dream_weasel

Needs washed, but you can just heat the oil on the stove if you've seasoned the thing in the first place.

I have a pretty reasonable grasp of delta V. While my comment is flippant, you can launch Eastward from the equator any day and end up in space: deep space if you have sufficient velocity (though usually you'd do that with one or more gravity assists). The sun is the only other place you can go any day, but there's huge angular velocity to overcome to make a direct shot.

It really really is the case mathematically that if you just want to go to deep space it's not as difficult as trying to figure out how to go to a particular place, as anyone who has ever done trajectory planning with STK will tell you. More difficult from a cost and engineering perspective, sure, but mathematically easier to just shoot in a direction at escape velocity for the sun whatever day you want.

This is exactly what I thought of, except the free hot dog verse.

It's still not that simple. The guy could just claim his car was missing or his similar looking friend borrowed the car.

I threw it on the GROUND! I am not a part of this system!

I mean yeah, the sun is in one place, space is basically anywhere else. It's easier to shoot anywhere than to shoot somewhere.

Which unfortunately means every time you pull it out you can get on lemmy, if you have a new email you can read and reply to it, you can play a quick bullet game of chess... Etc etc. Phones are great, but they are also finely tuned distraction boxes.

I'm trying to wear my watch more.

I don't think they are called something else, but they aren't common in the Midwest US. Most households are using central heating and air conditioning. I've seen mini splits before in Europe, but didn't know that's what they were called

For anyone else not in the know, a mini split seems to be a standalone heating and cooling appliance.