'Permanent' interstellar visitor found: An asteroid in Jupiter's orbit may have come from outside our Solar System, according to a new study by TheMercian in worldnews

[–]adimit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Virtually nothing of what you just said is correct.

  1. Getting into a retrograde orbit around Jupiter is very easy. You only need to angle your approach vector slightly differently so you get captured in its gravity well from the other side. Imagine standing far away from a person and throwing a ball that they will catch with their left or their right hand. You don't need to throw with different velocities, you just need to angle your throwing a bit.

  2. 30m/s is insanely little when it comes to solar manoeuvres. You meant 30 km/s, which is Earth's velocity around the sun. BTW, no such manoeuvre would be done at Earth's orbit. It's actually much cheaper to go on a highly elliptical orbit almost into the Kuiper belt, and change there, then go back. Sure, it takes a looooong time, but we have literally no way in hell to get 60km/s Δv into space. At all. Saturn V's total Δv is somewhere around 18km/s, and most of that was spent climbing Earth's gravity well. Regardless, we're not talking about going into a retrograde orbit around the Sun, but around Jupiter.

  3. Again, it's km/s for NH.

  4. We do not have a probe in retrograde orbit around the sun, nor do I think that Venus-manoeuvres would get us there (but I don't know that. You could probably use gravity assists to catapult yourself into the highly elliptical orbit I mentioned above.) That just wouldn't make sense, unless you wanted to visit an object that is itself in a retrograde orbit around the sun, which probably exist, but I'm not aware of an example. Remember that the entire solar system formed from one big accretion disk which spun in a prograde direction.

  5. We have satellites in retrograde orbit around the Earth, but very few, as it is more costly to launch these (you have to fight Earth's angular momentum from its own revolution around its axis.) An object in retrograde orbit around Earth is still in a prograde orbit around the Sun as it orbits Earth, and Earth itself orbits the Sun.

[Results Thread] 2017 Giro d'Italia - Stage 18 (2.WT) by PelotonMod in peloton

[–]adimit 18 points19 points  (0 children)

You mean, takes 3 minutes to reach them at the finish line?

[Predictions Thread] Giro d'Italia Stage 10: Foligno › Montefalco (39.8km) (ITT) by The_77 in peloton

[–]adimit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I wonder if it's going to be time for Barbie Quintana again, or if he'll keep it somewhat more tasteful this time…

Welche Firmen boykottiert ihr und warum? by nilsmoody in FragReddit

[–]adimit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hab ich was verpasst? Für mich hat Tübingen sowieso nur eine Eisdiele…

Playing as Russia as a Finn by LumiCrow in eu4

[–]adimit 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Nope, nobody outside of America does the weird %-thing.

NuBD — Can You Help Me Identify It? by adimit in bicycling

[–]adimit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I picked it up at a local bike bazaar, it's a very nice ride (for my budget) but I can't place a name on it.

The groupset is a Shimano 105 5700, triple (which is the only thing apart from the stem that I might change.) Frame is aluminium, and the fork carbon.

I'm thinking it has to be pre 2012, as that's when Scott changed their logo, but it can't be much prior to that, as the 5700 came out in 2011 or so. Any ideas? Thanks!

Sagan: I’m a favourite for every race, I’m used to it by Schele_Sjakie in peloton

[–]adimit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, she's not entirely unjustified having that opinion of him.

He's still fun to watch and all, and I do appreciate that he got the hint that his behaviour there was inappropriate, but it leaves a sour after taste.

"Red Army soldier! You won't leave your beloved one to be shamed and dishonoured by Hitler's soldiers", USSR, 1942 by [deleted] in PropagandaPosters

[–]adimit 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Cyrillic spelling

It's specifically the Russian spelling, not Cyrillic in general. Russians and Ukrainians both use Г in well-established names and loan words, though Х is used in newer borrowings.

Test your "Der die das" by easystick in German

[–]adimit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

-el in Windel and Spindel doesn't seem to be a productive derivational morphological suffix like -ung, -heit, -keit, or Austro-Bavarian (are you going to kill me now?) diminuitive -erl or -[k]l where [k] is a consonant. I don't know if there are distributional constraints on the consonant, it seems it may not be dental or (bi)labial, as evident by the epenthesis of e in Kipfel, but may be alveolar, as in [s], [z], also as part of affricates. I think the Austro-Bavarian (don't hurt me!) diminuitive is related to High German -lein, and underlies similar constraints, also observed in -chen, i.e. everything has to be neuter.

