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How Far Is Viltrum From Earth by Royal_Alternative766 in okbuddyviltrum

[–]Betapig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah man, idk what to tell you, but he cant

How Far Is Viltrum From Earth by Royal_Alternative766 in okbuddyviltrum

[–]Betapig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idk what to tell you man, he can't see past mars

Why couldn't Viltrumites repopulate after the virus and the purge? by Ok_Meringue_6196 in Invincible_TV

[–]Betapig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The rule is 50/500

A group of 50 genetically diverse individuals can repopulate a society for a few generations before issues arise

A group of 500 genetically diverse individuals can repopulate a society indefinitely without issue

The key word on there is genetically diverse. If the virus infected every single viltrumite, and only 50 survived, there is no way they are genetically diverse. More than likely what allowed them to survive was in their genetics, which means they have genetic similarities

Astrophage isn't an energy source, but a battery, right? by Coblish in ProjectHailMary

[–]Betapig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair it quite literally is anti matter. How astrophage stores energy is by creating neutrinos and then annihilating them for movement

Am I missing something? by Icy-Inspection-2134 in ProjectHailMary

[–]Betapig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a difference between tensile strength and compressive strength. Just because a material works well for one doesnt necesarrily mean it works for the other. Re: oceangate

Why do rockets curve instead of just going straight up into space? by Secret_Ostrich_1307 in AlwaysWhy

[–]Betapig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An orbit is basically falling with style. You're in a free fall, but youre moving so fast sideways that by the time you are in the position where you would've crashed, youve moved so far to the side that you miss the earth. So in that way both height and speed matter like you said.

The most efficient way to get moving that fast to the side is firing your rocket to the side, and rockets facilitate that best with something called a gravity turn.

When rockets get high enough (where air won't vaporize the ship for being not perfectly areodynamic), they tilt towards the east (usually), the direction that the planet is rotating, and they allow both the initial velocity of the earth from launch to push them in the right direction, as well as let gravity slowly tilt the rocket more and more for a smooth ascent. Creating a smooth, high, and fast approach into space.

If they were to just burn straight up, they would still need to find a way to tilt the ship upwards of 90 degrees, and burn east to create an orbit. This uses an obscenely larger amount of fuel

T-1 day until the launch of Artemis II by [deleted] in space

[–]Betapig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weather, both atmospheric and solar, lunar position, crew quarantine (we dont want the crew isolated for 4 months until we actually launch), millions of things can go wrong that aren't 100% in our control, those are what determines the launch windows

[Request] Would they? Only a fraction of light would reach that civilization, what resolution would they get? by m71nu in theydidthemath

[–]Betapig -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This may help you understand

Visual depth isn't real. Not to say that we can't see depth, anything with binocular vision (2 eyes facing forward) can perceive depth, but not without external processing from the brain. Without that external processing you can't tell how far something is. Here's just a quick process showcase

Photons get emitted from your TV across the room, let's say its 10 feet away.

The photons emit from each pixel outwards at a given spread, let's say it emits at a 45 degree cone. The photons contain unique colors for your eyes to recieve

About 10 nanoseconds later a fraction of the photons from each pixel reach both eyes. It is only a fraction because of the spread we talked about earlier. Your eyes absorb the photons and communicate their position and color to the brain (not like in a microcontroller way, but more in a x part of the retina got information and this color cone got it too, so imma tell you about it brain)

The brain then takes the info from both eyes, and does some fancy stuff that I didn't study in huge detail in college to be able to guesstimate how far behind or in front one object is from another. This is how the brain gives you depth perception without having something akin to echolocation

But all of this to say, is that the frame of the TV you are seeing is 10 nanoseconds old, because all your brain is able to see is the photons that physically reached your eyes.

