Or two ordinary small balls, one dropped from just above the geosynchronous orbit, the second one from far above the orbit. While the first one slowly drifts away to the space, the second shoots away, makes a complete (retrograde) orbit around Sun and splashes into the Atlantic while the first ball is still drifting...
Requires some careful timing, though.
If their gravity is significant enough, then it is incorrect to describe that they splash into the Atlantic—it’s the Atlantic that splashes into them.
I’d prefer solutions that do not destroy the Earth :-)
If both rotate (I assume the same angular velocity) , what can be said about the direction of their axes of rotation?
Another idea: Gurl ner zntargvp, pybfr rabhtu gung gurl nggenpg gurzfryirf, fgvpx gbtrgure naq gur ubevmbagny nflzrgel pnhfrf gur bowrpgf gb ghzoyr naq gur uvture bar pbzrf qbja svefg.
Well, if you said “the sea is rough equally for both of them” it would be obvious:-)
Another idea: A ebgngrf. Gur Zntahf rssrpg cebivqrf yvsg naq fybjf qbja gur snyy.
My first thought was that B reaches terminal velocity and that’s it, but the object A is dropped from substantially higher altitude, picks up speed much higher than the terminal velocity and the atmosphere won’t slow it down enough,
I do not feel like oing the math, but there is a simpler solution: jnvg sbe n jnir naq gvzr gur qebc va fhpu n jnl gung bowrpg N, orvat uvture ol yrff guna gur jnir urvtug, uvgf gur perfg bs gur jnir.
There is also the little issue of Venus receiving about twice the insolation than Earth....
As a rather illustrative case study look at the history of XMPP at Facebook and Google (Talk). Facebook messaging used XMPP until 2015, but it was not federated—but at least you could use client of your own choice. Then they switched to a proprietary API. Google talk used federated XMPP for years, but then dropped server-to-server encryption, effectively cutting off majority of servers, and then dropped Talk in favour of proprietary Hangouts altogether. So the trend is just the opposite—if the player grows big enough and the community becomes self sustained, they will start walling the garden.
Tax advisor?
Maybe he meant life expectancy. Anyway, that too is locale specific and depends on your life style and (increasingly with age) on healthcare availability—which could be hampered a lot by moving abroad. Not taking into account increased stress due to unfamiliar environment and (likely) less satisfying job.
I think it’s probably like drunk driving—most of the times it doesn’t result in anything bad, but there’s a non-negligible chance of outcomes so bad that the expected value still comes out negative.
Or like drunk driving on your own property, where there is no other traffic nor pedestrians, and you are alone in your car (well, ok, you are in the car with another person, but s/he is drunk as well, knows you are drunk, knows the risks of drunk driving and half of the time replaces you behind the wheel). Should it be illegal? (assuming there are no (health) insurance issues if you crash&injure yourself)
Combat efficiency is much reduced when using gas mask.
Moreover, while gas masks for horses do (did) exist, good luck persuading your horse wearing it. And horses were rather crucial in WWI and still very important in WWII.
We did not see gas used during WWII mostly because of Hitler’s aversion and a (mistaken) belief that the Allies had stockpiles of nerve agents and Germany feared their retaliation.
A single world language should be designed and promoted. Previous attempts have been too Eurocentric to take advantage of all useful grammatical features that are available.
There are so many constructed languages already that you do not need to design anything, if you have some criteria, just pick one that suits you, brush it up and maybe replace the vocabulary. And then goes the minor issue of promoting it and gaining speakers :-)
English is rather badly suited for an international auxiliary language, as the things go. But still better than French or Chinese, all things considered. Spelling is OK, it’s the pronunciation that sucks :-) And its weird syntax and internally inconsistent vocabulary.
Spelling reform (or a completely new, purely phonetic alphabet) is urgent.
You really, really do not want phonetic writing system—phonemic is what you should go after, but morphophonemic has certain advantages too, especially for non-native speakers.
I would advocate adapting Hangul for that purpose.
If you match your phonology to 15th century Korean, sure. Not so much otherwise without a substantial reform and introduction of new letters. Anyway, Hangul is more suited for a morphematic writing system, not phone[mt]ic one.
It is much easier to do a spelling reform in a mostly illiterate country
Indeed. Look at the rejected recent German orthography reform – and the changes were (relatively) minor.
Or the messed up Slovak orthography reform from the ’90s – and that was mostly a few acutes here and there.
Years ago I jokingly suggested to sell Crete to Turkey, in exchange for taking over Greece’s debt (no doubt Turkey would jump at the opportunity and bend over to do anything possible to meet the debt payment criteria). The reactions I got were predictable, in the vein of “hell would freeze one hundred times over before this happens”.
Jokes aside, selling territory (with actual sovereignty transfer, as opposed to simple real estate acquisition) seems to be a bit of no-go in the last decades. Especially selling it under duress for economical reasons.
Depending on your free time, engage in some hobbyist activity.
E.g. subscribe to a foreign language course, where you’ll meet some people and gain the additional benefit of learning (at least the basics of) a foreign language (might not be applicable if you are in the USA).
E.g. imagine a society where human brains evolved just a little bit differently and >90% of population are dyslectics. This very obviously wouldn’t matter until about the time proto-writing changed into true writing, i.e. after urban development and proto-states. But then, such a civilization is trapped.
I notice the effects of the recession – I always offer to buy food, and in the past beggars often concocted elaborate excuses why I should give them money instead of buying a hotdog or something. But in the last few years, more and more they agree to get the food (and actually eat it).
Anyway, depending on where you live, there might be organized teams of professional beggars who are exploited by their “owner” and they have to give him his daily share “or else”. By not giving money, you really hurt the beggars—but this amounts to emotional blackmailing, so perhaps you should not—for the price of hurting a few beggars now we could close the exploitation later, since if there is no profit there is no incentive to exploit the beggars.
This actually happens with people preferring books to ebooks or vinyl records to MP3 files.
OT nitpicking: books you can resell or lend, no such luck with ebooks, they work without electricity, quick shuffling through pages is easier with books, MP3 distort sound (though not perceivably at higher bitrates), so this was not such a great analogy. But yes, your point is valid.
At Esperanto meetings.
psbook is what I’d use—you might need pdftops to get postscript out of the pdf, or perhaps print to a generic postscript printer directly.