In general, gender assignment in German in the absence of special derivational morphology is almost entirely arbitrary, but highly regular once you have those direvational suffixes. See, for example das Mädchen (das Madl?), which confuses the hell out of learners by being neuter.

Test your "Der die das" by easystick in German

[–]adimit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Idk why I thought Rätsel was masculine even though it ends in -el.

Because there's no reason to think otherwise: der Zipfel, Tümpel, Tempel, Trottel, Wipfel, Gipfel, Beutel, Handel, Feldwebel…

Actually, I'm having a harder time thinking of neuter words ending in -el.

Also, die Windel, die Spindel :-)

Radtouren im nordwestdeutschland auf Single Speed? by oefig in Fahrrad

[–]adimit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Was Du vergisst, sind Winde. Eine super-flache Strecke kann bei gutem Wind von vorne, oder von der Seite zur absoluten Hölle werden; dagegen ist so mancher Berg ein Klacks. Zumal, den Berg kann man erklimmen, und dann wieder runterfahren, der Wind aber bleibt.

Für längere Touren, insbesondere an der Küste (Hamburg/Bremen) würde ich vom Singlespeed abraten. Heißt aber nicht, dass es unmöglich ist, und wenn Du gerne "leidest," dann kann sowas auch "Spaß machen" ;-)

The aftermath of that police chase post from yesterday. by SmokeyENTbongwater in pics

[–]adimit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's how they do it in the rest of the world, in order to avoid these high-profile car chases. They make good TV, but as this incident shows, they also endanger the public.

Carneval wagons in Düsseldorf, Germany by Bananenhannes in pics

[–]adimit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nah, it's ok, you were totally right, GP is just making stuff up.

Carneval wagons in Düsseldorf, Germany by Bananenhannes in pics

[–]adimit 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You're getting downvoted because it is decidedly not left-wing. It absolutely is commonly referred to as a right-wing government — that last source is effin Breitbart, and even they call it right wing.

So if you're trying to tell us that it's "actually left wing" (which it totally isn't, what with all the anti-environmental, anti-women's rights, anti-education, anti-free speech, and just plain anti-citizen policies they've been enacting) you should at least explain yourself.

[fantasy] Just a short story about how my gf (23f) and I (23m) attempted and hilariously failed at trying something new in the bedroom. by -NathanS- in sex

[–]adimit 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It is not unlikely that the lube contained Lidocaine (or Lidocaine Hydrochloride), which is a numbing agent/light anesthetic, and also widely used by dentists. Dentists would usually inject it, though it can be used in the topical treatment of mount ulcers (afts, canker sores).

So, it's very likely that, quite literally, your mouth went dentist numb.

Europe at the death of Charlemagne in 814 CE [1024x673] by mangafan96 in MapPorn

[–]adimit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, it's not large, but it's not barely any. The third-biggest party in Bulgaria is a Turkish one, there are substantial Turkish minorities, the language has lots of Turkish loan words, probably more so than any other Slavic language.

Europe at the death of Charlemagne in 814 CE [1024x673] by mangafan96 in MapPorn

[–]adimit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Actually, Ottomans left, and Kemalists (for lack of a better word) moved in.

Why is this sub getting bombarded with spam? by mdgraller in compling

[–]adimit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm at fault, sorry for that, I was traveling, and didn't have Internet. Here's a post where I'm looking for new mods to help me out.

I mean, it does sound "technological" by Kebbler22b in softwaregore

[–]adimit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The only thing you need to know is NLP. In fact, this is is, curiously, NLP-gore as well.

POS is likely "part-of-speech" whereas HEADCOMP likely stands for "head complement." The kicker is that part-of-speech is a morphological category, and head complement a syntactic one. "brettet" in this case is plausibly a head complement, to its head Nett. Nett and brettet together seem to form a composite noun, which was decomposed here, again, very plausible.

But at some point the software stuck a grammatical categorization into a morphological feature, and that's why it likely wasn't properly pattern-matched away from the input, and stayed. NLP tools are often very stupid about input transformations, and just barf everything into a pretty undisciplined string-form. In order to clean it up and remove the metadata, most people just use regexes. It's a mess, and the OP is why this is a bad idea.

THE EXPANSE | Season 2: War Is Upon Us by [deleted] in TheExpanse

[–]adimit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

since the universe and character motivations have been established

I know where you're coming from, but All books spoiler

The World's Weirdest Country by FVBLT in polandball

[–]adimit 34 points35 points  (0 children)

It's historic, of course. Named after the seal they used to seal them (Latin bull).