latenightnoir

Oh, wow, so not all of that sci-fi was purely -fi! This makes so much sense, yet I've never conceptualised it as such. Like, I knew the concrete pressure differences, but never had them set in a big picture view:-?

Jesus, now I wish I would've taken up more physics, would've happily soldiered through the math for this amount of interesting!

Yep, this is very clear, thank you! Visual aides are OP, I swear!

Huh, that's really interesting! Yeah, given all of these factors, I would imagine that absolute vacuum would be... well, nothing in terms of cold or hot:-? Wow, that's a huge paradigm shift, I shoud dare to be stupid online more often, I'm learning more from this thread than I would have expected!

Thank you!

Eh, maybe in other countries, my folks would've probably killed me if I'd presented an interest to delay University:))

But you're right, it's objectively better to take some time and get some perspective, and those 4.5 months really do sound like a good learning experience! Most definitely a lot more immediately useful as pertaining to living in general!

And can relate to your experience of returning home post-University, my home town is now... tumorous, for lack of a better word. But, yes, home is where one is, best way to go about it. Everything changes, the only thing which is somewhat constant is the fact that we'll have to live with ourselves until we won't:))

Thank you, this makes a lot of sense!

Also, guess I missed my mark, would've been the ideal astronaut based on this! Does being dumb also help help? I mean, less going on up in the ol' noggin, thinking energy is transferred slower that way:))) Or that I use less, which would make me fuel-efficient!=))))

Funny, I always felt that the old "one can never go back home" adage holds true precisely due to the continuous addition of layers of context, in that I'm never the same Me going "home," which means it can never be "home" for the new Me. I do know that comfort of familiarity, though! For me, it's getting back to my own bed:))

Either way, your experience sounds wonderful, and I kinda' envy you, tbh. I've always had trouble appreciating new places and contexts, because I see the familiar everywhere I go, in people, in tendencies, in shared cultural elements... Maybe it's different for everyone, I guess, or a matter of perspective. Very good food for thought!

Hmm, is it because vacuum acts essentially like an insulator? I'm thinking this because, from what I remember about high-school thermodynamics, heat needs to "jump" from matter to matter, and there's not a relevant quantity of matter in a vacuum to act as a heat absorber, like air does over here, right?:-?

I'm genuinely asking, I'm sure I have brain rot from watching too many sci-fi movies...

That makes sense, I mean we're already melting over here with the atmospheric buffer, I imagine it'd be the same or maybe even hotter straight on.

Feel dumb for not thinking about it this way, to be honest, thank you!

Thanks! I was about to ask if there is time for the pressure differences to act upon our biology, or if the freezing bit happens before everything has a chance to go pop!

Too fucking right... I have nothing more to add, you are as painfully on-point as possible...

If the actual spending was that large, we, the citizenry, would see it. But we don't. Our living situation has steadily degraded over time, wages have stagnated for at least a decade, our infrastructure's essentially unchanged from the 80s... And many other such examples.

No, the country isn't spending, the politicians are, for themselves and their families. In Romania, as long as you don't steal from the big wigs, nobody gives a shit.

Edit: in my opinion, Brussels should lay into them like a fucking hurricane.

This is very true, but people still need a significant push to get there. They still need to first be angry enough to not want to take it anymore, before they start looking into what can actually be done.