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First of all, I think Star Wars, Star Trek, etc. are trash
Second, this thread wasn't ME criticizing SF for not being sufficiently sciencey; it was @Swordsfall1 doing that, because OBVIOUSLY shooting trash into the sun is good science. (wrong)
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19/ I take people seriously based on the coherence of their arguments. I take almost no one, white or black, seriously. > this thread is poor taste please don't push your cultural norms on me > If you’re threatened by
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20/ > He did insinuate that it was bad. No, he stated that it was bad. > He did not insinuate it was bad because of science. He stated it was bad bc of science. Go read the tweet. https://twitter.com/whipstache/status/1167434329745702912 …
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21/ > If you think it's anything but *Expensive* to launch trash into the sun, you dont understand science. I sort of do, tho. Earth orbits the sun at 29.78 km/s + ~ 1.8 km/s of deltaV for atmospheric drag = 31.6 km/s To achieve LEO is 7.8 k/s So > https://twitter.com/BurningBunring/status/1167434439682486272 …
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22/ So to handwave, a rocket that can put X into LEO can put X/4 into the sun. Falcon payload to LEO is 23,000 kg, so it can put ~6,000 kg of trash into the sun. Launch costs $57 million, so it costs $9,500 to put 1 kg of trash into the sun. I call that "expensive".
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24/ Tantrum? Science-free?
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25/ Oh, interesting. I didn't watch that speech, but maybe I should. Cold Equations was classic, which is why I had an homage to it (with a female navigator!) in my books. https://twitter.com/LibertyFarmNH/status/1167436790158045184 …
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Everybody starts somewhere, and given that you started with Warren Ellis calling your book Hate Speech, glass houses and stones no?
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