and just want to leave it all behind, go into Deep Space. How would we do that? For that we need even more speed, something called escape velocity. If we get to that speed (40270 km/h), we can leave the Earth and go wherever we want, right? No not just yet, we might have left Earth behind, but we are still in orbit around the Sun. So we are still following orbital mechanics, only the Sun is the primary body we have to account for instead of the Earth. We can use orbital mechanics to fly around the solar system.

If we want to leave the solar system, we would need to go even faster. But the issue is there is nothing out there. To get anywhere interesting, we would need to travel close to the speed of light for years. Even our fastest spacecraft are standing still compared to the speed of light, so leaving the solar system isn’t very useful right now. But we do have the Voyager space probes which kinda sorta left the solar system and we got some interesting data from them, which is cool!

I have both kinds and I don’t really care. I just buy the pants because I like how they look, don’t even check what kind of fly they have. I have the ones with a regular zipper and 1 button, zipper with 2 buttons, no zipper just buttons, a little hook thingy button and fly combination. There are more important aspects of pants for me, like the fit, feeling, price and how they look.

For those wondering: it was inflatable. So it didn’t weigh very much and wasn’t very big at launch. It then inflated to this huge size shown here.

My personal advice: Take notes.

Just write everything down. I recommend an actual physical little paper notebook and a pencil. If you think: “Oh I must remember that” or “I’m almost out of …, I must buy more”, write it down.

Now don’t go writing down stuff like fun facts or YouTube videos you want to watch. Make it all practical stuff, stuff you need to do or is important in your life. It’s your brothers birthday next week, write down the date and what you need to do to prepare. Your stomach hurt and you think you ate something that didn’t agree with you, keep a log of what you ate and how your stomach felt. That way you can identify allergies or things you can’t eat (anymore). Having trouble remembering names? Write down after you met someone: “Today I met Steve, Steve is in charge of accounting at Megacorp.” Measured the room you want to put new flooring in? Make a little sketch and put the measurements in.

Writing stuff down physically forces your mind to pay attention and remember it later in a structured way. It also feels really good to physically tick off a task or cross it off. It can be a bit hard to keep up with and not go the other way and put so much into it, it doesn’t help anymore. But it can help a lot, especially if you are the kind of person that thinks 8 times a day to put out the garbage, only to wake up the next morning and you’ve forgotten to actually do the thing.

I so hate the bad translations. Please just give me the app in whatever native language it was built in. And if I can’t understand that language, let me switch to English. It’s awful to use an app and have to translate everything yourself back to the native language to figure out what they actually meant and what went wrong in the translation.

And it’s especially annoying when errors and such are also translated. These often make even less sense and when trying to search the internet, it really helps if the error is in the language of largest user base.

I’m not going to debate Intelligent Design in 2025, that’s just dumb.

The whole thing boils down to: Just because we don’t fully understand it, doesn’t mean it’s proof of god.

Well, I don’t think it’s worth repeating the debate again. You can go back and look at what was posted back when it came out.

But he tells a very one sided story and keeps telling to keep an open mind. He presents this thing as if it’s totally unique and amazing, where there are very similar structures in nature out there. He also heavily focuses on the idea of it being a motor in the way that a human designed motor works, giving the same names to parts which are kind of similar on a surface level but really aren’t. He also repeats all of the bible thumper talking points around this subject, as if it’s a mystery nobody can explain and couldn’t have come to be without some kind of intelligent design at the helm. But the reality is, this is not representing the reality at all. This whole flagella thing was an exercise of goal post moving in the first place. The ID people kept pointing out weird things and missing links. Then when science explained exactly how that thing came to be, without ID involved, they just pointed to the next thing at one point ending up at flagella.

There is a whole Wikipedia page talking about how flagella evolved and how it came to be. The intelligent design people have been shouting about this for 3 decades now and there is so much info out there to find about how this came to be. If Destin wanted to approach this from a scientific standpoint, he would focus on that information, instead of presenting it like some kind of mystery we are still figuring it out today. And not keep telling people to have an open mind and how he can’t figure it out. He could have even gone into why people might think it was ID and then explain the science why it is not. Something other online science communicators often do, give people the points they have been hearing from the “wrong” side and then go into those points and explain them.

Basically the whole subject itself is very hard to present without going into the whole ID versus evolution standpoint and the way he represented it was straight out of the ID playbook. And keep in mind all of this was thoroughly debunked back 20 years ago. Him bringing this up now is inexcusable.

I’m not even sure there is research still being done on this, the research was done decades before, there is no mystery.

I’ve responded with a link in another reply in this thread.

Seems Destin missed that day and got dumber instead.

I’ve responded with a link in another reply in this thread.

He can believe what he wants in his personal time. He can even use his platform to spread his beliefs. However being all about science and then pushing some weird agenda is a whole other thing. He betrayed the trust, so I choose not to watch his stuff anymore.

It was this video: https://youtu.be/VPSm9gJkPxU

When this video went up it caused quite a fuss online as Destin seems to heavily push an old debunked intelligent design narrative around flagella.

I haven’t forgotten Destin trying to push his creationist agenda using his YouTube platform. He makes a lot of good content, but after that I don’t want to watch his stuff anymore. Fuck him for doing something like that.

Could someone re-make this but with the big naturals Padme? Asking for a friend