First, no object could be accelerated to that speed. Relativistic effects make that impossible. However, gravity waves move at the speed of light so there is some delay in gravitational effects. I'm not a physicist, but I'm pretty sure that if your sun-sized object shot through the solar system at 99.9999% the speed of light, and passed between the Earth and the Sun, it would take about 4 minutes for the object's gravity to be felt by either the Earth or the Sun.
Again, not a physicist, so here's a bunch of words that sum up to "maybe."
With the object moving so fast I'm not sure we'd notice anything much. We would only be in it's gravitational field for a very short time, but it might be long enough to change Earth's orbit, someone with better math skills will need to field that one.
As for heating the Earth, again that's a maybe. Gravity is stronger the closer you are to the center of mass. So the near side of the Earth will feel the pull of the object much more strongly than the further side. That will make the Earth want to stretch towards the object as the near side falls towards the object faster than the far side. It would be very slight, think egg-shaped but not to a noticeable degree, but it could be bad enough.
This is called a tidal effect and would generate some heat if we're in the gravity well of the object for long enough. It would also cause fault lines to pop all over the globe. The object would shoot by very quickly though at 99.9999c so we might be spared the worst of the effects. Again, someone with better math skills could give a more accurate answer.
FYI tidal effects are why the moons of the gas giants aren't frozen ice balls. The constant flexing as they orbit their planet generates tremendous amounts of heat.
So they want the war to end, but they've lost so much prosecuting the war that they don't want to lose what they've acquired? A nation willing to keep getting people killed over a sunk-cost fallacy.
Temperature is a measure of kinetic energy at the molecular/atomic level. That said, the gasses falling into a black hole would likely reach such hypothetical temperatures as they near the event horizon.
They can't solve it. Look at what happened with abortion. They used it as a political hammer for decades. Then McConnell and Trump managed to stack SCOTUS with enough religious zealots that they actually overturned Roe v. Wade. Now, Republicans are getting their asses handed to them in elections all over the country because the majority of Americans didn't want it overturned.
If Republicans actually solve the border "crisis" they will get beat up even more. The American agriculture industry relies on immigrant labor. It cannot function without it. If Trump and the Republicans solve this and kick out all immigrants, we as a nation will be screwed. Produce will rot in the fields. We'll have no one to slaughter meat animals. You cannot find enough American citizens that are willing to do that work for what the industry pays. Inflation will shoot up like never before and Republicans will again get assaulted at the polls.
People will have no choice but to take those jobs or starve.
I know your comment is a joke, but it really doesn't work that way. Florida has passed a draconian law banning hiring undocumented immigrants and farmers are suffering because of it.
Actually I'm hoping that the independent voters are rational and can be reasoned with. There are not enough Republican voters to doom us on their own. I do have to acknowledge that history suggests I'm being unreasonably optimistic.
An amendment could also be proposed if two thirds of both houses request it. Of course, that would be cutting their own throats so they won't do that. Even if it did, the amendment would have to be "ratified by three-fourths of the State legislatures, or three-fourths of conventions called in each State for ratification." So, yeah, not gonna happen.
Weeds have punctured through the vacant parking lot of Martin General Hospital’s emergency room. A makeshift blue tarp covering the hospital’s sign is worn down from flapping in the wind. The hospital doors are locked, many in this county of 22,000 fear permanently....
Corporations should not be running hospitals with shareholder profit as the primary goal. Hospitals should be owned and run by the communities, or more likely the state, with the goal of providing the best reasonable level of care.
There is little research on the political views of those behind the onslaught of abuse. Some surveys show that Republican officeholders are more likely to report being targeted, often from members of their own party. Research does show, however, that recent acts of political violence are more likely to be carried out by...
The laws around threats and harassment really need to be tightened up. If someone publicly harasses someone else, and they are charged with a crime, one shouldn't need to get a protective order. The protective order should be automatic. A second incident should result in automatic incarceration until the charges from the initial incident are resolved. And it shouldn't matter whether or not the victim is a public figure. We all deserve to be free from harassment and threats of violence.
There are too many people with unmanaged anger issues out there and too many of them are armed.
It was a remarkable moment in modern American politics: The House speaker amplifying Trump’s defense and turning the Republican Party against the federal and state legal systems that are foundational to the U.S. government and a cornerstone of democracy. Johnson, who is second in line for the presidency, called the court...
It certainly proves Johnson's hypocrisy. Not that that matters to Republican politicians or voters. Trump is the living incarnation of the Seven Deadly sins yet this "fundamentalist theocrat" is right there shilling for him.
Some lawyer or lawyers need to sue her on behalf of all American voters. We have a right to know whether or not this man committed the crimes he is accused of before we are forced to choose who to vote for in November. Everyone should have standing to sue her for not doing her fucking job.
