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  • mkwt@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldSomething's not adding up
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    2 days ago

    It’s actually because the thing that makes you make those faces is the acceleration, not the speed.

    All three reference frames shown are accelerated, non inertial frames. But the first two have “fictitious” centrifugal accelerations somewhere around 0.5-2.5 g. The third frame has a detectable centrifugal acceleration, but it’s like 0.003 g or something, and can be lumped in with gravity for many types of problems.




  • And ICE right now doesn’t take orders from Trump… They take orders from that other guy. The ACLU knows this because they understand constitutional law. They’re not looking for the concrete deportation plans; they want general background on what the infrastructure looks like, so they can file challenges with the correct factual details quickly if shit does kick off.

    For example, if they get the tail numbers on all the planes they can track them in flightaware or in a worse case by recruiting spotters. If they want to file a lawsuit, they’re gonna need to know some details about who got sent where and when.






  • Any trip to Mars is going to involve massive amounts of personal suffering and privation.

    Minimum mission duration of 3 years. Living space no larger than a small RV. All the food is freeze dried. Can you imagine the smell that will develop? If anything breaks, it’s on you to fix it, and there is no trip down to the hardware store, and no United Rentals to bail you out. Any medical complication? There’s no ER, just whatever you’ve got in the kit.

    And that’s not even starting on the chronic radiation hazard for which there is no viable option to deploy shielding. And a freak solar flare can cook you with acute radiation that will kill you at any time.

    Seriously, we’re talking about an adventure that would be way more epic than Shackleton.









  • The democratic election was just one step in a long multi step process. This was true for the Nazis, and it is true for Trump.

    To actually do all the stuff he wants to do, Trump will require people to cooperate with him. Do not give any cooperation from your end.

    If he does something that’s illegal, litigate it in court. If he wants to pass an enabling act, filibuster that s***. If he wants to ban books, circumvent those book bans. Do not give up a single inch of ground willingly. For every person that is rounded up into a camp, some other fairly normal person had to choose to do that. Don’t. Trump can’t run these camps all by himself.


  • Here’s what I want say about that.

    We’ve got a defense system against fascism here in the US of A called checks and balances, and another one called minority rights. And I think reasonable people should lean on those as hard as we can for as long as they remain viable options.

    Fascism is something that comes to pass because people allow it to happen. Even now it is not yet inevitable. For example, Proud Boys and the other paramilitaries are not unified and they don’t control the streets. The best course of action is to resist at every opportunity.