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Rented a bike and rode up the Seattle waterfront with my partner :)

It's been years since I've been on a bike. I'd forgotten how nice it is :)

depression med research (-) 

@vahnj eh I always assumed spending half my life being sad was bad for me anyway.

Philosophy of physics question:

You're watching the incoming signal from an event that's happening 60 light-minutes away.

Is the event happening:
A) Right now
B) An hour ago
?

@blackle@dev.glitch.social I saw something about a week ago about them filing for bankruptcy

orc pooptootin', pathfinder 

everyone's favorite pathfinder rule:

"Weapon Familiarity: Half-orcs are proficient with greataxes and falchions and treat any weapon with the word “orc” in its name as a martial weapon."

I pick up the sORCerer and smash the bad guy.

I wield an ORChestra like it's the downtown club.

My thrown weapon? An ORCa.

I'm human and for me one of the deepest expressions of that humanity is also being a fox and I see no contradiction there :)

Different than how a lot of people roll but it seems to work really well for me.

@starkatt I'd think more because it has like a 10bps link and wouldn't survive long enough to transmit anyway

@Doephin Ah, if it has that little bandwidth that makes sense! FSR I thought it had a pot more.

Heh, just put it together that Cassini isn't gonna take photos on the way down because high velocity + nontrivial exposure time means they'd be hella blurry.

Long exposure is necessary because light is pretty dim out at Saturn.

If you want to learn the mechanics of orbits and spaceflight in depth, go play Kerbal Space Program :)

"Cassini’s total propellant at launch was enough to alter the spacecraft’s velocity by only about 5,400 miles per hour (2,400 meters per second), half of which was gone by the time the spacecraft reached Saturn. However, a single flyby of Titan at an altitude of 620 miles (about 1,000 kilometers) gives Cassini a change in velocity of about 1,800 miles per hour (800 meters per second) — this is equivalent to one-third of Cassini’s total propellant at launch."

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Oh, hey, there it is: total delta-v of 2.4km/s. That's not much at all!

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I'm finding it surprisingly difficult to find how big Cassini's delta-v budget was, either total or reserved for maneuvering around Saturn.

@vahnj If you're naked then *what* exactly is the subpoena rattling around in.

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