I'm thinking Rudy got very drunk at his party, which should come as a surprise to no one, and decided to post that. Then, after he got served, his lawyers made him delete it.
“Their kids don’t have any hope. They don’t have parents who show up and help them. They have a tribal council or a president who focuses on a political agenda more than they care about actually helping somebody’s life look better.”
Not only is she attacking their ability to raise their own kids, she is, in true Republican fashion, saying that their leaders are putting politics ahead of helping people. Just another Republican accusation that is really a confession.
I just hope the moderator has a microphone kill switch so Trump can't just yell over Biden's answers and filibuster the whole thing as he has done in the past.
Trump talked constantly through the 90-minute debate, sometimes incoherently and other times rattling off unfounded and baseless attacks against Democrat Joe Biden while refusing to let the moderator even ask questions.
No matter who wins, the majority of Americans will be unhappy.
This isn’t democracy
That is exactly democracy. There will always be some significant fraction of voters who will be dissatisfied with the results. I would be more worried if the winning candidate had overwhelming support. Look at how much Reagan won by and how badly he fucked everything up. As long as voters are tussling over varied issues and considering their voting options then democracy is working.
And I’m still convinced the DNC is in some kind of Brewster’s Millions scenario where they’re trying as hard as possible to lose the election.
It’s the only way any of Biden’s actions make sense.
Nonsense. The Democratic party has never had to put any particular effort into snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, they just do it.
House Speaker Mike Johnson describes himself as a Christian before anything else. He has said his “faith informs everything I do.” He has told people curious about his views to “pick up a Bible.” His wife reportedly runs a counseling service whose operating agreement, which he himself notarized, states, “We...
Lust: “I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait,” Trump said. “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”
Gluttony: Trump's favorite McDonald's order: two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fishes, and a large chocolate milkshake.
Greed: Do we really need examples?
Sloth: Trump ascribes to what has been described as the “battery” theory of, um, life force. Evan Osnos, in a profile of Trump in the New Yorker a few years back, described it thusly: “Other than golf, he considers exercise misguided, arguing that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy.”
Wrath: “Lyin’ Cassidy said that I threw my lunch at the wall,” Trump wrote on his social network, Truth Social. “I actually threw it at Rudy Giuliani, and he ducked.”
Envy: We have a new ailment that has come onto the political scene and that is presidential jealousy. I don’t ever remember a current president taking constant and ongoing digs at a former president. Now, I can say that I have seen it. Almost since day one, Donald Trump has made disparaging and disrespectful remarks about Barack Obama.
Pride: Do we need examples? The man puts his name in gold letters on everything he touches.
Lawmakers demand details of a Mar-a-Lago dinner where Trump promised to ease regulations on the oil industry while asking executives to steer $1 billion to his 2024 campaign.
Yes, this needs to be investigated. This was clearly a request for a quid pro quo arrangement. Pay me this and I'll do that for you. Very illegal. In case there's any doubt about that...
In 1976, announcing the Supreme Court's landmark Buckley v. Valeo decision, Chief Justice Warren Burger set this standard for corruption: "the reality & appearance of improper influence stemming from the dependence of candidates on large campaign contributions."
The current chief justice, John Roberts, had led an effort to tighten that broad language. Roberts, delivering the McCutcheon v. FEC ruling last year, defined corruption as "a contribution to a particular candidate in exchange for his agreeing to do a particular act within his official duties."
He was describing a quid pro quo – the donor's money in explicit exchange for the politician's official favor. It's a felony.
Just to be clear, John Roberts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the USA defined corruption as "a contribution to a particular candidate in exchange for his agreeing to do a particular act within his official duties."
President Joe Biden on Saturday called Donald Trump “clearly unhinged” and claimed that “something snapped” in the former president after he lost the 2020 election....
He's "unhinged" but the "race is close." That should really tell you something Joe. You need to get out there and self-promote. You are up against a game show host, carnival barker who's one real skill is the ability to get people to pay attention to him. Tell people how the economy is really doing. Tell them what the crime rate really is. Push legislation that will directly help the workers in this country and then brag when you sign it. Make it clear what we will really get if we give this orange clown another term in the Oval Office. Make noise and campaign in every single state.
Particularly when I keep reminding them that she'll become president when the old fart kicks, which going by his rapid decline, he almost certainly will.
Hill accused Thomas of making inappropriate remarks. She said one such comment came as Thomas was drinking a soft drink in the office.
"He got up from the table at which we were working, went over to his desk to get the Coke, looked at the can and asked, 'Who has put pubic hair on my Coke?'" Hill told senators.
Hill also testified that Thomas would boast about being well-endowed and has experience in pleasing women intimately. She also said she felt uncomfortable about her job situation.
A year earlier, her sister, at age 16, married her 39-year-old drug dealer, she has said.
