To escape a body of mass you need to have enogh velocity (kinetic energy) to overcome the gravitational pull of that body. You can imagine it like a ball sitting in a bowl. With little velocity it will just roll back and forth but if it’s fast enough it can roll out of the bowl and escape it’s influence.

That critical speed is called “escape velocity” and it depends on mass and distance from a body. The escape velocity of earth (from the surface) is about 11.2 km/s and the sun’s escape velocity (from earth orbit) is about 42.1 km/s. Earth orbits around the sun at about 29.8 km/s. If you launch in the direction of Earth’s orbit, you will orbit the sun already at about 41 km/s, so you “only” need 1.1 km/s more to escape the sun, too.

If you tried to reach the sun, you could launch in the opposite direction leaving you orbiting the sun at about 18.6 km/s. Since there is almost nothing in space you won’t slow down from friction and the orbit won’t decay. Instead you’d have to accelerate opposite the direction you’re traveling. Now, calculating exactly how much you’d need to decelerate isn’t trivial since you don’t want a stable orbit but an elliptical orbit that just touches the sun at the closest point (perihel). I don’t know how much deceleration that takes, but it’s propable that it’s easier than accelerating by 1.1 km/s to escape the sun.

Vielleicht hätte er einfach Priester werden sollen, wenn ihm sein Glaube wichtiger ist als Wissenschaft.

Ich kann mir gut vorstellen, dass es durchaus Kalkül war die Leute würden eh nicht zur AfD gehen, weil sie zu extrem ist. Ist natürlich nach hinten los gegangen. Viele AfD-Themen wurden zu einem gewissen Grad normalisiert bzw. scheinen plötzlich nicht mehr so radikal, was ihnen deutliche Zugewinne aus der “ich bin ja kein Nazi, aber”-Fraktion beschert hat.

That requires neither engineering-level math nor paper nor patience. All you need is the chain rule and some basic knowledge of sine and cosine:

The derivative of cos is -sin, but because of the 6x you get an extra factor 6. The sine function is periodic on 2pi, so sin(6*2pi + pi/2) = sin(pi/2) = 1. So the result is -36

Aus allen Umfragen wird deutlich, dass fast alle die nicht AfD wählen keine Regierungsbeteiligung der AfD wollen. Von daher wäre das wahre fatale Signal, wenn dies missachtet wird und trotzdem mit der AfD koaliert wird.

The one time I can think of is Alesi/Berger who moved from Ferrari to Benetton for the 1996 season

Zugegeben, ich musste selber nachschlagen, aber in diesem Fall ist “Worte” genau richtig

https://www.duden.de/sprachwissen/sprachratgeber/worte-oder-woerter

Oh, you’re absolutely correct. My bad. In my defense, I was confused by this slightly broken table in the German Wikipedia. I didn’t realise there were normal race weekends after USA, Brazil and Qatar.

The constructors title is in danger, there’s no doubt about it. For the drivers title however, Verstappen still holds a comfortable cushion. Even if Norris goes full domination and wins the 6 remaining feature races, Verstappen can defend his lead by only finishing 3rd each race. Norris’ only chance are basically DNFs from Verstappen or another constructor stepping up and consistently finishing between him and Verstappen

Don’t forget first party Linux support and Proton to add Linux/Mac support to many windows exclusive games.

The last times May 4 was on a Thursday were 2006, 2017 and 2023. The Core 2 wasn’t released until July of 2006 so I’d guess the correct year is 2017, but even then the hardware was already pretty dated. For reference, in 2017 the first generation Ryzen prozessors and Intel Kaby Lake (7th generation Core i) were around.

The difference is, that you could just continue using XP until Win7 was released or continue using Win7 until Win10 was released. Win10 will reach end of life next year and then the only supported Windows will be Windows 11. Vista or Win8 were never as forced as Win11 is now.

Plot twist: the products were placed by competing brands because they knew the product placement would backfire

As long as they insist on using people’s dead names I will only refer to them by theirs.

Don’t, an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. Fight them, but never drop to their level. Then they’ve reached their goal and it’s lost. Be better than them.

I had the idea to do the reverse and throw the 5e Tarrasque at my players in my PF2e when they are around level 8* or so. Basically using one of the most powerful DnD bosses as a mid level side boss.

* I haven’t done the exact math yet

Good old Bobby Tables

https://xkcd.com/327/

Apparently x dot com stayed with PayPal until 2017 when Musk bought it back. While we don’t know the price, it’s probably been in the millions

https://qz.com/1026167/elon-musk-just-bought-x-com-the-domain-he-once-owned-from-paypal

Three words are absolutely sufficient:

You wanna fight?

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Some clients show link previews. I use voyager and get previews for all the links at the end of each comment with URL and link text shown. That’s especially useful when people add links to a single letter which would be hard to hit otherwise