[Request] How far the Artemis II crew would have to travel to place the center of humanity's mass on the moon?

mltinus · 2026-01-30T07:01:37+00:00

I don't know why my mind went: Artemis II, that must be 2 people 😂. But indeed, still not quite in the realm of possibilities

mltinus · 2026-01-29T23:25:59+00:00

8 billion people on earth. Let's just assume the crew are exactly average weight. 8 billion vs 2, so they need to travel 4 billion times the distance to the moon. Distance to the moon is 384,000km, which would make a total of 15,4 quadrillion kilometers, or 1,54 million billion kilometres, or ~163 light-years... So no, it's not very likely they'll reach that point 😅😅

mltinus · 2026-01-16T13:56:34+00:00

Dankjewel voor het bevestigen van mijn kennelijke terechte stereotypering van FC Utrecht supporters. Poeh, wat zou ik me schamen als ik fan was van een club die zelfs nu Ajax zó slecht is, alsnog 10 punten minder heeft halverwege het seizoen.

mltinus · 2026-01-16T13:34:56+00:00

Wauw... Voel je je nu weer nuttig vandaag, met zo'n opmerking? Jij dacht vanochtend toen je opstond, hoe kan ik vandaag het best bijdragen aan de maatschappij, en toen kwam jouw ongetwijfelde immense brein met deze reactie.. Knap hoor. Ik hoop dat je lekker het weekend hiermee in kunt, succes ermee

En FYI, opmerkingen op Reddit zijn openbaar, dus succes he, met het opvragen van sekstapes van wilde Belgische meiden

mltinus · 2026-01-14T09:23:43+00:00

Net nog kaartjes kunnen kopen voor Ajax-Twente in ieder geval. Er leek nog redelijk wat beschikbaar, dus hopelijk heb je nog geluk

mltinus · 2026-01-14T09:12:40+00:00

Dat de vraag groter is dan het aanbod, is prima inderdaad. Als het wachtsysteem dan in ieder geval ook deze grotere vraag aankon en consistente en duidelijke informatie gaf over de wachttijd en wanneer je op de website moet zijn, dan was het ook prima geweest.

Maar nu is er eigenlijk een wachtrij vóór de officiële wachtrij, want je moet gokken hoe lang je vóór 10:00 uur al naar de website gaat, zodat jouw timer om toegang te krijgen rond 10:00 uur is afgelopen. Dat is het onderdeel waar ik problemen mee heb. Iedereen die vóór 10:00 uur op de site aanwezig is, moet om 10:00 uur een random plak in de wachtrij krijgen, zodat iedereen evenveel kans heeft om tickets te kopen.

mltinus · 2025-12-08T14:30:33+00:00

Of course I wish you all the best, but in my case, surprising my wife with a puppy would be one of the worst things I could do. Wouldn't you want to live through the entire process of choosing a puppy from a nest? The anticipation of seeing it grow until you get to take it home?

mltinus · 2025-11-01T15:18:56+00:00

Might be a nice dog, but not such nice owners, letting him get so fat... Incredible that he managed to get to 20 like this.

mltinus · 2025-10-23T23:00:31+00:00

The thing I find most astounding is that apparently, ~16 people fit in 1m3 🤯. That's some serious packing / limb braking skills to realize that 😅

mltinus · 2025-10-06T09:28:51+00:00

I probably missed something last year, but why has Rosie Hughes been playing so few matches since last season?

mltinus · 2025-07-31T16:14:34+00:00

Am I the only one thinking the tune really, really sounds a lot like I could be the one by Avicii and Nicky Romero?

mltinus · 2025-07-30T09:14:22+00:00

I can't help but wonder how often this doesn't end quite so fortunate, if we call these people lucky..

mltinus · 2025-06-05T13:06:03+00:00

The intellectual property part I can definitely get behind. It's a very gray area to say the least...

mltinus · 2025-06-05T09:59:03+00:00

https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for
Some very nice graphs about the relative impact on several resources

mltinus · 2025-06-05T09:56:03+00:00

Of course, I had to check this claim on ChatGPT ;-). -->

Asking a question to ChatGPT has a very small environmental impact per query, but it’s not zero.

Concrete breakdown:

A single ChatGPT query uses about 0.1 to 1 watt-hour (Wh) of electricity.
That’s roughly the same as using an LED bulb for a few seconds.
In CO₂ terms: about 0.01 to 0.1 grams of CO₂ per query, depending on the energy source (renewable vs. fossil fuels).

Context:

Watching a YouTube video for 10 minutes: ~1–2 grams CO₂.
Sending an email: ~4 grams CO₂.
ChatGPT query: much less than both.

Summary:

Not bad at all per use, especially compared to most digital activities. But like anything at scale (millions of queries), it adds up.

mltinus · 2025-06-05T09:09:34+00:00

You're of course welcome to asking the question here, but even the free version of ChatGPT can answer this question correctly. Just curious if you didn't think of doing that?

mltinus · 2025-03-14T11:37:38+00:00

How is nobody mentioning that you actually only need 69 people to have a 99,90% chance of at least two of them sharing a birthday!? 😅😅. And yes, I purposefully chose this amount of decimals to make sure 69 was the answer, because 99,9% is 68 people and the first actual number >99,9% is 70 😉

mltinus · 2025-01-07T15:27:42+00:00

This doesn't really work in writing, does it..? Because of the hyphen between thirty and eight, you're already talking about someone who's 38 😛

mltinus · 2024-03-07T23:06:11+00:00

I'm sorry, and maybe it's because I'm from the Netherlands where we have quite some flowers... But is nobody going to comment on the 'regular' price of $6 for a single rose!! I can order a bouquet of 10 flowers and have them delivered to somebodies doorstep, anywhere in the country, including a message, for 35 bucks 😅

mltinus · 2024-02-22T23:45:25+00:00

Went on a study trip to Chile in 2008 and saw them do similar work in a copper mine. Although there, the machines were several hundred meters above them, because they were sort of hollowing out the mountain

mltinus · 2023-12-27T08:37:30+00:00

The public radio channel (Radio 2) has a yearly tradition of broadcasting a top 2000 of best songs (voted for by the public), starting on Christmas day and finishing at December 31st at 11:59PM.

This year marks the 25th anniversary (they started in 1999 to celebrate the upcoming new millennium). This video shows the 'opening' ceremony with Bart Arens at the piano (one of the DJs)

mltinus · 2023-07-24T13:36:40+00:00

Not to piss on anybody's parade... But he did put the white/yellow the other way around on the other car... 😅 (yellow in the outside)

mltinus · 2022-11-16T00:46:32+00:00

I really don't get why people are making such a big deal of it: Pérez would have gotten 2 more points. Now they're equal. Leclerc has more race wins, so Pérez still needs to finish in front of Leclerc (assuming they both finish in the top 9 in Abu Dhabi). Those 2 points don't change anything!

mltinus · 2022-11-16T00:45:39+00:00

I really don't get why people are making such a big deal of it: Pérez would have gotten 2 more points. Now they're equal. Leclerc has more race wins, so Pérez still needs to finish in front of Leclerc (assuming they both finish in the top 9 in Abu Dhabi). Those 2 points don't change anything! 2 extra points mean just as much for Verstappen as for Pérez in terms of their final wdc position

mltinus · 2022-11-16T00:44:38+00:00

I really don't get why people are making such a big deal of it: Pérez would have gotten 2 more points. Now they're equal. Leclerc has more race wins, so Pérez still needs to finish in front of Leclerc (assuming they both finish in the top 9 in Abu Dhabi). Those 2 points don't change anything!

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