238.3% of polled Lemmy users do not remember the news cycle nightmare of Rachel's nipples and that most of us were too busy checking out her hairstyle.
The most requested Vertical Tabs will make an appearance in the upcoming Firefox. The feature can now be turned on in Nightly itself without the need to rely on third-party extensions or separate Nightly builds.
Gimme big tabs that look like buttons on a child's ipad app. I also want the tab matrix enabled and always visible on mobile. Finally, they must make various squeaking/honking/chirping noises when I select them and animal noises when left inactive for too long.
That is an adorable name and I wish all of you the comfort you need and Navi the health she deserves. As painful as it can be for you, being with Navi makes it less painful for her. I cuddled my dog extra tight last night thinking about Navi.
Alejandro Otero, owner of the Naples, Florida, home struck by the debris, was not home when part of a battery pack from the International Space Station crashed through his home on March 8. His son Daniel, 19, was home but escaped injury. NASA has confirmed the 1.6-pound object, made of the metal alloy Inconel, was part of a...
I'm in no way saying that your explanation is wrong, but I wanted to give a more bit-by-bit description so that anyone reading your comment doesn't speculate or misconstrue how an ejected battery went from "orbit" to "uncontrolled descent":
Everything we've put into that level of orbit is falling, it is just falling so slowly that it keeps missing the earth and only requires tiny bursts of energy to momentarily ascend away from earth. The battery didn't get that burst of energy so it continued to descend around the earth until the pull of gravity was great enough in comparison to its forward motion that it appeared to go from a spiral to a more dramatic arc.
Once within the atmosphere, friction from the air slowed its forward motion while gravity continued accelerating it in a direction that everyone would agree is "downward."
Let me first state that I'm in no way an expert nor do I know much about the specifics of what you asked. Going in with this understanding, let's do some overgeneralizing and sciencey handwaving:
Those are fantastic questions that get into really interesting concepts which I'm now going to title Types of Floating. Lemme clarify something: when I said "this level of orbit," I was referring specifically to the ISS.
The ISS and many other satellites are in what is called "Low Earth Orbit," with "low" being a relative term. If you stretched a rope around the Earth’s equator you’d have a rope that’s a little less than half of the average distance to the ISS. The orbit level of things is defined by the ranges of distance they travel around the earth, but by definition, they must go around the earth (if their orbit is defined to exist around the earth. You can orbit other celestial bodies too). So, imagine the lower earth orbits as something we lobbed hard enough into space that it'll gradually reach the peak of its height before coming back down over the course of days to years. If you want that thing to stay in space longer, then you need to give it a boost every so often by ejecting some sort of matter. For example, if you were yeeted into Low Earth Orbit and while up there said "fuck my shoes" and kicked them off your feet, you'd change how long you were gonna stay in space! If you throw your shoes forward, you'll slow yourself down and return sooner and if you threw them backwards, you'd stay longer! You wouldn't cause that much of a time difference, but there it would be nonetheless.
So, if you can leave the earth at such a speed that you'll return, could you enter space at a speed fast enough to never return? Absolutely! At a certain speed, future generations could use you as a landmark (spacemark?) on a trip out to the moon like a dead body on Space Everest. If you had been traveling any faster than that, then you could potentially fly an infinite distance away from the earth or possibly crash into the moon and have a crater named after your splattered body.
Now for the final part of your question: equating orbit to a balloon. If you're referring to an air-filled balloon that slowly falls to the ground, but gently tapping it from below makes it float around a little longer, then no. If you're talking about a helium-filled balloon that floats away until the helium escapes and it falls back to earth, then also no, but a different no. Both of these examples deal with density, but let's start with the air-filled balloon.
The reason that a gentle push on the air-filled balloon is different is because orbit is determined by an object's speed at which it circles the earth. If you want the ISS to go "higher," you give it a push forward and it goes faster and thus expands its orbit. If you want it to go "lower," then you push it backwards and by slowing down, its orbit gets closer to the earth. With the air-filled balloon, you can only keep it in the air longer by pushing up; if you blow air behind the balloon to make it move forward faster, it'll land further away but in the same amount of time.
