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[origamiscienceguy]

n-body physics only make a big difference over a long period of time, with small "tugs" every obit or so. As you can imagine, that would be incredibly annoying to play where if you send a probe to jool (jupiter analog) the many years it takes to get there will have caused all your satalites around kebin to have been tossed wildly around and sent off into deep space or crashed into kerbin. Other than the every so often small "tug" the physics simulation is spot on, and it makes the game playable.

[Putnam]

n-body physics only make a big difference over a long period of time, with small "tugs" every obit or so. As you can imagine, that would be incredibly annoying to play where if you send a probe to jool (jupiter analog) the many years it takes to get there will have caused all your satalites around kebin to have been tossed wildly around and sent off into deep space or crashed into kerbin. Other than the every so often small "tug" the physics simulation is spot on, and it makes the game playable.

Kerbin is actually fairly stable AFAIK, but Jool is not so lucky.

[redwallzyl]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/08/466051062/did-a-meteorite-kill-a-bus-driver-in-india

one vary unlucky man.

[Putnam]

phil plait doesn't believe it

[Reverie]

Apparently a few other people were injured though, it wasn't just the one guy.

[Amperzand]

What the shit.

This guy is arguing that the sun is actually electrically powered, using green comic sans.

I mean, what?

Does this look like how you want to perform scientific discussion?

Consider the article.

[Il Palazzo]

What the shit.

This guy is arguing that the sun is actually electrically powered, using green comic sans.

I mean, what?

Does this look like how you want to perform scientific discussion?

Consider the article.

That looks like one of the 'Electric universe' aka 'Plasma cosmology' crowd (though they'd probably argue there's a difference). They're some of the crackpottest out there. Google 'thunderbolts project' if you don't value your hair.

[Starver]

What the shit.

This guy is arguing that the sun is actually electrically powered, using green comic sans.

I mean, what?

Does this look like how you want to perform scientific discussion?

Consider the article.

Quickly scanning through, it appears to me that what we have here is someone who has learnt some basic physics and believes that they now know 'everything', and now can't believe any extra refinements to physics that is available for them to learn.  Such as "nuclear fusion gives out energy, so nuclear fission should always use up energy, obviously!!!" (to paraphrase).  They've made up a 'consistent' personal theory in lieu of this and will doubtless stick religiously to that theory, especially since all geniuses were once told they were wrong, so being told that they are wrong is conclusive evidence that they are, in fact, a genius...

Also we have someone who believes that repeating images (sometimes two or three consecutive times, separated only by an intervening paragraph!), is a valid way of making a point with the images that the images didn't even make the first time.

(And the element is "silicon", not "silicone", but that's the least of the author's worries.)

[Amperzand]

Beautiful.

[TheBiggerFish]

Also unutterably stupid.

*returns to reading RationalWiki to restore their faith in humanity*

[smirk]

Art Deco space tourism posters from NASA/JPL. The urge to print and frame some of these is very strong.

[PTTG??]

He wha nish bargh

"The sun can't have fusion because fusion is net loss, and the sun can't be fusion because if it was made of hydrogen its atoms would collapse."

I think that important functional parts of this person's brain are missing.

[Graknorke]

I couldn't get too far in without experiencing Time Cube-esque numbing of the mind, but in general I'm pretty sure this guy doesn't know much. The sun doesn't turn off during ice ages, and plasma is far more dense than atomic matter, not "empty space".

[origamiscienceguy]

Fusing light elements up to iron releases energy, fissing heavy elements down to iron releases energy.

[origamiscienceguy]

So, wait, theoretically, doesn't that mean that the universes "true" equilibrium would be when all matter is iron? Then there would be no way to release any more energy.