It’s a math joke (“”“joke”“”) about misunderstanding the intent behind written problems, as poorly-written problems can be interpreted in multiple ways, but well-written problems are (almost) always correctly interpreted by reasonably math literate folks. The fact the you arrived at two different solutions means that you correctly interpreted the intent behind both problems.
You are a German in 1932, casting a ballot for Hindenburg while smugly thinking “I just saved the Weimar Republic!”
Wow, anti-semitic much?
But glimmer_twin was referring to his present age, so you’re both right, just kinda talking past each other.
32 in 2016.
I don’t think you can just become Italian.
“These heroes in Russia who have immortalized their cause, our cause, who have paid in overflowing measure in blood and tears and agony unspeakable, the price of their fidelity and devotion to the oppressed and exploited toilers not only of their own land but of the whole world, now appeal to us for the food that shall save them from perishing as hostages to starva- tion, and shall we now fail to return in small party what we owe them for what they have suffered in the awful years of the revolution to break the fetters of labor everywhere and set humanity free from the curse of the ages?” – some tankie I guess
“I have no reading comprehension skills” isn’t the own you think it is.
The starfighters’ computers needed time to lock on to the exhaust port. Plus, the proton torpedoes needed to immediately dive downward into the exhaust shaft to reach the Death Star’s core, as seen in the animation before the battle – fire too soon and they just impact on the surface, fire too late and they hit the back of the port before they can dive.
For the purpose of the satire, they left out the whole point of the books, which is something you’d know if your knowledge of LotR wasn’t based entirely on cultural osmosis.
Trump and Harris agree on every policy you mentioned, as well as one you didn’t: they both love genocide.
Over 200,000 Palestinians haven’t survived the past year and you don’t care. Never trust a narcissist to have anyone else’s interest at heart.
You support genocide. You’re a geek without a soul.
Remember: the lunar version of Starship was picked as NASA’s Human Landing System in 2021, and Artemis III was supposed to have landed on the moon this year. Thanks, Musk!
Trump was best buddies with Jeffery Epstein andremovedd a 13-year-old girl at Epstein’s New York apartment – Trump being into kinky sex with consenting adults would be a significant improvement.
There are a few things the source paper claims that the article ignores: the Qianfan satellites have a much greater range of brightness (magnitude 4 at zenith, magnitude 8 near the horizon) and the design of the Qianfans potentially allows for future brightness mitigation, despite the article implying otherwise.
The primary source of the linked article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.20432
Observed magnitudes of Qianfan spacecraft range from 4 when they are near zenith to 8 when low in the sky.
Since this is the first run of the Qianfan satellite constellation, the most appropriate comparison would be to Starlink’s original satellites. As you can see below, the notion that China’s satellites are “significantly brighter than those of Western systems” is a inaccurate.
A 2022 paper on Starlink Original, VisorSat and Post-VisorSat models: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.17268
The Original spacecrafts have a relatively flat phase function, so they are comparatively bright over a wide range of phase angle. […] the characteristic magnitudes are: 4.7 (Original) […]
A 2024 paper on Starlink newer Direct-to-Cell satellites: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03092
The mean apparent magnitude of Starlink Mini Direct-To-Cell (DTC) satellites is 4.62 while the mean of magnitudes adjusted to a uniform distance of 1000 km is 5.50.
Clearly, even the newest Starlink satellites are well above the magnitude 7 limit astronomers recommend for satellite brightness.
On Hexbear, transphobes are executed on sight.
I’m cis. I love Fallout. I do not forsee regretting this post in, say, one or two years.
Questions reportedly included “Can you do this again and more often?” and “How many more 2000lbs bombs can we give you?”