There must be something we can do about that.
Big shiny bastard keeps showing up every day.

Morning.
( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 8:47, archived)

Spend six months of the year at the south pole and six months at the north pole.

(The Porcupine From Purgatory katsu revival trust, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 9:11, archived)

/chat posters manage perfectly well by just being internet shut-ins, thank you

(2 Can Chunder - Work account arbeit macht frei!, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 9:24, archived)

Why should I have to move?
It's the sun that's splashing its photonic jizz all over my face every day without my consent. It should move, not me.

/King Cnut
( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 9:25, archived)

I think you'll find that the sun is minding its own business,
and that it's the movement of the Earth that's causing the issue.

Perhaps you could move to the ISS and set it in an orbit to stay on the dark side, that should solve this.
(The Porcupine From Purgatory katsu revival trust, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 9:56, archived)

GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT

( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 10:20, archived)

That wouldn't work, any geostationary orbit will still face the sun at some point.
It'd need to be at the L2 Lagrange point.
( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 10:30, archived)

Cunt would just keep losing his visor, though.

(The Porcupine From Purgatory katsu revival trust, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 10:32, archived)

Oh yeah my mistake but is the opposite type of orbit even possible?

( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 10:34, archived)

Depends what you mean by "opposite"
The L1 Lagrange point is on the opposite side of the Earth from the L2 point, always facing the sun, if that's what you mean.
( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 10:37, archived)

I mean stationary at in a point in space
so yeah I guess that's what I'm getting at.
( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 10:52, archived)

Can't we just blow up the sun?
Most problems are easily and harmlessly solved with explosives.
( Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 10:57, archived)

If we blew up the sun everything would be absolutely fine and unchanged on Earth
for about 8 minutes, anyway.
( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 11:11, archived)

Unless you blew up the sun with sufficient energy to completely disperse it in space,
I think it would rapidly reform, because there's still a whole stellar mass in roughly the same space at the same time, blowing it up is just making it a lot less dense, briefly. Its centre of mass would still be in the same place...

It would be pretty angry for the next few billion years or so but subterranean microbes would probably survive and life would begin again.
( brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 19:35, archived)

There is no such thing as stationary, not really.
If you somehow managed to achieve "true stationary", space dust would rip you to shreds in seconds.
( Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 12:44, archived)

There is no pen

(2 Can Chunder - Work account arbeit macht frei!, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 13:41, archived)

Stationary in relation to the rotating earth.

( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 13:55, archived)

You'd have to work out if that location would still be close enough for the Earth to still block the Sun.

( Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 18:21, archived)

FFS you people need to get good at KSP.
You can have a sun-synchronous orbit that processes to match the rotation and orbit of the Earth's orientation relative to the sun.

The normal way to do it is to keep line of sight with the sun, to power the solar panels or to directly observe the sun itself. The same orbit offset by 180 degrees would keep the satellite in the Earth's shadow.
( brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 19:27, archived)

Meh, science trolling isn't the fun it used to be.

( brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 19:37, archived)

It is when you fall for it.

( Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Sat 30 Nov 2024, 12:04, archived)

Please cite examples.

( brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Sat 30 Nov 2024, 15:47, archived)

GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT


hang on
( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 18:20, archived)