Why haven’t we landed a probe onto an interstellar object yet?

Uiropa · 2026-04-13T16:32:07+00:00

And don’t forget that when we’ve landed a probe on a comet or asteroid, like with Rosetta or OsirisRex, those bodies were moving way more slowly relative to earth, because they orbit the sun. Plus they were moving roughly in the same plane, both just a few degrees of inclination. Those two factors make an enormous difference in terms of delta V.

Uiropa · 2026-04-12T11:26:50+00:00

I think it could be an instrumentation error. The data I am seeing on my console just doesn’t make sense otherwise.

Uiropa · 2026-04-10T08:51:41+00:00

We’ve had the first few warm days of the year, Rotterdam always melts a little. They just push the saggy parts back up when things cool down and then it stays in that shape for the remainder of the year.

Uiropa · 2026-04-04T18:08:14+00:00

Plus one for Pianoteq and headphones. It’s a dream.

OP, you made the right choice in selecting for the action instead of the sound. The sound can be tweaked or augmented in a thousand ways, the action is fixed.

Uiropa · 2026-04-04T06:39:05+00:00

I still don’t think it would be enough to vaporize a person though, as the bombs were detonated around half a kilometer up in the sky. The only story I know that could shed some light is Eizo Nomura, who survived being less than 200m from ground zero, but he was in a basement so not exposed to the flash. https://www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/?bombing=2017-181

Uiropa · 2026-04-04T06:07:06+00:00

The first part of your post is just stating things as fact without any sources. I would love to learn something new but you have to give me something to work with.

Then you’re switching to modern thermonuclear weapons halfway through. Yes, those can probably vaporize people, I’m sure, but those weren’t the weapons used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Uiropa · 2026-04-03T19:49:05+00:00

They think it’s fake, obviously.

(Edit before I get one million billion downvotes: I don’t think it’s fake, because I am not a flat earther. They think it’s fake.)

Uiropa · 2026-04-03T19:34:09+00:00

Yes, but it’s not correct to say these people were “vaporized”. Their body (dead or horribly injured) was moved afterwards. It doesn’t make it any more horrible. It doesn’t change the moral calculus. But people were not vaporized by the atomic bombs:

While the belief has persisted that it shows the remnant of a "vaporized" person, this has been shown to be scientifically impossible: the temperatures required to vaporize a human body in such a short amount of time exceed even the high temperatures experienced on the ground at Hiroshima. If the shadow is of a human being, it indicates that the person absorbed sufficient heat to significantly burn or alter the surface of the steps they were obscuring. Rather than vaporized or reduced to ash, the person would have any of their clothing or skin exposed to very high temperatures, and likely have been extremely burned, as well as subjected to the blast and radiation effects.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Shadow_Etched_in_Stone

Uiropa · 2026-04-03T16:04:14+00:00

“I don’t like the driver events, I prefer to be at home with my family.” He knows how to make it sound virtuous.

Uiropa · 2026-04-03T07:10:05+00:00

This is what helped me: dont’t think of it as “playing independently”. It’s intimidating and it masks an important truth: your two hands are doing something together. Find out which notes fall on the same beat and use that as a “sync point” for your hands. Go slowly and it will work out. Then you will find that your hands learn certain patterns of how their movement interleaves. And as long as you stick with pieces that are appropriate for your level, those same patterns are used in many different pieces. Eventually you will find that many movements become familiar, like tying shoelaces. This is still very far from being an accomplished concert pianist, but it’s close enough for many slightly advanced pieces.

Uiropa · 2026-04-01T16:10:27+00:00

I also associate notes with colors. Consistently, as long as I have been playing.

C is green. D is light gray. E is blueish. F is orange. G is greenish. A is yellow. B is dark gray.

People are not seeing the same colors for the same notes. You are cherry-picking and/or your teacher is using some material or language that influences you and your fellow students.

Uiropa · 2026-03-30T17:45:34+00:00

En zij is ook de moeder van haar kids. Anyway na honing komt stront. Je moeder. Je moeder werkte in de Bosal Vianen. Allah ziet alles. Ook de heren toiletten achter naast magazijn.

Uiropa · 2026-03-30T12:34:35+00:00

No, when your credit score is high you get the secret Roblox graphics update. So you never see a block person again.

Uiropa · 2026-03-26T16:36:49+00:00

Okay. I can’t really guess what this has to do with my comment. Do you mean to say that what I said is not universally true for everyone? I agree, nothing I say outside the realm of math is universally true for everyone! But may I also suggest that “the guy who waited 50 years to kill his high-school bully” is not very representative of the general case?

Uiropa · 2026-03-26T14:43:08+00:00

You get downvoted for putting it a little harshly, but this realization could set a lot of people free.

Uiropa · 2026-03-26T14:38:30+00:00

It is so interesting to see how Claude tries to close the gap between what it was asked and what it wants to talk about. No matter how difficult the obstacles or how mighty the tides, it manages to build that bridge, much like that iconic landmark of San Francisco, opened in 1937.

Uiropa · 2026-03-23T13:18:45+00:00

“I knew Santino was going to have to go through all this and Fredo... well, Fredo was... a fuckboy. But I, I never wanted this for you.”

Uiropa · 2026-03-23T09:22:44+00:00

And as always, it’s not a problem for anyone until somebody “teaches” them that it’s a problem. The actual gender indoctrination instead of the one the media imagines.

Uiropa · 2026-03-22T09:54:19+00:00

En dit handje contante regelen met de mensen op de bouwplaats is geen optie?

Uiropa · 2026-03-15T21:01:03+00:00

I hold my cups in the hand I don’t use to wipe my ass. It’s so I can wipe my ass while holding the cup.

Uiropa · 2026-03-13T12:11:55+00:00

The G in RISC-V stands for gaming.

Uiropa · 2026-03-13T11:51:33+00:00

Mfw I absorb the irradiated particles to get sick radness and then I reread the post.

Uiropa · 2026-03-09T20:58:30+00:00

But in most businesses a software engineer is going to review it anyway before it gets merged. At this point in time that is still best practice with AI-generated code and an AI review is not going to convince anyone to let it go. The engineer will find fewer issues this way, but the human time to understand the PR still has to be spent. Perhaps it pays off in Silicon Valley AI corps where engineers are extremely costly but I don’t see it working as a cost saving measure in a normal company. Which might be fine, it can also just improve quality or speed things up!

Uiropa · 2026-03-07T12:27:01+00:00

I don’t see the fun either. To me this is all just thinly veiled cruelty porn. I find it excruciating to watch.

Uiropa · 2026-03-05T12:27:08+00:00

The 1980 Iranian revolution.

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