127 HTTPS requests, each building a new TLS encrypted TCP connection, makes for quite a latency for anyone not living in Japan (aside from the fact that doing 127 independent requests sequentially just asks for trouble)
Getting stuff to mercury is hard though. IIRC it takes around 16,000 m/s of dV to get from LEO to the surface of mercury. Titan would take even more (19,000) but a huge chunk of it can be reduced by making use of aerobraking.
Going to mercury on rockets alone is a non-starter, because when you drop your perihelion low enough to rendezvous with it, your velocity near Mercury will be ridiculous, and there is not enough atmosphere at Mercury to shed the velocity so you have to do it the hard way.
However, there is a very efficient trajectory that could be used by solar sailing ships for a fast, cheap route to Mercury once every 16 months. You leave Earth for Venus, where you do a gravity assist to drop your perihelion significantly below the orbit of Mercury, just to get low enough that a reasonable solar sail can get reasonable thrust even with significant cargo. Then you can use your infinite delta-v to match your aphelion with Mercury, and can do an efficient capture trajectory.
Is there an estimate for how long that would take with a solar sail? If the window is every 16 months and the flight time is another year or more, I would imagine a large scale mission with multiple re-supply trips would be pretty difficult.
Solar sail or solar powered ionic thrusters are much more effective going to Mercury than Titan. So, total deltaV of the trip is not a great measurement of effort.
> "A lot of effort has been put by individuals to promote new ideas. Many of those innovators get nothing out of their effort but the fame of their library. The TC39 would gain the power to render an existing effort mute and thereby ruining a life's work. What do you intend to do to prevent private agendas resulting into half-baked and/or derivative solutions that might do more harm to the ecosystem than good?"
I don't want to swear on HN, so I'll just say .. wow. So there are elements of the community who want to keep the deficiencies there so they can get micro-fame for filling them? People want to feel important by maintaining left-pad?
(also I think they meant moot rather than mute, but hey; also, this is software, we don't really respect idea precedence and any work may be rendered moot by the work of others at almost any time as technology shifts.)
There are better things to be wow'd over than a random encounter with an online idiot. It's the most used language in the world, there are plenty of idiots to be found.
sorry the title was too long, I had to cut a word!
edit: I also had no idea about the shooting yesterday I tend to stay away from the news as it is far too politicized these days and normally just leaves me angry/unhappy
Yeah, it was just a parody of the articles The Onion regularly releases regarding another topic and to be honest I didn't quite expect my post to take off the way it did.
I'm also sorry I posted it on Medium, which I personally dislike, but since Medium is frequented by many JS devs it seemed the ideal place to put that joke.
The jobs at risk are not only those in the coal industry but also the jobs powered by the coal. You can't run a business without electricity. So if coal makes up about a third of the power then about a third of the jobs in Germany could be lost.
That is one of the most ridiculous statements I have ever heard.
Why do you think people mine coal? To upset environmentalists?
It is mined because it enables people to do things. It creates material wealth. It is completely reasonable to say that there are ramifications to shutting down coal. Germany has not increased their access to electricity through the Energiewende [0]. Apparently that is intentional, which shows remarkable political will; I can't see it flying in most countries. Wouldn't want to be poor in Germany.
