ImWaitingForRetcons

joined 11 months ago
[–] ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Hey, I supported Harris - but you can’t ignore the fact that compared to Biden in 2020, Harris’s vote share practically collapsed - and her refusal to actively condemn Israel was a significant part of it.

[–] ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, those Liberal years seem like they’ll be coming back…

[–] ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Fair enough, but I automatically wince whenever I see “X Nobel Prize winning-Ys endorse/reject Z”, because as often as not, it’s nonsense…

[–] ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ironic, considering how right leaning most farmers are…

[–] ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Actually, even if the density was constant, the earth would turn into a black hole when it reached about 1.925 * 10^13 times its original mass, since the mass of a black hole is proportional to its radius, whereas the mass of the earth in this scenario grows proportional to radius cubed. This should happen around 371 years (?) after starting.

(Please check my calculations, I’m not 100% sure.)

[–] ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I personally think we’re on the slope of enlightenment - quantum computing no longer attracts as much hype as it used to, but in the background, there’s a lot of interesting developments that genuinely might be very important.

[–] ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

This makes so much sense to me - Iran joining in would give an invitation to USA, EU, etc. to join in with Israel, and take away focus from Israel’s war crimes and genocide to instead focus on the new bad guy.

[–] ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Look, I understand your point. And to be fair, they genuinely are reading new ground with reusable rockets. But not only are competitors catching up, cost overruns and time delays do matter in the context of NASA, considering how their budgets keeps getting negatively affected and the Artemis project is suffering setbacks. They don’t have the scope to tolerate what’s happening.

[–] ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I’m referring to the rockets intended for travelling to the moon and beyond (primarily the Starship), which has already failed thrice, has innumerable issues and massive cost overruns.

[–] ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Considering SpaceX’s track record… I’m very eager for Elon and his other billionaire buddies to get on a rocket headed for Mars.

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