do those orbits get larger over time?

Yes, I think they do.

I think that expansion doesn’t increase distance, but velocity between objects (or so was my interpretation back when I looked at the formulas). That means that moving objects speed up over time. As such, orbital velocities increase, too, and that lifts their orbit - similar to when a rocket on a closed orbit propulses forward.

But I might be wrong; I feel 70% certain about this one.

Why not build them at the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point?

I don’t know why I just read “UNIX” in a french accent.

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I do wonder why people buy smart TVs instead of getting regular displays together with a Linux PC.

yeah i know i was joking

maybe it wasn’t a good joke ^^

Open means “uben” in german so

Free Libre Open Source Software is FLUSS in german and that roughly translates to “fucking” and I think that’s beautiful.

Yeah but the babies were small, which is what matters here.

The thing with eggs is that they would probably have to be huge. I guess that the egg would maybe have to be 10x the size of the finished baby (Idk for sure though) due to inefficiencies in the food metabolism. While for chickens, that’s not a problem because the babies are small, for humans it would be difficult.

But where do we store the energy is the question. Without storage renewables aren’t that useful.

That’s probably propaganda from the oil company. They try to slow down the adoption of renewables by making it look harder than it is.

Fact is: You can start deploying renewables immediately. Every kWh that comes from solar does not come from coal, oil or gas. That is a win. Install renewables first, think about storing the excess power later. That is the best way to go!

IMO Debian is already pretty far middle-ground. The packages are new enough for my personal usage.

yeah and don’t forget the placebo effect

“today’s gonna be a good day for you”

It’s time that somebody clears up with that mess, seriously.

Yeah i basically just wanted to tell you that there’s actual data on stuff and if you wanna know, you gotta read it all, there’s a lot. I don’t know what it would help you and ask a question such as “is there a name for the time when we started to burn oil?” because if i give you an answer, what do you do with that answer? if you can’t embed it into a broader context, that answer seems pretty useless to me. So if you actually wanna know, maybe start reading it all. idk. maybe i come off arrogant, but that’s not my intention. i just don’t understand what your motivation for asking this question is?

I think I just had a lot of talks about this with someone recently. Feel free to DM me if you wanna know more.

Yes, you’re right; The sources of energy have a society-defining role.

There’s two major sources: carbon-based (coal, oil, gas, biomass) and electricity.

Right now, we consume approximately 50% of either, but this is about to change. I predict that solar power will shift energy consumption to nearly 100% electrical in a few years.

I don’t really know about a specific name for when we started burning oil, but you might wanna look at Peak Oil Theory because it explains the mass of oil consumption over time as a bell curve.

They mean inverting the flow of logic, not looking at consequences but at causes, i guess.