Really? I never heard that before. What would they care about how their caps are? I can’t see it having any impact on them at all. A lot of people got pissed about it when Coca Cola was one of the first to change the caps in line with the regulation, so if anything it hurt Coca Cola.

Also even though large corporations are almost always totally evil, it’s not impossible for them to do something good as well. Probably not for the right reasons, but still, one thing doesn’t exclude the other.

Isn’t the proper technical term a “spaghet”?

He has been known to have been rushed to the hospital once, because he kinda forgot how to breathe.

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!

And they kept him around even when his results were consistently terrible. If that’s not protecting the driver, then what it is? Sergio hasn’t gotten the message on how F1 works these days, either you are at top performance or you are gone.

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.

I’m only working half day today and to be fair it’s more like hardly working than working hard.

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

Over 25 years later and I still think of animal crackers when I hear that song

Yeah these are the dicks that cried terrorism when Tesla was “attacked”

Return to beans!

Neulich fuhr ich das Auto meiner Freundin und schaute beim Rückwärtsfahren nach unten. Großer Fehler, sie hat keine Rückfahrkamera.

Thanks for not giving in to the Debbie Downers. Confirmed mods are cute as well <3

Chat is in the chat room, so if you are in the chat room, then yes.

To the people who understand this meme: I hope your back is a bit better today, take care not to stoop down too much.

Yes

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.

They believe in eugenics, they are the worst of the worst.

And because the food was frozen and is thawing because of the ambient heat, people will point and shout: “SEE! It is working! I am actually heating the food with my heat-ray vision!”