The reason air-filled balloons fall slowly though is because they weigh only slightly more than nothing and air weighs exactly the same amount as air. This means that the mass of the balloon exists over a larger area and has a reduced density compared to a deflated balloon. In fact, I'm sure someone with more patience than I have could calculate how much air you'd have to put into a human so that they'd gently fall like a dead, morbid balloon.
As for the helium-filled balloon, helium is so much less dense than air that there exists an amount of it which can offset the rubber membrane of a balloon. (Total side-note: the lower density of helium is what gives you a high-pitch voice when you talk on helium. I take a medication called ozempic which slows down my digestion—this means that when I eat something too greasy or have too much meat, my stomach acid will break down the meat to a point that I generate a considerable amount of hydrogen sulfide. This makes my burps smell of sulfur when that happens, but as the hydrogen evacuates the air from my larynx, my burp becomes higher and higher pitched like I'm on helium.) This significantly-reduced density for the balloon means that the balloon can float on the air like you can float in a pool. As a cool experiment, you can try inhaling and exhaling while you're in a pool to note how much more you float when your lungs are filled with air. Just be careful not to breathe in water.
Anyway, you can see how in neither scenario does accelerating the balloon forward cause it to go higher.
Now, you might be wondering: when you're so far away from the earth that it's rotating at a different speed from you, how could you tell which direction is forward if you were floating in space? You could use the parallax of celestial bodies to figure out your vector, but I have no clue whatsoever how to do that. And that, the vast relative distances and speeds of objects in space is what scares the shit out of me whenever I imagine floating in space. That's why I advocate for taking care of our pale blue dot floating through space: the nightmarish possibilities of leaving earth at any amount of wrong speed or timing could lead to becoming an unknown speck floating in an unknown region of neverending space. I'm not looking to Mars for salvation with that image in my brain.
This'll end up just like the Microsoft/Netscape Navigator antitrust suit where Microsoft got broken up and sued out of existence for trying to suffocate Netscape Navigator by denying it access to the Windows Operating System. Netscape, originally the underdog, super-won and turned into Mozilla which is now a multi-trillion dollar company that provides a shining beacon of consumer rights done right.
Oh wait, I just remembered: Netscape died and barely anything changed—only the public ever really loses. Billionaires paying thousands of dollars in fines to fight for their turn to shit on their customers.
Yes, Netscape really shot themselves in the foot with their premium browser and then shit in the wound with Communicator. All that Microsoft contributed was forcing people not to work with the septic poo-footed browser, but getting caught up in that kind of detail would have made people stop reading my comment. Gotta farm every sweet little upvote I can get so that my family will finally be proud of me when they print my karma in my obituary.
What if charging your phone took less time than brushing your teeth? A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could very well hold the key to a next-gen charger capable of recharging your phone in just 60 seconds....
Consider that the energy output of a 12-gauge shotgun is approximately 4500 Newton-meters and, from personal experience, can rotate a first-gen iPad at an extrapolated 240 rpm (extrapolated as this proved difficult to sustain). That gives us an equivalent of 113 kW! A modern ipad would only need about 13 kW to charge in one second.
So, one shotgun shell could easily charge yours and 7 of your friends ipads instantaneously, although the results are difficult to appreciate.
As a born and raised Texan, I find zero flaws in your logic. Then again, if all of you non-Texan foreigners would just obey our laws and ideals, about 60% of Texas would return to the ocean. Glub glub y'all
I was thinking about exactly this earlier today: progressives are progressive because they take their direction from studies, experts, and observations. Conservatives are regressive because they invent studies, buy experts, and only observe anything that serves their confirmation bias.
No, you're thinking of Kristen Bell who is the "let it go" lady. Streisand is the one who famously lost out on Worst Actress to Kristen Stewart for her role in The Guilt Trip, in which she played the unbelievably original role of "obnoxious Jewish mother."
She also released at least one musical album back in the 1900s and appeared in a few movies.
One such movie included Streisand portraying the daughter of a disappointed rabbi who also questions her father's ability to hear her.
Also, considering that they need access to freeze things inside of you quickly enough, such as your brain, I think most subjects would prefer that they were dead first.
I paid to watch it! Hey, wait a second... Do you think Mr. XTalk could be just trying to take our money while building a disinformation platform of unchecked greed?
