“The horrors persist, but so do I”

I think an erection is not necessarily needed for infection to occur, but it might help with the… logistics.

Not entirely sure if Vance was using the Europe angle as a strawman to voice his disapproval of bombing Yemen knowing that the rest of the administration hates Europe,

Yeah, unfortunately I think that dude is a lot smarter than we all give him credit for. Like Boris Johnson, his perceived idiocy makes him fly under the radar a lot of times, which makes them more dangerous.

Best explanation!

Orbital mechanics can be a bit counter intuitive.

To raise an orbit you need to speed up, but your overall orbital speed will decrease, since the distance grows the higher the orbit gets. So you’ll need to speed up to reach escape velocity to escape Earth’s gravitational pull, once you managed that, you enter the orbit around the sun. To lower an orbit you’ll need to lower your speed, while your orbital velocity will increase, since the orbit gets smaller.

The “fuel” of a space craft is measured in Delta v, which describes the ability to change the velocity of the vehicle, the unit is m/s or km/s To reach a low earth orbit you need around 10.000 m/s Delta v, if I’m not mistaking another 9.000 m/s to escape velocity, then you’re in a sun orbit, I don’t know how much you need from there, but id say at least another 15-20km/s

You can look up escape velocity which is the velocity required to exit a gravitational body completely.

That’s also what makes getting to the sun so difficult. At first you got to speed up to escape velocity to escape the Earth’s gravitational pull, then you enter an orbit AROUND the sun, where you will have to slow down by a lot to lower your orbit enough to get into the sun. Miscalculate and you’ll fling yourself out of the solar system.

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