Olgratin_Magmatoe, olgratin_magmatoe@slrpnk.net

Kurzgesagt made a good background video on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxq60I5RSW8

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=zxq60I5RSW8

So yeah, I can’t wait for the US to do absolutely fucking nothing useful about this.

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I’m in nearly the same boat. Though they said it an even dumber way:

“Being in the office, collaborating, and not being in an individual silo is an essential job function.”

Motherfucker my whole job is to write code. It doesn’t matter where I do it and I have MS teams for when I do need to talk to people. They had me working from home for months.

HR has practically been begging me to sue them over this shit. I put in a ADA reasonable accommodation request to WFH, and they’ve just stopped responding at this point. It’s been 3 weeks.

Plenty of other spots to slap a sticker. No need to use your car.

Doing a bumper sticker bandit style thing by putting “trans girls are hot” over the top of Trump stickers would be far less damaging to your car.

I wasn’t familiar so I looked it up. I absolutely love the visuals of X4, I might give it a go some day

EVE online

I loved the lore, the feel of danger in low/nullsec. But I just don’t have time for a second job.

You definitely wouldn’t want to do this all the way to geosynchronous orbit. Just getting it to the edge of space is already ridiculous to the point where it has me questioning how much pressure and heat the stone at the bottom would reach, and therefore how stable it would be.

And for a super earth, getting out of the soupy atmosphere is a challenge in of itself, so getting rid of that challenge would already be an incredible head start. From there you’d just need engines powerful enough to get you up to speed before hitting the ground.

Like one thing is how tall can you get before the base encircles the planet (where trying to add more layers just makes the planet bigger and requires bringing in outside material, which means your geosync orbit gets farther).

Gut vibe tells me that probably wouldn’t be a problem, as the atmosphere on any given planet, even a super earth, is only about as thin as the skin of an apple relatively speaking. And that’s all you’d need to beat here.

Could a large enough pyramid give the planet a wobble?

Absolutely. Though again gut vibe tells me it would probably only be a wobble of a few millimeters, nowhere near enough for anybody to feel it.

Assuming you had a perfectly strong material that could handle it, is it possible to build a tower to a geosynchronous orbit or will it keep moving away as you add mass to the tower?

I think at a certain point you’d be far enough up that you could reasonably just build a space elevator on top of the pyramid out of normal-ish materials like steel. The farther up you start the less of a foot you have in the gravity well, and the less distance your steel needs to support. At that point it would maybe be worth it do build a counterweight and go to geosynchronous orbit.

Another thing to keep in mind, if some civilization was crazy enough to do this, hopefully they’d be smart enough to do it around their equator to reduce the amount of pyramid of doom they’d need to build. But that would probably also mean bulldozing lots of countries and mass migrations.

It definitely would, but I’m guessing you’d run into the issue of stability far before that.

I’m also guessing that the ratio of atmospheric extension to terrain extension would be on the side of terrain extension. Gravity is a rather weak force in comparison to the other forces of the universe.

This would be a fantastic xkcd “What if?” question if it isn’t already.

I wonder at what point it is worth building a space elevator space pyramid.

Just keep stacking rocks until you’re a few dozen miles away from the edge of space.

Ok? I’m still going to read books as .txt files anyways, because it does so.

Art

The rich listen to violence.

But it also means it’s harder to reach orbit, and the effects of microgravity would be even more damaging to health.

Nope. Raw epub to reader and it doesn’t handle it.

I’ve tried that in the past, but it doesn’t seem to care how the epub is put on it, it always displays epubs horribly

I really don’t care. I’ve tried several different ways to get it to cooperate with epubs, and at a certain point it isn’t worth it when I already have a viable solution.

It’s a kindle D01100

My reader formats epubs really terribly, the text is almost always way too small, and requires some grotesque horizontal scrolling for most books.

On the other hand .txt just works, and handles resizing just fine

I’ve been using raw text files for my books, sent locally over USB, and that’s the way it’s gonna stay until my reader craps out