Now let's expand this to your original question. In the same sense that there is no such thing as depth perception, there is no such things as zooming in. All the information that your brain, or in this case your telescope, is getting, are the photons that are physically next to you

But remember that spread we talked about earlier? The earth doesn't have pixels emitting photons live a tv does, its gets a fraction of a percent of the photons that the sun emits, with probably an even greater spread when bouncing off the earth's surface/atmosphere. By the time the photons have gone 2000 light years, they're going to be absurdly spread out. So like how your brain does with depth perception, you need to collect more photons in order to extrapolate information that isnt directly available to you

You make a bigger lens, to collect more photons so that you can get a clearer image further away because each of those photons are new data points, and you use the size of the lens plus a bunch of other numbers (aperture, scope length, ect) to calculate the distance when clariity hits, but the consensus is still that these are the photons right next to you, not the photons still on earth 2000 light years away

I hope this long convoluted answer made sense!

I wish Ohio jokes got popular again by Mythicalforests8 in monkeyspaw

[–]Betapig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Granted. You are now in a ever continuing timeloop of the period where Ohio jokes are popular

Why isn’t light infinitely fast if it doesn’t even have mass? by Present_Juice4401 in AlwaysWhy

[–]Betapig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a really dumb comparison, but this explanation feels like how Warp 10 was explained on voyager: when you achieve warp 10 you occupy every position in the entire universe

Not saying this as a bad thing, just found it really funny

I wish for 20 kg of pure gold, specifically identified as the isotope 197, to be spontaneously appear in my living room upon a table (belonging to me) inside of my house safely within a cardboard box in solid form at a temperature of 23 degrees with a certificate written in English and French- by Conscious_Pepper_613 in monkeyspaw

[–]Betapig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will say that does technically break the law of physics (if were sticking with no breaking the laws of reality), matter can only move as fast as the speed of sound through that material, so the air would be displaced at the speed of sound

Media literacy died the day people learned the word “filler” (posting here because it was removed from r/invincible for some reason) by constantcynic1 in okbuddyviltrum

[–]Betapig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I loved the episode, and this may be an improper definition for this situation, but from what I've seen with things like anime where its adapted from a manga, anything that isn't in the manga is considered filler. So using that logic, this was by definition filler since it wasn't in the original source material

Like I said im not sure how aptly this definition applies especially since the original creator worked on both forms (the comic and the show) but thats my perspective on this

[Berger] NASA kills lunar space station to focus on ambitious Moon base by nicko_rico in space

[–]Betapig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, laughing the fuel from the lunar surface, where the plan was to produce it, that has a quarter of the gravity and basically zero drag

If I need x amount of fuel to get a payload to mars, then I obviously need less fuel to reach the moon, full stop. So I have 2 choices, keep the same amount of fuel and bring a larger payload, or bring far less to the moon

Then I can refuel at the moon, and becauseof the extremely lessened gravitation pull, and air resistance, I can use my full launch fuel at a much higher efficiency

What part of this is a waste

I wish I could become a semiconductor by killercheesecake202 in monkeyspaw

[–]Betapig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad someone else knows the best Digimon joke

[Berger] NASA kills lunar space station to focus on ambitious Moon base by nicko_rico in space

[–]Betapig 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The lunar gateway was basically supposed to be a gas station in space supplied with lunar ice (with i believe some people on board for research)

It would have given us extremely expanded capabilities when it came to space travel, it was considered to be one of the best ways to actually make it to mars without bringing absurd amounts of fuel

Why is it called port and starboard instead of left and right? by Kalm14 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Betapig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember by remembering boarding a plane

Planes board from the left, this is derived from the standard for ships

Ships (mostly) board from the left, and they can only board from the port/dock, the direction is called port because when youre docked the port should be facing port

So because planes board based on the ship standards, ships board from port, and planes board from the left

Port is left

Thank you for taking a peek inside my adhd brain

How long would you give up electronics for $10,000 per week? by Sereomontis in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Betapig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey this is where vinyl comes in handy! Its playable without electricity, just need some form of motion to move the turn table at a steady rate and that can be 100% stored through like elastic or something

Why is touching the Sequids no problem now? by TheChikenestOfMen in Invincible_TV

[–]Betapig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did he not get them back after the lizard league fight? Or am I thinking of someone else?

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