IMHO The Colour of Magic, is his worst book. You are missing out, if it’s the only one you have read.
If new people ask me were to start, I always say choose either the watch or witches series. They an wonderful, the watch series has my favorite book (The Fifth Elephant), and the witches has my favorite character (Esmarelda Weatherwax).
Getting the washing off the line…time to play “is it still wet, or just cold”
Well dah…Maui is a mythical figure, and thus is not real; therefore his dolphins can’t be real either.
LOGIC people, logic!
Not from USA; but…Terry Crews would be a great leader; he is way to nice to actually run though.
Shots fired
Labour transport spokesperson Tangi Utikere said he was happy the upgrade was going ahead.
“Labour put money aside for these trains in 2023, we’re so pleased the Government didn’t cancel them like the ferries,” he said.
Came here to say this.
It is psychologically satisfying to believe DK, but ultimately just because you like the sound of it, doesn’t make it true.
This is one of my pet peeves; this is not the 1950’s; we can make speedometers accurate to within 3%…this margin would account for all the vagaries of tire pressure etc.
Our newest car; pleasantly has a very accurate speedo…
Awesome, thanks pier that.
I’ll have a good read through those.
Agreed, but it behooves me to have the information when/if asked.
Cool, cool…next do the supermarkets.
Cheers.
I’ll worry about how to package the info; so that a politician can digest it. But if it is not technically possible; I want to be able to reference some studies that back me up.
They were both dwarves.
No need, we can already do it. We just choose not to.
Taking the planet as the reference point. Complicates the situation a lot, but here we go.
If you contrast “A” and “D”. The initial velocity in “A” is 1, whereas “D” is 201. The acceleration due to gravity in “A” SEEMS LOWER (this is why external observer is way easier) on the way in and in “D” it seems higher. In “A” you are literally falling for much longer (gaining much more speed); than in “D”.
In “C” and “F” the situations are also different, I over simplified a bit too much. In “C” you would spend more energy than in “F”; since the acceleration due to gravity would seem higher, but not that much more. I should have made the exit angle 90°, to make them exactly equivalent…
The calculations are significantly more complex from the point of view of either the planet or space craft.
Thinking about trying to solve a real set of equations is a bit much; there are other concerns; like the fact that gravity drops off at 1/d2; so distance between the objects matters, the integration over distance of the equations is beyond me (I haven’t had to do that since uni, 20yrs ago). But the concepts are not too complicated; and for me at least the external observer makes it so much less complicated.
Private interests have caused our power prices to increase significantly.
We could have some of the cheapest power in the world… But we don’t.
First assume that it is a spherical cow traveling through a vacuum…
Survivor bias?
Only US citizens are dumb enough to get caught?
/s (maybe)
When you have a Samsung monitor, even windows boots faster