Don't leave home without it. yikes!

quick, send them trump
 

He'd talk them into invading Taiwan.

That actually make a lot of sense.

When I was a kid the old-timers around here used to say wind-er. That feels like they were touching the origin.

TIL that there are carbon fiber curtains for earthquake proofing buildings.
https://architizer.com/blog/inspiration/industry/kengo-kumas-innovative-carbon-fiber-curtain-makes-buildings-earthquake-proof/

What is not seen is most critical.  How are those ropes earthed?  If not structurally connected to the buildings foundation (in a manner that all move together), then those ropes could simply become whips to lash at and destroy that structure.

Critical is that the entire structure (including ropes) most together in a coordinated manner.  The most critical component of that solution (the entire foundation is coordinated) is ignored when not observed.

Those ropes appear too far from the rest of that foundation to become a coordinated solution.

Interesting new idea though.  Raises plenty of questions.
 

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monster wrote:

TIL Camels do not mate standing up

 
As a consequence they become somewhat ill tempered.
Hence the expression 'getting the hump'.

TIL : If the Earth was 50% bigger our rocket tech would be completely useless and we'd be trapped here unable to shoot assholes into space.

If the radius of our planet were larger, there could be a point at which an Earth escaping rocket could not be built. Let us assume that building a rocket at 96% propellant (4% rocket), currently the limit for just the Shuttle External Tank, is the practical limit for launch vehicle engineering. Let us also choose hydrogen-oxygen, the most energetic chemical propellant known and currently capable of use in a human rated rocket engine. By plugging these numbers into the rocket equation, we can transform the calculated escape velocity into its equivalent planetary radius. That radius would be about 9680 kilometers (Earth is 6670 km). If our planet was 50% larger in diameter, we would not be able to venture into space, at least using rockets for transport.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition30/tryanny.html
 

That would be a bit frustrating. I would assume we could build a space elevator from orbit down though, giving them a boost into the universe.

That's assuming a proportional increase in gravity to an Earth 50% bigger which ain't necessarily so.

Here's how to calculate gravity. The short version is you need to know your imaginary planet's mass and radius. If you're saying it has 50% more mass than Earth, then you still have to decide on the radius (because it could be more or less dense, resulting in different sizes.) If you're saying its radius is 50% bigger, then you have to decide on what you're pretending the mass is, for the same reasons.

If you want to assume the density is the same as Earth, then the mass and radius can't both be 50% bigger, because the mass is being distributed 3 dimensionally around an ever-larger sphere, so the radius will be increasing less and less with each "layer" of mass you add.