So much pointless chaos and destruction just because they can.

I want these idiots to live just long enough to see all the damage they did completely undone so they grasp if only for a moment how they wasted their lives being so toxic.

But the real problem is the people that gave them this power and will keep trying.

There's an episode on "Space & Beyond" where they show all the planets in scale to the realworld on an actual football field.

Then to show Planet 9 distance they have to get in a car and drive a few miles.

That worked for me.

My favorite: Cody'sLab's "How far away are the nearest stars": https://youtube.com/watch?v=dCSIXLIzhzk Also gives an intuition for how incredibly bright stars shine

I have a set of twelve books by an artist, titled "Astronomical" (one book for each letter). The first page shows the sun, then the rest of the books are almost all simply black pages, but with the planets and asteroid belt entities shown with accurate distance and size scale.

It communicates the scales really well, while only taking up a little over a foot of bookshelf space when not being "navigated". I have two heavy metallic retro looking rocket bookends for it.

If this discovery is real, you'll need to buy another 168 books and they'll span a large bookcase or a small room.

Yeah, when the solar system was introduced to my class in grade school, we had an outdoor excursion where the teacher brought out a golfball and place it at one end, then brought out various tiny things (noting scale was very approximate) and paced off each to show the relative distances.

What is "Space & Beyond"?

I think Bill Nye has something similar, too.

You’re probably thinking of YModem.

Does it even matter anymore what Congress funds if administration is just going to illegally order everything defunded?

Everything with them is just for the spite, has nothing to do with logic or savings.

The next super space-telescope is already paid for at $3.5 Billion and is READY TO LAUNCH and they are trying to kill it out of spite

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-next-major-...

Everyone that gave them power is the problem, they are exactly as advertised.

> Does it even matter anymore what Congress funds if administration is just going to illegal order everything defunded?

No, if you have an executive dictatorship unbound by law, nothing Congress does matters.

I think the term you're looking for is "unitary executive" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory).

It's interesting that (a) it seems mostly favored by Republican presidents; and (b) the criticisms that "the theory could lead to more corruption and less qualified employees" would appear to have been empirically demonstrated to be true.

> I think the term you're looking for is "unitary executive"

It's not. Unitary executive theory holds that Congress has no power to wall of inherent executive power from the President or to assign powers to the executive branch but deny the President control over them, which is problematic and IMO based on a tendentious (but ag least tenuously defensible) reading of Article II, but it is a far cry from unbound executvie dictatorship.

Which is not to say that there isn't some overlap between people arguing for the unitary executive theory and those actually pursuing unbound executive dictatorship, but they are not the same thing

Those pursuing unitary executive theory I consider political opponents, those seeking executive dictatorship unbound by law are enemies of the Constitution.

Congress is doing almost exactly what Germany's parliament did for Hitler in 1930s:

Enabling Act

essentially one person rule, make all the judges not going along with it resign (or executed)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933

The crazy thing is there is NO WAY the people approving tens of thousands of LEO sats did not know this.

So no caution, no cleanup fund, nothing.

Just privatize the profits, socialize the costs.

Even years from now no researchers will be able to prove the increase in cancer rates is from ionized metals in the air or prove the source.

Exactly like micro-plastics and forever-chemicals now saturating every water source on the planet.

He keeps doing illegal things because there is absolutely no penalty for being unlawful

Congress fully funded CPB (NPR, PBS, etc.) through September 2027

in the Continuing Resolution PASSED THIS YEAR BY THIS CONGRESS

NIH doesn't do mass production. It may not even do the research necessary to get synthesizing at scale working.

Until the NIH becomes a drug production company, the drugs themselves are, by necessity, "paywalled".

Can you imagine empty shelves all summer in America like it's soviet union?

Definitely going to happen because it will take months for shipping to return, just like the pandemic supply-chain disruptions.

And maybe the tariffs stay while manufacturing decides to wait FOUR YEARS instead of changing anything.

It’s not hard to imagine since we’ve had almost 2 years of warnings that the GOP would do this. Of course those warnings were dismissed as hysterical by people who apparently wanted this economic crisis.

Soon: the White House team's going to go to grocery stores stocking up their shelves before Trump visits, Potemkin-village-style...

Makes me think of the anecdote of Yeltsin entering a random grocery store, seeing their shelves full, and being shocked (the stop wasn't scheduled, and he assumed the US would've created a Potemkin grocery store): https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/13/how-a-russians-grocery-...

Wikipedia:

> Following the grocery store visit, Yeltsin and his entourage flew to Miami, their final ___location before returning to the Soviet Union. During the flight, Yeltsin was in a state of shock regarding the grocery store and remained speechless for a long time. According to Sukhanov, it was during the flight that "the last vestige of Bolshevism collapsed inside" Yeltsin. Following his silence, Yeltsin asked aloud, "What have they done to our people?", questioning the Soviet Union's struggles with food. In a later biography, Yeltsin commented regarding his grocery store visit,

>> When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons and goods of every possible sort, for the first time I felt quite frankly sick with despair for the Soviet people. That such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been brought to a state of such poverty! It is terrible to think of it.

Heh, perhaps we should compare it to that fucking "useful" idiot Tucker Carlson going to a Russian grocery store...

If the shelves are empty in September, can someone recreate these photos, but with empty shelves: https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/Bori... (assuming the press is still free at that point, and there's no risk of being sent to the gulag...).

What happens to gravity waves as they move through patches of space with different "timezones"?

Gravity waves from a kilonova are affected by the distance through space they have to travel but since they have no mass in themselves, they do not have their own "clock" and would not be affected by time differences?

It's a "speed of causality" question that breaks my brain.

Maybe that next-gen space interferometer (LISA) can help answer that, well if it's not cancelled, sigh, oh wait it's Europe-only project now so should happen

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Interferometer_Space_A...

If this theory is true and seems plausible, wouldn't that make any previous calculations to very distant objects invalid?

ie. "standard candles" are no longer consistent?

adding link to actual paper:

https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/537/1/L55/7926647