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Ooooh. Starship+HARP.

It might not be Google translate. English speakers don't always get ie/ei the right way around in German (heck, we don't always get it the right way around in English), and even people who have a good handle on spelling can still mistype. Arvil can tell us if he thinks there's a possibility he...

That would be Wolfenscheissen.

As I said, masscons might tweak an object's orbit. That's in fact the only way that you'll ever get a full orbit in the first place.

Also true of the Apollo LM. But any trajectory that leaves the lunar surface is going to have a periapsis below it, so any debris that isn't ejected from the moon outright should reimpact within an orbit. I suppose for a very low angle launch (if it isn't caught by terrain), a masscon along the...

Your second plot (the heating plot) only shows one curve for Helliconia, but your explanation of the dynamics, and the length of the secondary year, suggests that the tropospheric depth might shift between summer and winter. Is there such an effect?

Or if there's no O2 to break up in the first place (e.g, Venus). The biochemistry of the local life (if any) will probably have a significant influence on what molecules are available to be photodissociated into what. O2 is unlikely to be present in significant quantities without life. You...

I just had a horrible, awful idea: The advantage of little-endian byte order is that the same value in memory can be read at any width without changing the address: 0xff000000 is 255 whether you read it at byte width, 16-bit width, or 32-bit width. But you can actually make this work for...

No, I simply didn't mark stress.

It is misapplied, though I had to double-check because it's rare enough that I don't have a great feel for its actual meaning. Actually not. English doesn't tend to mix Latin prefixes with native roots (with a few notable exceptions like "redo"), and "pound" with the meaning "schlagen" is a...

TBH, smartphones aren't the best modern convenience to support the point you're trying to make, as a good chunk of the people affected by their production probably have one, or at very least a mobile phone of some description. They're not really a luxury; plenty of otherwise quite poor people...

It's not an addiction if it's genetically pre-programmed from birth. 😁 The real problem with sugar is that we were designed for an environment where it's a scarce-but-vital resource, and nowadays it's cheap and easy to get, but our brains still have the instinct to gobble down any sugar we find...

Even more telling, if you look at the image at full-size, there's a hook at the top of the red line. Whatever it is definitely changed course over the course of the exposure, which is very un-tracer-like behavior. It looks like a transition from an ascent to level altitude, or a level altitude...

I doubt that we'll see extension rates exceeding 1 year per year in the long term: AFAIK Disney isn't currently lobbying for any term extensions, and they have less than two years at this point to do so if they want to keep Steamboat Willie out of the public domain. And they have to realize that...

I don't see that as a problem limited to AI. Copyright is already problematic if you believe that free markets are optimal to the degree that the modern West does (though copyright holders have spent the last few centuries trying to spin it as just another part of property law), and it becomes...

If it could be demonstrated that, with the right prompt, an AI could be induced to closely reproduce an image that had been used to train it, copyright might become an issue. OTOH, there are other cans of worms that that would open up.

I'm having trouble parsing this. Is something missing, or is the closing paren in the wrong place? Actually, I think I may have just successfully parsed it: the parenthetical is maybe a bit long to have something after it in the same sentence (something that I've been guilty of on more than one...

The question is whether they coo.

Pidgeons are cheaper than nobility, and can provide both things. *ducks to avoid a barrage of rotten tomatos.

Well, there's a particular cryptid that's been sighted millions of times in Europe in the past few thousand years (as far back, in fact, as we have written records). It broadly fits the description of "a monkey". IOW, might it not just be a ne'er-do-well specimen of h. sapiens robbing the...