How to go to space

[beach tribe]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

The XKCD guys are awesome.

Relativstic Baseball remains among my favorite short reads out there, but they will also occasionally throw out some really fascinating stuff.

Relativistic baseball:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

This is also an awesome little exchange:



In other words, humans are the only creatures with brains advanced enough to 'cheat' on our release point and burn into our minds that to throw a ball where we want to, our mind has to actually send the signal to release the ball before we want the ball to be released. Our brain just automatically compensates for it without us thinking about it. And when you think about it, it makes sense. When you hand a ball to somebody who's never thrown one, what usually happens? Ball thrown into the ground. Their brains simply haven't re-rigged the calculous yet.

Seriously, just mow through the XKCD site when you have a chance, they're funny and they're damn smart.

I'm checking out some more of their stuff. Cool shit.