I went off the road on an ice coated mountain road once. I suspected conditions were ripe for icing so I was going VERY slowly fortunately. I went into a tree. Well when I got out to inspect the damage as soon as I tried to stand up my feet went out from under me and I held onto the top of the door while my legs flailed like a cartoon character building up speed. The ice was the slickest I’ve ever encountered.

Sideshow Bob?

And he had to sleep in the garage for 3 days.

When I was a teen we had adopted a neighborhood stray Maine Coon named Barney. He was a big cat. Well one day I heard screaming from the back yard and ran to the window only to see my mom running from Barney. My mom NEVER ran and was very mellow 99% of the time. I had to laugh seeing this cat that barely came up to her calf chasing her around the yard while she “ran for her life”. In his defense Barney liked to chase us kids around and we sort of trained him to do it by chasing him too. It became his play.

I asked her later why she was so scared and she just said “Well the cat was chasing me!” and I responded “What was he going to do? Nibble your ankles?”

I was practicing my front kicks on a heavy bag in my kung fu school when I decided to try to work on their height. I kicked as high as I could which made me lean back (bad form). Well heavy bags fight back and between that and my unstable position I fell backwards like a log. Yes, I was defeated by a bag.

Judging from some of my tshirts about 20 yrs and counting

Maple Walnut ice cream seems to be impossible to find in stores outside of New England

Outside of the caffeine and kidney stone issues you must’ve been peeing every 30 minutes

Sounds like something you could get at a state fair

Average vs mean vs median is always a clusterfuck argument waiting to happen.

So someone chimed in on a subject that was never broached in the first place? It reminds me of the people on reddit who will always pipe in about how mean John Lennon was no matter what the subject about him is.

It requires a LOT of energy to counter the earth’s orbital motion. Hitting the moon is different because the moon is traveling with the earth and you are going outwards. Energy is always part of the equation since orbital mechanics is all about energy. You can’t ignore it by saying “Assume 0 costs, how hard would it be?” then we could just say it can approach the speed of light since we are ignoring any energy costs.

“It doesnt have to be moving fast”

But you will be moving fast, you are starting at an angular speed of 30km/s. The Apollo missions with their massive engines reached 11 km/s. Now think of someone wanting to dump hundreds of tons of nuclear waste into the sun and the energy that would require.

Maybe this explains it better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHvR1fRTW8g

The earth has a lot of angular momentum, in fact the planets combined have more than the sun and planet formation may actually be necessary to “bleed off” angular momentum from protostellar discs for star formation, but I digress. So if you were to aim directly at the sun you’d miss it wildly as the tangential motion of the earth would be added to your motion. Even worse it would miss the sun, go around it, and orbit back to where you came from. A bad thing if you were trying to toss, say, radioactive waste into the sun. To hit the sun you have to bleed off all of that angular momentum by using rockets (very expensive) or do what NASA usually does and use gravity assists swinging by planets to gain or lose energy. The Parker solar probe had to do a bunch of swings past Venus to lose enough angular momentum to get close to the sun.

I’d hike across campus in college with wet hair and it would be frozen solid by the time I got to class in the winter. lol

My wife does this with notecards. I have to hide the passwords on my PC so I don’t have to dig through her notes.

My mom resented anything tech related. I knew she was smart enough to learn it, she just hated being forced into it so we always had to do it for her.

Do what I do with my wife. I say she has to learn how to do it and I sit down in front of her and make her take notes and then have her try doing it. I’ve finally been able to get her to do some stuff on the computer on her own.

They might want to look up how the parties flipped during the civil rights era.

Confidently ignorant people really bother me. Even if I thought that I would’ve thought “Is that true?” and spent a second googling it. It is amazing how some folks are devoid of even the slightest curiosity but are blindly overconfident.

How dare you point out something. Stop hurting her feelings by pointing out anything she doesn’t know. “I would’ve pointed out you were about to drink soap but then I’d ‘Always need to be right’.”