Hey, this was just an algebraic error. He thought she was supposed to multiply by two and add seven rather than him dividing by two and adding seven. I'm sure it was an honest mistake.
I’m glad this was passed. Only worry I have is that the the corporations will have the money to take a hit in California. Keep the amount of money they siphon from CA high, translating to higher costs to the CA businesses and, despite the fact that more of their businesses will struggle, use that as evidence that this law...
To address higher labor costs, Hom, 66, reduced the morning and late afternoon shifts at one of his restaurants from three to two employees **and **increased menu prices.
Emphasis mine. You see, if your payroll goes up you should cut hours or raise prices. Not both. This clowns an idiot. Elsewhere in the article they point out that customers are backing up at another restaurant because of staffing cuts. That means they are loosing gross income because they are cutting worker hours. These guys are fools.
Frankly, damn few people are going to choose not to get their burger and fries over a $0.25 price increase or even a $1.00 increase. Owners are just pissed that they can't exploit their workers the way they want to.
Trump’s response stunned several of the executives in the room overlooking the ocean: You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. At the dinner, he vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being...
Alex Witt, a senior adviser for oil and gas with Climate Power, said Trump’s promise is he will do whatever the oil industry wants if they support him. With Trump, Witt said, “everything has a price.”
Isn't this a quid pro quo? Give my campaign a billion dollars and I'll do this stuff for you? Everything has a price?
In 1976, announcing the Supreme Court's landmark Buckley v. Valeo decision, Chief Justice Warren Burger set this standard for corruption: "the reality & appearance of improper influence stemming from the dependence of candidates on large campaign contributions."
The current chief justice, John Roberts, had led an effort to tighten that broad language. Roberts, delivering the McCutcheon v. FEC ruling last year, defined corruption as "a contribution to a particular candidate in exchange for his agreeing to do a particular act within his official duties."
He was describing a quid pro quo – the donor's money in explicit exchange for the politician's official favor. It's a felony.
Just to be clear, John Roberts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the USA defined corruption as "a contribution to a particular candidate in exchange for his agreeing to do a particular act within his official duties."
This is a blatant request for them to bribe him. New indictment incoming?
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the third-party candidate for US president, said a health problem he experienced in 2010 “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died”
Earlier this year, Arizona lawmakers sued the Biden administration over the newly created Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni
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If successful, Arizona’s lawsuit would open Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni to more economic development, and specifically, livestock grazing and uranium mining.
The headline in no way implied that everyone in the state wants it. A reasonable reader would clearly assume that the state government wants it, and that is true. The lawmakers of the state of Arizona are suing the federal government so they can allow new uranium mines on tribal lands.
Nor if the threats are even real. Frankly, I don't believe them. What were the threats that they were so specific and imminent that they cancelled their fund raiser? What agencies are investigating these threats? I reserve judgement until I learn more about these threats and the investigations surrounding them, but I suspect that the GOP leadership knew the fund raiser was going to flop because of Noem so they chose to cancel it under the guise of these threats so they could play the victim.
The practice of confiscating child support from poor families persists in part because some conservative policymakers believe that welfare provided to single mothers should be considered a loan from taxpayers, to later be repaid by the patriarch of the family.
As always, it's the conservatives taking a bad situation and making it worse.
A former Milwaukee election official convicted of misconduct in office and fraud for obtaining fake absentee ballots was sentenced Thursday to one year of probation and fined $3,000....
You may not have scrolled far enough down. There's a break in the page where it suggests other articles to read then the story continues underneath. The following is from near the end of the article.
Zapata served as deputy director at the Milwaukee Election Commission in October 2022 when she used her work-issued laptop to obtain three military absentee ballots using fake names and Social Security numbers, according to a criminal complaint. She sent the ballots to Republican state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, an election conspiracy theorist, two weeks before the state’s gubernatorial and legislative elections.
[Physics] Does gravity have 'elasticity'? If a solid sun-sized object zooms across space at the speed of light, then abruptly stops, does it take gravity some time to 'settle' around it?
Is it a stable/static effect no matter what, or is it a bit more stretchy/bouncy depending on how the object is behaving?...
Well, children aren't THAT important ( lemmy.world )
Nova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day now ( arstechnica.com )
Is there a temperature so hot that relativistic effects are noticeable?
Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price ( www.cnbc.com )
The first crew launch of Boeing’s Starliner capsule is on hold indefinitely ( arstechnica.com )
Republicans close ranks against Senate border security deal ( thehill.com )
Trump pitch to oil companies turns off two-thirds of likely voters, poll finds [Saul Elbein | 05/21/24 | The Hill] ( thehill.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15647864...
