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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • physics is a bitch.

    Voyager 1 is likely going to be the first probe of human make to pass close to another star (“Close” means a closest approach of 1.7 lightyears, roughly), Voyager one is headed towards Glease 445. That journey will take roughly 40,000 years, and it won’t have the power to slow down as would be needed. It would require considerably more fuel to make a helocentric insertion.

    Sure, it’s possible some more advanced probe is going to come along and ‘get there’ first. but whatever.

    The kind of delta-v required for that would also be incredibly obvious. the platform coming from another star would be massive, and if the goal was to stick around, there is absolutely no place in space for it to hide. which means if they come, they’re not coming quietly.

    (fun fact, the IRL counterpart to Star Trek’s warp drive is called the Alcubierre drive. It’s just theoretically possible. But, it’s not able to go FTL since it violates causality.)

    (also fun fact… it’s quite the opposite. I’ve watched far too much star trek. and star wars. and farscape. and babylon 5 and sg1 and, uhm. lots of trashy b-rated stuff we’re not going to mention.)










  • Who exactly is “people like me”?

    Stop making assumptions. Particularly when my comments directly contradict them.

    You’re reading things in my comments that aren’t there.

    And by the way, GPL-1s aren’t some sudden fix. Yes it helps with the appetite and hunger.

    But that comes with other baggage, like needing to monitor for side effects, finding the proper dosage (and keeping on it.)

    It’s certainly not a viable solution at the scale that’s currently necessary. Even so, I’m not seeing anyone here saying traditional weight loss isn’t hard- and I’m certainly not.