If someone can go outside wearing nothing but a buttplug, then there is some president.
President is the person who runs the organization or country. Precedent is the thing where an action is preceded by a similar recognized action.
But I really like the idea that someone goes out on a brisk day with their asshole whistling in the breeze because it's held open with a ring. Then, out of nowhere, the leader of the country gets mixed up in the whole mess.
I can identify with that entire statement except for the last sentence. Hell, I'll accept "cuz it's Tuesday" as a valid reason for piracy.
My generation paid a lot for the type of shit that many of y'all take for granted and I think that's fucking fantastic. In fact, let's face it: my generation paid more than enough. Y'all should be stealing everything isn't already given for free by the corporations. If the BaCk iN my DaY squawkers wanna keep paying the poor innocent execs, then fine.
For everyone else, if it ain't nailed down or owned, take it. And if someone hoarded more than they could use in 10 lifetimes, eat them and then take everything. We should never forget what's been taken from us and it's pretty much your duty now to take it all back.
This isn't thievery, this is the fucking bill coming due.
If you haven't listened the How Did This Get Made episode about Morbius, you owe it to yourself to do that immediately.
They get into some stories about Jared Leto's antics on set and trying to do improv and it sounds more like an Ambien-induced dialogue than a description of actual human behavior.
Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top military and political figures, Ukraine’s state security service said Tuesday....
"...to learn how to love, and forget how to hate" ( lemmy.world )
Man impersonates cop only to pull over a real detective and get arrested ( local12.com )
Vertical Tabs can now be enabled in Firefox Nightly and are movable to the right side ( windowsreport.com )
The most requested Vertical Tabs will make an appearance in the upcoming Firefox. The feature can now be turned on in Nightly itself without the need to rely on third-party extensions or separate Nightly builds.
Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died ( www.theverge.com )
How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds"
When I was a kid, I learned about Dinosaur being "giant lizard", and it's been may-be 10 years, that I hear "Birds are dinosaurs"....
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She is very ill, and might not make it through the night, so I thought a picture of her on a happy day would cheer me up, and perhaps others.
Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined ( variety.com )
Family whose roof was damaged by space debris files claims against NASA ( arstechnica.com )
Alejandro Otero, owner of the Naples, Florida, home struck by the debris, was not home when part of a battery pack from the International Space Station crashed through his home on March 8. His son Daniel, 19, was home but escaped injury. NASA has confirmed the 1.6-pound object, made of the metal alloy Inconel, was part of a...
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Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over OpenAI partnership ( www.cnbc.com )
New breakthrough may let us charge smartphones in 60 seconds ( bgr.com )
What if charging your phone took less time than brushing your teeth? A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could very well hold the key to a next-gen charger capable of recharging your phone in just 60 seconds....
Texas GOP platform calls for ban on same-sex parenting because being gay is "abnormal" ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
Yes, this article is from 2024
IGN immediately lays off every non-UK person at their newly bought sites, including some key members like deputy editor Alice Bell ( aftermath.site )
Welp, this didn't take long....
Australia’s richest woman seeks removal of her portrait from exhibition ( www.cnn.com )
After Buying Up Studios, Xbox Says It Doesn't Have The Resources To Run Them ( kotaku.com )
This company sells jeans designed to make it look like you wet yourself ( www.cnet.com )
Why tho 😭
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Godzilla Minus One becomes the most pirated movie in the world - Dexerto ( www.dexerto.com )
Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause ( arstechnica.com )
As if the Prime Video app couldn't get any worse.
Helldivers 2 Community Manager Seemingly Gone After PlayStation Login Meltdown ( kotaku.com )
Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy ( lemmy.world )
6 servers were decomissioned, Iwas able to only get the disks, RAM, CPUs and Network Card....
Ukraine says it foiled a Russian spy agency plot to assassinate President Zelenskyy ( apnews.com )
Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top military and political figures, Ukraine’s state security service said Tuesday....
Vespucci would be so pleased ( lemmy.world )
No jail time for Hamilton police officer who sexually assaulted woman he was mentoring, judge rules ( www.cbc.ca )
A former Hamilton police officer will not go to jail for sexually assaulting the woman he was mentoring as she pursued her own career in policing....