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I like to imagine that in the bleak future of runaway climate catastrophe the desperate Greta Thunberg, in her later years, will have turned to dark science, combining occult and relativity to travel back in time in order to change the flow of history. She will arrive in early 2020s, appearing...

Panda eats shoots and leaves.

Marcus Aurelius - Roman emperor, stoic philosopher Xenophon - warrior/commander, historian Caesar - emperor, writer, dagger attractor, salad

Are the fruit slices significantly below ambient temperature?

What can I say. That 'somewhat' may be doing a bit of heavy lifting there, but certain... dark desires have started to stir in me already. Most notably, the desire to sit by my window and tell those whippersnappers to get off my lawn. It's only downhill from there.

I am myself getting somewhat longer in the tooth, yet I've never written a cheque in my life, nor know anyone who has. I barely even used cash in the past decade or so. I grew up with analogue clocks everywhere, but would not be affected in any way if they all suddenly disappeared of the walls...

All those seas on the Moon, and nobody's suggested pumped hydro? *runs away*

The new world, maybe. But Australia? Or Siberia? There's always a chance we may live to see a dystopian off-world corporate penal colony, what with the way the world is moving right now.

Fair enough. I've given it a proper listen, and while I had thought there might be some value in listing all the errors, there's just too many of them. A good bulk of those stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of what Hubble constant/parameter represents. The title, at least, is correct.

Don't know the channel. I skimmed over the slides and listened to some of the audio. And while I'd take issue with quite a number of statements, it's not egregiously incorrect. I am in a forgiving mood, though. Is there a particular reason for your posting this here? Are you looking for a...

Yeah, the hideout assault was when I stopped caring for it, even though I kept watching hoping for an improvement. But earlier already, when the soundtrack from Kill Bill started playing over a training montage, it was a sign of things to come.

Io, yo mama papa so fat, his tidal gravity gave you acne!

I really enjoyed the first few episodes. The animation is excellent, and the story initially seemed grounded and human-scale. But then it completely lost me. Turned cartoonish, superhero-y, uneven in tone, and felt like it was trying too much to be hip with its - misguided in my opinion - use of...

Velocities are a distraction. That's just initial conditions. You want to focus on dynamics. The only force acting here is gravity. (image credit R.Verrault, w/modifications) The centre of mass C experiences just the right gravitational acceleration gMC to keep the rod in orbit. Due to the...

A rod would try to orient itself radially, due to tidal forces, in the same way as tidally-deformed ellipsoids of planets and moons orient themselves with their long axes radially, towards the centre of the gravitational field. If there's oscillation, it's around that position...