For example, a TV antenna transmits in all directions, while a lunar rover transmits strictly upwards

Do you know…what a parabolic antenna…IS?

No. Gravity isn’t gay. Gravity is pansexual. It’s attracts everything.

Where are we going to bury all those people when they die of natural causes?

And you would have to be pretty fucking dense to interpret someone saying, “the ideal human population level is 4 billion” to mean “let’s kill people until we get down to that number.”

Ok I’m sorry. Yes, it likely would require some minimal active control to maintain stability. You have a point about perturbations from other bodies. But the Trojan asteroids and Lagrange points have minimal effect. And it’s not like the gravitational field around the Sun actually changes that much, percentage wise, unless you’re right up close to the planets. The Trojans and Lagrange points are just examples of locations where objects gently placed in certain locations can maintain stability.

Jupiter’s Hill Sphere has a radius of 50 million kilometers (actually much smaller than the outer gas giants.) Its orbital radius is more like 780 million km.

Now, this does mean it would be quite difficult to build a Solar System-sized orbital ring right near the orbital path of gas giant, or any other planet. You could build a ring around Jupiter, but building a Solar-centric ring right near Jupiter’s orbit would be a problem.

I don’t think you understand the concept. “Gravitation itself rips it apart?” The whole idea is based on the idea of harnessing gravity and orbital mechanics.

What I’m describing is actually possible with ordinary materials, unlike the space elevator. This is less science fiction than a space elevator. Steel is good enough. Oh, and the throughputs possible for systems like this make a space elevator look like a toy.

I’m referring to concepts like the orbital ring.

You could absolutely build a train to space using such active support methods. And a more fanciful and impractical version is vast water-filled structures that allow one to literally a sail a boat to the Moon. I doubt someone would actually go to the trouble of building such a massive and impractical construct for such a silly purpose. But in principle it is possible.

Cornell university operates a 55 member police force. Most big universities have a police force. These aren’t mall rent-a-cops or other security guards. They’re a full legally empowered police department like any other.

What exactly am I looking at here?

Why would we assume a troll farm is even a physical thing you can bomb? I imagine 99% of those are work-from-home jobs that people just log into.

Like that time Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson built a child molesting robot.

We’re not talking about all Democrats. We’re not even really talking about Democrats. We’re talking about DINOs- Democrats in Name Only. Those are the transphobes pretending to be Democrats that cheated their way past a Democratic primary.

It’s an 80/20 thing precisely because Democrats have been so dogshit at defending trans issues. Most dems are deeply uncomfortable with trans people and find us weird and strange. So they don’t bother learning how to speak plainly and supportively on trans issues.

For example, a simple retort on sports is, “trans girls have performance more like cis girls than cis boys. Anyone telling you otherwise is fucking liar.”

But femboys aren’t girls. That’s literally their entire thing.

What’s the question here? These are two factual questions. You assess them with data, not speculation. The truth of one is completely independent of the other.

Not OP, and I’m not sure how the lathe itself does it. But it shouldn’t be surprising that it’s possible to create more precise tools from less precise tools. Otherwise it would be impossible for us to ever create tools more precise than our own hands and fingers.

I’m partial to simply using “til” myself.

Theoretically, it’s possible to use circular motion to build a train to orbit. Literally, you could have a floating platform suspended above the Earth’s surface and a train line running right up to the thing. One could have a stationary ring circling the entire planet that you could ride a train right up to. Hell, with sufficient mastery of circular motion, you could build a structure that allowed you to sail a boat to the Moon.

If you’re going to quote orbital mechanics as to why this is impossible, you don’t know as much about orbital mechanics as you think you do.

Yup. Centrists who bitch about “blue no matter who” are wasting their breath. The actual leftists still hold their nose and vote blue anyway. But the things that progressives point out, and that centrists refuse to change, are what cause the centrists to lose their elections. Centrists will bitch about online leftists condemning genocide support, but it wasn’t the progressives that caused Kamala to lose. It was mostly moderate and conservative Muslim voters who simply refused to vote for a genocide supporter.

Centrists will piss away their races fruitlessly trying to pander to Republicans. They’ll blame their losses on progressives. They’ll slander the progressives saying they didn’t vote hard enough, even though the progressives vote harder than anyone. Centrists will never look in the mirror and ask themselves, “wait, if I throw minority groups under the bus, do I even deserve to win?”

You do if you vote for Republicans who pretend to be Democrats.