• Aquila@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Its actually easier to launch stuff out of the solar system than to slow stuff down enough to fall into the sun

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      5 months ago

      I keep hearing that. Again - I don’t work on space physics, so forgive my ignorance on why. However- I’m good with billionaires taking as long as needed to get to our sun, some other maybe hospitable planet, or just dying in the cold of interstellar space while we observe a new holiday of them all fuckin’ off from terra firma.

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          5 months ago

          technically, it uses a lot of energy (depending on how much the blade weighs). it is not electrical energy, but gravitational potential energy

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            5 months ago

            If we made guillotines now we would certainly use electric winches to lift the blades

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      5 months ago

      Easiest is to just round them up and shoot them and let their corpses rot in a ditch.