Technically solar panels are only ~20% efficient, but there’s also virtually unlimited sun so it doesn’t really matter.

You’d notice if it happened on/near your retina, it was very dark, and you were paying attention. Other than that I don’t think you’re going to notice.

Spaghettification is completely independent of relativistic effects; it just has to do with the gravitational gradient near a very massive body. An object near a massive body experiences more gravity on its “near end” than its “far end” which causes a stretching force. This does mean that spaghettification would be noticeable, and likely very uncomfortable as you’re ripped apart by extreme forces.

The eclipses weren’t even all that exciting. :(

Yeah I don’t really understand why people care so much. If you don’t like game studios doing stuff like this, just don’t play their games. There are plenty of games out there with great Linux support you can play instead.

That doesn’t really help unless the bag is also soundproof; it could just as easily store what you say and send it off later.

What about fishing boats? They’re coming back with a ton of extra weight in fish.

That’s basically a space elevator (though space elevators are shorter and held up by centripetal forces). Unfortunately they’re quite outside our technological capabilities at the moment.

Yeah I’ve definitely been caught off guard by the different sellers selling identical products before. Check the URL and see if the ID is the same, it probably won’t be.

Can they do that? I thought all two letter TLDs were reserved for ccTLDs only. It’ll be interesting to see how things play out.

Also make sure you have file extensions enabled in Explorer, it makes it waaay harder for something like this to work.

usually

So you’re saying there’s a chance?

Yeah, Discord is not a privacy preserving service in the slightest. Honestly I’m only using it because of the network effect at this point.

Water cooling is lame, liquid nitrogen cooling is the way to go!

If anyone wants to actually run this, here ya go:

          #include              <stdio.h>
      short i=0;long          b[]={1712,6400
    ,3668,14961,00116,      13172,10368,41600,
  12764,9443,112,12544,15092,11219,116,8576,8832
,12764,9461,99,10823,17,15092,11219,99,6103,14915,
69,1721,10190,12771,10065,16462,13172,10368,11776,
14545,10460,10063,99,12544,14434,16401,16000,8654,
12764,13680,10848,9204,113,10441,14306,9344,12404,
  32869,42996,12288,141129,12672,11234,87,10086,
    12655,99,22487,14434,79,10083,12750,10368,
      10086,14929,79,10868,14464,12357};long
        n=9147811012615426336;long main(){
          if(i<0230)printf("%c",(char)((
            0100&b[i++>>1]>>(i--&0x1)*
              007)+((n>>(b[i>>001]>>
                7*(0b1&01-i++)))&1
                  *main(111))));
                    return 69-
                      0b0110
                        ;}

Bonus points if you can deobfuscate it!

Small correction: You’ll want to be at the photon sphere, not the event horizon (1.5x the Schwarzschild radius). You can theoretically hover there for an unlimited time, and even escape, as long as you don’t mind the immense acceleration necessary. :)

Yeah I switched to PAYG to lessen the chance of that happening. So far I’ve managed to not accidentally spend $5000 in some dumb way, so it’s basically equivalent to the free tier.

Yep, it’s all backed up locally. I figure eventually they’ll shut it down as they’re losing a fair bit of money.

You can sign up here, and it comes with 200GB of storage and 10TB of monthly bandwidth. And apparently a $300 credit, that wasn’t around when I signed up.

Edit: Nevermind, must’ve not noticed it.

Yep, it’s Oracle. It’s a really great deal; I’ve been using their services for a couple years now and haven’t had any problems.