Nuffsaid98
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Reply to TIL: A family of 12 performers, 7 of whom were dwarves, all survived Auschwitz after being separated by Mengele. Several prisoners who survived claimed they believed they were hallucinating when they saw seven well-dressed dwarves passing by. by 0verlyAnxious
I wonder if dwarfs need less calories to survive? Dark curiosity on my part, I admit.
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Reply to comment by Mammoth-Mud-9609 in TIL Nigeria is the third largest Guinness drinking nation, followed By the USA by exporterofgold
Christianity forbids sex before marriage. Lots of that goes on in Christian countries.
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Reply to comment by aupri in TIL The famous "rods from god" concept of a space-based weapons system of orbiting tungsten rods was developed by science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle. by BitterFuture
I think you're ignoring orbital mechanics here.
If a satellite is orbiting the Earth at a given speed then anything dropped from it would continue at that speed. You would need to retro thrust to scrub off that speed or factor it in.
In other words, anything dropped from orbit has to fall in a curved path.
Avoiding burnup in the atmosphere dictates the angle of entry.
The payload would be dropped when the satellite is over a completely different part of the Earth, not the target.
If you are firing the weapon at high speed instead of using the gravity well to do the work, you still need to allow for the spin. Also recoil will throw your satellite around.
Not as simple as you might think.
Nuffsaid98 t1_je1us93 wrote
Reply to comment by Shimaru33 in TIL: A family of 12 performers, 7 of whom were dwarves, all survived Auschwitz after being separated by Mengele. Several prisoners who survived claimed they believed they were hallucinating when they saw seven well-dressed dwarves passing by. by 0verlyAnxious
I was more wondering if it helped them survive where a taller person might have died rather than thinking of it as a thought experiment or something to test.
Did it help them? Did it save them? That kind of thing.