species9606
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Comment · 3 years ago
The US bombs the air defense, then it bombs whatever else.
Comment · 3 years ago
Relevant interview with Senator Schumer: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/3-objects-flying-us-canada-b...
He's claiming they're all balloons, and that recovering them has been an intelligence windfall for the US - and Schumer would be in a position to know that. Then again, Schumer has seemed to have an obvious anti-China bias in recent years.
Comment · 3 years ago
“Roughly 1,900 people work at the company”
Doing what?
Comment · 3 years ago
Not to worry, HBO Max has replaced all that with “Velma.”
Comment · 3 years ago
There aren’t any resources in interstellar space. It’s a near-perfect vacuum and the temperature is a uniform 3 Kelvins.
Comment · 3 years ago
> I read somewhere (don't remember where) that if a ship constantly accelerates in space, it can reach another star system in a few decades and another galaxy in less than a century.
The problem is, it also has to slow down and stop at the destination. To do that, it would have to take all the deceleration fuel with it, and the amount of fuel needed goes up exponentially with the amount of deceleration required.[1] There’s no known or even theoretical form of propulsion with the specific impulse needed to get us to the next star system in under 600 years.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes, I had one, and it was awesome. The thing went high enough to disappear from view, then gyro’ed safely back to earth.
Comment · 3 years ago
Meta comment, I love HN for comments like this. Collectively, this website is a super-brain that’s far more impressive than any language model.
Comment · 3 years ago
Binance will likely be subject to clawback of the funds FTX used to buy them out. If they can still be fully liquid after surrendering $2 billion, they just might make it - assuming the rest of their balance sheet is legitimate and accurate.
Comment · 3 years ago
As CZ has said repeatedly, they’re not a Chinese company. If the CCP bails them out, they’ll have an entirely new set of reputation problems.
Comment · 3 years ago
I predict Binance will collapse before the end of this year.
Comment · 3 years ago
Right near the CalTech campus, there was a barbershop owned and operated by a sole older gentleman. You’d sit down, tell him what you wanted, and he’d give you a magazine (often Scientific American) and cut your hair in silence. It was perfect.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah, this chart didn’t really make much sense. I think it’s mostly a setup for the “Tories” joke.
Comment · 3 years ago
You have a point, but you may be thinking of the CDOs they and other sold, knowing that they were full of risky mortgages but laundering them through overly-chummy ratings firms.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes, we had a neurosurgeon run for the Presidency who, according to experts, had some foolish tax policies he wanted to implement. You don’t hear me making pronouncements on tax policy, because I don’t know enough about it. Nor should a “harm reduction counselor” try to make authoritative statements about neurological pharmacokinetics and the like.
Seems like you didn’t quite think that analogy through.