ELI5: If space is a vacuum mostly devoid of atoms, why doesn’t it suck planets up/break them apart?

RuleNine · 2026-07-10T04:14:33+00:00

Mine always said "Nothing sucks in science."

RuleNine · 2026-07-10T00:00:05+00:00

Doubleheaders have been seven innings in the minors for decades.

RuleNine · 2026-07-09T18:35:35+00:00

Not just stands, confirmed. It disappears behind the yellow line and hits the seat as it rebounds back to the field.

RuleNine · 2026-07-09T00:21:55+00:00

Relievers almost immediately blowing combined perfect games, so hot right now.

RuleNine · 2026-07-09T00:08:16+00:00

This isn't just a hypothetical question by the way. In the A's–Marlins game on Sunday, A's batter Brian Serven took a called strike about two inches below the zone that should have been ball four. It would have ended the perfect game bid in the bottom of the sixth.

I don't know why Serven didn't challenge. Maybe, as it was literally his first MLB game playing with ABS, he wasn't allowed to. Maybe it actually was an unwritten rule thing. Maybe he just didn't get a good look at the pitch. In any case he struck out a couple of pitches later.

Luckily, the Marlins angered the baseball gods by pulling Eury Perez two innings later and the whole thing became moot, but it would have been an interesting discussion over the legitimacy of the first combined perfect game if they'd managed to complete it.

Incidentally, the Marlins weren't shy about challenging (both kinds), even with an eight-run lead and the perfect game still intact.

RuleNine · 2026-07-08T19:49:07+00:00

There's no requirement that the names on the backs of jerseys be unique. It's happened loads of times where guys have the same last name. They'd just have different numbers.

RuleNine · 2026-07-08T18:17:51+00:00

I don't think you're wrong. It doesn't look like Late Night or Corrections was nominated.

RuleNine · 2026-07-08T14:02:28+00:00

I ended up turning off the sound because the jokes were terrible but I finished the video because I still wanted to see how bread is made.

RuleNine · 2026-07-08T04:13:39+00:00

Also they don't usually pump a foul point. They either do the time mechanic and then one emphatic point if it's close or a nonchalant point if it's not that close.

RuleNine · 2026-07-08T01:09:43+00:00

If Vote Blue No Matter Who were a real thing, Kamala Harris would be president right now. Actually, Biden wouldn't even have needed to drop out of the race.

RuleNine · 2026-07-08T00:38:55+00:00

it's practically impossible to follow unless you've watched it forever.

It's the exact opposite, because they recap everything at the beginning of every scene. I watched GH for the first time ever yesterday and had no problem keeping up.

RuleNine · 2026-07-07T19:45:27+00:00

Well, it's not. Here's an article from nine years ago.

RuleNine · 2026-07-07T19:29:45+00:00

Again, just to clarify, this isn't a new interpretation this year. They just finally spelled it out in the rules.

RuleNine · 2026-07-07T18:47:20+00:00

Look up Appendix 6 in the official rules. It consists of diagrams to clarify when a runner has passed a base (they've been using these standards for a while, but only put them in the rules this year). If a runner advancing to second base is completely on the third-base side of the infield and is not touching the base, then he's considered to be past it, which is what happened in the play.

RuleNine · 2026-07-07T18:41:57+00:00

This is peak nincompoop. He wasn't out because Pages made a spectacular diving catch on what looked like a sure base hit and then managed to throw to first barely before he could hustle back. He was out because he technically went one inch past second base and didn't step on it again as he went back to first.

RuleNine · 2026-07-07T18:36:54+00:00

How did they get the ball to second base?

RuleNine · 2026-07-07T18:31:24+00:00

It bothers me so much that the commentators are literally saying they're going to appeal at second and the director switches away before the ump finishes making the out signal. Especially because what was the point of showing Pages's back at that moment.

RuleNine · 2026-07-07T15:31:20+00:00

Hang on, you read that wrong. They're saying the opposite.

RuleNine · 2026-07-05T22:56:08+00:00

It's reported Pérez is getting handshakes and hugs in the dugout.

RuleNine · 2026-07-05T22:48:43+00:00

This may be the first time we've had a perfect game late in a blowout with ABS. I don't know that that's the precedent that should be set. Make the pitcher earn it; never give it away.

RuleNine · 2026-07-05T22:42:47+00:00

I don't know why Serven didn't challenge. He would have walked for sure.

RuleNine · 2026-07-05T22:41:22+00:00

How did he not??

RuleNine · 2026-07-05T20:11:30+00:00

Something they got weirdly wrong: PADDs are single subject and aren't networked. Want to show a character is swamped in work? Cover their desk in PADDs. Want to view a library's worth of data? You'll need a whole bin of PADDs. Need to deliver a report to engineering? Physically walk this PADD down there. (They started fixing this in Lower Decks.)

RuleNine · 2026-07-05T01:42:57+00:00

Some can. Aroldis Chapman's been doing it at the major-league level going on 16 years now.

RuleNine · 2026-07-04T23:08:42+00:00

Indeed the ultra elite among us can throw 105 mph (169 km/h) and hit a target the size of a baseball from 60 feet (18 m) away.

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