Psychopathic behavior right there

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.

Or people who are pedantic.

“The sky is blue.”

“No it isn’t! It is red at sunrise and at sundown.”

“Ok comic book guy.”

“you know what I meant!”

This is why I’ve learned to repeat what I thought someone said back to them so they can confirm if they communicated it clearly or not.

“Bring it to me.”

"Which one? I see 5 of them here.

“Oh, I meant the blue one.”

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’.”

How does this person think guided missiles work? “Well the plane moved so we missed.”

"Also you can’t catch up to the moon because the moon is traveling faster then our rockets can go "

1. Not true so discussion over right there
2. Even if its angular velocity was faster than a rocket its radial velocity is nearly 0 so all you would have to do to intercept it is to lead it. No different than shooting a moving target at long ranges.

If you really want to confuse most folks tell them why shooting stuff into the sun is actually VERY hard to do.

People think of fruits as having to be sweet and tomatoes are acidic and are used like non-fruit vegetables in cooking so I can see why someone who hasn’t thought about botanical definitions would think that way.

you can gain infinite weight from one chocolate bar.

Eventually you’ll turn into a black hole.

“holistic”

Aka, “Keep science and evidence out of this”

I’d make trust funds for them and make it clear that this was it. If you give them cash they will hate you because you gave them only $1,000,000 a year ago and didn’t give them more this year.

Any time I think of the lottery I can’t help thinking of this infamous reddit post that should be mandatory reading by anyone who wins.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/comment/chb4v05

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/comment/chb4yin

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/comment/chb51su

Well technically you are both right though she is being pedantic.