The kinetic energy of an object is equal to the energy that was required to accelerate it.
LostXOR
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They work out to the same total amount of energy.
About 132 kcal, if your calorie to chicken heat transfer is 100% efficient.
Well, given a sphere of air stretching out to Neptune would only be around 6.5x its Schwarzschild radius in diameter, I imagine it would very quickly collapse into a black hole. There definitely won't be enough time to fly airships around or hear the sound from the Sun before the planets are shredded by the air (which is moving at roughly Mach 80 in the case of Earth), even if they didn't fall into the new black hole.
Made me think of Ernest, the developer of kbin. He had some medical problems going on and hasn't been seen in quite some time. Hopefully he's doing alright.
It's all a giant conspiracy!!!
I feel personally responsible for this post.
Seems like a reasonable donation prompt; it's infrequent, unobtrusive, and can be easily dismissed and disabled. Some people are so sensitive to the idea of any sort of soliciting that they forget projects do need money to function.
Yeah I switched to PAYG to lessen the chance of that happening. So far I've managed to not accidentally spend $5000 in some dumb way, so it's basically equivalent to the free tier.
Yep, it's all backed up locally. I figure eventually they'll shut it down as they're losing a fair bit of money.
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Really good book, one of my favorites.