Would it help if the station was in geosynchronous orbit

I think it would be cold I don’t know would a human size piece of space debris burn up?

Do rockets aim straight up as they try to leave earth, why don’t they burn up on exit too

The weight of the device let’s say is 20 bananas and so that makes 2 fit astronauts and a stoner. Nobody knows why the stoner was on the space station to begin with.

If you fall straight down so I guess that means straight down is still like 24000 mph or whatever the earth is rotating… but if you slow yourself down would you still burn up?

What is it that makes you “burn up” on reentry? Is any of that avoided if you can decelerate yourself from going sideways… apologies I don’t know what to call it but you are like a baseball at that point going sideways across the yard relative to flat ground on earth I think.

Edit: that’s really cool though if you are saying we only need a few backpacks of oxygen to burn ourselves up though

Right but we have the oxygen. Which direction should we jump? If we jumped forward we wouldn’t run into it again but we could get further away faster if we jumped away I think

Im trying to answer my question but I’m obviously not smart enough

Are you the stoner? One of you can be Neil degrass Tyson? That physics dude… Astro or even heck it could be Stephen hawking or anyone you probably need Superman to be one of the friends present okay we have to assume the people are strapped together and can hold the magic device lol no X-men, unless is that cool marvel guy who is like the flash in the dc universe

I was trying to link to a comment in the thread

Someone made a random post and it’s Saturday night and I think I can ask anything here the article is political I guess or about current events let me know if I need to redo the post and how to link to comments… should it be a screenshot of the comments instead maybe so you can’t see the original post?

Is it worse to go sideways into the atmosphere or straight down?

(Assuming you had the however many years of oxygen with you to make the journey, etc.)

I assume it would be better to just stay on the station and enjoy the sunsets and moonrises and I bet you get random eclipses too

Just asking because… if I have the oxygen maybe I could use it to lower my velocity of orbit or whatever speed that high is called until I fall straight down.

I don’t know how velocity works if I was going sideways at 17,000 mph and I sprayed the oxygen in front of me I would probably start to fall faster immediately that’s weird gravity and shit, I don’t know the correlation between gravity and speed

10 mph per second … per second? It accelerates so maybe close enough

“D’oH!”

Was 2001 a bad year because of 9/11?

Doing gods work I see

I’ve done it a bunch of times myself… working with millions and billions of something is kind of in another realm that is difficult for us to conceptualize… trillions and quadrillions even more so…

Like when you look at the graphs that show what a billion dollars really is… a millionaire is closer to the wealth of a vagrant bum than he is to a billionaire to a very large degree….

I think the 4 wheeler would get shredded and the hubcaps would fall off before the straps break

And if the wheel rotates slowly the hooks might actually pop off I guess I dunno

While I don’t particularly care about this specific thing, I have read articles and what not suggesting that the times we live in…. In the future, are going to be similar to the dark ages because there won’t be much data that survives from all of these companies deleting everything…

MySpace is another example… geocities before it…. We have paper zines that were printed in small quantities from before the internet was around, but stuff on the internet just disappears…

I think that’s why they even started the internet archive.

I work a dangerous job. When I see super confident people I refuse to work with them (edit: I am super skeptical, there are folks who know what they are doing but I wouldn’t call that exuding confidence). I have learned over the years that confidence is fake as fuck, and usually correlates with incompetence and ignorance (when you don’t know what the heck you are doing you can be unaware of the risk involved)…

There are people who know what they know and know what they don’t know, but it doesn’t come across in the same way as someone who exudes confidence.

I despise confidence lol…

Can’t you just vpn to another vpn ?

I’m not an expert on internet security but I do know there is no way in hell to legislate around blocking internet. Even China’s great firewall isn’t working.

I guess by passing legislation like this you get most people to be compliant, but this is about pirates, who were already actively non compliant in the first place.

The folks who pirate the content are literally going to have to click one extra button or something like that to work around the vpns trying to block stuff…

Meant to post it below, so wrong comment, but it was sarcastic and incorrect intentionally. The US economy is not the same as a household economy, nor is it the same as the state or city economy. State and local governments have to stay balanced, unlike the federal government which prints money.

I think we are in agreement on this