Amazon says sex toys are being mailed to strangers and doesn’t know how to stop it
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@pleegwat Wouldn't it be sufficient to launch it toward the sun and reserve some fuel to slow it down on its approach? The goal wouldn't be to hit the sun right away, just to put it in a lower orbit that wouldn't come anywhere near earth. It'd hit the sun eventually (think millions of years, probably), and that's probably good enough for practical purposes.
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@anotherusername If you put it in a solar orbit closer to the earth than the sun, it would orbit faster than the earth and hence pass the earth frequently. I wouldn't know how far away you need to be for perturbations to be insignificant.
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@masonwheeler said in Amazon says sex toys are being mailed to strangers and doesn’t know how to stop it:
@benjamin-hall said in Amazon says sex toys are being mailed to strangers and doesn’t know how to stop it:
@anonymous234 this is not the skynet I was expecting.
This is the Skynet I'm expecting:
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@tsaukpaetra said in Amazon says sex toys are being mailed to strangers and doesn’t know how to stop it:
@scarlet_manuka said in Amazon says sex toys are being mailed to strangers and doesn’t know how to stop it:
@masonwheeler said in Amazon says sex toys are being mailed to strangers and doesn’t know how to stop it:
This is the Skynet I'm expecting:
"But since they don't currently have the capacity to reach the sun, first we'll have to work on building more powerful boosters for them..."
They just need to escape Earth's gravity. After that it pretty much takes care of itself...
...after many many millenia perhaps? There is a reason that comets don't hit the sun.
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@pleegwat said in Amazon says sex toys are being mailed to strangers and doesn’t know how to stop it:
@anotherusername If you put it in a solar orbit closer to the earth than the sun, it would orbit faster than the earth and hence pass the earth frequently. I wouldn't know how far away you need to be for perturbations to be insignificant.
How much energy would it take to put it in an orbit that never came within, say, 10 million miles of earth?
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There can't be many forums where sex toys are considered less interesting than crashing into the Sun.
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@masonwheeler said in Amazon says sex toys are being mailed to strangers and doesn’t know how to stop it:
Objects on hyperbolic orbits do whoosh through, yes. Or would if the interplanetary medium was dense enough.
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@polygeekery said in Amazon says sex toys are being mailed to strangers and doesn’t know how to stop it:
Yes, as multiple other s have already pointed out, this is not particularly realistic. Heck, even the author knew this at the time he wrote it, because this is the alt text:
It took a lot of booster rockets, but luckily Amazon had recently built thousands of them to bring Amazon Prime same-day delivery to the Moon colony.
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@masonwheeler you certainly are insufferable.
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@scarlet_manuka said in Amazon says sex toys are being mailed to strangers and doesn’t know how to stop it:
@lorne-kates said in Amazon says sex toys are being mailed to strangers and doesn’t know how to stop it:
🖥 NO! We get rid of them!
NO! We get rid of them!I think you meant "keep them" in the second one there...
I TOTALLY WROTE THAT AND DIDN'T EDIT MY POST IN ANY WAY SHUT THE FUCK UP OR I'LL NUKE YOU!
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@lorne-kates said in Amazon says sex toys are being mailed to strangers and doesn’t know how to stop it:
@scarlet_manuka said in Amazon says sex toys are being mailed to strangers and doesn’t know how to stop it:
I think you meant "keep them" in the second one there...
I TOTALLY WROTE THAT AND DIDN'T EDIT MY POST IN ANY WAY SHUT THE FUCK UP OR I'LL NUKE YOU!
You might want to totally not edit your post just a little bit more...
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@scarlet_manuka said in Amazon says sex toys are being mailed to strangers and doesn’t know how to stop it:
@lorne-kates said in Amazon says sex toys are being mailed to strangers and doesn’t know how to stop it:
@scarlet_manuka said in Amazon says sex toys are being mailed to strangers and doesn’t know how to stop it:
I think you meant "keep them" in the second one there...
I TOTALLY WROTE THAT AND DIDN'T EDIT MY POST IN ANY WAY SHUT THE FUCK UP OR I'LL NUKE YOU!
You might want to totally not edit your post just a little bit more...
UR READING IT WRONG! BANNED!