Step one; find a friend that lives in a different time zone than you do. Ideally, one of you is on the Eastern US and the other is in the Western US, or even further (like one in Europe). Step two; if you can’t find such a friend, then find a local friend, and one of you travel to a different time zone, as above. …

It occurred to me this morning that Shaq could literally prove this himself, without a boat or an ocean; he drives across country ‘all the time.’ As someone who has also done the cross country drive a few times; Next time you take the trip, look for the Rockies. When you see the tops of the Rockies, see how far you…

Um...really? You think those are comparable? That’s a ‘false equivalency’ fallacy.
One is a purely social problem with millions of hidden variables which are really hard to account for, let alone control and test for, whereas the other is based on readily available, quantifiable measurements. Hell, the Greeks figured…

Can’t...tell if serious or sarcastic. If sarcastic, then lol! If serious, then look up an hour or so before sunrise or after sunset. Satellites, particularly their solar panels, tend to be reflective, and when the sun is just beyond the horizon, the angle is right to reflect sunlight back down well enough to see…

I saw one FE meme that showed a bunch of side-by-side images of various NASA probes’ photos of Earth, and how ‘different’ they are. “So, which is it?” was the basic idea. Um....different cameras, jackass? I’ve had half a dozen cameras in my life, and each one of them would take a different-looking image of the same…

The lucrative and powerful “globe-making industry?”

This person doesn’t realize that you can look up and literally see satellites with your naked eye at the right time of night? Fuck people like that.

That’s what I figured they did. They used to visible just beyond Neptune’s orbit originally, so I wondered if they cut the detection range way down. Seems like Advanced Discovery Scanners should detect those, though. One of these years, I really hope they let us plot custom destinations via direct coordinate entry.

You know, I found these in the pre-Horizons days, without much fuss. But I went back a month or so ago and couldn’t locate them anymore. Have they removed them? Or am I just looking in the wrong arc?

My parents are two such people. I’d love to tell you *why* they are two such people, but for the life of me I don’t understand it either. And we’ve practically stopped talking entirely since November because I keep asking them and keep challenging them to explain why they think this Muppet was a good idea, and how…

Wait....are you telling me YOU don’t live in a place like this?

Yup. Yup, he is. And **WE** are his boss. You don’t tell the boss to ‘suck it up’ when he calls you out for turning his business into a shit-show.

To be fair, yes, you’re right that this isn’t the order itself, and it doesn’t mention the order or how it’s being interpreted as a Muslim ban, seeing as how it’s over a year older than the order. But there are people who see this order as the first step towards *this* much more naked, much more troubling statement…

It’s literally in the first sentence of the press release he posted. “Donald J. Trump is calling for a complete and total shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.” It’s a release sent out by Trump’s own team during the campaign, and he’s on…

Was this a job interview and/or an employment review? I wish I’d known. I would have worn pants. Don’t let the fact that I’m working on my Bachelor’s fool you; this is my second career, not my first. I know how the corporate game works, I’m just old enough to have no patience for it when I’m not being paid to play…

The person who isn’t reading what is being written is giving lectures on communication skills. Thanks, Obama.

I can’t explain why dogs think shit tastes good. That doesn’t mean that it, in fact, *does.* What Musk *thinks* the cost will end up being is literally as irrelevant as what NASA *thought* the Space Shuttle would cost. You didn’t care when it was NASA, but now that it’s SpaceX you think you have a ‘gotcha’ on your…

I’m nearly done with my bachelor’s in physics, but you’re right, it’s not like I know how to do any of the math or anything, right? What does math even mean, really? Every idiot knows that all we needed to do was just strap a few Saturn Vs together to make a super Saturn V.

I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, but I can’t help but agree with you; they’re more interested in jacking off into a mason jar, and insisting everyone else watches and agrees with how great it is, than in actually discussing the merits and pitfalls of each different approach.

Thank you for reminding me why I *hate* forums or comments sections; reading comprehension is a dead skillset in the modern age. Making assumption after assumption says more about you than it does about me. But thanks for playing.