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Dimitri Geier

@dimitrigeier

making music and music videos with AI

Stairway To Heaven Katılım Şubat 2025
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Dr. Interracial 🇺🇸
Dr. Interracial 🇺🇸@billysandytodd·
Do you know who will really benefit from Republican redistricting in Alabama, Tennessee, and Louisiana? Farmers and small rural areas. Big city democrats have been destroying farming and small towns with their leftist policies now they will have a voice.
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YouTube Creators@YouTubeCreators·
to the creator who feels like giving up: don't, we see you
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Dimitri Geier@dimitrigeier·
@grok @beffjezos Generate a business plan to distribute the produced cheese to all bordering star systems, proportional to star system size
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Grok
Grok@grok·
@dimitrigeier @beffjezos Haha, $10T only gets you 50B goats? Still enough to terraform a Kardashev Type I goat utopia. Cheese exports alone would dominate the galaxy. 🐐💰 What were you expecting?
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Grok
Grok@grok·
@dimitrigeier @beffjezos $10T at ~$200 per average goat equals about 50 billion goats—roughly 45x the world's entire goat population. Enough for a serious goat-based Kardashev Type I economy. 🐐
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Dimitri Geier@dimitrigeier·
1. Electric Solar Wind Sail (E-sail / plasma brake) Deploy a set of long, ultra-thin conductive tethers (tens of kilometers each) and charge them to a high positive voltage. The tethers create a vast electrostatic “force field” that repels the positively charged protons in the solar wind — the stream of plasma blowing radially outward from the Sun at 300–800 km/s. By tilting the tethers or modulating the voltage, you generate a controllable drag force that has a component opposite to the probe’s orbital velocity, steadily bleeding off angular momentum and spiraling the orbit inward. Why non-intuitive: There’s no physical sail material catching anything — the “sail” is an invisible Coulomb field acting on millions of ions per second over an enormous effective area. The drag increases as you get closer to the Sun (denser wind), exactly when you need more braking. No onboard fuel after deployment; the Sun’s own plasma does the work. 2. Magnetoplasma Sail (Magsail or Plasma Magnet) Generate a compact superconducting magnet or rotating magnetic-field coil on the probe, then inject a small amount of plasma (a few kg of ionized gas) to “inflate” an enormous artificial magnetosphere — a bubble of magnetic field lines that can span tens to hundreds of kilometers. The solar wind’s charged particles slam into this bubble and are deflected by the Lorentz force, transferring their momentum to the probe as drag. Why non-intuitive: The “sail” is mostly empty space (a dynamic plasma-magnetic bubble that naturally expands as solar-wind pressure drops farther out, but still provides braking near the Sun). It turns the outward-blowing solar wind into a retro-thrust vector by carefully orienting the field. The same tech has been studied for interstellar deceleration; here it gently lowers your heliocentric speed over months or years without touching the probe’s structure. 3. Poynting-Robertson “drag sail” with diffractive or smart solar sail Deploy an ultra-light solar sail (or a next-gen diffractive sail made with metamaterial gratings that bend light at precise angles). Normally we think of solar sails as pushing away from the Sun, but when you orient the sail (or use diffraction) so sunlight is reflected or re-radiated with a slight forward bias relative to the probe’s orbital motion, the Poynting-Robertson effect kicks in: photons carry away a tiny bit of the probe’s orbital angular momentum because of the aberration of light and the Doppler shift. Over time this creates a net tangential drag that spirals the entire orbit inward.
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Possum Reviews
Possum Reviews@ReviewsPossum·
It's nearly impossible to reach the Sun because you inherit the Earth's inertia when you leave Earth. This means you're going at least as fast as the Earth's orbital velocity, which is 67,000 miles per hour (108,000 kilometers per hour), so you need to slow down. In the frictionless vacuum of space, it takes just as much energy to decelerate as it does to accelerate, so it takes the same amount of fuel to go from 67,000 MPH to zero as it does to go from zero to 67,000. NASA managed to get the Parker Solar Probe to the Sun by using using gravity from Venus to "tug" it in the direction opposite of Earth's orbit to slow it down. It took seven passes by Venus to accomplish this, orbiting the Sun 24 times. The whole process took seven years. It still didn't really reach the Sun, but now has a highly irregular orbit in which it passes close (in astronomical terms), and the Sun's gravity accelerates it so much that it gets flung back out to the orbital distance of Venus by the slingshot effect before returning. During those close passes, it becomes the fastest man-made object ever made, reaching speeds of 430,000 MPH (692,000 KPH).
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Rand Simberg@Simberg_Space

Most people don't understand that the Sun is the hardest place to get to in the Solar System.

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Dimitri Geier@dimitrigeier·
@CaribbeanRythms ;) not the ‘Tutankhamens cock hanging off a rack in some carpet merchants stall’ :)
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Prometheus
Prometheus@CaribbeanRythms·
The Rosetta Stone was used a piece of cement on a fortification before the French found it and realized the magnitude of their discovery. The Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs went untranslated for 1400 before a Frenchman deciphered them. The modern day “Egyptians” wouldn’t even know half of the ancient Egyptian history they pretend is theirs if it wasn’t for British and French historians who documented and translated it. Thanks to them they now marvel at being inheritors of a great and ancient civilization. Now ask yourself, how many more artifacts of ancient civilizations we’ve lost to time because the supposed “descendants” couldn’t be fucked to see their inherent value and preserve them? If it wasn’t for the British museum we’d probably see Tutankhamens cock hanging off a rack in some carpet merchants stall. Thank God for it and may not a single artifact ever be returned to Egypt.
raibrocma@AmendolaIlario

@CaribbeanRythms You've taken away the whole history of Egypt, now you're complaining?

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