Ocean water is rushing miles underneath the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ with potentially dire impacts on sea level rise ( www.cnn.com )
After the only hospital in town closed, a North Carolina city directs its ire at politicians ( apnews.com )
Weeds have punctured through the vacant parking lot of Martin General Hospital’s emergency room. A makeshift blue tarp covering the hospital’s sign is worn down from flapping in the wind. The hospital doors are locked, many in this county of 22,000 fear permanently....
Some Trump-appointed judges keep sneaking Biblical reference into court opinions ( www.salon.com )
MTG is 'absolutely' racist, Texas Democrat says after their heated exchange in House ( www.usatoday.com )
‘We’ll See You at Your House:’ How Fear and Menace Are Transforming Politics ( www.nytimes.com )
There is little research on the political views of those behind the onslaught of abuse. Some surveys show that Republican officeholders are more likely to report being targeted, often from members of their own party. Research does show, however, that recent acts of political violence are more likely to be carried out by...
Why Speaker Mike Johnson’s trip to Trump’s trial in N.Y. mattered ( www.msnbc.com )
It was a remarkable moment in modern American politics: The House speaker amplifying Trump’s defense and turning the Republican Party against the federal and state legal systems that are foundational to the U.S. government and a cornerstone of democracy. Johnson, who is second in line for the presidency, called the court...
It Is Inexcusable How Judge Cannon Is Delaying the Trump Documents Case ( www.nytimes.com )
Rudy Giuliani served with Arizona ‘fake electors’ indictment during 80th birthday bash in Palm Beach ( nypost.com )
Abbott grants Daniel Perry pardon in murder of Black Lives Matter protester | Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is pardoning Daniel Perry, the former Army sergeant convicted in the fatal shooting ( wapo.st )
The idea is to make it effectively legal to kill anybody deemed left-of-center
Why Native American tribes are banning Kristi Noem ( thehill.com )
Biden says he’s accepted an invitation from CNN to debate Trump on June 27 ( www.cnn.com )
Biden vs. Trump: Who is leading the polls? ( www.reuters.com )
Devout Christian Mike Johnson shows up to hush money trial to defend a guy accused of cheating on his wife with a porn star ( www.vanityfair.com )
House Speaker Mike Johnson describes himself as a Christian before anything else. He has said his “faith informs everything I do.” He has told people curious about his views to “pick up a Bible.” His wife reportedly runs a counseling service whose operating agreement, which he himself notarized, states, “We...
House Democrats launch probe of Trump’s dinner with oil executives ( wapo.st )
Lawmakers demand details of a Mar-a-Lago dinner where Trump promised to ease regulations on the oil industry while asking executives to steer $1 billion to his 2024 campaign.
Biden calls Trump ‘unhinged’ and says ‘something snapped’ in former president after he lost 2020 election ( www.cnn.com )
President Joe Biden on Saturday called Donald Trump “clearly unhinged” and claimed that “something snapped” in the former president after he lost the 2020 election....
Trump campaign considering Nikki Haley for VP ( www.axios.com )
Justice Clarence Thomas calls criticism of him ‘nastiness’ and ‘lies’ ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Missouri bill to ban all child marriages runs into resistance from House Republicans ( www.kansascity.com )
Impact of California Fast Food Worker Wage Increase Still Too Early to Gauge | KQED ( www.kqed.org )
I’m glad this was passed. Only worry I have is that the the corporations will have the money to take a hit in California. Keep the amount of money they siphon from CA high, translating to higher costs to the CA businesses and, despite the fact that more of their businesses will struggle, use that as evidence that this law...
What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign ( www.msn.com )
Trump’s response stunned several of the executives in the room overlooking the ocean: You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. At the dinner, he vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being...
Robert F Kennedy Jr says health issue caused by dead worm in his brain ( www.theguardian.com )
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the third-party candidate for US president, said a health problem he experienced in 2010 “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died”
Trump’s attacks on justice system are causing real damage, experts say ( www.theguardian.com )
Federal judge blasts threat by Alabama to prosecute groups aiding out-of-state abortions | CNN Politics ( www.cnn.com )
Arizona wants to mine uranium near the Grand Canyon. Tribal nations are fighting back. ( grist.org )
Trump promises to deport all undocumented immigrants, resurrecting a 1950s strategy − but it didn’t work then and is less likely to do so now ( theconversation.com )
Kristi Noem Killed Her Dog—Then Ruined This GOP Fundraiser ( www.thedailybeast.com )
More States Are Allowing Child Support Payments to Reach Children ( www.propublica.org )
Fetterman mocks students protesting on college campuses over Houthi offer [Lauren Irwin | 05/03/24 | The Hill] ( thehill.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15000673...
A former Milwaukee election official is fined $3,000 for obtaining fake absentee ballots ( apnews.com )
A former Milwaukee election official convicted of misconduct in office and fraud for obtaining fake absentee ballots was sentenced Thursday to one year of probation and fined $3,000....