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  • I assume only German citizens can sign this? I upvoted here if that helps, because it sounds like a great initiative, maybe if this gains traction this can go europe wide?

    The difficult part is measuring work done I’m afraid though. For volunteer work as e.g. reading books to kids or cleaning streets it’s relatively easy to see that things are happening, even if some are better/faster than others. Unless you’re going to force people to work in live calls or whatever, or just trust self-reporting, that’s going to be hard, no?

    Or do you mean more like subsidies for nonprofits working in open source?

    Either way, good initiative, I hope for its success!







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    5 months ago

    Have you ever waited in line for an order, with a ticket, and it seemed like you got skipped? I assume that was a coincidence, and probably your order just took a little longer, or the ticket numbers aren’t in order anyway. This comic jokes that it’s intentional to spite you.



  • Close, but now you come into contact with the atmosphere not actually being the same density (in weight/volume as well as in particles/volume) throughout, but instead gets thinner as you get away from the earth.

    For simplicity, assume space is actually empty, and the atmosphere gets thinner linearly up until x kilometers above sea level it’s completely empty. Then the density will also decrease with height, and the helium balloon will eventually find a spot that matches its density, and stop there.

    Again there’s so much more to it but as a simplified model this works 😅

    Rockets mostly need to fight speed (of the earth revolving around the sun), and indeed in our atmosphere speed means friction, but in space rockets still need a lot of propellant to change their trajectory. As always there’s a relevant xkcd: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/