Agreed, though I would expect one to not be carrying anything that could be affected by such a device, whilst deploying said devices. So personal devices don’t count as needing protection AFAIC

Need to figure out a small scale, cheap, EMP device that can be set off to fry the cameras and sensors, but nothing else that is around.

Only if it is publicly traded. A private company can do whatever they want, with some legal exceptions.

You have to shed the inertia you already have to fall into the sun. The difference is about 30km/s or 108,000 km/h to slow down enough. The rotational plane of the solar system can be used to speed you up to escape velocity, especially with a slingshot off one of the giants, so it requires a lot less fuel.

Am American and white. Was complaining about racism in this country to my Chinese boss. He responded, “what racism? You American. You don’t know racism. You have racism here as a hobby. Go to China we show you real racism.”

I still don’t know how to respond to that, and that was 15-16 years ago.

IIRC, and understand the theory correctly, I believe your best chance for survival is a spinning supermassive black hole. I think that’s the one that might not spaghettify you. I know you want supermassive, just can’t remember if you want it spinning or stationary.

If you can survive it, you’ll end up at the end of the universe within your own lifetime, due to time dilation. Possibly almost instantly from your perspective. Not sure what you’d do at that point though.

The perception of that country Israeli quite poor at the moment.

Not much, as I understand it it’s as difficult, if not more difficult to actually enter a black hole, as it is to throw something into the sun. Literally easier to just fling it out into the cosmos.

I actually already knew that, thanks to KSP, but thanks for reminding me.

I find that when I’m sucking at KSP, going and playing Factorio or Dyson Sphere Program seems to help with my return to KSP.

Oh, and I’m a singular dude, not plural.

Also, it is counterintuitive, but it’s actually easier to get to Mars, rather than Mun. You need a lot less fuel because you can use atmospheric braking.

Apparently it’s more because of inertia and the rotational spin of The Sun affecting the entire solar system, than anything else. Which actually makes me wonder if Voager and Voyager II will have issues once they fully pass beyond the heliopause.

Apparently our star, and therefore the rest of the solar system, moves around the galactic disc in the direction of galactic spin, but it wobbles “up and down”, as well as possibly “left and right” as it orbits the galactic center every 225 million years, or so.

The reason that Voyager, Voyager II, and pretty much every single other probe we send outwards might have some issues once they pass the heliopause is that our solar system is a bit tilted compared to the galactic plane of rotation. They may encounter some background inertia that we didn’t account for.

You may want to look at how we did the Ulysses probe, by using Jupiter as a gravitational slingshot at about 80° relative to the solar plane of rotation, or the Solar Orbiter probe that is set to use The Sun as its gravitation slingshot when it reaches perigee. Thereby using the least amount of fuel possible, and turbocharging the eventual later deployment of solar sails.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qbCCSDBRAlE

Activism fatigue is getting old. My friends in their 60s to 80s don’t show to as many protests anymore. My dead friends show to even fewer.

It’s still crazy to me that it’s easier to fling something out of the solar system along the plane of solar rotation, than it is to get something above the poles of the sun. I understand why that is mathematically and physically. Still doesn’t seem like it should work that way.

In a certain part of France, yeah, kinda. Not just rocks either. Unexploded ordinance from WWI and WWII resurfaces every spring when they plow the fields.

Of course not mowing the clover, and not plowing or cultivating the field solves both of these problems.

That probably depends on how litigious they are, and if we hit anything with it.

Wash was the pilot. “I’m a leaf on the wind,” was one of his lines that was repeated a few times.

That was the biggest thing I liked about my SAABs. No matter what color they were, no other car in the lot looked like that.

It’s the floating roof of an oil storage tank outside Moscow, Russia that got destroyed earlier this week. The video makes that gigantic piece of steel look like it thinks it’s Wash from Firefly. Just a leaf on the wind.

Terrifying.

Only a tiny fraction of it probably melted. The atmosphere is really thin when you’re moving at the velocity that cover seemingly achieved. Raw iron meteors that are much smaller, and moving significantly slower than that steel plate routinely reach the ground intact.

That’s a real use of a time machine. Go back with ultra high speed film and camera so we can catch more than one frame of the thing and determine if it hit escape velocity of the solar system, or if it may be coming back to us in a few hundred thousand years.