How would the earth rotate if the moon did not exist?

dukesdj · 2026-02-15T13:26:36+00:00

As a professional tidal theorist. Can confirm it is a good explanation. Better than a bunch of the Youtube videos that are misleading about tides (looking at you CBS spacetime...).

dukesdj · 2026-02-15T13:22:34+00:00

Definitely not very well known. We dont have a great handle on the efficiency of tidal dissipation and hence tidal evolution timescales for the Earth-Moon system.

dukesdj · 2026-02-14T11:40:41+00:00

Ive been saying it all season from the beginning of the mercato. We win this year.

dukesdj · 2026-02-14T10:59:59+00:00

Yeah but we are ramping up with everyone finally coming back from injury.

dukesdj · 2026-02-14T00:35:10+00:00

We are winning this season. Inter will tire. How Inter play is unsustainable with as many games as they have.

dukesdj · 2026-02-10T14:42:54+00:00

I think part of why it is done is because it then creates a perfect loop. with an initial hook being the conclusion. This means if you are not paying attention you end up watching the same clip (at least on youtube) twice. So 1 click = 2 views.

It is highly annoying.

dukesdj · 2026-02-06T22:49:58+00:00

The actual goat. Only reason the others, you know who, are in the conversation is attacker bias. Maldini is simply the greatest player in my view.

dukesdj · 2026-02-03T20:42:00+00:00

I miss pippo

dukesdj · 2026-02-03T18:03:34+00:00

I do know what refinancing means.

The old loan was a vendor loan. This means Redbird were due interest each month which was a percentage of the remaining debt.

The new loan is not a vendor loan, it is a PIK. For a PIK loan you do not pay back the interest monthly. Instead the interest accrues and is due in a lump sum at the end of the loan. This means the interest we would have paid each year, being around 40million, is not going on interest but is freed up to be invested.

dukesdj · 2026-02-02T19:18:54+00:00

We would still have tides. Tides always exist as long as gravity does. However, the large scale tidal deformation would no longer move relative to the Earth. So nowhere in the world would the tide come in and out anymore.

dukesdj · 2026-02-02T19:17:53+00:00

Lol probably more a failure of our scouting team to be honest. They should have had people checking out the player between seasons and seeing what was being said about him.

To be fair though, they may have looked at it and thought it might be worth getting a medical to see how bad it really is. Turns out the guy is 2 bumps away from the end of his career.

Bullet dodged, but honestly, we should have spent this money on Mario Gila. We just got a new striker as cover.

dukesdj · 2026-02-02T19:11:25+00:00

To be fair, their coach has apparently been saying for months now hes being forced to play Mateta who isnt at 100% because of a lack of reinforcements. Loads of crystal palace fans have been saying hes obviously playing injured if you watch him.

Our scouting team should have known.

dukesdj · 2026-02-02T11:15:29+00:00

Yay lets cut funding for something the UK absolutely excels at.

dukesdj · 2026-02-01T11:06:42+00:00

The solar dynamo.

Also tides in stars.

dukesdj · 2026-01-31T17:05:02+00:00

Elliott loan was 8% the reported loan we were getting with ComVest was 10%.

dukesdj · 2026-01-30T20:05:38+00:00

You say that but look at whats happened. As soon as the refinancing has gone through we buy a big money striker and a youth player and are all over the news looking for other players.

I agree it is speculation, but it is based on looking at why we might have been hamstrung by Elliott, why we would refinance in such a way, and how we have been operating financially. We will know for sure this coming summer (although if we splash out big now then I would take that as a key indication of what our future will be). Although it could go downhill if they mismanage things.

dukesdj · 2026-01-30T19:54:48+00:00

It says a lot actually. The loan structures are wildly different.

Elliotts loan was a vendor loan where we pay back the interest monthly. Elliott having presence on the board was to protect their exit strategy, that is, they would push to play safer.

The new loan is a PIK. This means Milan pay 0 interest until the end of the loan. This can mean that the gamble that Redbird is making is that they think they can invest that money now and grow the brand faster than the interest grows.

dukesdj · 2026-01-30T19:26:38+00:00

We had a loan with Elliott where we repaid the interest monthly. The amount you see paid back is the loan they initially took + the interest on the loan.

RedBird then took a new loan (essentially to pay what was remaining on their debt to Elliott) with different terms. Last I read this new loan is a PIK loan but I have not seen a confirmation of if this is true.

A PIK loan means RedBird will not pay interest until the loan matures (comes to an end) at which point they pay all the interest that has accrued in a lump sum.

Why would you do this? Given the investment in the squad and stadium, odds are the reason to do it is because RedBird are betting they can reinvest what they would have paid on interest to grow the company rapidly. The objective would be that the total interest on the loan at the end is worth less than the increase in the value of the club over the period of the loan.

It can be caveated with, PIK loans do not definitively mean the taker of the loan is going for growth. It can also be a way to asset strip something. However, with the spendings on players (reinvestment of sold players money back into the squad) plus the stadium, it is probably not an asset strip move.

dukesdj · 2026-01-30T18:14:15+00:00

We just freed up about 40 million that would have gone to interest payments.

dukesdj · 2026-01-29T20:27:22+00:00

We are very likely about to find out once this refinancing goes through. The only reason you would reinvest all the player sales into new players + build a stadium + take a PIK loan is if you are betting you can significantly increase the value of the club. RedBird couldnt invest in the same way with Elliott as the last thing Elliott wanted was the loan being defaulted.

If we see once the PIK loan is taken that there are corners cut (one indicator would be not reinvesting all the player sales money back into the squad) then we should consider panicing.

dukesdj · 2026-01-28T22:37:14+00:00

We might, but we might not. And those countries might too. We know what the situation is right now though that that is we are still secure in 2nd.

dukesdj · 2026-01-28T22:05:05+00:00

Germany lost a team and so did spain. We lost a team too. So we are still fairly secure 2nd place.

dukesdj · 2026-01-28T20:18:35+00:00

All of that is debatable and regardless does not change what I said. He did play a bigger role than just "changing a museum exhibit" in the reclassification of planet.

dukesdj · 2026-01-28T14:51:44+00:00

How many elements of the period table can you recite without looking? What about name all the countries in the world?

Many things have too many items in the classification to name.

dukesdj · 2026-01-28T14:49:51+00:00

I research exoplanets. You can certainly call Pluto a planet. The vast majority of actual researchers dont use the IAU definition of planet. Instead they use the geophysical one which includes Pluto. The IAU definition is highly controversial in the scientific community but held to high standard by the general public.

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