Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "" video.

  1. Lucasburn!
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  2. Moral: gravity may be a weakling, but it holds a grudge.
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  3. As I remember it, it was MIT engineering students who did the calculations on Ringworld and discovered it would be unstable to perturbations in the plane of the ring.
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  4. 5:32 That’s several times larger than galactic escape velocity, just for comparison. By the way, is it “escape velocity” or “escape speed”? “Velocity” is supposed to have both a magnitude and direction. I guess the direction is implicit in both “orbital velocity” (parallel to the surface) and “escape velocity” (perpendicular to the surface) ...
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