Will Forte. His voice and “quirky” style I find just irritating and not at all amusing.

“Fancy graphics” also doesn’t correlate well with how visually appealing a game is. I would take Ori graphics over CoD any day.

Which is to say that prices did increase every generation.

High aspect ratio just doesn’t roll off the tongue does it?

Yeah, black holes in media where they are depicted as a giant space vacuum cleaner is a big pet peave of mine. Unless you get really close, nothing is remarkable about the orbital mechanics of a black hole. The equivalent mass star would have burned you up at a much further distance than the gravity starts to become noticeably wonky.

It’s a shame that writers focus so much on the gravity and neglect accretion disks and astrophysical jets which do extend large distances and are visually stunning as well.

What could one legislator cost, Michael, 25,000 dollars?

Iowa pays its general assembly members a salary of $25k a yr. So $200k a yr in lobbying from a single company potentially buys a lot of influence.

Definitely, any changes natural or anthropogenic would be measured and to great accuracy. I just wanted to point out that the notion of the general public, especially if conditioned to distrust scientists and authorities, not noticing changes isn’t the outlandish part. See global warming denial despite years of record setting temperatures.

Ignoring conspiracy theory stuff, people aren’t very good at perceiving changes in light levels if they happen gradually. During any solar eclipse there are wide bands where only a partial eclipse is observed. It’s pretty common for people in those bands to not notice that something has changed even with 50% occlusion.

Do new oil and gas leases qualify as weather modification? What about clear cutting forests and draining wetlands?

American chestnuts will die here, but I have a magnificent large Chinese chestnut tree in my yard. It’s not the same, but at least we get to harvest some 10-15 gallons of chestnuts every fall.

And you hitting submerged objects that aren’t flowing. I remember cutting my hand on a rock while going through rapids with a life jacket on. You need to practice keeping your feet downstream when in whitewater conditions.

Salary also can’t be exempt from overtime if the salary works out to less than minimum wage for the hours worked. So only 2080 of the 6000 hours could be minimum wage and the other 3920 would be paid at time and a half.

Are you familiar with the difference between polar (r, theta) coordinates and cartesian (x,y) coordinates? Parabolas are the solution to gravity that is uniform no matter where you sample. It assumes that gravity points in the same direction with the same magnitude no matter where you are. In this model, gravitational acceleration is always 9.81 m/s^2 in the -y direction. That is a reasonable simplification for things that are at the human scale constrained to near the earth’s surface. Deviations from air resistance will matter far more than errors stemming from that assumption anyway.

Conic sections are the solutions to gravity that is between two objects where the force is along the line between the center of mass of both objects and the strength is inversely proportional to the square of separation. Now you need polar cpordinates and the direction of gravity changes as things move around. This works pretty well for orbits around the earth and orbits around the sun, because the earth is so much more massive than sattelites that orbit it, and the sun is so much more massive than things that orbit it. If you need really precise orbit trajectories, ellipses aren’t truly accurate either. You need to account for all the orbiting bodies in the system. The 3-body problem famously doesn’t have purely analytical solutions, and you need to resort to numerical methods to calculate trajectories.

So both solutions come from simplified mathematical models. Despite being simplifications, their predictive power is actually very goood. However, like you are intuiting, it’s important to know when those simplifying assumptions lead to errors that start to become important. It’s hard to come up with a particular threshold for when you need to switch from one model to another, because it really depends on how much accuracy your application needs.

Radon should be yellow. You don’t want long term exposure of it in your lungs, but it’s still mostly chemically inert and not a significant immediate danger.

I know they don’t like to read long bills, but maybe one of their interns can read Matthew 6:1-8 to them.

I did search for “weather on the way” in google play store. While they don’t have an android app, I found two similar apps that do a lot of what I wanted: “drive weather” and “highway weather.” Thank you for the search term that yielded results. I like that the"highway weather" app allows adding in rest stops and propagates the change into the forecast.

I will note that neither of these options seem to offer turn by turn navigation. So there is still room for some of the navigation apps to integrate this functionality.

I have long wanted a weather forecast along route in navigation apps for long trips. Ideally you could add in stops and estimate how long you would need to wait for storms to pass over.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1yRkdeThrjNwOVRfa3UluW

The ridges of the weave in my pants sometimes produces a vibration that is similar frequency and intensity as my phone vibrate. It totally triggers the check the phone reflex even if it happens while my phone is in my hand.

You don’t drive your dumpsters down random roads in India for artistic photoshoots?

I like the random mudflap on the right side.