r.i.p. alleria. 1997-2017. blizzard ruined alleria forever. blizz assassinated alleria's character and appearance.
i will never forgive you for this blizzard.
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I'm pretty sure that number is off by at least a few zeros.
So that was off by at least 3 orders of magnitude. And that's the first time I've ever gotten to say "orders of magnitude".The AU is the average distance from the Earth to the sun. Earth makes a complete revolution around the sun every 365.25 days *— one year. However, Earth's orbit is not a perfect circle; it is shaped more like an oval, or an ellipse. Over the course of a year, Earth moves sometimes closer to the sun and sometimes farther away from the sun. Earth's closest approach to the sun, called perihelion, comes in early January and is about 91 million miles (146 million km). The farthest from the sun Earth gets is called aphelion. It comes in early July and is about 94.5 million miles (152 million km).
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"The pen is mightier than the sword.. and considerably easier to write with."
Weird Al - I never feed trolls and I don't read spam Galen Hallcyon - The internet has shown us that everyone is a fuckin' moron.
Erm. Lagrangian point.
We have observatories hanging there. In particular we have a couple solar observatories in between Earth and Sun: they hang in there because it's an equilibrium point, and move alongside the Earth around the solar orbit. That's exactly where this screen would go, with some spare fuel for station keeping.
It's also a particularly asteroid-free zone, unlike L4 and L5.
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Well, Grummgug was mocking the concept: because the point to make such screen, in his dystopia, was to create faux needs to justify taxation.
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Another thing to consider is the differing trajectories of current earth and future/past earth. We've all played Portal: speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out, and on the orbital scale, you'd be liquified if something wasn't just right.
That makes me think just how impossible Portal would actually be, too. Also teleportation, like Nightcrawler or the movie Jumper.
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