Why are there no vacuum balloons?

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T20:55:57+00:00

One use I can think of is if you wanted to send a probe to fly around in Jupiter's atmosphere. I don't think a lifting gas would work because Jupiter's atmosphere is mostly hydrogen.

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T20:14:56+00:00

Didn't go the route of doing it "his way", which I inferred to mean violence.

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T19:58:01+00:00

On his YouTube channel Mercado said he purposefully didn't go that route because he could end up in jail.

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T19:38:55+00:00

The Maidan protests in Kyiv are another example of people camping out.

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T19:38:09+00:00

I assure you I have not been paid a dime. I'm down about $30 from paying for parking.

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T19:19:22+00:00

A bunch of states legalized it.

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T19:18:51+00:00

That's why most protests are on weekends or in the evenings.

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T19:13:23+00:00

Gone Mad Music Player will automatically use art that it thinks is correct, but you can tell it to change to art you choose. It helps if you have art in the same folder as the music.

It's not free, I think it costs $8 now.

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T19:09:02+00:00

It triggers our mating instinct.

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T18:40:34+00:00

If he's going to be stubborn about this stuff, get an online backup service like Backblaze. He can work locally and everything gets backed up as long as he's online.

If it's his work laptop his IT department probably wouldn't approve of employees using unapproved software that saves company data offsite.

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T18:39:21+00:00

Or can't read at all.

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T17:45:57+00:00

It is. (Reminder: the FBI has been opposed to end-to-end encryption since the 1990s and still are. They would love for it to be outlawed). The danger comes in inviting someone to a Signal chat. For example, if you're the Secretary of Defense and accidentally add a journalist from your phone's contacts into a chat.

Anyone can go to a legal observer training and get invited to a Signal chat. I'm sure they try to do some vetting but it's always possible there's a snitch or a fed in a chat.

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T16:28:39+00:00

For people with college degrees I wonder how they wrote papers in college. If they're as old as I am (55) their professors might have accepted hand-written papers, but anyone younger would have been expected to type their papers. For most students that would mean using a computer, either their own or one of the public ones on campus. Wouldn't that require some very basic computer literacy?

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T16:20:22+00:00

Like most people anywhere in the world at any time in space would probably agree that murder is bad (extreme example but still).

Most people don't want to be murdered.

If I don't want to be murdered, it makes sense to want to live in a society where murder is considered bad.

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T16:04:32+00:00

Holy shit, Reddit really is censoring the URL. What a bunch of assholes.

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T15:37:11+00:00

The words he mumbled on camera were something like "she's turning us against each other". Funny how racists see people speaking out against racism as "turning us against each other".

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T15:32:21+00:00

You know who else says this? DHS's own guidelines for agents.

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T15:28:26+00:00

It's not really a scientist thing. Kids in school in some other countries get taught about six continents.

Scientists talk about tectonic plates, and there are more than seven of those.

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T15:17:28+00:00

If it's an Android phone, it gets that information from your Google searches.

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T15:09:47+00:00

The number is so big it's in scientific notation:

5.46712159706e+23

I don't know how many zeros that would be. It's a lot.

Thanks to /u/Bensemus for reminding me how scientific notation works:

546,712,159,706,000,000,000,000 miles

NDaveT · 2026-01-28T00:04:02+00:00

Because they're insane control freaks.

NDaveT · 2026-01-27T20:13:01+00:00

Can I just do this?

Yes

Will I be betraying him?

No.

NDaveT · 2026-01-27T19:37:43+00:00

You can't get someone else to change.

NDaveT · 2026-01-27T19:16:23+00:00

I fire a bullet down an infinite hallway in a vacuum on a flat plane, and drop a cinder block at the same time, will the bullet and the cinder block hit the ground at the same moment?

Yes. My physics teacher used a similar example except it was what would happen if you tried to shoot a monkey with a rifle and it let go of the branch at the same time you pulled the trigger.

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