All those sponging layabouts, why don't they get a job?

That would require that we understand what gravity is. And we don't yet.

Technically they're moving in a straight line through curved space. So they experience no inertial forces because their velocity never changes.

G-forces in the sense you mean are due to the inertia of mass. It's called G-forces because we use the earths gravity as a yardstick for measurement.

Guinea Pig is the accepted term here.

While you're at it ask him why is the blood supply in front of the retina? And why give us so many teeth that we regularly have to take some out? What an idiot.

The nearest star Proxima Centauri is about 2687070au from us. The Solar system is 1921.56au in diameter. So 139.87x is the conversion factor. If the solar system was a 6.8cm tennis ball then Proxima would be about 9.5 meters away.

For a body to be going fast enough to be useful in any non-generation sense the asteroid would need to be traveling at a non-negligible portion of c. Anything we could build would be vapourised.

For all that to be true you need to have the power to lift all the heavy machinery required for mining and refining and building sub-surface habitats etc, and then accelerating it to the speed of the interstellar asteroid.

If you have all that sort of delta V available that buys a metric fuck tonne of radiation shielding.

For an asteroid to be useful for interstellar travel it has to be moving really fast. Which means we have to catch up with it. And if we can catch up with it, we don't actually need it. There's no benefit.

Why is it difficult in the first place hmmm?

I'm using Blender. It's saved me, I don't know how many, thousands of pounds going round the design consultation loop with an architect because by the time we handed them the brief we had already honed it down to what we wanted and they just made some regulatory adjustments before going straight on to planning.

Ah well, we won't talk about the times I broke Linux by poking bits I didn't understand properly....

Move to Linux.

Exactly my point. Windows users don't complain about Windows much because it's basically like it or lump it. Don't Like it? Buy a MAC.

Like they don't complain about the UI that comes with their TV. You get what you get, learn to live with it, buy a different make next time.

The average Windows user has never even heard of Linux and would have no idea how to install any OS, including Windows.

I use it as my daily driver for everything. I've been designing my house for the past two years. I just don't recognize this picture you paint.

Have I spent a few hours fiddling with config files to get some esoteric bit of hardware working? Yes. Have I spent a few hours fiddling with drivers and the registry to get some esoteric bit of hardware working in Windows? Again yes. Once, when I set the system up.

IME Linux, once set up stays set up. It's Windows that randomly breaks, chokes itself on it own bloat and commits suicide by update.

The main problem with Linux is clueless idiots trying to impress everyone with how clued in they are by parroting something their mate told them about Linux up the pub 10 years ago.

Windows users have been trained over many ears, some decades, to take what they're given and just deal with it. Windows is what comes with the PC and they just assume that that's the way things are.

Honestly it's not so much the cult leader themselves that scare me, it's how easily swayed by them so many people are and how a core will adamantly refuse to condemn then no matter how far beyond the pale their behavior becomes.

Using mentally ill people as entertainment is extremely distasteful.

Fair enough. I just found it annoying. When I upgraded to a non touch laptop I didn't miss it whatsoever.

I was actually commenting on an article talking about them making one before Reddit decided to move it. So looks like you'll find out.

I just found it annoying.

This is not the post I commented on. WTF Reddit?

I had a touchscreen laptop. It's pretty much just a gimmick IMO.

Xenophobia is a fear of foreign people and cultures.

No I don't feel any fear of black holes. They're just dense mass with a gravitational pull that light can't escape.